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🚔 Sheriff Ric Bradshaw is handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars from a forfeiture fund to charities in which his wife, Dorothy, serves on the board. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
👨🏼⚖️ In a federal courtroom in West Palm Beach, Chiquita Brands International was ordered to pay $38 million to the families of men killed decades ago by Colombian terrorists. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
👋 More than two dozen elected officials in Palm Beach County quit rather than meet the more intense Form 6 financial disclosure requirements imposed by the Florida Legislature. Three weeks before the forms were due, U.S. District Court Judge Melissa Damian in Fort Lauderdale granted a reprieve, saying the state had failed to demonstrate “a relationship between the interest of protecting against the abuse of the public trust and (Form 6’s) fulsome financial disclosure requirements …” (Florida Politics)
💵 The longest-serving city manager in Palm Beach County — Ron Ferris of Palm Beach Gardens — got glowing reviews and an 8 percent raise June 6 from the City Council. The raise would be worth at least $20,000, based on Ferris’ 2019 contractamount of $253,000. Ferris, who turns 78 in July and whose contract does not have a termination date, began as interim manager in October 2000.
