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Scandal fizzles out in Orlando
Posted Sat, 2008-03-29 09:07
What seemed a corruption scandal over payments of more than $100k to an anti-toll activist and a huge fight with the Orlando toll authority's PR man have fizzled away to nothing. The toll authority this week voted 3 to 1 to settle for $8,320 an 18 month old legal fight with PR guy Ron Pecora.
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Orlando grand jury not to press criminal charges but criticizes political manipulation
Posted Tue, 2007-10-09 20:00
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Florida state's attorney Lawson Lamar said today that a Grand Jury he
impanelled to consider corruption charges against staff and board
members of the Orlando Orange County (Toll) Expressway Authority
(OOCEA) will not be pressing any criminal charges. Instead they
will merely present criticism of political fund raising and other
dubious practices at the toll agency.
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Orlando toll chairman used toll authority for political fundraising - former spokesman
Posted Fri, 2007-04-27 09:28Allan Keen the former chairman of the Orlando Orange County (Toll) Expressway Authority (OOCEA) constantly used his position at the authority to raise election funds for Republican candidates. That was the thrust of testimony given to state investigators by Bryan Douglas, former marketing director and spokesman for OOCEA.
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The testimony was reported in Orlando Sentinel Apr 26. 458 words read more » Orlando toll corruption investigator dead - boss says killed self
Posted Wed, 2007-04-04 10:22Scott Pignone, assistant state attorney in charge of investigations into corruption in Orlando killed himself this morning according to his boss district state attorney Lawson Lamar.
Just last week Pignone gained indictments against Ron Pecora, former marketing and PR consultant to the Orlando toll authority and Doug Guetzloe, an anti-toll activity who was paid $107,500 in hush money by the toll authority in a scandal that has rocked the authority the past six months, leading to the departure of the authority chairman Allan Keen.
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Two indicted in Orlando toll bribery scandal
Posted Wed, 2007-04-04 09:59Anti-toll activist Doug Guetzloe who was paid $107,500 in hush money by the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) was today indicted by a grand jury on two counts of perjury, and the man who paid him on behalf of the toll authority Ron Pecora, PR consultant to the authority was indicted on a charge of bribery and providing unlawful compensation. The charges are only indirectly related and are likely only the beginning of a series of other charges in the corruption affair that has unfolded in Orlando. read more »
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