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Sweet. Yes, don't forget Bondi's shady past:
J. Whitfield Larrabee, who has filed numerous complaints against Bondi, questioned the scope of the investigation. He said there was no evidence in the memo that prosecutors spoke to any witnesses. Larrabee called Russell’s decision to drop the case “a gutless move that was politically motivated.”
[...]
A judge last week approved an agreement for the president to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits over Trump University, ending nearly seven years of legal battles with customers who claimed they were misled by failed promises to teach success in real estate.
The Associated Press reported last June that Bondi personally asked Trump for help for her 2014 re-election. She has said she turned to him because he was on a list of “friends and family” she sought money from when she first ramped up fundraising efforts.
https://apnews.com/general-news-6cc54fd87a5e4464bb31c4767ec2b90e
And the case of the magical dog. Bondi condemned it then left it to do it's magic again.
Pam Bondi failed Brevard and Florida by turning blind eye toward justice | Torres
Florida Today
VIDEO
Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi has already accomplished a feat I thought impossible.
The former Florida Attorney General's nomination this week to oversee the nation's entire justice department makes me question whether previous nominee ? sex scandal-stained Matt Gaetz ? was really all that bad.
I'm half-kidding. Gaetz, who withdrew his name from consideration Wednesday amid allegations he paid for sex with underage girls, was a terrible choice by President-elect Donald Trump for Attorney General in the first place. There was no way he was going to be approved by the U.S. Senate.
But Bondi should have no trouble getting the support she needs in the nation's capital. She's safe. She won't rock the boat. She won't do anything. And that's too bad.
Then Attorney General of Florida Pam Bondi spoke at a rally for Donald Trump in Melbourne in 2016. TIM SHORTT/FLORIDA TODAY
Bondi had a chance to do something really special during her time as Florida's top prosecutor. She could have made a statement that would have been a warning to state attorneys throughout the state not to cut corners and not to cheat in order to win convictions. Instead, she did nothing and innocent men are still in prison.
You see, Bondi was elected Florida Attorney General in 2010 in part due to her promise to launch a probe into criminal cases throughout the state that fraudulent dog handler and state 'expert' John Preston was involved .. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/01/torres-another-milestone-behind-bars/358671001/ .. in.
Preston was especially prolific in Brevard County, where he was used more than 30 times to help the state win victory in the courtroom. Preston claimed his dog could detect a suspect's scent months and even years later. He said his dog could detect evidence underwater and in passing cars. Of course, Preston and his dog would always miraculously "track" the scent of the state's primary suspect to the crime scene.
Preston was a phony and was labeled a fraud by judges in Arizona and a judge in Brevard County. His testimony was instrumental in the wrongful convictions of William Dillon, Wilton Dedge and Juan Ramos ? Brevard County men exonerated and cleared of crimes they spent decades in prison for.
Links for the three:
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/06/02/wrongfully-convicted-mans-inspiring-story-banned-from-florida-prisons/70277024007/
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/19/convicted-murder-space-coast-season-2-episode-2/98689190/
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/30/american-dream-shattered-murder-space-coast-series-2-episode-5/99006898/
The same prosecuting team ? mainly Dean Moxley and Chris White ? used Preston in numerous high profile cases.
More from TorresTorres: Crosley Green's attorneys refuse to give up or give in | Opinion
Dillon spent 37 years in prison. Dedge spent 22 years in prison. Juan Ramos spent 10 years on death row. They were the "lucky" ones. Gary Bennett is in his 40th year in prison with no relief in sight.
A few days before the 2010 state primary, Bondi went on television and told Geraldo Rivera she would conduct a full probe into these unsettling convictions.
“This guy was using junk science, claiming that this dog could find weapons underwater," she told Geraldo, her voice thick with indignation. "It was unreal. Now we learn that there are are at least four people in Florida still in prison!”
Preston was normally called in when prosecutors were desperate to make a case but were short on real evidence. Brevard attorney Sam Bardwell quit his job as a prosecutor once he saw what was happening.
Dog handler John Preston's fraudulent testimony helped convict numerous men
in Brevard County. Pam Bondi, while campaigning for Florida's Attorney General,
promised a probe into cases where Preston was used. She never issued a report.
Florida Today file
"There were people who were sophisticated enough to know that this is BS," he told me a few years ago when I focused on these cases for the first two seasons of my "Murder on the Space Coast" podcast .. https://open.spotify.com/show/3Sjab7HJQQMTwEikmcelyS . "What we found out throughout all the testimony is that, first of all no dog has ever been able to complete anything like this dog could do and that some of his most vaunted successes were actually abject failures. I started at the State Attorney’s office in 1978. I left in 1982. I just plain quit. I couldn’t deal with it. This was at the height of the activities that I find personally repulsive."
Incredibly, at the urging of Moxley ? who went on to become a judge (now retired) — Preston was brought in to help solve an eight-year-old unsolved murder. Sure enough, Preston said his dog tracked the scent of suspected serial killer Gerald Stano to the site where Kathie Lee Scharf was found murdered eight years earlier. Preston helped police build the case against Stano ? whom many believe to be a mentally impaired serial confessor.
Stano was executed for the Scharf murder.
So, about that probe that Bondi promised? Once elected, Bondi forgot all about her televised vow. We're still waiting for a report about her investigation that will obviously never come.
Bondi has also successfully fought to keep Crosley Green in prison .. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/10/torres-crosley-green-murder-conviction-just-another-tainted-case-state/851944001/ . She opposed a federal court ruling granting Green his freedom or a new trial because prosecutors kept information from Green's lawyers that responding officers believed Green to be innocent.
Preston had nothing to do with Green's case but the same type of ? since-debunked ? dog tracking was used to convict Green in a case rife with problems and inconsistencies including coercing testimony against Green from state witnesses whom all have since recanted.
Pam Bondi failed Brevard County. She failed the state of Florida. I have no doubt she will continue to fail justice.
Contact Torres at jtorres@floridatoday.com. You can follow him on X @johnalbertorres or on Facebook at facebook.com/FTjohntorres.
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/john-a-torres/2024/11/22/pam-bondi-nomination-attorney-general-unfortunate-safe-pick-probe-prosecutor-misconduct-torres/76495779007/
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J. Whitfield Larrabee, who has filed numerous complaints against Bondi, questioned the scope of the investigation. He said there was no evidence in the memo that prosecutors spoke to any witnesses. Larrabee called Russell’s decision to drop the case “a gutless move that was politically motivated.”
[...]
A judge last week approved an agreement for the president to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits over Trump University, ending nearly seven years of legal battles with customers who claimed they were misled by failed promises to teach success in real estate.
The Associated Press reported last June that Bondi personally asked Trump for help for her 2014 re-election. She has said she turned to him because he was on a list of “friends and family” she sought money from when she first ramped up fundraising efforts.
https://apnews.com/general-news-6cc54fd87a5e4464bb31c4767ec2b90e
And the case of the magical dog. Bondi condemned it then left it to do it's magic again.
Pam Bondi failed Brevard and Florida by turning blind eye toward justice | Torres
Florida Today
VIDEO
Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi has already accomplished a feat I thought impossible.
The former Florida Attorney General's nomination this week to oversee the nation's entire justice department makes me question whether previous nominee ? sex scandal-stained Matt Gaetz ? was really all that bad.
I'm half-kidding. Gaetz, who withdrew his name from consideration Wednesday amid allegations he paid for sex with underage girls, was a terrible choice by President-elect Donald Trump for Attorney General in the first place. There was no way he was going to be approved by the U.S. Senate.
But Bondi should have no trouble getting the support she needs in the nation's capital. She's safe. She won't rock the boat. She won't do anything. And that's too bad.
Then Attorney General of Florida Pam Bondi spoke at a rally for Donald Trump in Melbourne in 2016. TIM SHORTT/FLORIDA TODAY
Bondi had a chance to do something really special during her time as Florida's top prosecutor. She could have made a statement that would have been a warning to state attorneys throughout the state not to cut corners and not to cheat in order to win convictions. Instead, she did nothing and innocent men are still in prison.
You see, Bondi was elected Florida Attorney General in 2010 in part due to her promise to launch a probe into criminal cases throughout the state that fraudulent dog handler and state 'expert' John Preston was involved .. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/01/torres-another-milestone-behind-bars/358671001/ .. in.
Preston was especially prolific in Brevard County, where he was used more than 30 times to help the state win victory in the courtroom. Preston claimed his dog could detect a suspect's scent months and even years later. He said his dog could detect evidence underwater and in passing cars. Of course, Preston and his dog would always miraculously "track" the scent of the state's primary suspect to the crime scene.
Preston was a phony and was labeled a fraud by judges in Arizona and a judge in Brevard County. His testimony was instrumental in the wrongful convictions of William Dillon, Wilton Dedge and Juan Ramos ? Brevard County men exonerated and cleared of crimes they spent decades in prison for.
Links for the three:
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/06/02/wrongfully-convicted-mans-inspiring-story-banned-from-florida-prisons/70277024007/
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/19/convicted-murder-space-coast-season-2-episode-2/98689190/
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/30/american-dream-shattered-murder-space-coast-series-2-episode-5/99006898/
The same prosecuting team ? mainly Dean Moxley and Chris White ? used Preston in numerous high profile cases.
More from TorresTorres: Crosley Green's attorneys refuse to give up or give in | Opinion
Dillon spent 37 years in prison. Dedge spent 22 years in prison. Juan Ramos spent 10 years on death row. They were the "lucky" ones. Gary Bennett is in his 40th year in prison with no relief in sight.
A few days before the 2010 state primary, Bondi went on television and told Geraldo Rivera she would conduct a full probe into these unsettling convictions.
“This guy was using junk science, claiming that this dog could find weapons underwater," she told Geraldo, her voice thick with indignation. "It was unreal. Now we learn that there are are at least four people in Florida still in prison!”
Preston was normally called in when prosecutors were desperate to make a case but were short on real evidence. Brevard attorney Sam Bardwell quit his job as a prosecutor once he saw what was happening.
Dog handler John Preston's fraudulent testimony helped convict numerous men
in Brevard County. Pam Bondi, while campaigning for Florida's Attorney General,
promised a probe into cases where Preston was used. She never issued a report.
Florida Today file
"There were people who were sophisticated enough to know that this is BS," he told me a few years ago when I focused on these cases for the first two seasons of my "Murder on the Space Coast" podcast .. https://open.spotify.com/show/3Sjab7HJQQMTwEikmcelyS . "What we found out throughout all the testimony is that, first of all no dog has ever been able to complete anything like this dog could do and that some of his most vaunted successes were actually abject failures. I started at the State Attorney’s office in 1978. I left in 1982. I just plain quit. I couldn’t deal with it. This was at the height of the activities that I find personally repulsive."
Incredibly, at the urging of Moxley ? who went on to become a judge (now retired) — Preston was brought in to help solve an eight-year-old unsolved murder. Sure enough, Preston said his dog tracked the scent of suspected serial killer Gerald Stano to the site where Kathie Lee Scharf was found murdered eight years earlier. Preston helped police build the case against Stano ? whom many believe to be a mentally impaired serial confessor.
Stano was executed for the Scharf murder.
So, about that probe that Bondi promised? Once elected, Bondi forgot all about her televised vow. We're still waiting for a report about her investigation that will obviously never come.
Bondi has also successfully fought to keep Crosley Green in prison .. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/10/torres-crosley-green-murder-conviction-just-another-tainted-case-state/851944001/ . She opposed a federal court ruling granting Green his freedom or a new trial because prosecutors kept information from Green's lawyers that responding officers believed Green to be innocent.
Preston had nothing to do with Green's case but the same type of ? since-debunked ? dog tracking was used to convict Green in a case rife with problems and inconsistencies including coercing testimony against Green from state witnesses whom all have since recanted.
Pam Bondi failed Brevard County. She failed the state of Florida. I have no doubt she will continue to fail justice.
Contact Torres at jtorres@floridatoday.com. You can follow him on X @johnalbertorres or on Facebook at facebook.com/FTjohntorres.
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/john-a-torres/2024/11/22/pam-bondi-nomination-attorney-general-unfortunate-safe-pick-probe-prosecutor-misconduct-torres/76495779007/
Mussolini Musk. The salute was evidence enough to clarify that.
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