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...addition to the charge of bending the law to favor the poor, Taunton was accused of using his public office to muckrake and of spending public funds ($11.83) to make his investigations. "Judge Taunton is a right nice fella," John Wigginton, general counsel to the commission, told the St. Petersburg Times. "It's just that he's got what seems to be a deep-seated fetish about poor people. We feel he ought to be doing something else for a living-like welfare work, or social work, or anything other than being a judge...
According to campaign spending reports filed late last month, Florida news organizations have paid or pledged some $175,000 to No Casinos Inc., the principal antigambling lobby. Big spenders included the St. Petersburg Times, Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union, the Chicago Tribune Co. (Orlando Sentinel Star, Fort Lauderdale News), the Cox Newspapers (Miami News, Palm Beach Post and Times), the Tampa Tribune and Wometco Enterprises (Miami's WTVJ-TV-each of which gave $25,000. The Knight-Ridder chain's Miami Herald, largest paper in the state, gave...
...sales involved only a piece of paper being shuffled between desks; the actual oil never changed location. The most celebrated case to date involved the rip-off of Florida Power for as much as $8.5 million. Since that fraud was made public last August by the St. Petersburg Times, FBI agents have uncovered but not yet publicly identified other daisy chains, some apparently centering in Houston. Grand juries are said to be probing into these operations...