CREW Public Records Act Request - Trump University, Trump Foundation (Response) - 2

Scott Hunt
8/29/2013 3:57:33 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Anna Prince-Palmer,Becky Kring,Carlos Muniz,Citizen Help@OAG,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson
Subject: Re: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump
Jenn:
We have no open or closed investigations or preliminaries in our database under
search parameters " Donald Trump, Trump University or Trump Entrepreneur
Institute. As you well know, this issue is getting a lot of national coverage
in the media for the last several days.
Scott T. Hunt
Senior Investigator Supervisor
Office of the Director
Consumer Protection Division
Florida Attorney General
107 West Gaines St. Suite 119
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249
From: Jennifer Meale/OAG

To: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Citizen Help@OAG, Becky
Kring/OAG@OAG, Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG, Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG
Cc: Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Subject: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump
Please see the call below. This is the second today of this nature.
The deadline for complaints and information for this one is NOT today, but
tomorrow morning would be ideal.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM
Contact: Richard Burnett

Media: Orlando Sentinel
Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Email: rburnett@orlandosentinel.com
Subject: Trump
Request:
Have we ever had an investigation regarding: Donald Trump, Trump University or
Trump Entrepreneur Institute.
Any complaints within the past 5 years regarding those three names?
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Return call made when?
Jennifer Meale
8/29/2013 4:31:10 PM
To: Scott Hunt
Yes, thanks. I know Mark mentioned one complaint in '09. Can I get a copy of
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
Communications Director
Office of Attorney General Pam Bondi
The Capitol, Suite PL-01
Tallahassee, Fla. 32399-1050
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: Scott Hunt/OAG

To: Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG
Cc: Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG, Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG,
Citizen Help@OAG, Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249


Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
Becky Kring
8/29/2013 4:50:47 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Scott Hunt,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Citizen Help@OAG,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson
Just so everyone is aware, we have 100 complaints about The Trump Group, but it
isn't same entity. We're searching specifically for the other company names.
We have four complaints in Correspondence db on the other names, and one on a
"Donald Trump's Wealth Builder's Network"><Trump's Wealth Builder's Network
Here is the 2009 complaint your requested Jenn-Becky Kring
Office of Citizen Services
Florida Attorney General's Office
PL01 The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1050
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226
Outside Florida: (850) 414-3990
Website: http://myfloridalegal.com
*Please note that Florida has a broad public records law, and that all
correspondence emailed to me may be subject to disclosure.*

To: Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Becky Kring
8/29/2013 4:58:49 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Scott Hunt,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Trish Conners,Janna Barineau
Subject: Hold on -- more under "Trump Institute" - Re: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump
Instead of "Trump Entrepreneur Institute," I searched "Trump Institute" and
we've got 23 entries -- can we have til tomorrow to review these for
followups/duplicates & redact? (Also still need to pull two more from first
search below). Thanks
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226
From: Becky Kring/OAG

Cc: Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG,
Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
"Donald Trump's Wealth Builder's Network"><Trump's Wealth Builder's Network
Here is the 2009 complaint your requested Jenn-Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Trish Conners
8/29/2013 5:13:34 PM
To: Becky Kring,Jennifer Meale
cc: Scott Hunt,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Janna Barineau
Subject: Re: Hold on -- more under "Trump Institute" - Re: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump
What years to they span, Becky?
Florida Office of the Attorney General
From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Cc: Scott Hunt; Anna Prince-Palmer; Carlos Muniz; Laurie Wright; Richard Lawson;
Trish Conners; Janna Barineau
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
Subject: Hold on -- more under "Trump Institute" - Re: Press Inquiry from
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM

"Donald Trump's Wealth Builder's Network">
[attachment "mcmillan 7-18-2008_Redacted.pdf" deleted by Trish Conners/OAG]<
Trump's Wealth Builder's Network
Here is the 2009 complaint your requested Jenn-[attachment "swan 2009.pdf" deleted by Trish Conners/OAG]
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Becky Kring
8/29/2013 5:28:52 PM
To: Trish Conners
cc: Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Janna Barineau,Jennifer Meale,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt
2008 - 2010
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226
From: Trish Conners/OAG

To: Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG
Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:13 PM
Subject: Re: Hold on -- more under "Trump Institute" - Re: Press Inquiry from
08/29/2013 - Trump
From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
[attachment "mcmillan 7-18-2008_Redacted.pdf" deleted by Trish
Conners/OAG]<Trump's Wealth Builder's Network
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM

that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Trish Conners
8/29/2013 5:50:40 PM
To: Becky Kring
cc: Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Janna Barineau,Jennifer Meale,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt,Mark
Hamilton
So, Jenn, looks like we have some old, historical complaints and the reporter
would be right that we were reviewing them back then. Copying Mark as he has
also been doing his own digging...Mark, can you again state what you've
found...did we have an open case as a result of these old complaints that has
since been closed, or was there a case ever opened at all?

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Cc: Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG,
Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott
Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:28 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
2008 - 2010
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 05:13 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump

From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:

Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Trish Conners
8/29/2013 5:53:23 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
cc: Jennifer Meale,Molly McFarland,Richard Lawson,Carlos Muniz
Subject: Re: Fw: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump University
So, bottom line is that we had no case opened as a result of teh 2008-2010 in
the name of Trump Institute...just this other company that may or may not be
the same and that was for a violation of an earlier (2001) AVC?
From: Mark Hamilton/OAG

Cc: Molly McFarland/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:00 PM
Jenn,
I can verify that Trump Entrepreneur Institute (f/n/a Trump University) is not
one of the "For-Profit Schools" that are under investigation by our office.
I doing some quick research, it appears that the office had received some
complaints in 2009 pertaining to Trump Institute. In May of 2010 the New York
Daily News did an article regarding Trump Institute and complaints received.
The complaints related back to 3-day real estate seminars. In the article
(attached below) it stated:
"Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's office is "reviewing" 20 complaints
from people who paid up to
$35,000 for various "Trump Elite" packages promising "priceless information"
that never came."
I am not aware of the context of that quote. Additionally, that was

approximately 5 months prior to the opening of the "For-Profit School"
investigations (October 2010).
FYI In doing a quick review, our office did have a prior investigation initiated in
2001 against Proven Methods Seminars, LLC/National Grants Conference which at
one time appears to have been using the name "Trump Institute" out of Boca
Raton through a licensing arrangement with Trump. Our office had a prior AVC
with Proven Methods Seminar, LLC/National Grants Conference in 2001:
L01-3-1100 .. Linked file, click once to open.

The office also investigated that entity for possible violations of the AVC in
2009. It appears that company entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy at that time: Re:
this linked file (double-click) -->
Mark

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Cc: Molly McFarland/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 02:31 PM
Subject: Fw: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump University
Please see below.
We've gotten a few of these.
Can we confirm that we have never had an investigation regarding Trump
University?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 08/29/2013 02:30 PM ----From: Molly McFarland/OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 02:30 PM
Subject: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump University
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 02:28 PM
Contact: Janina Marquordt

Media: Der Spiegel
Phone: (212) 221-7583

Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email: janina_marquordt@spiegel.de
Subject: Trump University
Request:
I heard that in 2010 your office was reviewing complaints regarding Trump
University. Is there an investigation? Or was there one at some point? is your
office taking action?
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Mark Hamilton
8/30/2013 7:45:53 AM
To: Trish Conners
cc: Jennifer Meale,Molly McFarland,Richard Lawson,Carlos Muniz
Correct, no case opened in the name of Trump Institute (nor Trump University).
The other company was looked into as part of a preliminary investigation to
assess if there was a violation of the 2001 AVC.
Mark

To: Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Cc: Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Molly McFarland/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG,
Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:53 PM
So, bottom line is that we had no case opened as a result of teh 2008-2010 in
the name of Trump Institute...just this other company that may or may not be
the same and that was for a violation of an earlier (2001) AVC?

Cc: Molly McFarland/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:00 PM
Jenn,
I can verify that Trump Entrepreneur Institute (f/n/a Trump University) is not
one of the "For-Profit Schools" that are under investigation by our office.
I doing some quick research, it appears that the office had received some
complaints in 2009 pertaining to Trump Institute. In May of 2010 the New York
Daily News did an article regarding Trump Institute and complaints received.
The complaints related back to 3-day real estate seminars. In the article
(attached below) it stated:
"Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's office is "reviewing" 20 complaints
from people who paid up to

$35,000 for various "Trump Elite" packages promising "priceless information"
that never came."
[attachment "NYDN Article - Trump.pdf" deleted by Mark Hamilton/OAG]
I am not aware of the context of that quote. Additionally, that was
approximately 5 months prior to the opening of the "For-Profit School"
investigations (October 2010).
FYI In doing a quick review, our office did have a prior investigation initiated in
2001 against Proven Methods Seminars, LLC/National Grants Conference which at
one time appears to have been using the name "Trump Institute" out of Boca
Raton through a licensing arrangement with Trump. Our office had a prior AVC
with Proven Methods Seminar, LLC/National Grants Conference in 2001:
L01-3-1100 .. Linked file, click once to open.
The office also investigated that entity for possible violations of the AVC in
2009. It appears that company entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy at that time: Re:
this linked file (double-click) -->
Mark

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Cc: Molly McFarland/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 02:31 PM
Please see below.
University?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 08/29/2013 02:30 PM -----
From: Molly McFarland/OAG

Date: 08/29/2013 02:30 PM
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 02:28 PM

Media: Der Spiegel
Phone: (212) 221-7583
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Janna Barineau
8/30/2013 8:38:28 AM
To: Trish Conners
cc: Becky Kring,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Jennifer Meale,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt,Mark
Hamilton
Not sure if this helps any, this is all the back ground I have on it. I sent
the complaints we had at the time to Texas.
I'm not sure if CP WPB did anything with it.
Janna Barineau
OMCII/Consumer Protection Liaison
Office of the Attorney General
PL-01, The Capitol
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050
Telephone: (850) 414-3300
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226
Website: www.myfloridalegal.com

To: Becky Kring/OAG@OAG
Hunt/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:50 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump

Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:28 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
2008 - 2010
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 05:13 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring

PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 11:06:35 AM
To: Becky Kring
cc: Trish Conners,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Janna Barineau,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt
Hi, All.
Thanks for your help with this one. I'll just wait for an update on the 23
complaints and where we are after review. Then, I'll send the final proposed
response around.
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:28 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
2008 - 2010
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 05:13 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM

Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202

Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 2:03:18 PM
To: Trish Conners,Richard Lawson,Mark Hamilton
cc: Carlos Muniz
Subject: Trump
Just an FYI. We're already working with this reporter, but we need to make it
clear that we never investigated Trump et al, which I will. Looks like they're
lumping us in with other states on "complaints" received.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 08/30/2013 02:00 PM ----From: "Vause, Tiffany" <Tiffany.Vause@flofr.com>
To: Jennifer Meale <Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>,
"john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com" <john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com>,
"Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com" <Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com>
Cc: "Norris, Katie" <Katie.Norris@flofr.com>
Date: 08/30/2013 01:57 PM
Subject: FW: media query
Hi AG Friends! Happy Friday! I have spoken our crew and it does not appear that
the OFR investigated this case. They all seem to think that perhaps it may
have been your office. Is it ok to forward Richard along to your office?
Tiffany Vause
Director of Communications
Florida Office of Financial Regulation
Direct: (850) 410-9709
Cell: (850) 766-4646
Tiffany.Vause@flofr.com
www.FLOFR.com
From: Burnett, Richard R [mailto:RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com]

Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 12:46 PM
To: Vause, Tiffany
Subject: media query
from Richard Burnett, Financial Writer, Orlando Sentinel, 407.420.5256

Tiffany.the AG of New York recently sued celebrity mogul Donald Trump alleging
civil fraud in the marketing of Trump University real-estate wealth-building
seminars. (See NYT story below). The lawsuit indicates that complaints
initially surfaced about the Trump practices a few years ago in Florida, New
York and other states. The NY AG also indicates that authorities in Florida
have investigated these complaints. Did OFR investigate such complaints and if
so, what did it find ? Thanks, /rb
The New York Times
August 25, 2013 Sunday
Late Edition - Final
Trump University Made False Claims, Lawsuit Says
BYLINE: By ALAN FEUER
SECTION: Section A; Column 0; National Desk; Pg. 20
LENGTH: 444 words
The New York State attorney general's office filed a civil lawsuit on Saturday
accusing Trump University, Donald J. Trump's for-profit investment school, of
engaging in illegal business practices.
The lawsuit, which seeks restitution of at least $40 million, accused Mr.
Trump, the Trump Organization and others involved with the school of running it
as an unlicensed educational institution from 2005 to 2011 and making false
claims about its classes in what was described as ''an elaborate
bait-and-switch.''
In a statement, Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general, said Mr. Trump
appeared in advertisements for the school making ''false promises'' to persuade
more than 5,000 people around the country -- including 600 New Yorkers -- ''to
spend tens of thousands of dollars they couldn't afford for lessons they never
got.''
The advertisements claimed, for instance, that Mr. Trump had handpicked
instructors to teach students ''a systematic method for investing in real
estate.'' But according to the lawsuit, Mr. Trump had not chosen even a single
instructor at the school and had not created the curriculums for any of its
courses.
''No one, no matter how rich or famous they are, has a right to scam
hardworking New Yorkers,'' Mr. Schneiderman said in the statement. ''Anyone who
does should expect to be held accountable.''
The inquiry into Trump University came to light in May 2011 after dozens of
people had complained to the authorities in New York, Texas, Florida and
Illinois about the institution, which attracted prospective students with the
promise of a free 90-minute seminar about real estate investing that, according
to the lawsuit, ''served as a sales pitch for a three-day seminar costing
$1,495.'' This three-day seminar was itself ''an upsell,'' the lawsuit said,
for increasingly costly ''Trump Elite'' packages that included so-called
personal mentorship programs at $35,000 a course.
On Saturday evening, Michael Cohen, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, denied the
accusations in the lawsuit and said the school had received 11,000 evaluations,
98 percent of which rated students as ''extremely satisfied.''
George Sorial, another lawyer for Mr. Trump, called the lawsuit politically
motivated. He said that Mr. Schneiderman had asked Mr. Trump and his family for
campaign contributions and grew angry when denied.
''This is tantamount to extortion,'' Mr. Sorial said.
Andrew Friedman, a spokesman for the attorney general's office, said that
although Mr. Schneiderman had accepted a contribution from Mr. Trump in the
past, ''the fact that he's still brave enough to follow the investigation
wherever it may lead speaks to Mr. Schneiderman's character.''
URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/nyregion/trump-university-made-false-claims-la
wsuit-says.html
LOAD-DATE: August 25, 2013
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper
Copyright 2013 The New York Times Company
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 2:08:02 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Becky Kring,Trish Conners,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Janna Barineau,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Scott
Hunt
Just touching base. Please let me know where we stand with the 23 complaints
that are being sorted through.
I'd like to answer the reporter ASAP that we do have and have not ever had an
investigation.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG,
Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott
Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 11:06 AM
08/29/2013 - Trump
Hi, All.
response around.
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:28 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
2008 - 2010
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 05:13 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 2:41:02 PM
To: Laurie Wright,Trish Conners,Scott Hunt
cc: Becky Kring,Janna Barineau,Kym Oswald,Molly McFarland,Richard Lawson,Scott Palmer,Carlos Muniz
Subject: FINAL TRUMP RESPONSE-PLEASE REVIEW (for Orlando Sentinel)
Thanks. Since you've already gone over them and there are more than 100 docs,
can verify if this is the correct response:
Since X (need date), the Attorney General's Office has received 23 complaints
regarding Donald Trump, Trump University or Trump Entrepreneur Institute. Under
this administration, we have received one complaint. This office has never and
does not currently have an investigation regarding Donald Trump, Trump
University or Trump Entrepreneur Institute.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: Laurie Wright/OAG

To: Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Kym
Oswald/OAG@OAG, Molly McFarland/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott
Hunt/OAG@OAG, Scott Palmer/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:13 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: approved - Re: REVISED: MEDIA: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013
- Trump
See below.....
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
Senior Consumer Service Analyst
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

To: Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Molly McFarland/OAG@OAG, Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Kym
Oswald/OAG@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Richard
Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Scott Palmer/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 11:41 AM
Subject: Fw: approved - Re: REVISED: MEDIA: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 Trump
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973
----- Forwarded by Laurie Wright/OAG on 08/30/2013 11:41 AM ----From: Becky Kring/OAG
To: Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG
Cc: Bethann Dillon/OAG@OAG, Jack Hagadorn/OAG@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Kym
Oswald/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 11:17 AM
Subject: approved - Re: REVISED: MEDIA: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump
Approved. Laurie is compiling records now. We'll go ahead and provide that data
with our reply to Communications.
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

To: Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Bethann Dillon/OAG@OAG, Jack
Hagadorn/OAG@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 10:56 AM

Subject: MEDIA: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013 - Trump
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973
----- Forwarded by Laurie Wright/OAG on 08/30/2013 10:55 AM -----
Citizen Service Request

Assigned by: Jack Hagadorn
Status: Assigned
Assigned To: Laurie Wright
Categories: Media Request
Action Taken:
RECORDS REQUESTED: Have we ever had an investigation regarding: Donald Trump,

Trump University or Trump Entrepreneur Institute.
DATABASES SEARCHED: Active Email/Postal; Filed Email/Postal; EC Active/Filed.
SEARCH TERMS USED: contains any of donald trump, trump university, trump
institute, trump entrepeneur AND (([Form]="fControlDoc") OR
([Form]="EmailControl")) AND ( [use FIELD search] field Subject does not
contain Checking OR Records OR Miscellaneous OR Follow OR Response)
RESULTS/FORMAT PROVIDED: As always, the numbers of entries below are our
"documented complaints," meaning our written postal and email entries. We have
not included Hotline messages.
NUMBERS OF RECORDS: Citizen Services has received complaints from 23
consumers. This number excludes multiple contacts, duplicates and/or follow
ups.
NOTE: One complaint is against Donald Trump's Wealth Builder's Network and one
is against NED Alliance and makes reference to products purchased at a Donald
Trump seminar.
CONSUMER REFERRALS: DACS, DBPR, BBB, Palm Beach County Consumer Protection
COPIES OF RECORDS: We have gathered the records and will review the full
content of the correspondence for redaction.
TIME & COST: No charge.
Date Received: 08/29/2013 03:50:43 PM
Date Resolved:
From:
Jennifer Meale
Unit:
Communications Office
To: Richard Lawson; Scott Hunt;

Citizen Help; Becky Kring; Laurie
Wright; Anna Prince-Palmer
cc: Carlos Muniz
Subject: Press Inquiry from 08/29/2013

- Trump
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
>>>> 06/08/2011 11:48: AM Carmen James

Status changed from Assigned to Reply In Process. Assignment changed from Kym Oswald to Carmen James. Reply date
changed from blank to 06/08/2011.
06/10/2011 02:00 AM Overdue assignment notification sent to Carmen James
06/10/2011 11:14:10 AM Scheduled Reply Sent>>>> 06/10/2011 01:03: PM Status changed to Filed.
>>>> 06/13/2011 09:01:04 PM Moved to Filed Correspondence
Internet Mail Tracking
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 2
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 4
Donna came and went. She was knowledgeable however we still did not feel that this course was for
people like us who did not have the money to invest.
After she left, I called the center to try to get more guidance and training. I was told by a Customer
Service Agent named Trevor that he could not speak with me unless I started paying a monthly fee of
$39.99 a month. (You could imagine how frustrated I was at this point). However, I wasnt that surprised
due to the way we were treated and the events leading up to this.
I immediately called the Trump Headquarters to get the Trump software turned off which by the way took
me a few phone calls to do that. I felt that there was no way I was going to spend any more money or
efforts on this program. Both my husband and I feel that we have been scammed and that there wasnt
anyone who could help us.
The Trump Institute failed us by not being there for us and for not staying true to their word to help us and
be there for us every step of the way as promised.
******************I also want to mention that my daughter, Amanda who is now 6 years old was not feeling
well at the time Donna Miano was here for our mentorship. I had to miss just about the whole day of the
house showings due to her being ill.
My daughter has had to be monitored daily and went though many, many tests, and hospital visits and
doctor visits which lasted for many months. I took a lot of our time and efforts to make sure our daughter
was diagnose and was going to be alright. She also had surgery which took her about a month or more to
recover.
This is why I have not been in touch until now about this situation. What I am asking is that we be
refunded for this program. I feel that we were miss-lead, miss-guided and most of all I feel that we were
not told the whole truth of this program. I am very dis-appointed and frustrated because my husband and
I wanted was to try to learn something that would benefit us for life and would help our situation and
lifestyle. Instead we are in more debt and have nothing to show for it due to this program.
We pay $280.00 per month for the debt we accrued for the mentorship with The Trump Institute because
we borrowed it from our retirement money.
So I am asking that you do the right thing and refund our money to us. Please
Sincerely,
Mr. & Mrs. James Taddeo
(203) 263-5540
This information can be sent to the referenced party.

Assigned to Citizen Services .. Kym Oswald,Samantha Santana
Section: Citizen Services
Coordinator: Kym Oswald
Author: Samantha Santana
Email Date
Assigned
05/05/2010 08:55 AM
05/05/2010
Reply List .. Double-click entry to open reply
Due
05/12/2010
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Reply
07/07/2010
Filed
07/07/2010
Page: 6
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 9
01/26/2010 to 01/27/2010.
01/29/2010 02:09 AM Overdue assignment notification sent to Kym Oswald
>>>> 02/08/2010 08:45: AM Travis Dudley
Assignment changed from Kym Oswald to Travis Dudley.
02/08/2010 09:02 AM Assignment notification sent to TRAVIS DUDLEY
>>>> 02/08/2010 10:55: AM Travis Dudley
Status changed from Assigned to Reply In Process. Reply date changed from blank to 02/08/2010.
02/08/2010 04:05:07 PM Scheduled Reply Sent>>>> 02/10/2010 05:04: PM Status changed to Filed.
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 11
From: Susan Steinbrenner

Received From Susan Steinbrenner
Address: 4455 Knapp Street
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
Phone:
Email Address: stucks@mighigan.gov
Contact is 60 or older?
General comments and related documents
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
Modification History
Created: 09/14/2009 02:46:26 PM .. Internet Contact
Last Edited: 09/17/2009 01:27:11 PM .. Samantha Santana
>>>> 09/15/2009 07:05: AM Samantha Santana
Subject changed from Real Estate/Property/Condominiums to Real Estate. Status changed from Received to Assigned. Section
changed from Economic Crimes to Citizen Services. Assignment changed from blank to Kym Oswald. Assignment date changed
from 09/14/2009 to 09/15/2009. Due date changed from 09/21/2009 to 09/22/2009.
Assignment changed from Kym Oswald to Samantha Santana.
09/16/2009 08:00 AM Assignment notification sent to SAMANTHA SANTANA
>>>> 09/17/2009 01:27: PM Samantha Santana
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 13

08/04/2009 11:32:42 AM Scheduled Reply Sent>>>> 08/04/2009 11:32: AM Status changed to Filed.
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 15
From: Eugene Henifin

Received From Eugene Henifin
Address: 13508 Nw 13th Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98685
Phone:
Email Address: bandbethenifin@yahoo.com
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
Last Edited: 06/15/2009 03:07:09 PM .. Janna Barineau
Subject changed from Business Opportunity to Business Opportunity (US). Status changed from Received to Assigned. Section
>>>> 06/15/2009 11:19: AM Janna Barineau
Assignment changed from Kym Oswald to Janna Barineau.
06/15/2009 12:11 PM Assignment notification sent to JANNA BARINEAU
>>>> 06/15/2009 03:05: PM Janna Barineau
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 17
From: Mitzie Andrade

Received From Mitzie Andrade
Address: 7 Massow Lane
Windsor, CT 06095
Phone: (860) 285-8908
Email Address: simpsonandrade@gmail.com
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
Created: 05/26/2009 10:02:35 AM .. Internet Contact
Last Edited: 06/09/2009 02:40:07 PM .. Carmen James
Subject changed from False or Deceptive Trade Practices to Business Opportunity (US). Status changed from Received to
Assigned. Section changed from Economic Crimes to Citizen Services. Assignment changed from blank to Kym Oswald.
Assignment date changed from 05/26/2009 to 05/27/2009. Due date changed from 06/02/2009 to 06/03/2009.
>>>> 06/09/2009 08:01: AM Carmen James
Assignment changed from Kym Oswald to Carmen James.
06/09/2009 09:01 AM Assignment notification sent to CARMEN JAMES
>>>> 06/09/2009 11:43: AM Carmen James
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 19
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
Status changed from Received to Assigned. Section changed from Economic Crimes to Citizen Services. Assignment changed
from blank to Kym Oswald. Assignment date changed from 04/20/2009 to 04/21/2009. Due date changed from 04/27/2009 to
04/28/2009.
Subject changed from Business Opportunity to Business Opportunity (US). Assignment changed from Kym Oswald to Samantha
Santana.
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 21

Last Edited: 03/27/2009 08:03:15 AM .. Carmen James
>>>> 03/16/2009 10:02: AM Raena Wright
Subject changed from Business Opportunity to Consumer Complaint Non-Regulated. Status changed from Received to Assigned.
Section changed from Economic Crimes to Citizen Services. Assignment changed from blank to Kym Oswald. Assignment date
changed from 03/13/2009 to 03/16/2009. Due date changed from 03/20/2009 to 03/23/2009.
>>>> 03/27/2009 08:01: AM Carmen James
>>>> 03/27/2009 08:03: AM Carmen James
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 25
Oswald.
>>>> 03/24/2009 08:25: PM Carmen James
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 27
Laurie Wright
8/30/2013 2:44:03 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Trish Conners,Scott Hunt,Becky Kring,Janna Barineau,Kym Oswald,Molly McFarland,Richard Lawson,Scott
Palmer,Carlos Muniz
Subject: Re: FINAL TRUMP RESPONSE-PLEASE REVIEW (for Orlando Sentinel)
The oldest one is 2/14/2008.
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

To: Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG
Cc: Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Molly
McFarland/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Palmer/OAG@OAG, Carlos
Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:41 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:13 PM
- Trump
See below.....
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 11:41 AM
[attachment "Trump Institute postal_Redacted.pdf" deleted by Laurie Wright/OAG]
[attachment "Trump Institute emails.pdf" deleted by Laurie Wright/OAG]
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973
Date: 08/30/2013 11:17 AM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/30/2013 10:56 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Status: Assigned
Action Taken:

ups.
Trump seminar.
Date Received: 08/29/2013 03:50:43 PM
Date Resolved:
From:
Jennifer Meale
Unit:

cc: Carlos Muniz

- Trump
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 2:44:26 PM
To: Laurie Wright
Palmer,Carlos Muniz
Thanks. And only one under this admin, right?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Janna
Barineau/OAG@OAG, Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Molly McFarland/OAG@OAG, Richard
Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Palmer/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:43 PM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:41 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:13 PM
- Trump
See below.....
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 11:41 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973
Date: 08/30/2013 11:17 AM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/30/2013 10:56 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Status: Assigned
Action Taken:

ups.
Trump seminar.
Date Received: 08/29/2013 03:50:43 PM
Date Resolved:
From:
Jennifer Meale
Unit:

cc: Carlos Muniz

- Trump
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:

Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
Laurie Wright
8/30/2013 2:47:33 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
Palmer,Carlos Muniz
Here is the spreadsheet - there is a complaint from 1/3/2011 and one from
5/26/11.
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 02:44 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:43 PM

Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:41 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:13 PM

- Trump
See below.....
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 11:41 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973
Date: 08/30/2013 11:17 AM
Becky Kring

PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/30/2013 10:56 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Status: Assigned
Action Taken:

ups.
Trump seminar.
Date Received: 08/29/2013 03:50:43 PM
Date Resolved:
From:
Jennifer Meale
Unit:

cc: Carlos Muniz

- Trump
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
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Complaint
The New York State Attorney G
Have had a mentor for a couple
CONSUMER CONTACT FORM
how can i resolve this dispute? t
May 5, 2010 This is a copy of le
I paid 12000.00for a real estate
AG Form Consumer states that
TYPED LETTER Consumer sta
As per their policy I returned the
Purchased real estate training &
SENT BY A FAX - Individual pa
My wife, Bettie and I attended a
Dear AG, I attended one of Tru
TYPED LETTER - Signed up wi
This is what I sent to the Washi
AG Form Caller cancelled a s
The Trump Institute (a/k/a Busin
I purchased their introductory pa
I canceled an agreement to atte
Letter Is unabel to get a refun
Letter- consumer contracted wit
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This is a copy of my complaint w
Referenced Business/Person
Trump Ùniversity`
Donald Trump University
The Trump Institute
trump institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute/Business Strategies Group LLC
The Trump Institute
Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
Trump institute
The Trump University
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
Trump Institute
Trump Institute/Business Strategies Group
The Trump Institute
NED Alliance
Trump Institute
Donald Trump's Wealth Builder's Network
Trump Institute
Referenced Address
United States
PO Box 811209
2385 Executive Center Drive
6400 park of commerce blvd , #2
5030 Champion Blvd. Ste G6-153
6400 Park of Commerce blvd. suite 2
5030 Champion Boulevard G6-153
6400 Park of Commerce Boulevard, Unit 2
5030 Champion Blvd, Suite G6153
6400 Park of Commerce Blvd. Suite 2
6400 park of Commerce
5030 Champion Blvd. Suite G6 153
5030 Champion Boulevard

United States
Referenced City
Referenced State
Referenced Zip
Referenced Phone
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
FL
Florida
FL
FL
FL
Florida
Florida
FL
FL
33481
33431
33487
33496
33487
33496
33487
33496
33487
Boca Raton
Boca raton
FL
FL
33496 (800) 916-1768

33487
Boca Raton
FL
33496 (800) 914-8433
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
FL
FL
33496 (800) 495-1941

33487 (800) 916-1768
(561) 989-8876
(800) 495-1941
???-????
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
Referenced Website
www.trumpuniversity.com
trumpinstitute.com
trump.com
www.trumpinstitute.com
http://www.trumpinstitute.com/
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 2:48:41 PM
To: Laurie Wright
Palmer,Carlos Muniz
Thanks.
Trish, good with the rest of the response?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:47 PM
5/26/11.
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973


Date: 08/30/2013 02:44 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:43 PM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:41 PM

Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:13 PM
- Trump
See below.....
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 11:41 AM

Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973
Date: 08/30/2013 11:17 AM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/30/2013 10:56 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright

PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Status: Assigned
Action Taken:

ups.
Trump seminar.
Date Received: 08/29/2013 03:50:43 PM
Date Resolved:
From:
Jennifer Meale
Unit:

cc: Carlos Muniz

- Trump
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
Posted
5/26/2011
1/3/2011
11/29/2010
6/19/2010
5/5/2010
1/19/2010
10/26/2009
9/25/2009
7/30/2009
7/24/2009
6/5/2009
6/3/2009
5/26/2009
5/26/2009
4/20/2009
3/23/2009
3/17/2009
3/13/2009
3/13/2009
3/10/2009
10/21/2008
7/23/2008
2/14/2008
Last Name
Jacobson
O'Brien
Van Der Veen
lafrate
Taddeo
Rolla
Harb
Besel
Keeler
Steinbrenner
Murphy
Henifin
Andrade
Swain
Jones
Sheila
Minto
Chin
Roberts
Sumiran
Millsap
McMillan
Gallimore
First Name
Charles
Aaron
Doug A.
kenneth
Danna
David
Tom A.
Fred
Mark
Susan
Patricia
Eugene
Mitzie
Belinda I.
Gary
Robert
Carol
Kenneth
Sheila
Sarojra
Judith E.
June A.
Norman
Suffix
Address
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
47 buccaneer dr
21 Woods Way
22 Huntington Drive
101 Riverview Dr.
4455 Knapp Street
7 Massow Lane
Post Office Box 280
6431 180th St.SE
III Hatch Street
1 Twin Circle Road
111 Hatch Street
2202 Olivegate Lane
Post Office Box 423
18 Girard Street NE
City
Bradenton
Tampa
Spruce Grove
Leesburg
Woodbury
Anaheim
Orlando
Yonkers
St. Rose
Grand Rapids
Bronx
Vancouver
Windsor
Atlanta
Snohomish
New Britain
West Haven
Brookline
New Britain
San Jose
Hotchkiss
Wellington
Washington
State
FL
FL
Alberta
FL
CT
CA
Florida
New York
LA
MI
New York
WA
CT
Georgia
WA
Connecticut
CT
MA
CT
California
Colorado
Florida
DC
Zip
34207
33647
T7X3N2
34788
6798
92807
32805
10704
70087
49525-9728
10462
98685
6095
30301
98296
6053
6516
2446
6053
95136
81419
33414
20002-1010
Phone
(941) 896-9086
(813) 486-7239
(780) 960-2867
(352) 223-2055
(714) 329-9797
(407) 383-9600
(504) 465-0056
(616) 365-1794
(215) 743-1619
(860) 285-8908
(404) 289-8042
(425) 773-1685
(860) 348-1148
(203) 932-0197
(617) 233-8338
(860) 348-1148
(408) 667-8926
(209) 404-5373
(202) 667-3323
Email
tomharb@harbco.com
stucks@michigan.gov
cminto01@snet.net
sheila@cgscorp.net
Complaint
Trump Ùniversity`
The Trump Institute
trump institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
Trump institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
NED Alliance
Trump Institute
Trump Institute
Referenced Address
United States
PO Box 811209

United States
Referenced City
Referenced State
Referenced Zip
Referenced Phone
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
FL
Florida
FL
FL
FL
Florida
Florida
FL
FL
33481
33431
33487
33496
33487
33496
33487
33496
33487
Boca Raton
Boca raton
FL
FL
33496 (800) 916-1768

33487
Boca Raton
FL
33496 (800) 914-8433
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
FL
FL
33496 (800) 495-1941

33487 (800) 916-1768
(561) 989-8876
(800) 495-1941
???-????
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
Referenced Website
trumpinstitute.com
trump.com
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 3:39:33 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Laurie Wright,Trish Conners,Scott Hunt,Becky Kring,Janna Barineau,Kym Oswald,Molly McFarland,Richard
Lawson,Scott Palmer,Carlos Muniz
Subject: Sending in the Miami Herald response
I'm going to go ahead and send in the response.
Thanks.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:48 PM
Thanks.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)


Date: 08/30/2013 02:47 PM
5/26/11.
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 02:44 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:43 PM

Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:41 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:13 PM
- Trump
See below.....
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 11:41 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973
Date: 08/30/2013 11:17 AM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol

Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/30/2013 10:56 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Status: Assigned
Action Taken:

ups.
Trump seminar.
Date Received: 08/29/2013 03:50:43 PM
Date Resolved:
From:
Jennifer Meale
Unit:

cc: Carlos Muniz

- Trump
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
Posted
5/26/2011
1/3/2011
11/29/2010
6/19/2010
5/5/2010
1/19/2010
10/26/2009
9/25/2009
7/30/2009
7/24/2009
6/5/2009
6/3/2009
5/26/2009
5/26/2009
4/20/2009
3/23/2009
3/17/2009
3/13/2009
3/13/2009
3/10/2009
10/21/2008
7/23/2008
2/14/2008
Last Name
Jacobson
O'Brien
Van Der Veen
lafrate
Taddeo
Rolla
Harb
Besel
Keeler
Steinbrenner
Murphy
Henifin
Andrade
Swain
Jones
Sheila
Minto
Chin
Roberts
Sumiran
Millsap
McMillan
Gallimore
First Name
Charles
Aaron
Doug A.
kenneth
Danna
David
Tom A.
Fred
Mark
Susan
Patricia
Eugene
Mitzie
Belinda I.
Gary
Robert
Carol
Kenneth
Sheila
Sarojra
Judith E.
June A.
Norman
Suffix
Address
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
47 buccaneer dr
21 Woods Way
22 Huntington Drive
101 Riverview Dr.
4455 Knapp Street
7 Massow Lane
Post Office Box 280
6431 180th St.SE
III Hatch Street
1 Twin Circle Road
111 Hatch Street
2202 Olivegate Lane
Post Office Box 423
18 Girard Street NE
City
Bradenton
Tampa
Spruce Grove
Leesburg
Woodbury
Anaheim
Orlando
Yonkers
St. Rose
Grand Rapids
Bronx
Vancouver
Windsor
Atlanta
Snohomish
New Britain
West Haven
Brookline
New Britain
San Jose
Hotchkiss
Wellington
Washington
State
FL
FL
Alberta
FL
CT
CA
Florida
New York
LA
MI
New York
WA
CT
Georgia
WA
Connecticut
CT
MA
CT
California
Colorado
Florida
DC
Zip
34207
33647
T7X3N2
34788
6798
92807
32805
10704
70087
49525-9728
10462
98685
6095
30301
98296
6053
6516
2446
6053
95136
81419
33414
20002-1010
Phone
(941) 896-9086
(813) 486-7239
(780) 960-2867
(352) 223-2055
(714) 329-9797
(407) 383-9600
(504) 465-0056
(616) 365-1794
(215) 743-1619
(860) 285-8908
(404) 289-8042
(425) 773-1685
(860) 348-1148
(203) 932-0197
(617) 233-8338
(860) 348-1148
(408) 667-8926
(209) 404-5373
(202) 667-3323
Email
tomharb@harbco.com
stucks@michigan.gov
cminto01@snet.net
sheila@cgscorp.net
Complaint
Trump Ùniversity`
The Trump Institute
trump institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
Trump institute
The Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
Trump Institute
The Trump Institute
NED Alliance
Trump Institute
Trump Institute
Referenced Address
United States
PO Box 811209

United States
Referenced City
Referenced State
Referenced Zip
Referenced Phone
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
FL
Florida
FL
FL
FL
Florida
Florida
FL
FL
33481
33431
33487
33496
33487
33496
33487
33496
33487
Boca Raton
Boca raton
FL
FL
33496 (800) 916-1768

33487
Boca Raton
FL
33496 (800) 914-8433
Boca Raton
Boca Raton
FL
FL
33496 (800) 495-1941

33487 (800) 916-1768
(561) 989-8876
(800) 495-1941
???-????
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
(800) 916-1768
Referenced Website
trumpinstitute.com
trump.com
Jennifer Meale
9/11/2013 10:54:49 AM
To: Trish Conners,Mark Hamilton
cc: Carlos Muniz
Subject: Fw: another Trump question
FYI: follow-up.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 09/11/2013 10:54 AM ----From: "Burnett, Richard R" <RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com>
To: Jennifer Meale <Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 09/11/2013 10:48 AM
Subject: RE: another Trump question
thanks.so the answer is undecided, at this point pending review of the NY

action, yes? /rb
From: Jennifer Meale [mailto:Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 10:40 AM
To: Burnett, Richard R
Subject: Re: another Trump question
Richard,
Under this administration, we have received one complaint regarding Donald
Trump, Trump University or Trump Entrepreneur Institute.
We are currently reviewing the allegations in the New York complaint.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
"Burnett, Richard R" ---09/11/2013 07:48:59 AM---Hello Jenn...I'm completing my

work on the Trump Institute story this morning on deadline. One key q
From: "Burnett, Richard R" <RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com>
To: "Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com" <Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 09/11/2013 07:48 AM
Subject: another Trump question
Hello Jenn...I'm completing my work on the Trump Institute story this morning
on deadline. One key question that has come up from complainants: Is the
Florida AG going to join the NY AG's suit v. Trump, et. al., and seek recovery
of refunds for those who complained about the Florida affiliate? for the
record....please advise. Thank you. /rb
________________________________________
From: Burnett, Richard R
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Thank you, again, Jenn. Reviewing now. /rb
Subject: RE: Trump
(See attached file: Trump Institute postal_Redacted.pdf)(See attached file:
Trump Institute emails.pdf)
Richard,
Attached please the records you requested.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
[Inactive hide details for "Burnett, Richard R" ---08/30/2013 03:56:12
PM---Thanks Jenn. AG's office did not take action regardi]"Burnett, Richard R"
---08/30/2013 03:56:12 PM---Thanks Jenn. AG's office did not take action
regarding the complaints? But could you provide detail

From: "Burnett, Richard R" <RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com<
mailto:RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com>>
To: Jennifer Meale
<Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com<mailto:Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>>
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
Thanks Jenn. AGs office did not take action regarding the complaints? But
could you provide details from case files of the 1 recent complaint and 23
earlier complaints? (Details like where the complainants lived, where the
seminars took place, how much was invested, what wrongdoing they alleged, etc.)
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Trump, Trump University or Trump Entrepreneur Institute. Our office has never
and does not currently have an investigation regarding Donald Trump, Trump
University or Trump Entrepreneur Institute. Since 2008, the Attorney General's
Office has received 23 complaints regarding Donald Trump, Trump University or
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
PM---thank you. From: Jennifer Meale [mailto:Jennifer.Mea]"Burnett, Richard R"
---08/30/2013 01:54:40 PM---thank you. From: Jennifer Meale
[mailto:Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com]
From: "Burnett, Richard R"
<RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com<mailto:RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com>>
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
Subject: RE: Touching base
________________________________
thank you.
Subject: Touching base
Hi, Richard.
I just wanted to let you know that I'll be in touch soon.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
[attachment "image001.gif" deleted by Jennifer Meale/OAG]
Mark Hamilton
9/11/2013 3:48:38 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Carlos Muniz,Trish Conners
Subject: Re: Fw: another Trump question
I would certainly defer to Trish for any final clarification. However, I am
not sure I concur with the characterization and use of "undecided." As Trish
indicated the allegations in the NY complaint are under review.
Mark

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/11/2013 10:54 AM
FYI: follow-up.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/11/2013 10:48 AM

action, yes? /rb
Richard,

Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/11/2013 07:48 AM
________________________________________
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
________________________________
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
5/23/2011 1:24:34 PM
To: Molly McFarland
cc:
Subject: Fw: CNN Inquiry
Hi Molly,
Did you speak with Kalid? Can you come talk to me?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 05/23/2011 01:24 PM ----From: Jennifer Davis/OAG
To: "Khalid, Kiran" <Kiran.Khalid@turner.com>
Date: 05/23/2011 01:04 PM
Subject: Re: CNN Inquiry
KiranThank you for your inquiry. I will let you know when I have an update.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Krell Davis, J.D.
Deputy Communications Director/Press Secretary
The Capitol, PL-01
Office: (850) 245-0150
jennifer.davis@myfloridalegal.com
From: "Khalid, Kiran" <Kiran.Khalid@turner.com>

To: <jennifer.davis@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 05/23/2011 12:55 PM
Subject: CNN Inquiry
Hi Jennifer,
The press office suggested I email my inquiry. Im producing a piece for CNN
Senior Correspondent Allan Chernoff on the states investigating Donald Trumps
universities. Some of them are called Trump University while others are
named The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative. In any case, can you please let us
know if the state of Florida received complaints from students and if so, how
many?
Thanks very much,
Kiran Khalid
Kiran Khalid
Field Producer
CNN
NY Bureau
c (347) 277-2111
Janna Barineau
8/30/2013 8:38:28 AM
To: Trish Conners
cc: Becky Kring,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Jennifer Meale,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt,Mark
Hamilton
Not sure if this helps any, this is all the back ground I have on it. I sent
the complaints we had at the time to Texas.
I'm not sure if CP WPB did anything with it.
Janna Barineau
PL-01, The Capitol
Telephone: (850) 414-3300
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Hunt/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:50 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump

Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:28 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
2008 - 2010
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 05:13 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring

PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Janna Barineau
10/15/2013 10:57:34 AM
To: Mark Hamilton
cc: Laurie Wright
Subject: Trump complaints
Mark ,
Per our discussion, below are the corresponding complaints to the August Media
Request for Trump. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Janna Barineau
PL-01, The Capitol
Telephone: (850) 414-3300
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226
Posted
5/26/2011
1/3/2011
11/29/2010
6/19/2010
5/5/2010
1/19/2010
10/26/2009
9/25/2009
7/30/2009
7/24/2009
6/5/2009
6/3/2009
5/26/2009
5/26/2009
4/20/2009
3/23/2009
3/17/2009
3/13/2009
3/13/2009
3/10/2009
10/21/2008
7/23/2008
2/14/2008
Last Name
Jacobson
O'Brien
Van Der Veen
lafrate
Taddeo
Rolla
Harb
Besel
Keeler
Steinbrenner
Murphy
Henifin
Andrade
Swain
Jones
Sheila
Minto
Chin
Roberts
Sumiran
Millsap
McMillan
Gallimore
First Name
Charles
Aaron
Doug A.
kenneth
Danna
David
Tom A.
Fred
Mark
Susan
Patricia
Eugene
Mitzie
Belinda I.
Gary
Robert
Carol
Kenneth
Sheila
Sarojra
Judith E.
June A.
Norman
Suffix
Address
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
47 buccaneer dr
21 Woods Way
22 Huntington Drive
101 Riverview Dr.
4455 Knapp Street
7 Massow Lane
Post Office Box 280
6431 180th St.SE
III Hatch Street
1 Twin Circle Road
111 Hatch Street
2202 Olivegate Lane
Post Office Box 423
18 Girard Street NE
City
Bradenton
Tampa
Spruce Grove
Leesburg
Woodbury
Anaheim
Orlando
Yonkers
St. Rose
Grand Rapids
Bronx
Vancouver
Windsor
Atlanta
Snohomish
New Britain
West Haven
Brookline
New Britain
San Jose
Hotchkiss
Wellington
Washington
State
FL
FL
Alberta
FL
CT
CA
Florida
New York
LA
MI
New York
WA
CT
Georgia
WA
Connecticut
CT
MA
CT
California
Colorado
Florida
DC
Zip
34207
33647
T7X3N2
34788
6798
92807
32805
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Carlos Muniz
10/17/2013 4:45:13 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
cc:
Subject: Re: 23 complaints from previous admin
Thanks for staying on top of this, Mark--we really appreciate it.

Cc: Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/17/2013 04:28 PM
Jenn,
In furtherance of our discussion, the NY OAG is seeking full restitution for
consumers nationwide. A link to the NY OAG press release is directly below:
http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-unive
rsity-michael-sexton-defrauding-consumers
The specific reference from their release as to consumer restitution is as
follows:
"The lawsuit seeks full restitution for the more than 5,000 consumers
nationwide who were defrauded of over $40 million in the scheme, disgorgement
of profits, as well as costs and penalties and injunctive relief prohibiting
these types of illegal practices going forward."
I have also attached a copy of the lawsuit.
[attachment "Verified Petition.pdf" deleted by Carlos Muniz/OAG]
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
Special Counsel, Consumer Protection Division
Office of the Attorney General, Pam Bondi
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/17/2013 04:00 PM
Thanks--would you please give me an ETA on when the review will be done?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/17/2013 02:46 PM
Will do
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Mark Hamilton
Cc: Richard Lawson; Trish Conners; Carlos Muniz
Date:
10/17/2013 02:40 PM EDT
Subject: 23 complaints from previous admin
[attachment "Trump Institute postal_Redacted.pdf" deleted by Mark Hamilton/OAG]

[attachment "Trump Institute emails.pdf" deleted by Mark Hamilton/OAG]
Hi Mark,
I'll call you, but we've provided the attached 23 complaints to reporters
before in response to requests about complaints against Trump under the
previous administration. Carlos wanted to make certain that the complaints are
all germane to the topic and the count is correct. Can you please go through
them ASAP?
We need to provide them to the TB Times.
Sorry, for the urgent email, but we're under a tight time constraint.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Carlos Muniz
10/18/2013 11:35:36 AM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Mark Hamilton,Trish Conners
Subject: Re: Please review ASAP
We should spell out AVC
Mark--is it accurate that every single one of the 22 complaints before uses
only "Trump Institute"? If so, shouldn't we be able to say (accurately) that
the complaints relate the defunct entity? If that's the case, there's no need
for Part III

Cc: Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/18/2013 11:30 AM
Subject: Please review ASAP
Carlos rewrote the fact sheet. Please see below and attached. Please review it
ASAP for accuracy and to see whether additional information needs to be added
or there are any other changes.
The TB Times editorial board has called.
Thanks,
Jenn
[attachment "Trump.docx" deleted by Carlos Muniz/OAG]
Fact Sheet
I.
1. On Aug. 24, 2013 the New York Attorney General sued Trump University.
2. The lawsuit seeks relief for any and all aggrieved consumers, regardless of
their state residence.
3. Although the New York lawsuit alleges that Trump University conducted live
seminars nationwide, no other state is involved in this lawsuit.
4. This administration has received one consumer complaint regarding Trump
University the complaint was received in May 2011.
5. Our office has been informed by the New York Attorney Generals Office that
the Trump University seminars at issue in the New York lawsuite have not been
offered anywhere since 2010.
II.
1. An entirely separate entity, Boca-based Proven Methods Systems, previously

operated in Florida, using the name Trump Institute pursuant to a licensing
agreement.
2. Florida Attorney Generals Office entered an AVC with this entity in 2001.
3. In 2009, in response to consumer complaints, the office reopened an
investigation and attempted to enforce the AVC.
4. However, the office learned that the entity was bankrupt and defunct.
5. The office accordingly closed the case in 2009.
III.
1. The previous administration received 22 complaints referencing Trump
Institute.
2. There are three categories that consumers fall into:
a. Those who could benefit from New Yorks Trump University (and related
entities) lawsuit;
b. Those who had complaints under the previous administration against Trump
Institute, which was run by Proven Methods Systems, that the previous
Administration found was bankrupt and defunct and the case was closed; and
c. Those who had/have complaints against Trump Institute who may have taken
seminars that fall under the New York AGs lawsuit and are not part of the
previous Administrations AVC and subsequently closed case against Proven
Methods Systems.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/18/2013 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Trump Fact Sheet
Sorry, I was just catching up and reviewing the fact sheet. Do you still wish
for me to do so?
From:
Trish Conners
To: Jennifer Meale
Cc: Carlos Muniz; Mark Hamilton
Date:10/18/2013 10:54 AM EDT
Good. Sorry I have been out of pocket so much-will be in shortly. Dr said I
needed to soak my hand in hot water and keep it elevated a bit this morning.
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Trish Conners
Date:10/18/2013 10:52 AM EDT
Here you go:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/17/3695585/trump-contribution-to-pam-bondis.h
tml
Also, Carlos re-wrote the fact sheet. Please disregard mine.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

To: Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/18/2013 10:47 AM
I didn't see any newsclips circulated this morning? Can u send the TBT article?
I see also from the FLAG clips a reference to a Miami Herald article.
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Carlos Muniz; Trish Conners; Mark Hamilton
Cc:
Date:10/18/2013 09:27 AM EDT
Subject: Trump Fact Sheet
Good morning.
In light of the TB Times story, I wanted to put together a fact sheet with
information that I can share with reporters. Would you please check this to
make sure it is completely accurate? Particularly in regards to the one
complaint under this admin being against "Trump University" and that all of the
22 complaints in the previous admin were against "Trump Institute."
I tried to get the '09 enforcement effort included in the story, and the
reporter wouldn't agree to it.
If we get any calls today, I'd like to have this fact sheet ready with all of
the information I could possibly need to better explain the situation. If
there's anything else you think is important that I should add, please let me
know.
[attachment "Trump.docx" deleted by Trish Conners/OAG]
Thanks,
Jenn
Fact Sheet
We have only received one consumer complaint against Trump University that
is from 2.5 years ago. Trump University is a named defendant in the New York
lawsuit, which seeks relief for all aggrieved consumers.
Under the previous administration, 22 complaints against Trump Institute
were received. (the previous 23 count included one duplicate complaint)
The Attorney Generals Office entered an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance in
2001 against Proven Methods Seminars, LLC/National Grants Conference which used
the name "Trump Institute" and was based out of Boca Raton through a licensing
arrangement with Trump.
In 2009, the Attorney Generals Office attempted to enforce the AVC with
Trump Institute and found that the company was bankrupt and defunctthe
previous administration then closed the case.
As with all matters that come to our office, we will analyze any consumer
complaints that we receive to determine if action is necessary.
The Attorney General's Office takes necessary action if there appears to be
significant harm to Floridians.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Carlos Muniz
10/21/2013 4:48:05 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc:
Subject: Fw: DEMOCRAT SHELDON ENTERS RACE AGAINST BONDI
Note Dara's erroneous reference to the "multistate lawsuit led by NY"
----- Forwarded by Carlos Muniz/OAG on 10/21/2013 04:47 PM ----From: The News Service of Florida <info2@newsserviceflorida.com>
To: NSFExclusive:;
Date: 10/21/2013 04:01 PM
Subject: DEMOCRAT SHELDON ENTERS RACE AGAINST BONDI
DEMOCRAT SHELDON ENTERS RACE AGAINST BONDI

By DARA KAM
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
Posting or forwarding this material without permission is prohibited. Contact
news@newsserviceflorida.com
THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, October 21, 2013.........Former Florida Department of
Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon came out swinging against
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday, announcing he is running against the
Republican incumbent to return "character" and "integrity" to the office.
Sheldon on Friday quit his Washington job as a high-ranking official at the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency implementing the
federal health care law known as "Obamacare."
Sheldon's entre into the race gives Floridians the option of choosing between
an attorney general who crusaded to do away with the law and a Democratic
candidate whose boss was in charge of making it work.
Bondi led the multi-state legal challenge to Obamacare, which was upheld for
the most part by the U.S. Supreme Court last summer, and has been a harsh and
frequent critic of the law. She also supported Florida lawmakers' decision not
to expand Medicaid, something included in the law but which the high court
decided was optional for states.
"Taking on predatory lenders, human traffickers, and those who engage in
deceptive practices is the job of the Attorney Generalnot working full time
trying to deny health insurance to children and anyone with preexisting
conditions," Sheldon said in a message posted on his Facebook page Monday
morning.
Sheldon, 66, has a lengthy public-service career in Florida that includes an
eight-year stint in the state House and a spot as deputy attorney general for
central Florida under former Attorney General Bob Butterworth, Sheldon's
long-time friend. Sheldon also served as an associate dean at St. Thomas Law
School, where Butterworth was dean.
In 2000, Sheldon lost a statewide election for education commissioner to
Charlie Crist, who, as governor, later appointed him to head DCF. Next year,
Sheldon and Crist may be on the same ticket again, but this time on the same
side. Newly-minted Democrat Crist is expected to announce his candidacy for
governor next month. Sheldon left DCF after Gov. Rick Scott was elected in 2010
and the next year joined the Obama administration where he served as Acting
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families under HHS Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius until Friday.
Sheldon, mulling a run for months, said he decided to announce this week so he
could drum up support at the Florida Democratic Party's annual convention in
Orlando this weekend.
But he also steps in on the heels of an embarrassing episode last month for
Bondi, as the attorney general caused a delay in the execution of a killer so
she could attend a campaign kick-off. Bondi later apologized.
And Democrats are also blasting Bondi for a $25,000 contribution from a Donald
Trump charity to a group backing her re-election campaign. The money came after
reports that Bondi was considering joining a multi-state lawsuit, led by New
York's attorney general, against "Trump University" alleging that the on-line,
get-rich seminars are a rip-off.
"Some of these are really just self-inflicted wounds. But I do think it raises
some concerns about the seriousness with which she approaches the job. Those
are the kinds of things that went into my making the decision. Having worked
for Butterworth, that office ought to be above reproach, totally," Sheldon said
Monday.
Sheldon said Bondi should have insisted that And Justice for All, the political
committee backing her reelection that accepted the contribution, return the
funds.
"It really raises doubts about the credibility of the office. When I was
Butterworth's treasurer, we sent money back. If we were contemplating or even
if we had an investigation and closed it because we didn't find anything, you
still can't accept the contribution. And I don't think she's going to be
lacking for money, so why even raise that doubt in people's minds?" he said.
Bondi has amassed more than $1.2 in contributions to her campaign and "And
Justice for All." Sheldon acknowledged that matching Bondi's campaign war chest
won't be easy.
"Regrettably, too much of campaigns is about campaign finances. We're going to
have to be competitive. I can't be outspent two to one," Sheldon said, adding
that he plans to rely on social media like Facebook and Twitter to garner
support. "We're going to use all of those kinds of media."
Republicans jumped on Sheldon's links to Obama and the president's flagship
health care law after Sheldon announced his candidacy.
"There may not be a greater contrast between two candidates in 2014 than in the
Florida attorney general race," Republican State Leadership Conference

President Chris Jankowski said in a statement on behalf of GOP attorneys
general. "On one hand, you have General Bondi, who courageously stood up to the
Obama Administration in leading the fight against Obamacare and on the other
hand, you have George Sheldon, a man who has spent years defending Obamacare
and even worked for Kathleen Sebelius at HHS. Floridians should prepare
themselves for a whole lot of excuses from Mr. Sheldon on why Obamacares
rollout, in which he was personally involved, has been such a failure. The
choice is clear --- Pam Bondi deserves four more years as Floridas top law
enforcement officer."
Republican Party of Florida Chairman Lenny Curry accused Sheldon of "doing what
Washington politicians seem to do best: do little, accomplish even less, but
always attack your opponent" and praised Bondi for fighting "for Floridians
every day, whether it be against the overreach of the federal government or
against criminals who seek to harm our children, our job creators and our
seniors."
Bondi's campaign manager Pablo Diaz's reaction was more subdued, saying Bondi
has fought on issues such as "making Florida a zero tolerance state for pill
mills" and taking on human trafficking.
"Pam Bondi and George Sheldon have very different credentials and points of
view, and we welcome the opportunity to show the voters in Florida that they
will have a clear choice between two distinctly different candidates," Diaz
said in a statement.
But Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Allison Tant said she was "pleased"
Sheldon is in the race.
"For the past three years, Attorney General Pam Bondi has put her political
career over the needs of Florida families. It is time to restore integrity to
the office of Attorney General. George Sheldon's lifetime of experience
fighting for families at every level of government makes him a strong candidate
for attorney general, and Florida voters would restore integrity and honor to
the office of attorney general by electing him," Tant said in a statement.
-END10/21/13
Independent and Indispensable
http://www.newsserviceflorida.com
Molly McFarland
8/27/2013 11:05:02 AM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc:
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/27/2013
Time: 11:03 AM
Contact: Rob Wile

Media: Business Insider NY
Phone: (646) 376-6092
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Request:
I would like to know your office's involvement in the Trump University case.
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Molly McFarland
8/29/2013 2:30:29 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc:
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 02:28 PM

Media: Der Spiegel
Phone: (212) 221-7583
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Molly McFarland
9/17/2013 11:17:43 AM
To: Citizen Help@OAG,Laurie Wright,Becky Kring,Janna Barineau
cc: Trish Conners,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt,Anna Prince-Palmer
Subject: Press Inquiry from 09/17/2013 - Trump Institute
Hi everyone,
Please see the request below. If possible, he would like these today, but if
not, tomorrow would work.
Thanks,
Molly
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 09/17/2013
Time: 11:13 AM
Contact: Jeff Ostrowski

Media: Palm Beach Post
Phone: (561) 820-4581
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email: jostrowski@pbpost.com
Subject: Trump Institute
Request:
I would like copies of the complaints that your office has received regarding
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: MM
OAG contact:
Status:
Record created by:

Molly McFarland
by:
"Vause, Tiffany" <Tiffany.Vause@flofr.com>

8/30/2013 1:57:16 PM
To: Jennifer Meale <Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>,"john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com"
<john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com>,"Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com"
<Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com>
cc: "Norris, Katie" <Katie.Norris@flofr.com>
Tiffany Vause
Direct: (850) 410-9709
Cell: (850) 766-4646
www.FLOFR.com
[IMAGE]

To: Vause, Tiffany
The New York Times

LENGTH: 444 words
bait-and-switch.''
got.''
courses.
URL:
wsuit-says.html
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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8/30/2013 2:05:38 PM
cc: "john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com" <john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com>,"Norris, Katie"
<Katie.Norris@flofr.com>,"Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com" <Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com>
Subject: RE: FW: media query
Thank youI will just let him know it wasnt us.
Tiffany Vause
Direct: (850) 410-9709
Cell: (850) 766-4646
www.FLOFR.com
[IMAGE]

To: Vause, Tiffany
Cc: john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com; Norris, Katie;
Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com
Subject: Re: FW: media query
I'm already working with Richard. Just FYI, we never investigated them.
However, I'm already working with Richard.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Inactive hide details for "Vause, Tiffany" ---08/30/2013 01:57:19 PM---Hi AG
Friends! Happy Friday! I have spoken our crew and "Vause, Tiffany"
---08/30/2013 01:57:19 PM---Hi AG Friends! Happy Friday! I have spoken our crew
and it does not appear that the OFR investigated
From: "Vause, Tiffany" <Tiffany.Vause@flofr.com>
Date: 08/30/2013 01:57 PM
the OFR investigated this case. They all seem to think that perhaps it may have
been your office. Is it ok to forward Richard along to your office?
Tiffany Vause
Direct: (850) 410-9709
Cell: (850) 766-4646
www.FLOFR.com
[IMAGE]
To: Vause, Tiffany
The New York Times
LENGTH: 444 words
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courses.
URL:
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Mark Hamilton
10/14/2013 4:52:32 PM
To: Trish Conners
cc: Jennifer Meale,Gerald Whitney Ray,Richard Lawson
You are correct, it is not a multistate case. The only state that I am aware
of that has any action against Trump is NY. I checked back again with the
multistate group and that is Leatherman's understanding too.
I also did reach out to NY to try to gather more information and will follow up
again.
Mark

Cc: Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM
I don't think this is a multistate case. It is a case by the NY AG against an
institute that Trump has given his name to. Mark Hamilton tells me that as far
as he can tell the one in Florida is not related to the one in NY, but I don't
know if we have it confirmed. As you say, we should all sit down and discuss
this one. Mark, please find out as much as you can about the entity in Florida
and let's re-group tomorrow. T

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Cc: Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
Please see the request below. As a refresher, I've included the response we
provided to the PB Post in September. This request is NOT due today, it's due
tomorrow.
I know we'll group on this one, but I definitely think it's worth reiterating
that no complaints have been received during this administration.
Thanks,
Jenn
September Response to the PB Post:
Attached please find copies of the complaints that this office received prior
to the current Administration. Under this Administration, our office has not
received any complaints.
While we have received no complaints during in this Administration, we are
reviewing the allegations of the New York complaint to see if they have any
relevance in Florida.
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM
Contact: Scott Maxwell

Media: "Taking Names" Columnist, The Orlando Sentinel
Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
I was wondering if the attorney general had reached any determination about
whether to join other AGs in pursuing any action against Donald Trump and/or
Trump Institute.
Additionally, I was wondering whether the Attorney General had any thoughts on
the propriety of the political committee set up on her behalf And Justice
for All accepting $25,000 from the Trump Foundation.
Elections records show Trumps foundation cut the check three days after the
Sentinel quoted you saying General Bondi was trying to decide whether to join
the multi-state case.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Mark Hamilton
10/15/2013 2:02:03 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Trish Conners,Gerald Whitney Ray,Richard Lawson
Jenn/Trish,
Regarding this specific inquiry, I have again confirmed that there is no
multistate action nor are we aware of any state that has a pending action
against Trump U aside from NY.
At the time of the initial inquiry we responded to I had noted that the FL OAG
had a prior investigation initiated in 2001 against Proven Methods Seminars,
LLC/National Grants Conference which at one time appears to have been using the
name "Trump Institute" out of Boca Raton through a licensing arrangement with
Trump. Our office had a prior AVC with Proven Methods Seminar, LLC/National
Grants Conference in 2001: L01-3-1100 .. Linked file, click once to open. The
office also investigated that entity for possible violations of the AVC in
2009. That entity entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy at that time and the matter
was closed: Re: this linked file (double-click) -->
I did get a chance to speak with the NY AG regarding the case today. The NY AG
was able to confirm that the entity we had an AVC with was a separate entity
and consistent with Trump Institute having entered into those types of
licensing agreements in the past. Trump subsequently changed that practice and
brought everything "in-house" and run from their NY headquarters. I was able
to confirm with him that the company has not actually run any of these courses
since 2010. That would seem to account for our office not receiving additional
complaints, and account for this not being one of the "For-Profit" matters on
the radar for review at that time. The NY AG was not able to tell me if/how
many Florida consumers they may have complaints from during our call. He did
indicated that they have been getting more complaints from around the country
sent to them in general since they filed their lawsuit.
I am reviewing this additional information from him in the context of the
complaint filed by the NY OAG. However, at this time I am not aware of
anything that would change what we have indicated.
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Cc: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/15/2013 09:34 AM
Thanks, everyone.
Please let me know when you have the final info and if it differs from the
September response (again below). If it's the case that we have reached out to
NY and reviewed the allegations and determined nothing needs/ed to be done in
Fla by us, we need to tweak the response.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM
and let's re-group tomorrow. TSeptember Response to the PB Post:

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Mark Hamilton
10/17/2013 2:46:53 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Richard Lawson,Trish Conners,Carlos Muniz
Will do
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Mark Hamilton
Date:
10/17/2013 02:40 PM EDT

Hi Mark,
them ASAP?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Mark Hamilton
10/17/2013 5:09:42 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Carlos Muniz,Richard Lawson,Trish Conners
Jenn,
As follow-up to the complaints, all of them do reference Trump.
However, as an FYI:
1) We do have a duplicate complaint from Sheila Roberts. It appears that one
came in via internet and she followed up by mail thereafter;
2) At least 2 of the complaints (Taddeo and Minto) reference seminars taken by
the complainants in the State of Connecticut; and
3) The Sumiran complaint references "NED Alliance" (purported to be a Trump
company). The basis for the complaint appears to be the same though.
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/17/2013 04:28 PM
Jenn,
follows:
[attachment "Verified Petition.pdf" deleted by Mark Hamilton/OAG]
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/17/2013 04:00 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 02:46 PM
Will do
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Mark Hamilton
Date:
10/17/2013 02:40 PM EDT

Hi Mark,
them ASAP?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Mark Hamilton
10/18/2013 11:22:19 AM
To: Trish Conners,Jennifer Meale
cc: Carlos Muniz
Sorry, I was just catching up and reviewing the fact sheet. Do you still wish
for me to do so?
From:
Trish Conners
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:10/18/2013 10:54 AM EDT
Good. Sorry I have been out of pocket so much-will be in shortly. Dr said I
needed to soak my hand in hot water and keep it elevated a bit this morning.
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Trish Conners
Date:10/18/2013 10:52 AM EDT
Here you go:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/17/3695585/trump-contribution-to-pam-bondis.h
tml
Also, Carlos re-wrote the fact sheet. Please disregard mine.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

To: Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/18/2013 10:47 AM

I didn't see any newsclips circulated this morning? Can u send the TBT article?
I see also from the FLAG clips a reference to a Miami Herald article.
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Carlos Muniz; Trish Conners; Mark Hamilton
Cc:
Date:10/18/2013 09:27 AM EDT
Good morning.
know.
[attachment "Trump.docx" deleted by Trish Conners/OAG]
Thanks,
Jenn
Fact Sheet
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
8/29/2013 2:31:14 PM
cc: Molly McFarland
Please see below.
University?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/29/2013 02:30 PM
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 02:28 PM

Media: Der Spiegel
Phone: (212) 221-7583
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:

Request:
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Richard Lawson
10/14/2013 3:36:08 PM
To: Jennifer Meale,Mark Hamilton
cc: Gerald Whitney Ray,Trish Conners
Including Mark
Respectfully,
Richard P. Lawson
Director, Consumer Protection Division
107 W Gaines Street

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
9/11/2013 10:54:49 AM
cc: Carlos Muniz
FYI: follow-up.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/11/2013 10:48 AM

action, yes? /rb
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 09/11/2013 07:48 AM
________________________________________
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
________________________________
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Trish Conners
10/14/2013 4:07:29 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Gerald Whitney Ray,Richard Lawson,Mark Hamilton

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 9:34:07 AM
To: Mark Hamilton
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 4:00:29 PM
To: "Burnett, Richard R" <RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com>
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi, Richard.
I can send you the documents.
That is correct that the previous administration did not open an investigation.
This administration, which has received one complaint, has not opened an
investigation.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
seminars took place, how much was invested, what wrongdoing they alleged,
etc.) /rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
"Burnett, Richard R" ---08/30/2013 01:54:40 PM---thank you. From: Jennifer
Meale [mailto:Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com]
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
9/11/2013 10:36:36 AM
To: Mark Hamilton
cc: Richard Lawson,Trish Conners
All right. That's what I'm telling the reporter now.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/11/2013 09:28 AM
Yes we can
From: Trish Conners

To: Jennifer Meale; Richard Lawson; Mark Hamilton
Date: 09/11/2013 09:11 AM EDT
Subject:
Re: another Trump question
Mark, we haven't gotten a lot of complaints about this one here in Florida-Can
we say, we are currently reviewing the allegations in the NY complaint to
determine next steps, if any.
From: Jennifer Meale

To: Trish Conners; Richard Lawson
Cc:
Date: 09/11/2013 08:28 AM EDT
Subject:
Fw: another Trump question
Please see the request below from the Orlando Sentinel.

Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/11/2013 07:48 AM
________________________________________
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
________________________________
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
[attachment "image001.gif" deleted by Trish Conners/OAG]
Trish Conners
10/14/2013 4:54:32 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
We need to find out more about the school here and why we keep getting these
inquiries. Can you do some digging asap and find out everything you can about
this school...we need to confirm once and for all that it is not affiliated, as
you indicated, with the Trump Institute in NY...we need to be absolutely
certain about this. T

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM

tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 12:54:31 PM
To: Laurie Wright
cc: Trish Conners,Richard Lawson,Mark Hamilton
Subject: Trump
Have we gotten any on the following terms during this administration?
Donald Trump
and
Trump Institute
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Melvin Goldberg <Melvin.Goldberg@ag.ny.gov>

10/15/2013 1:03:53 PM
To: "'Mark.Hamilton@myfloridalegal.com'" <Mark.Hamilton@myfloridalegal.com>
cc:
Mark,
Good talking to you this morning. Attached is a pdf of the Verified
Petition.
Mel Goldberg
212 416-8296
- Verified Petition.pdf
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 4:31:56 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
Thanks for your quick response and help with this!
I've corrected the reporter.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 04:28 PM
Jenn,
follows:
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/17/2013 04:00 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 02:46 PM
Will do
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Mark Hamilton
Date:
10/17/2013 02:40 PM EDT

Hi Mark,
them ASAP?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 4:34:41 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
cc:
Mark,
Thanks, again, for your help.
Are those 23 complaints good to go (all germane, all complaints)?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 04:28 PM
Jenn,
follows:
[attachment "Verified Petition.pdf" deleted by Jennifer Meale/OAG]
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/17/2013 04:00 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 02:46 PM
Will do
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Mark Hamilton
Date:
10/17/2013 02:40 PM EDT

Hi Mark,
them ASAP?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 3:44:27 PM
To: janina_marquordt@spiegel.de
cc:
Subject: Trump
Janina,
Our office has never had an investigation regarding Donald Trump, Trump
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 5:37:37 PM
To: "Mark Hamilton" <Mark.Hamilton@myfloridalegal.com>,"Carlos Muniz" <Carlos.Muniz@myfloridalegal.com>
cc:
Subject: Fw: 22 complaints from previous admin
Please see below.
----- Original Message ----From: Michael Van Sickler [vansicklertbtimes@gmail.com]
Sent: 10/17/2013 05:32 PM AST
To: Jennifer Meale
Thanks. It looks like these are all complaints against an entity known
as "Trump Institute." That entity is not named in the New York AG
case. Will that prevent the residents who filed these complaints from
reaping possible damages if the New York AG prevails?
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Jennifer Meale

<Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com> wrote:
> Hey Mike,
>
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> Under the previous administration, 22 complaints were received.
>
> There is one duplicate complaint, which accounts for the previous 23 count.
> I've attached them all to this email.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jenn
>
>
> (See attached file: Trump Institute postal_Redacted.pdf)(See attached file:
> Trump Institute emails.pdf)
>
> Jenn Meale
> Communications Director
> Office of Attorney General Pam Bondi
> The Capitol, Suite PL-01
> Tallahassee, Fla. 32399-1050
> 850-245-0150 (main)
> 850-294-7294 (cell)

>
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 12:54:31 PM
To: Laurie Wright
cc: Trish Conners,Richard Lawson,Mark Hamilton
Subject: Trump
Have we gotten any on the following terms during this administration?
Donald Trump
and
Trump Institute
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 7:05:04 PM
To: "Michael Van Sickler" <vansicklertbtimes@gmail.com>
cc:
Subject: Correction--Florida took action
Thanks. Calling now--Florida did take action against "Trump Institute."
To say that there were complaints in 2008 and then leap to the statement that
we're reviewing the allegations in the NY complaint is omitting important and
relevant information.
arrangement with Trump. In 2009, the Attorney General's office attempted to
pursue the company for violations of the settlement and found that the company
was bankrupt and defunct. The previous administration then closed the case.
Sent: 10/17/2013 06:54 PM AST
To: Jennifer Meale
here's the link:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/trump-contribution-to-pam-bondis
-re-election-draws-more-scrutiny-to-her/2147796
Thanks for your help....
> Hey Mike,
>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jenn
>
>
>
> Jenn Meale
> 850-245-0150 (main)
> 850-294-7294 (cell)
>
Jennifer Meale
10/21/2013 4:52:35 PM
To: Dara Kam <darakam@gmail.com>
cc:
Subject: Error in Story
Hi, Dara.
I hope you're doing well.
I wanted to point out an error in your article today.
There was never a multi-state lawsuit against Trump University; therefore,
Florida was never considering joining one.
There was a lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General, and we said at the
time that we were reviewing the allegations of the New York complaint to see if
they had any relevance in Florida.
Your story:
"The money came after reports that Bondi was considering joining a multi-state
lawsuit, led by New York's attorney general..."
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 7:05:20 PM
To: jenn.meale@gmail.com
cc:
Subject: Fw: Correction--Florida took action
----- Original Message ----From: Jennifer Meale
Sent: 10/17/2013 07:05 PM EDT

Sent: 10/17/2013 06:54 PM AST
To: Jennifer Meale
here's the link:

> Hey Mike,
>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jenn
>
>
>
> Jenn Meale
> 850-245-0150 (main)
> 850-294-7294 (cell)
>
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 7:59:26 PM
cc:
Subject: Re: Correction--NY lawsuit doesn't cite Fla complaints
Mike,
One more correction, the NY lawsuit doesn't cite the complaints filed in
Florida.
To say "The complaints filed in Florida were among those cited by NY AG
Schneiderman..." Is not accurate.
You have the lawsuit I provided you.
----- Original Message ----From: Jennifer Meale
Sent: 10/17/2013 07:05 PM EDT

Sent: 10/17/2013 06:54 PM AST
To: Jennifer Meale
here's the link:

> Hey Mike,
>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jenn
>
>
>
> Jenn Meale
> 850-245-0150 (main)
> 850-294-7294 (cell)
>
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 10:19:43 AM
To: mvansickler@tampabay.com
cc:
Hi, Mike.
Per your request, please see the statement that I provided to Richard Burnett
with the Orlando Sentinel on 9/11.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 10/17/2013 10:17 AM ----From: Jennifer Meale/OAG
Date: 09/11/2013 10:40 AM
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/14/2013 3:25:15 PM
To: "Maxwell, Scott H" <SMaxwell@orlandosentinel.com>
cc:
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
What is your deadline?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: "Maxwell, Scott H" <SMaxwell@orlandosentinel.com>

Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
"Taking Names" Columnist
The Orlando Sentinel
407-420-6141
Twitter: @Scott_Maxwell
orlandosentinel.com/takingnames
Jennifer Meale
9/18/2013 1:55:39 PM
To: Trish Conners,Richard Lawson
cc:
Subject: Fw: Trump Institute
FYI, please see the follow-up question from the PB Post today.
Should we say we are reviewing the allegations in the NY complaint, or should
we emphasize that we have not received one complaint under this administration
and do not have an investigation?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 09/18/2013 01:54 PM ----From: "Ostrowski, Jeffrey (CMG-WestPalm)" <JOstrowski@pbpost.com>
Date: 09/18/2013 01:14 PM
Subject: RE: Trump Institute
Thanks for this. Is the Florida Attorney Generals office investigating and/or
planning to take action?
To: Ostrowski, Jeffrey (CMG-WestPalm)
(See attached file: Trump Institute emails.pdf)(See attached file: Trump
Institute postal_Redacted.pdf)
Jeff,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
8/26/2013 9:40:01 AM
To: "Davis, Josh1 (NBCUniversal)" <Josh.Davis@nbcuni.com>
cc:
Subject: Re: Today Show Request
Hi Josh,
I just wanted to thank you for thinking of us, and I apologize we were not able
to accommodate this request.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: "Davis, Josh1 (NBCUniversal)" <Josh.Davis@nbcuni.com>

To: "'jennifer.meale@myfloridalegal.com'" <jennifer.meale@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 08/25/2013 04:53 PM
Subject: Today Show Request
Hi Jennifer,
The Today Show is trying to reach someone at the FL AGs office regarding an
interview for a story were putting together about Trump University. We
understand there are some FL victims and your office has taken action against
the University. Please call me asap. This is for a story for tomorrow morning.
Thank you,
Josh Davis
Josh Davis
Investigative Producer
TODAY SHOW
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
(w) 212-664-3527
(c) 917-587-8493
Josh.Davis@nbcuni.com
Jennifer Meale
10/18/2013 4:13:24 PM
To: "David Royse" <royse@newsserviceflorida.com>
cc:
Subject: Re: Trump thing
What's your number? Can I call you?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: "David Royse" <royse@newsserviceflorida.com>

To: <Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 10/18/2013 04:09 PM
Subject: Trump thing
Hi Jenn,
Im doing a brief about the Trump contribution and wanted to see if you wanted
to add anything to what you said in the Times.
Basically all were saying is this:
Bondi is being criticized by Democrats over a $25,000 contribution from a
Donald Trump charity to her re-election campaign as Trump faces complaints and
a New York lawsuit about wealth seminars. Only one complaint has been filed
with Bondi's office since she was elected about get-rich seminars put on by the
"Trump Institute." The Tampa Bay Times reported Friday that the complaint,
filed in 2011, was filed by a Delray Beach retiree who says he lost $26,000 for
a three-day seminar in which he learned nothing. Bondi's office hasn't taken
action in that case. Trump University was sued in August in New York by that
state's attorney general, alleging that the seminars ripped off 5,000
consumers. Last month, a spokeswoman for Bondi said the office was reviewing
that suit, in part because it cited Florida complaints, though they were from
the time before Bondi was elected. A few days after the spokeswoman said
Florida was reviewing New York's action, the Donald J. Trump Foundation gave
$25,000 to And Justice for All, a political committee supporting Bondi's
re-election.
Thats pretty much all there is to it - - just wanted to see if you wanted to
add a new comment
Dave (sitting in for Jim the last couple days while hes out of town)
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 3:42:28 PM
cc:
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 3:53:06 PM
To: Janina Marquordt <janina_marquordt@spiegel.de>
cc:
Subject: Re: Trump
You're welcome! Thank you for your patience.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: Janina Marquordt <janina_marquordt@spiegel.de>

Date: 08/30/2013 03:49 PM
Subject: Re: Trump
Thank you for your reply regarding our request.

Have a great weekend,
Janina
Janina Marquordt
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Am 30.08.2013 um 15:44 schrieb Jennifer Meale:

Janina,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
9/18/2013 4:50:27 PM
To: "Ostrowski, Jeffrey (CMG-WestPalm)" <JOstrowski@pbpost.com>
cc:
Jeff,
You're welcome.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: "Ostrowski, Jeffrey (CMG-WestPalm)" <JOstrowski@pbpost.com>

Date: 09/18/2013 01:14 PM
Jeff,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/18/2013 4:16:25 PM
To: "David Royse" <royse@newsserviceflorida.com>
cc:
Quick corrections:
--The New York lawsuit seeks relief for all aggrieved consumers, regardless of
their state residence.
--"In part because it cited Florida complaints"---their lawsuit does not cite
Florida complaints.
--In 2009, the previous administration attempted to enforce a 2001 settlement
with Proven Methods Systems, which was licensed to use the name "Trump
Institute," and found the company was bankrupt and defunct.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/18/2013 04:09 PM
Hi Jenn,
re-election.
add a new comment
Jennifer Meale
10/21/2013 5:07:41 PM
To: "Dara Kam" <darakam@gmail.com>
cc:
Subject: RE: Error in Story
Thanks.
The New York lawsuit makes no specific reference to Florida and addresses
seminars that were conducted nationally. The conduct at the center of the
lawsuit is not occurring in Florida. Our office received one complaint
regarding Trump University 2.5 years ago, and the New York lawsuit seeks relief
for all aggrieved consumers, regardless of their state residence.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: "Dara Kam" <darakam@gmail.com>

To: "'Jennifer Meale'" <Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 10/21/2013 04:57 PM
Ok. I will fix it. Have you decided if the allegations have any relevance in
Florida?
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 4:53 PM
To: Dara Kam
Hi, Dara.
Your story:
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/21/2013 5:12:14 PM
cc:
Subject: Re: Error in Story
You would need to direct that question to the political team.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: Dara Kam <darakam@gmail.com>

Date: 10/21/2013 05:01 PM
and does she think "And Justice for All" should return the money?
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Jennifer Meale
Hi, Dara.
Your story:
Jenn Meale
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850-294-7294 (cell)
-Dara Kam
Senior Writer
The News Service of Florida
cell: 850.570.1592
darakam@gmail.com
@TheDaraKam
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 4:00:21 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 02:46 PM
Will do
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Mark Hamilton
Date:
10/17/2013 02:40 PM EDT

Hi Mark,
them ASAP?

Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/14/2013 3:28:05 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
You're welcome.
Ok, thanks.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/14/2013 03:26 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
Thanks for the note back.

Not today.
Possibly early tomorrow.
(Probably writing this for either Wednesdays or Fridays paper and right now
leaning towards Wednesday.)
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
To: Maxwell, Scott H
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
"Maxwell, Scott H" ---10/14/2013 03:21:12 PM---Hi Jennifer, I was wondering if
the attorney general had reached any determination about whether to
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
8/29/2013 3:50:43 PM
To: Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt,Citizen Help@OAG,Becky Kring,Laurie Wright,Anna Prince-Palmer
cc: Carlos Muniz
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/3/2014 2:10:29 PM
To: "Lipton, Eric" <lipton@nytimes.com>
cc:
Subject: Re: Response
Hi, Eric.
I understand. I wanted to follow-up with you regarding Trump University. I will
send a statement to you on Monday morning.
In August 2013, the New York Attorney General sued Trump University, a
company headquartered in NYC, and sought relief for any all aggrieved
consumers, regardless of their state residence. Although the New York lawsuit
alleges that Trump University conducted live seminars both in New York and
nationally, no other state is involved in this lawsuit. Our office was
informed by the New York Attorney Generals Office that the Trump University
seminars at issue in the New York lawsuit have not been offered anywhere since
2010.
This administration received one consumer complaint regarding Trump University
in May 2011.
An entirely separate entity, Boca-based Proven Methods Systems, previously
agreement.The Florida Attorney Generals Office entered an AVC with this entity
in 2001. In 2009, in response to consumer complaints, the office reopened an
investigation and attempted to enforce the AVC. However, the office learned
that the entity was bankrupt and defunct. The office accordingly closed the
case in 2009.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: "Lipton, Eric" <lipton@nytimes.com>

Date: 10/03/2014 11:52 AM
Hello Jennifer.
Hope you are doing well. Wanted to let you know that I will need any response
you want to offer by Monday morning at 9 a.m.
I am sorry to set a hard deadline, but that will be a week and a half since we
spoke and that is a more than reasonable amount of time.

Eric
(ULF /LSWRQ
The New York Times
Washington Bureau
202 862 0448 desk
202 370 7951 cell
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Jennifer Meale

Hi, Eric.
I believe I'll have a response for your story by Tuesday or Wednesday. Will we
still be able to be included if you receive it then?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
9/18/2013 3:03:01 PM
To: Trish Conners
cc: Richard Lawson,Mark Hamilton
Subject: Re: Fw: Trump Institute
Sorry, I'm a bit confused.
So you'd like to emphasize that no complaints have been received under this
administration and we do not have an investigation OR, the first part with: we
are reviewing the allegations in the NY complaint.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/18/2013 02:22 PM
We should probably say the former. I spoke with Mark H. about this yesterday
(he is travelling today) and he says that this school from what he can tell,
while bearing the Trump name, does not appear to be affiliated with the entity
that is this NY school. To be sure, though, I have asked Mark to call the NY
AG's office and follow up, so I think it is correct to say we are reviewing the
allegations. I don't want to say we are in touch with NY yet, because I'd like
to know the answer to my question first. T

Date: 09/18/2013 01:55 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/18/2013 01:14 PM
Jeff,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/29/2014 3:14:26 PM
cc:
Subject: TRUMP Fw: Response
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 10/29/2014 03:14 PM ----From: Jennifer Meale/OAG
Date: 10/03/2014 02:10 PM
Hi, Eric.
2010.
in May 2011.
case in 2009.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/03/2014 11:52 AM
Hello Jennifer.
Eric
(ULF /LSWRQ
The New York Times
Washington Bureau
202 862 0448 desk
202 370 7951 cell

Hi, Eric.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
11/13/2014 9:25:39 AM
To: GFineout@ap.org
cc:
Subject: Fw: Response
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/03/2014 02:10 PM
Hi, Eric.
2010.
in May 2011.
case in 2009.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/03/2014 11:52 AM
Hello Jennifer.
Eric
(ULF /LSWRQ
The New York Times
Washington Bureau
202 862 0448 desk
202 370 7951 cell

Hi, Eric.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/25/2013 12:20:43 PM
To: "Rosica, James L" <jrosica@tampatrib.com>
cc:
Subject: Re: Media Inquiry
I'll be in touch with you.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: "Rosica, James L" <jrosica@tampatrib.com>

To: "Jennifer Meale (Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com)"
<Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 10/25/2013 11:39 AM
Subject: Media Inquiry
William March recently reported that AG Bondi has *not* joined the New York
case over Trump University.
Is that still the case and will that change soon, as far as you know?
-James L. Rosica | State Capital Bureau
336 E. College Ave., Suite 108 | Tallahassee, FL 32301
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Email: jrosica@tampatrib.com
Twitter: jlrosicaTBO
"Fresh Squeezed Politics" blog: http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/news/
Jennifer Meale
8/29/2013 2:31:14 PM
cc: Molly McFarland
Please see below.
University?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/29/2013 02:30 PM
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 02:28 PM

Media: Der Spiegel
Phone: (212) 221-7583
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:

Request:
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 1:30:38 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
I will be responding-- just wanted to keep you posted.
Since some of your question is political, I'm sorting through that and someone
else outside the office will respond to you, as well.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
Just wanted to follow up to say that I am planning on running this column
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
From: Maxwell, Scott H
To: 'Jennifer Meale'
Subject: RE: Trump

Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
10/25/2013 2:20:14 PM
cc:
I'll check for you.
btw: control burn, not school fire :)
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM
I'm not calling if you're on the road but as a follow-up: your office has no
active litigation against Comcast or Yahoo, correct?
James L. Rosica | State Capital Bureau
The Tampa Tribune and TBO.com
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
On Oct 25, 2013, at 12:20 PM, "Jennifer Meale"
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
<graycol.gif>"Rosica, James L" ---10/25/2013 11:39:26 AM---William March
recently reported that AG Bondi has *not* joined the New York case over Trump
Universi
<Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>Date: 10/25/2013 11:39 AM
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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
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Jennifer Meale
1/30/2014 8:26:24 AM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Hahaha!
Honestly, I can't stand the BB. If I get a call, it takes me about 27 minutes
to figure out how to get back to my emails. I much prefer the iPhone.
Next meeting, I'll probably just bring a typewriter and write memos for you
reporters.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 01/29/2014 07:03 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
Got it.
Whats more curious is why you are still using a Blackberry.
I admit: I held out for the longest time. Oh, I believed them, that they were
coming back. But they proved me wrong with their disastrous BB10 release. I
gave up, crestfallen.
I admire your tenacity in sticking with the brand. That kind of loyalty is hard
to come by these days.
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:59 PM
To: Rosica, James L
Subject: Trump
Hi, Jim.
I read your article.
I just wanted to be sure you knew that under Attorney General Bondi's
administration
, there has never been an investigation regarding Trump University or related
entities
We received one complaint in 2011. The business Proven Method Systems that used
the name Trump University in Florida, and against which the previous
administration had taken action, had been defunct prior to Attorney General
Bondi taking office.
I hope this helps clarify.
Jenn
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.
From: Rosica, James L
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 3:53 PM
To: jennifer.meale@myfloridalegal.com
Subject: Medical marijuana reaction?
Let me know your status thanks
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jennifer Meale
8/27/2013 11:07:21 AM
cc:
Hi Trish and Richard,
Is this a case the CPD is involved in?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 08/27/2013 11:07 AM ----From: Molly McFarland/OAG
Date: 08/27/2013 11:05 AM
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/27/2013
Time: 11:03 AM
Contact: Rob Wile

Phone: (646) 376-6092
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:

Request:
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 4:00:29 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi, Richard.
investigation.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
etc.) /rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
9/11/2013 10:40:02 AM
cc:
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 09/11/2013 07:48 AM
________________________________________
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump

Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
________________________________
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/14/2013 3:30:56 PM
cc: Gerald Whitney Ray
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 12:54:44 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Ok, thanks.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 4:29:24 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
You're welcome.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 04:20 PM
Subject: RE: Trump

Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
"Burnett, Richard R" ---08/30/2013 03:56:12 PM---Thanks Jenn. AG's office did
not take action regarding the complaints? But could you provide detail
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/25/2013 4:31:25 PM
cc:
That is correct.
There is no active litigation against Comcast or Yahoo.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi
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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jennifer Meale
1/29/2014 6:58:40 PM
cc:
Subject: Trump
Hi, Jim.
administration
entities
Jenn

Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jennifer Meale
9/18/2013 3:52:17 PM
To: Trish Conners
cc: Richard Lawson,Mark Hamilton
Sounds good. Thanks.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 09/18/2013 03:17 PM
No worries. I am saying that we should say we are reviewing....How about a
hybrid: "While we have received no complaints in this Administration, we are
nevertheless reviewing the allegations of the NY complaint to see if they have
any relevance in Florida."

Date: 09/18/2013 03:03 PM
Sorry, I'm a bit confused.
So you'd like to emphasize that no complaints have been received under this
administration and we do not have an investigation OR, the first part with: we
are reviewing the allegations in the NY complaint.
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 09/18/2013 02:22 PM
We should probably say the former. I spoke with Mark H. about this yesterday
(he is travelling today) and he says that this school from what he can tell,
while bearing the Trump name, does not appear to be affiliated with the entity
that is this NY school. To be sure, though, I have asked Mark to call the NY
AG's office and follow up, so I think it is correct to say we are reviewing the
allegations. I don't want to say we are in touch with NY yet, because I'd like
to know the answer to my question first. T

Date: 09/18/2013 01:55 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/18/2013 01:14 PM
Jeff,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 1:47:30 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
I've referred your political questions to the political team. Someone on that
team will respond to you.
It is important to note that our office has not received a single complaint
regarding Trump Institute under this administration.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 01:39 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
Gotcha. Whatever and whomever you think is best.

My editors asking for something online by late afternoon. So we may have a
version of some sort online by then.
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 1:31 PM

Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
"Maxwell, Scott H" ---10/15/2013 11:29:18 AM---Hi Jenn, Just wanted to follow
up to say that I am planning on running this column tomorrow.
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.

Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 4:31:56 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
Thanks for your quick response and help with this!
I've corrected the reporter.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 04:28 PM
Jenn,
follows:
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/17/2013 04:00 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 02:46 PM
Will do
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Mark Hamilton
Date:
10/17/2013 02:40 PM EDT

Hi Mark,
them ASAP?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 4:34:41 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
cc:
Mark,
Thanks, again, for your help.
Are those 23 complaints good to go (all germane, all complaints)?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 04:28 PM
Jenn,
follows:
[attachment "Verified Petition.pdf" deleted by Jennifer Meale/OAG]
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/17/2013 04:00 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/17/2013 02:46 PM
Will do
From:
Jennifer Meale
To: Mark Hamilton
Date:
10/17/2013 02:40 PM EDT

Hi Mark,
them ASAP?
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
8/27/2013 1:31:31 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
cc: Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt,Trish Conners
Thanks, All. I'll let the reporter know that we are not involved.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/27/2013 11:20 AM
No
From:
Trish Conners
To: Jennifer Meale
Cc: Richard Lawson; Mark Hamilton; Scott Hunt
Date:
08/27/2013 11:10 AM EDT
I don't think so. Mark, Scott?

Date: 08/27/2013 11:07 AM

Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/27/2013 11:05 AM
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/27/2013
Time: 11:03 AM
Contact: Rob Wile

Phone: (646) 376-6092
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/29/2013 4:31:10 PM
To: Scott Hunt
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249


Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
9/11/2013 10:36:36 AM
To: Mark Hamilton
All right. That's what I'm telling the reporter now.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/11/2013 09:28 AM
Yes we can
From: Trish Conners

To: Jennifer Meale; Richard Lawson; Mark Hamilton
Date: 09/11/2013 09:11 AM EDT
Subject:
Re: another Trump question
Mark, we haven't gotten a lot of complaints about this one here in Florida-Can
we say, we are currently reviewing the allegations in the NY complaint to
determine next steps, if any.
From: Jennifer Meale

To: Trish Conners; Richard Lawson
Cc:
Date: 09/11/2013 08:28 AM EDT
Subject:
Fw: another Trump question
Please see the request below from the Orlando Sentinel.

Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/11/2013 07:48 AM
________________________________________
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
________________________________
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
[attachment "image001.gif" deleted by Trish Conners/OAG]
Jennifer Meale
9/11/2013 10:54:49 AM
cc: Carlos Muniz
FYI: follow-up.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/11/2013 10:48 AM

action, yes? /rb
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 09/11/2013 07:48 AM
________________________________________
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
________________________________
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/21/2013 4:48:29 PM
To: Carlos Muniz
cc:
Subject: Re: Fw: DEMOCRAT SHELDON ENTERS RACE AGAINST BONDI
I'll contact her.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: Carlos Muniz/OAG

Date: 10/21/2013 04:48 PM
Subject: Fw: DEMOCRAT SHELDON ENTERS RACE AGAINST BONDI
Note Dara's erroneous reference to the "multistate lawsuit led by NY"
----- Forwarded by Carlos Muniz/OAG on 10/21/2013 04:47 PM ----From: The News Service of Florida <info2@newsserviceflorida.com>
To: NSFExclusive:;
Date: 10/21/2013 04:01 PM
Subject: DEMOCRAT SHELDON ENTERS RACE AGAINST BONDI
DEMOCRAT SHELDON ENTERS RACE AGAINST BONDI

By DARA KAM
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
Posting or forwarding this material without permission is prohibited. Contact
news@newsserviceflorida.com
THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, October 21, 2013.........Former Florida Department of
Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon came out swinging against
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday, announcing he is running against the
Republican incumbent to return "character" and "integrity" to the office.
Sheldon on Friday quit his Washington job as a high-ranking official at the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency implementing the
federal health care law known as "Obamacare."

Sheldon's entre into the race gives Floridians the option of choosing between
an attorney general who crusaded to do away with the law and a Democratic
candidate whose boss was in charge of making it work.
Bondi led the multi-state legal challenge to Obamacare, which was upheld for
the most part by the U.S. Supreme Court last summer, and has been a harsh and
frequent critic of the law. She also supported Florida lawmakers' decision not
to expand Medicaid, something included in the law but which the high court
decided was optional for states.
"Taking on predatory lenders, human traffickers, and those who engage in
deceptive practices is the job of the Attorney Generalnot working full time
trying to deny health insurance to children and anyone with preexisting
conditions," Sheldon said in a message posted on his Facebook page Monday
morning.
Sheldon, 66, has a lengthy public-service career in Florida that includes an
eight-year stint in the state House and a spot as deputy attorney general for
central Florida under former Attorney General Bob Butterworth, Sheldon's
long-time friend. Sheldon also served as an associate dean at St. Thomas Law
School, where Butterworth was dean.
In 2000, Sheldon lost a statewide election for education commissioner to
Charlie Crist, who, as governor, later appointed him to head DCF. Next year,
Sheldon and Crist may be on the same ticket again, but this time on the same
side. Newly-minted Democrat Crist is expected to announce his candidacy for
governor next month. Sheldon left DCF after Gov. Rick Scott was elected in 2010
and the next year joined the Obama administration where he served as Acting
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families under HHS Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius until Friday.
Sheldon, mulling a run for months, said he decided to announce this week so he
could drum up support at the Florida Democratic Party's annual convention in
Orlando this weekend.
But he also steps in on the heels of an embarrassing episode last month for
Bondi, as the attorney general caused a delay in the execution of a killer so
she could attend a campaign kick-off. Bondi later apologized.
And Democrats are also blasting Bondi for a $25,000 contribution from a Donald
Trump charity to a group backing her re-election campaign. The money came after
reports that Bondi was considering joining a multi-state lawsuit, led by New
York's attorney general, against "Trump University" alleging that the on-line,
get-rich seminars are a rip-off.
"Some of these are really just self-inflicted wounds. But I do think it raises
some concerns about the seriousness with which she approaches the job. Those
are the kinds of things that went into my making the decision. Having worked
for Butterworth, that office ought to be above reproach, totally," Sheldon said
Monday.
Sheldon said Bondi should have insisted that And Justice for All, the political
committee backing her reelection that accepted the contribution, return the
funds.
"It really raises doubts about the credibility of the office. When I was
Butterworth's treasurer, we sent money back. If we were contemplating or even
if we had an investigation and closed it because we didn't find anything, you
still can't accept the contribution. And I don't think she's going to be
lacking for money, so why even raise that doubt in people's minds?" he said.
Bondi has amassed more than $1.2 in contributions to her campaign and "And
Justice for All." Sheldon acknowledged that matching Bondi's campaign war chest
won't be easy.
"Regrettably, too much of campaigns is about campaign finances. We're going to
have to be competitive. I can't be outspent two to one," Sheldon said, adding
that he plans to rely on social media like Facebook and Twitter to garner
support. "We're going to use all of those kinds of media."
Republicans jumped on Sheldon's links to Obama and the president's flagship
health care law after Sheldon announced his candidacy.
"There may not be a greater contrast between two candidates in 2014 than in the
Florida attorney general race," Republican State Leadership Conference
President Chris Jankowski said in a statement on behalf of GOP attorneys
general. "On one hand, you have General Bondi, who courageously stood up to the
Obama Administration in leading the fight against Obamacare and on the other
hand, you have George Sheldon, a man who has spent years defending Obamacare
and even worked for Kathleen Sebelius at HHS. Floridians should prepare
themselves for a whole lot of excuses from Mr. Sheldon on why Obamacares
rollout, in which he was personally involved, has been such a failure. The
choice is clear --- Pam Bondi deserves four more years as Floridas top law
enforcement officer."
Republican Party of Florida Chairman Lenny Curry accused Sheldon of "doing what
Washington politicians seem to do best: do little, accomplish even less, but
always attack your opponent" and praised Bondi for fighting "for Floridians
every day, whether it be against the overreach of the federal government or
against criminals who seek to harm our children, our job creators and our
seniors."
Bondi's campaign manager Pablo Diaz's reaction was more subdued, saying Bondi
has fought on issues such as "making Florida a zero tolerance state for pill
mills" and taking on human trafficking.
"Pam Bondi and George Sheldon have very different credentials and points of
view, and we welcome the opportunity to show the voters in Florida that they
will have a clear choice between two distinctly different candidates," Diaz
said in a statement.
But Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Allison Tant said she was "pleased"
Sheldon is in the race.
"For the past three years, Attorney General Pam Bondi has put her political
career over the needs of Florida families. It is time to restore integrity to
the office of Attorney General. George Sheldon's lifetime of experience
fighting for families at every level of government makes him a strong candidate
for attorney general, and Florida voters would restore integrity and honor to
the office of attorney general by electing him," Tant said in a statement.
-END-
10/21/13
Independent and Indispensable
http://www.newsserviceflorida.com
Jennifer Meale
10/25/2013 4:50:52 PM
cc:
You're welcome.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/25/2013 04:47 PM
Ten four, thanks

Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
That is correct.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
<graycol.gif>"Rosica, James L" ---10/25/2013 02:18:14 PM---I'm not calling if
you're on the road but as a follow-up: your office has no active litigation
again
Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi
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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
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Jennifer Meale
1/29/2014 6:58:58 PM
To: "Jenn Meale" <jenn.meale@gmail.com>
cc:
Subject: Fw: Trump
From: Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com
To: Rosica, James L
Subject: Trump
Hi, Jim.
administration
entities
Jenn

Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 9:34:07 AM
To: Mark Hamilton
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 5:37:36 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Scott,
Thanks for your patience.
First, I'd like to clarify--there is/was no multi-state investigation;
therefore, there was no consideration of whether to join.
In light of the fact that the Attorney General's Office received only one
consumer complaint 2.5 years ago, there is no investigation at this time,
however we will continue to monitor consumer complaints and will take
appropriate action if it appears there is significant harm to Floridians.
You probably already have what I sent to Richard, but I've included it below
for your reference. There was never a mention of a multi-state, as there was
not one:
"Under this administration, we have received one complaint regarding Donald
We are currently reviewing the allegations in the New York complaint."
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 05:07 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
Thanks for the update.

I just now turned in the column.
It says no comment from bondi except to note the office saying that all of
the complaints about trump pre-dated her tenure.

Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
FYI: I've reached out to the political team about this request. They are still
working. I know you're on deadline.
From: "Maxwell, Scott H" [SMaxwell@orlandosentinel.com]
Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 5:37:45 PM
cc:
Subject: Fw: Trump
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 10/15/2013 05:37 PM ----From: Jennifer Meale/OAG
Date: 10/15/2013 05:37 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
Scott,
not one:
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 05:07 PM
Subject: RE: Trump

Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump

Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.

Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
8/27/2013 2:41:17 PM
To: Trish Conners
cc: Mark Hamilton,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt
Thanks. I'll let them know our office is not involved in the matter.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/27/2013 02:39 PM
Thanks, Mark.

Cc: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/27/2013 02:05 PM
Just an FYI The HQ for the company is based in NYC. Since 2010 it has gone by the name of
Trump Entrepreneur Initiative (formerly known as Trump University when
originally founded in approx. 2005). It is not an accredited university and
does not confer any college credits or degrees. They essentially do 3-day real
estate courses. The NY OAG initiated its investigation in May of 2011.
I did a quick check and it appears we have one complaint received back in 2009.
Mark

Cc: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/27/2013 01:31 PM
Thanks, All. I'll let the reporter know that we are not involved.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/27/2013 11:20 AM
No
From:
Trish Conners
To: Jennifer Meale
Cc: Richard Lawson; Mark Hamilton; Scott Hunt
Date:
08/27/2013 11:10 AM EDT
I don't think so. Mark, Scott?

Date: 08/27/2013 11:07 AM

Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/27/2013 11:05 AM
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/27/2013
Time: 11:03 AM
Contact: Rob Wile

Phone: (646) 376-6092
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: JM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Molly McFarland
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/25/2013 4:02:39 PM
To: Laura Daugherty
cc: Trish Conners,Liz Brady,Scott Hunt,Richard Lawson,Scott Palmer
Subject: Re: Fw: Media Inquiry
Is that public information?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: Laura Daugherty/OAG

Cc: Liz Brady/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Richard
Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Palmer/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/25/2013 03:57 PM
we opened a case-- worked with DOJ-- it is still open

To: Liz Brady/OAG@OAG
Cc: Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott
Palmer/OAG@OAG, Laura Daugherty/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/25/2013 03:55 PM
No--who was working on the Comcast discriminatory pricing or bundling
allegation a while back? Was that an open case or just a quick look without
opening anything...Laura, do you know?
From: Liz Brady/OAG

Cc: Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott
Palmer/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/25/2013 03:53 PM
The Comcast/NBCU merger. There is a consent decree, but that is the only one
that comes to mind.

Cc: Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Liz Brady/OAG@OAG, Scott
Palmer/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/25/2013 03:51 PM
We did have an antitrust matter, but I don't think he is asking that, and it is
confidential anyway....Scott, Liz, are we still working that case?

Cc: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/25/2013 02:44 PM
Jenn:
There are no active OAG investigations where Comcast or Yahoo are the primary
targets.
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3300
Fax (850) 488-1249

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/25/2013 02:19 PM
Subject: Fw: Media Inquiry
Please see below.

Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
----- Forwarded by Jennifer Meale/OAG on 10/25/2013 02:19 PM ----From: "Rosica, James L" <jrosica@tampatrib.com>
Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi

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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
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deleted by Liz Brady/OAG]
[attachment "1E751470.jpg" deleted by Liz Brady/OAG]
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 2:03:34 PM
To: "Vause, Tiffany" <Tiffany.Vause@flofr.com>
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 01:57 PM
Tiffany Vause
Direct: (850) 410-9709
Cell: (850) 766-4646
www.FLOFR.com

To: Vause, Tiffany

The New York Times
LENGTH: 444 words
bait-and-switch.''
got.''
courses.
URL:
wsuit-says.html
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
Jennifer Meale
9/18/2013 11:02:51 AM
To: Laurie Wright
cc: Becky Kring,Janna Barineau,Kym Oswald,Molly McFarland,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt,Scott Palmer,Trish
Conners
Subject: Re: REVISED: Press Inquiry from 09/17/2013 - Trump Institute
Perfect! Thanks so much. I'll share that with the reporter when I send them
over.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

McFarland/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Scott
Palmer/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/18/2013 11:00 AM
None of the complaints regarding Trump Institute are from this administration.
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

McFarland/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Scott
Palmer/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/18/2013 10:55 AM

Thanks. It looks like most of these pre-date the current administration. Is
there anyone who can quickly peruse them and break the complaint numbers down
by received pre-this administration and received during this administration?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 09/18/2013 10:52 AM
Subject: REVISED: Press Inquiry from 09/17/2013 - Trump Institute
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Status: Assigned
Action Taken:
RECORDS REQUESTED: I would like copies of the complaints that your office has
received regarding Trump Institute.
SEARCH TERMS USED: contains any of trump institute AND (([Form]="fControlDoc")
OR ([Form]="EmailControl")) AND ( [use FIELD search] field Subject does not
RESULTS/FORMAT PROVIDED: 19 complaints.
Per Jenn - limiting search to "Trump Institute", not other related business
names.
COPIES OF RECORDS: We have gathered the records and reviewed the full content
of the correspondence for redaction.
Date Received: 09/17/2013 11:17:43 AM
Date Resolved:
From:
Molly McFarland
Unit:
To: Citizen Help; Laurie Wright;

Becky Kring; Janna Barineau
cc: Trish Conners; Richard Lawson;

Scott Hunt; Anna Prince-Palmer

- Trump Institute
Hi everyone,
Please see the request below. If possible, he would like these today, but if
not, tomorrow would work.
Thanks,
Molly
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 09/17/2013
Time: 11:13 AM
Contact: Jeff Ostrowski

Media: Palm Beach Post
Phone: (561) 820-4581
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email: jostrowski@pbpost.com
Request:
I would like copies of the complaints that your office has received regarding
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: MM
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Molly McFarland
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 6:04:20 PM
To: "Carlos Muniz" <Carlos.Muniz@myfloridalegal.com>,"Mark Hamilton"
<Mark.Hamilton@myfloridalegal.com>
cc:
Subject: Fw: Press Inquiry from 10/14/2013 - Trump
----- Original Message ----From: Mark Hamilton
Sent: 10/15/2013 02:02 PM EDT
To: Jennifer Meale
Cc: Trish Conners; Gerald Whitney Ray; Richard Lawson
Jenn/Trish,
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton

State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/15/2013 09:34 AM
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 2:09:03 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
Thanks.
At this point, I have just reiterated that under this administration, we have
not received a single complaint regarding Trump Institute.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 02:02 PM
Jenn/Trish,
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/15/2013 09:34 AM
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM

tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 11:06:35 AM
To: Becky Kring
cc: Trish Conners,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Janna Barineau,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt
Hi, All.
response around.
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:28 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
2008 - 2010
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 05:13 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM

Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202

Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 2:08:02 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Becky Kring,Trish Conners,Anna Prince-Palmer,Carlos Muniz,Janna Barineau,Laurie Wright,Richard Lawson,Scott
Hunt
Just touching base. Please let me know where we stand with the 23 complaints
that are being sorted through.
I'd like to answer the reporter ASAP that we do have and have not ever had an
investigation.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG, Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG,
Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott
Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 11:06 AM
08/29/2013 - Trump
Hi, All.
response around.
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Hunt/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/29/2013 05:28 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
2008 - 2010
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 05:13 PM
08/29/2013 - Trump
From:
Becky Kring
To: Jennifer Meale
Date:
08/29/2013 04:58 PM EDT
08/29/2013 - Trump
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:50 PM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/29/2013 04:31 PM
that complaint?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/29/2013 03:57 PM
Jenn:
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3536
Fax (850) 488-1249

Date: 08/29/2013 03:50 PM
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 2:44:26 PM
To: Laurie Wright
Palmer,Carlos Muniz
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:43 PM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:41 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:13 PM
- Trump
See below.....
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 11:41 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973
Date: 08/30/2013 11:17 AM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/30/2013 10:56 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Status: Assigned
Action Taken:

ups.
Trump seminar.
Date Received: 08/29/2013 03:50:43 PM
Date Resolved:
From:
Jennifer Meale
Unit:

cc: Carlos Muniz

- Trump
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:

Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 4:27:09 PM
cc:
Subject: Re: Trump

Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Inactive hide details for "Maxwell, Scott H" ---10/15/2013 11:29:18 AM---Hi
Jenn, Just wanted to follow up to say that I am pla"Maxwell, Scott H"
---10/15/2013 11:29:18 AM---Hi Jenn, Just wanted to follow up to say that I am
planning on running this column tomorrow.
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Inactive hide details for "Maxwell, Scott H" ---10/14/2013 03:21:12 PM---Hi
Jennifer, I was wondering if the attorney general h"Maxwell, Scott H"
---10/14/2013 03:21:12 PM---Hi Jennifer, I was wondering if the attorney
general had reached any determination about whether to
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
orlandosentinel.com/takingnames - image001.gif
Jennifer Meale
10/25/2013 2:19:50 PM
To: Trish Conners,Scott Hunt,Richard Lawson
cc:
Please see below.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi
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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 3:42:58 PM
To: Trish Conners
cc:
No worries! Just sent it in.
I always like to do one final check when there are a bunch of emails, but we're
good.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 03:40 PM
Yes--btw...I am in my office...just saw you called (I think) on my cell but the
volume was down...sorry.

Date: 08/30/2013 02:48 PM
Thanks.
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:47 PM
[attachment "Trump complaints.xls" deleted by Jennifer Meale/OAG]
5/26/11.
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 02:44 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:43 PM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Muniz/OAG@OAG
Date: 08/30/2013 02:41 PM
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 02:13 PM
- Trump
See below.....
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 11:41 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Date: 08/30/2013 11:17 AM
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226

Date: 08/30/2013 10:56 AM
Thanks,
Laurie Wright
PL-01, The Capitol
(850) 414-3973

Status: Assigned
Action Taken:

ups.
Trump seminar.
Date Received: 08/29/2013 03:50:43 PM
Date Resolved:
From:
Jennifer Meale
Unit:

cc: Carlos Muniz

- Trump
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 08/29/2013
Time: 03:48 PM

Phone: (407) 420-5256
Fax:
Cell: (407) 474-2202
Pager:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 5:07:53 PM
cc:
Subject: Re: Trump
Can I still comment for you to add?

Sent: 10/15/2013 09:07 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: Re: Trump

Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump

thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 5:30:16 PM
cc:
Subject: Fw: Trump

Sent: 10/15/2013 09:07 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: Re: Trump

Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump

thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump

Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
10/25/2013 2:51:25 PM
To: Scott Hunt
Thanks. Have we had one in the past?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Cc: Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/25/2013 02:44 PM
Jenn:
There are no active OAG investigations where Comcast or Yahoo are the primary
targets.
Scott T. Hunt
Work (850) 414-3300
Fax (850) 488-1249

To: Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/25/2013 02:19 PM
Please see below.

Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi

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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 6:06:24 PM
To: "Carlos Muniz" <Carlos.Muniz@myfloridalegal.com>
cc:
Subject: Fw: Trump

Sent: 10/15/2013 09:45 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Thanks for that.
Just so Im super clear does that mean your office is done reviewing the
allegations in the New York complaint and decided to take no action?
(At least until/unless another complaint arises?)
Im just trying to put some finality on that part you guys reviewing NYs
action if there is any.
If youre still studying it, fine.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141


Subject: RE: Trump
Scott,
not one:
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Inactive hide details for "Maxwell, Scott H" ---10/15/2013 05:07:14 PM---Thanks
for the update. I just now turned in the column"Maxwell, Scott H" ---10/15/2013
05:07:14 PM---Thanks for the update. I just now turned in the column.
Date: 10/15/2013 05:07 PM
Subject: RE: Trump

Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump

Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell

407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
8/30/2013 4:01:22 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
etc.) /rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,

Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
>>>> 06/08/2011 11:48: AM Carmen James

08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 2
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 4
recover.
Sincerely,
(203) 263-5540

Email Date
Assigned
05/05/2010 08:55 AM
05/05/2010
Due
05/12/2010
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Reply
07/07/2010
Filed
07/07/2010
Page: 6
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 9
01/26/2010 to 01/27/2010.
>>>> 02/08/2010 08:45: AM Travis Dudley
>>>> 02/08/2010 10:55: AM Travis Dudley
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 11

Phone:
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 13

08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 15

Vancouver, WA 98685
Phone:
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 17

Windsor, CT 06095
Phone: (860) 285-8908
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
>>>> 06/09/2009 08:01: AM Carmen James
>>>> 06/09/2009 11:43: AM Carmen James
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 19
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
04/28/2009.
Santana.
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 21

>>>> 03/16/2009 10:02: AM Raena Wright
>>>> 03/27/2009 08:01: AM Carmen James
>>>> 03/27/2009 08:03: AM Carmen James
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 25
Oswald.
>>>> 03/24/2009 08:25: PM Carmen James
08/30/2013 11:34:15 AM
Page: 27
Jennifer Meale
9/18/2013 11:04:24 AM
To: jostrowski@pbpost.com
cc:
Jeff,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 2
recover.
Sincerely,
(203) 263-5540

Email Date
Assigned
05/05/2010 08:55 AM
05/05/2010
Due
05/12/2010
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Reply
07/07/2010
Filed
07/07/2010
Page: 4
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 7
01/26/2010 to 01/27/2010.
>>>> 02/08/2010 08:45: AM Travis Dudley
>>>> 02/08/2010 10:55: AM Travis Dudley
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 9

Grand Rapids, MI 49525-9728
Phone: (616) 365-1794
Email Address: stucks@michigan.gov
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
Subject changed from False or Deceptive Trade Practices to Real Estate. Status changed from Received to Assigned. Section
changed from Economic Crimes to Citizen Services. Assignment changed from blank to Kym Oswald.
>>>> 07/28/2009 07:26: AM Carmen James
>>>> 07/28/2009 11:42: AM Carmen James
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 11

Vancouver, WA 98685
Phone:
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 15

Windsor, CT 06095
Phone: (860) 285-8908
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
>>>> 06/09/2009 08:01: AM Carmen James
>>>> 06/09/2009 11:43: AM Carmen James
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 17
Active Military
Veteran
Clear Selection
04/28/2009.
Santana.
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 19

>>>> 03/16/2009 10:02: AM Raena Wright
>>>> 03/27/2009 08:01: AM Carmen James
>>>> 03/27/2009 08:03: AM Carmen James
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 23
Oswald.
>>>> 03/24/2009 08:25: PM Carmen James
09/18/2013 08:32:38 AM
Page: 25

8/30/2013 1:57:16 PM
To: Jennifer Meale <Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com>,"john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com"
<john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com>,"Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com"
<Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com>
cc: "Norris, Katie" <Katie.Norris@flofr.com>
Tiffany Vause
Direct: (850) 410-9709
Cell: (850) 766-4646
www.FLOFR.com
[IMAGE]

To: Vause, Tiffany
The New York Times

LENGTH: 444 words
bait-and-switch.''
got.''
courses.
URL:
wsuit-says.html
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
Copyright 2013 The New York Times Company - image001.jpg

8/30/2013 2:05:38 PM
Subject: RE: FW: media query
Thank youI will just let him know it wasnt us.
Tiffany Vause
Direct: (850) 410-9709
Cell: (850) 766-4646
www.FLOFR.com
[IMAGE]

To: Vause, Tiffany
Cc: john.lucas@myfloridalegal.com; Norris, Katie;
Molly.McFarland@myfloridalegal.com
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Inactive hide details for "Vause, Tiffany" ---08/30/2013 01:57:19 PM---Hi AG
Friends! Happy Friday! I have spoken our crew and "Vause, Tiffany"
---08/30/2013 01:57:19 PM---Hi AG Friends! Happy Friday! I have spoken our crew
and it does not appear that the OFR investigated
Date: 08/30/2013 01:57 PM
the OFR investigated this case. They all seem to think that perhaps it may have
been your office. Is it ok to forward Richard along to your office?
Tiffany Vause
Direct: (850) 410-9709
Cell: (850) 766-4646
www.FLOFR.com
[IMAGE]
To: Vause, Tiffany
The New York Times
LENGTH: 444 words
bait-and-switch.''
got.''
courses.
URL:
wsuit-says.html
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
- image001.jpg - image002.gif - image003.jpg
"Burnett, Richard R" <RBurnett@orlandosentinel.com>

9/11/2013 7:49:49 AM
cc:
________________________________________
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
________________________________
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
- image001.gif

9/11/2013 10:49:15 AM
cc:
action, yes? /rb

Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Inactive hide details for "Burnett, Richard R" ---09/11/2013 07:48:59
AM---Hello Jenn...I'm completing my work on the Trump Ins"Burnett, Richard R"
---09/11/2013 07:48:59 AM---Hello Jenn...I'm completing my work on the Trump
Institute story this morning on deadline. One key q
Date: 09/11/2013 07:48 AM
________________________________________
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
Subject: RE: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
________________________________
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Jennifer Meale
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
________________________________
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
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"Ostrowski, Jeffrey (CMG-WestPalm)" <JOstrowski@pbpost.com>

9/18/2013 1:14:32 PM
cc:


Jeff,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
"David Royse" <royse@newsserviceflorida.com>

10/18/2013 4:00:15 PM
cc:
Hi Jenn,

re-election.
add a new comment
"David Royse" <royse@newsserviceflorida.com>

10/18/2013 4:17:54 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump thing
850-728-5929.
And yes

Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 3:13 PM
To: David Royse
What's your number? Can I call you?

Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Inactive hide details for "David Royse" ---10/18/2013 04:09:26 PM---Hi Jenn,
I'm doing a brief about the Trump contribution and"David Royse" ---10/18/2013
04:09:26 PM---Hi Jenn, I'm doing a brief about the Trump contribution and
wanted to see if you
Date: 10/18/2013 04:09 PM
Hi Jenn,
re-election.
add a new comment
Dave (sitting in for Jim the last couple days while hes out of town) image001.gif

8/30/2013 3:53:54 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
etc.) /rb

Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
PM---thank you. From: Jennifer Meale [mailto:Jennifer.Mea"Burnett, Richard R"
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
thank you.
Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell) - image001.gif

8/30/2013 4:21:25 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump

Subject: RE: Trump

Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
PM---Thanks Jenn. AG's office did not take action regardi"Burnett, Richard R"
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
thank you.

Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell) - image001.gif

8/30/2013 4:02:10 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Please forward docs, thanks.

Subject: RE: Trump
Hi, Richard.
investigation.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
PM---Thanks Jenn. AG's office did not take action regardi"Burnett, Richard R"
Date: 08/30/2013 03:56 PM
Subject: RE: Trump
/rb
Subject: Trump
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 08/30/2013 01:54 PM
thank you.

Hi, Richard.
Best regards,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell) - image001.gif
"Davis, Josh1 (NBCUniversal)" <Josh.Davis@nbcuni.com>

8/25/2013 4:53:34 PM
To: "'jennifer.meale@myfloridalegal.com'" <jennifer.meale@myfloridalegal.com>
cc:
Subject: Today Show Request
Hi Jennifer,
The Today Show is trying to reach someone at the FL AGs office regarding an
interview for a story were putting together about Trump University. We
understand there are some FL victims and your office has taken action against
the University. Please call me asap. This is for a story for tomorrow morning.
Thank you,
Josh Davis
Josh Davis
Investigative Producer
TODAY SHOW
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
(w) 212-664-3527
(c) 917-587-8493
Josh.Davis@nbcuni.com
"Dara Kam" <darakam@gmail.com>

10/21/2013 4:57:19 PM
cc:
Florida?

To: Dara Kam
Hi, Dara.
Your story:
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Dara Kam <darakam@gmail.com>

10/21/2013 5:01:39 PM
cc:
and does she think "And Justice for All" should return the money?
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Jennifer Meale <
Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com> wrote:
Hi, Dara.
Your story:
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
-Dara Kam
Senior Writer
cell: 850.570.1592
darakam@gmail.com
@TheDaraKam
Dara Kam <darakam@gmail.com>

10/21/2013 5:00:20 PM
cc:
so were you reviewing it to consider joining it?
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Jennifer Meale <
Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com> wrote:
Hi, Dara.
Your story:
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
-Dara Kam
Senior Writer
cell: 850.570.1592
darakam@gmail.com
@TheDaraKam
Janina Marquordt <janina_marquordt@spiegel.de>

8/30/2013 3:51:28 PM
cc:
Subject: Re: Trump
Thank you for your reply regarding our request.
Have a great weekend,
Janina
Janina Marquordt
DER SPIEGEL
10 E 40th Street, Suite 3400
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212.221.7583
Fax: 212.302.6258
www.spiegel.de
www.spiegel.de/international
SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, Sitz und Registergericht
Hamburg HRA 61 755
Komplementrin Rudolf Augstein GmbH, Sitz und Registergericht Hamburg HRB
13 105
Geschftsfhrer Ove Saffe
Am 30.08.2013 um 15:44 schrieb Jennifer Meale:
Janina,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jenn Meale <jenn.meale@gmail.com>

10/18/2013 9:12:54 PM
cc:
Subject:
Trump University" and its affiliates are "sham for-profit colleges." Among
other complaints, it lists dozens filed with the Florida Attorney General's
Office in 2008
Sent from my iPhone
Michael Van Sickler <vansicklertbtimes@gmail.com>

10/17/2013 6:54:01 PM
cc:
here's the link:
> Hey Mike,
>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jenn
>
>
>
> Jenn Meale
> 850-245-0150 (main)
> 850-294-7294 (cell)
>
"Maxwell, Scott H" <SMaxwell@orlandosentinel.com>

10/14/2013 3:21:12 PM
cc:
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

10/14/2013 3:26:53 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

10/15/2013 11:29:10 AM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,

tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump

Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

10/15/2013 1:39:14 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

10/15/2013 5:07:09 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: Re: Trump
Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump


thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

10/15/2013 5:45:57 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Thanks for that.
Just so Im super clear does that mean your office is done reviewing the
allegations in the New York complaint and decided to take no action?
(At least until/unless another complaint arises?)
Im just trying to put some finality on that part you guys reviewing NYs
action if there is any.
If youre still studying it, fine.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump
Scott,
not one:
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 05:07 PM
Subject: RE: Trump

Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump


Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

10/15/2013 6:02:35 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Im fine.
Worked with what I had and were across.
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump
Scott,
not one:

Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 05:07 PM
Subject: RE: Trump

Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT

To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Michael Van Sickler <vansicklertbtimes@gmail.com>

10/17/2013 5:32:19 PM
cc:
Thanks. It looks like these are all complaints against an entity known
as "Trump Institute." That entity is not named in the New York AG
case. Will that prevent the residents who filed these complaints from
reaping possible damages if the New York AG prevails?

> Hey Mike,
>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jenn
>
>
>
> Jenn Meale
> 850-245-0150 (main)
> 850-294-7294 (cell)
>
"Rosica, James L" <jrosica@tampatrib.com>

10/25/2013 11:39:23 AM
cc:

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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
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10/25/2013 2:18:11 PM
cc:
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi
Date: 10/25/2013 11:39 AM
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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
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10/25/2013 4:47:34 PM
cc:
Ten four, thanks
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
That is correct.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
again
Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi
Date: 10/25/2013 11:39 AM
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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
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10/25/2013 2:20:52 PM
cc:
Amen.
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
I'll check for you.
btw: control burn, not school fire :)
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
again
Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM

Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi
Date: 10/25/2013 11:39 AM
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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
- graycol.gif

1/29/2014 7:03:23 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Got it.
Whats more curious is why you are still using a Blackberry.
I admit: I held out for the longest time. Oh, I believed them, that they were
coming back. But they proved me wrong with their disastrous BB10 release. I
gave up, crestfallen.
I admire your tenacity in sticking with the brand. That kind of loyalty is hard
to come by these days.

To: Rosica, James L
Subject: Trump
Hi, Jim.
administration
entities
Jenn


Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jennifer Meale
10/14/2013 3:30:56 PM
cc: Gerald Whitney Ray
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Richard Lawson
10/14/2013 3:36:08 PM
To: Jennifer Meale,Mark Hamilton
cc: Gerald Whitney Ray,Trish Conners
Including Mark
Respectfully,
Richard P. Lawson
Director, Consumer Protection Division
107 W Gaines Street

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Trish Conners
10/14/2013 4:07:29 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
cc: Gerald Whitney Ray,Richard Lawson,Mark Hamilton

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Mark Hamilton
10/14/2013 4:52:32 PM
To: Trish Conners
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Trish Conners
10/14/2013 4:54:32 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
We need to find out more about the school here and why we keep getting these
inquiries. Can you do some digging asap and find out everything you can about
this school...we need to confirm once and for all that it is not affiliated, as
you indicated, with the Trump Institute in NY...we need to be absolutely
certain about this. T

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM

tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 9:34:07 AM
To: Mark Hamilton
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 1:47:30 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
I've referred your political questions to the political team. Someone on that
team will respond to you.
It is important to note that our office has not received a single complaint
regarding Trump Institute under this administration.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 01:39 PM
Subject: RE: Trump

thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141

Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.

Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Mark Hamilton
10/15/2013 2:02:03 PM
To: Jennifer Meale
Jenn/Trish,
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/15/2013 09:34 AM
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 2:09:03 PM
To: Mark Hamilton
Thanks.
At this point, I have just reiterated that under this administration, we have
not received a single complaint regarding Trump Institute.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 02:02 PM
Jenn/Trish,
Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483

Date: 10/15/2013 09:34 AM
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/14/2013 04:52 PM
again.
Mark

Date: 10/14/2013 04:07 PM

Date: 10/14/2013 03:30 PM

tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jenn
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 10/14/2013
Time: 03:28 PM

Phone: (407) 420-6141
Fax:
Cell:
Pager:
Email:
Subject: Trump
Request:
Trump Institute.
Answer:
Staffer: Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
Jennifer Meale
10/15/2013 5:37:36 PM
cc:
Subject: RE: Trump
Scott,
not one:
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/15/2013 05:07 PM
Subject: RE: Trump


Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Sent: 10/15/2013 05:39 PM GMT
To: Jennifer Meale
Subject: RE: Trump
thanks
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/15/2013 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: Trump
Hi Jenn,
tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: RE: Trump
Not today.
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Subject: Re: Trump
Hi Scott,
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 10/14/2013 03:21 PM
Subject: Trump
Hi Jennifer,
Trump Institute.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
Jennifer Meale
10/17/2013 10:19:43 AM
cc:
Hi, Mike.
Per your request, please see the statement that I provided to Richard Burnett
with the Orlando Sentinel on 9/11.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Date: 09/11/2013 10:40 AM
Richard,
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/18/2013 9:28:03 AM
To: Gerald Whitney Ray,Molly McFarland
cc:
Subject: Fw: Trump Fact Sheet
Just an FYI.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
To: Carlos Muniz/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Date: 10/18/2013 09:27 AM
Good morning.
know.
Thanks,
Jenn
Fact Sheet

Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Fact Sheet
Under the previous administration, 22 complaints against Trump Institute were

received. (the previous 23 count included one duplicate complaint)

2001 against Proven Methods Seminars, LLC/National Grants Conference which
used the name "Trump Institute" and was based out of Boca Raton through a
licensing arrangement with Trump.
In 2009, the Attorney Generals Office attempted to enforce the AVC with Trump
Institute and found that the company was bankrupt and defunctthe previous
administration then closed the case.

Jennifer Meale
10/21/2013 4:52:35 PM
cc:
Hi, Dara.
Your story:
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/21/2013 5:07:41 PM
To: "Dara Kam" <darakam@gmail.com>
cc:
Thanks.
The New York lawsuit makes no specific reference to Florida and addresses
seminars that were conducted nationally. The conduct at the center of the
lawsuit is not occurring in Florida. Our office received one complaint
regarding Trump University 2.5 years ago, and the New York lawsuit seeks relief
for all aggrieved consumers, regardless of their state residence.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: "Dara Kam" <darakam@gmail.com>

Date: 10/21/2013 04:57 PM
Florida?
To: Dara Kam
Hi, Dara.
Your story:
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/25/2013 4:31:25 PM
cc:
That is correct.
Thank you,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/25/2013 02:18 PM
Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Jenn Meale

850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Universi
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Office: (850) 765-0807 | Mobile: (850) 510-4813
Leslie Jacobs
12/8/2014 11:34:30 AM
To: Citizen Help@OAG,Laurie Wright
cc: Mark Hamilton,Roger Chantrielle
Subject: Trump University public records request
Please send me anything you have responsive to the following request copies of all complaints filed against Trump University, Trump Entrepreneurial
Initiative, Armand Grossman, and any other derivative of these Trump real
estate class scams.
Thanks,
Leslie
Leslie Jacobs
PL 01, The Capitol
(850) 245-0192(o)
(850) 487-2564 (f)
Jennifer Meale
10/3/2014 2:10:29 PM
cc:
Hi, Eric.
2010.
in May 2011.
case in 2009.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/03/2014 11:52 AM
Hello Jennifer.

Eric
(ULF /LSWRQ
The New York Times
Washington Bureau
202 862 0448 desk
202 370 7951 cell

Hi, Eric.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
10/3/2014 2:10:29 PM
cc:
Hi, Eric.
2010.
in May 2011.
case in 2009.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 10/03/2014 11:52 AM
Hello Jennifer.

Eric
(ULF /LSWRQ
The New York Times
Washington Bureau
202 862 0448 desk
202 370 7951 cell

Hi, Eric.
Thanks,
Jenn
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Jennifer Meale
12/4/2014 1:48:56 PM
To: Gerald Whitney Ray
cc:
Subject: Re: Follow up to MH interview.
Did he mention Trump?
That Trump response won't work. Should you strike it or should we re-work it?
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
From: Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG

Date: 12/04/2014 11:10 AM
Subject: Follow up to MH interview.
Jenn,
Draft Response:
Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to talk to Mark Hamilton yesterday. I wanted to
follow up on a few remarks from the interview. You mentioned Bridgepoint, Trump
University and the New York Times story. Our office provided detailed responses
about the companies highlighted in the NYT story, unfortunately the responses
were not published.
Please consider the information below if you plan on writing about Bridgepoint.
Our office met with Bridgepoint on November 13, 2013 in Tallahassee, and we
had received only a handful of complaints about Ashford University or
Bridgepoint--all prior to the meeting. In our meeting, Bridgepoint laid out all
of the substantial changes they had undertaken at their schools to address the
issues that had been prevalent in the other for-profit matters we had
investigated and settled. They also explained the circumstances surrounding the
investigation Iowa, which showed that either the concerns there were limited to
the schools with a physical presence in Iowa or had been addressed subsequently
by the significant changes Bridgepoint had made. We have received no complaints
about Ashford University or Bridgepoint since that meeting.
And if you plan to mention Trump University, it's important to note that this
administration only received one complaint about the school, and since the NY
lawsuit against the company would provide relief to all students (including
those in Florida), we found it prudent not to pursue litigation.
Finally, you mentioned that critics claim our office may not be doing enough to
protect consumers. In light of those claims I wanted to share with you that
just yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission recognized our offices for our
efforts to protect Florida consumers.
The news release about the FTC award is attached below.
Thank you again for your attention to this important matter.
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
NEWS RELEASE
Date:
Dec. 3, 2014
Contact:
Jenn Meale
Phone: 850.245.0150
jennifer.meale@myfloridalegal.com
Federal Trade Commission Recognizes Attorney General Pam Bondis Consumer
Protection Division for Outstanding Collaborative Work
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.The Federal Trade Commissions Bureau of Consumer Protection
today presented a first-of-its-kind award to Attorney General Pam Bondis
Consumer Protection Division for its outstanding partnership in protecting
consumers. The Partner Award recognizes the Consumer Protection Division for
its shared commitment to attack fraud and deception in the marketplace. It
notes that the FTC and the Attorney General Bondis office have worked on
dozens of cases and outreach programs to advance the shared mission of
protecting consumers. The Director of the FTC Southeast Region, Cindy Liebes,
presented the award to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Consumer Protection Division
Director Richard Lawson and members of the Consumer Protection Division today
in Ft. Lauderdale at the Consumer Protection Divisions statewide team meeting.
"We are honored that the Federal Trade Commission has recognized our work to
protect Floridas consumers with this award, stated Attorney General Pam
Bondi. We appreciate the FTCs partnership and will continue to work with
them, as well as other federal, state and local entities, to protect consumers
and ensure a fair marketplace."
Examples of consumer protection cases that the FTC and the Consumer Protection
Division have collaborated on include:
Jefferson High School Online
National Business Advertising
Your Yellow Pages

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Universal Timeshare
Information Management
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Alcoholism Cure Corp.
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For more information on Attorney General Bondis efforts to protect consumers,

visit MyFloridaLegal.com.
###
Jennifer Meale
12/8/2014 9:37:47 AM
cc:
Subject: Re: Fw: Follow up to MH interview.
Let's reword the part about the not responded.
Just say, while we provided the below response to the NYT, it was not included
in the article. I believe that this response helps address the questions you
raised."
Something like that....
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 12/08/2014 09:35 AM
Subject: Fw: Follow up to MH interview.
Jenn,
Revised Response:
Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to talk to Mark Hamilton last week. I wanted to
follow up on a few remarks from the interview. You mentioned Bridgepoint and
the New York Times story. Our office provided detailed responses about the
companies highlighted in the NYT story, unfortunately the responses were not
published.

Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
NEWS RELEASE
Date:
Dec. 3, 2014
Contact:
Jenn Meale
Phone: 850.245.0150
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###
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
----- Forwarded by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG on 12/08/2014 09:34 AM ----From: Jennifer Meale/OAG
To: Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@OAG
Date: 12/04/2014 01:48 PM
Subject: Re: Follow up to MH interview.
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)

Date: 12/04/2014 11:10 AM
Subject: Follow up to MH interview.
Jenn,
Draft Response:
Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to talk to Mark Hamilton yesterday. I wanted to
follow up on a few remarks from the interview. You mentioned Bridgepoint, Trump
University and the New York Times story. Our office provided detailed responses
about the companies highlighted in the NYT story, unfortunately the responses
were not published.
And if you plan to mention Trump University, it's important to note that this
administration only received one complaint about the school, and since the NY
lawsuit against the company would provide relief to all students (including
those in Florida), we found it prudent not to pursue litigation.
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
NEWS RELEASE
Date:
Dec. 3, 2014
Contact:
Jenn Meale
Phone: 850.245.0150


Your Yellow Pages
Tax Club
Universal Timeshare
Senior Safe Alert
Kirkland Young
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###
Bethann Dillon
9/3/2015 4:46:22 PM
To: Kym Oswald
cc: Becky Kring
Subject: KYM // FOR APPROVAL // Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
REQUEST: How many complaints have been filed against Trump University in the
state of Florida between 2005 and 2010? Also, can you provide us with copies of
these complaints?
SEARCH: Trump Univ* AND (field Subject does not contain Checking OR Records OR
Miscellaneous OR Follow OR Response OR Solicitation)
RESULTS: Our record retention is five years. 1 complaint from 2009. 4
complaints from 2011 to 2014.
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987
----- Forwarded by Bethann Dillon/OAG on 09/03/2015 04:38 PM -----

Status: Assigned
Assigned To: Bethann Dillon
Categories: Follow Up Request
Action Taken:
Date Received: 09/03/2015 04:09:53 PM
From:
Gerald Whitney Ray
Date Resolved:
Unit:
To:
cc: Anna Prince-Palmer; Becky Kring;

Citizen Help; Janna Barineau; Kylie
Mason; Kym Oswald; Richard Lawson; Scott Hunt; Trish Conners; Trish.conners;
Victoria Butler
Subject: Re: Press Inquiry from

09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
We can answer this one tomorrow, but I want to make sure we have the info in
the morning as we are going into a holiday weekend.
Whitney Ray
Director of Media Relations
Office: 850-245-0150

To: Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Citizen Help
<Citizen_Help@oag.state.fl.us>, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG,
Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG,
Trish.conners@myfloridalegal.com, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Victoria
Butler/OAG@OAG
Cc: Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/03/2015 11:50 AM
Subject: Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
Hello,
Please see the media request below and note that the request goes back to 2005.
I spoke to the reporter on background about how grossly inaccurate the stories
about the one Trump University complaint we received had been reported, and how
we only received one complaint (that could be resolved in the NY litigation)
and how there never was an investigation as the media keeps reporting.
She seemed receptive but still wants all complaints going back to McCollum and
Crist Admin.
Request:
How many complaints have been filed against Trump University in the state of
Florida between 2005 and 2010? Also, can you provide us with copies of these
complaints?
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 09/03/2015
Time: 11:45 AM
Contact: Amel Guettatfi

Media: CBS News
Phone:
Fax:
Cell: (202) 594-1965
Pager:
Email: GuettatfiA@cbsnews.com
Subject: Trump Complaints
Request:
Dear Whitney,
I spoke to someone from your office who recommended I email you in person
regarding a story on Trump we're working on here at CBS News.
complaints?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please know that we have a fairly tight
turnaround.
Thank you,
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
(w) 202 457 1546
Answer:
Staffer: WR
OAG contact:
Status:
Record created by:

Gerald Whitney Ray
by:
INTERNET COMPLAINT RECEIVED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE ON 01/03/2011

Aaron O'Brien
Tampa, FL, 33647 Hillsborough
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Email: aaron_o_brien@hotmail.com
Name/Firm/Company: Donald Trump University
Subject/Category: Real Estate
Street Address: PO Box 811209
City: Boca Raton, FL 33481 Palm Beach
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Website: www.trumpuniversity.com
Date of Transaction: 02/02/2007
Questions/Comments:
Have had a mentor for a couple of years and he is not much help at all. Still
owed sessions but have been given no direction...haven't even had
communication. Wish to get $ owed back at least for the mentor

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Bradenton, FL, 34207 Manatee
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Email: chaznjacob@gmail.com
Name/Firm/Company: Trump Ùniversity`
Subject/Category: Donald Trump
Street Address: United States
Questions/Comments:
The New York State Attorney General is currently investigating Donald Trump. I
was a student of
Trump University while living in Florida as I`m sure many others were too. I
lost more than $26,000.00
and have since declared personal bankruptcy because of it. If by some chance
there is a class action suit against him, will Florida join it representing
many residents?
Bethann Dillon
9/3/2015 4:50:09 PM
cc: Anna Prince-Palmer,Janna Barineau,Kylie Mason,Kym Oswald,Richard Lawson,Scott Hunt,Trish Conners,Victoria
Butler,Becky Kring
Subject: CS RESULTS // Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
REQUEST: How many complaints have been filed against Trump University in the
state of Florida between 2005 and 2010? Also, can you provide us with copies of
these complaints?
SEARCH: Trump Univ*
RESULTS: Our record retention is five years. 1 complaint from 2009. 4
complaints from 2011 to 2014.
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987

To: Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@OAG
Cc: Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG, Citizen Help <Citizen_Help@oag.state.fl.us>,
Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG, Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Richard
Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG,
Trish.conners@myfloridalegal.com, Victoria Butler/OAG@OAG, Bethann
Dillon/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/03/2015 04:24 PM
Subject: Re: Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
adding Bethann to email chain :)
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226
*Florida has a broad public records law. All correspondence to and from me may
be subject to disclosure .*

To:
Cc: Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG, Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Citizen Help
<Citizen_Help@oag.state.fl.us>, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG,
Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Trish
Conners/OAG@OAG, Trish.conners@myfloridalegal.com, Victoria Butler/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/03/2015 04:09 PM
Subject: Re: Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
We can answer this one tomorrow, but I want to make sure we have the info in
the morning as we are going into a holiday weekend.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To: Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Citizen Help
<Citizen_Help@oag.state.fl.us>, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG,
Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG,
Trish.conners@myfloridalegal.com, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Victoria
Butler/OAG@OAG
Cc: Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
Date: 09/03/2015 11:50 AM
Subject: Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
Hello,
I spoke to the reporter on background about how grossly inaccurate the stories
about the one Trump University complaint we received had been reported, and how
we only received one complaint (that could be resolved in the NY litigation)
and how there never was an investigation as the media keeps reporting.
She seemed receptive but still wants all complaints going back to McCollum and
Crist Admin.
Request:
complaints?
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Media Request
Date: 09/03/2015
Time: 11:45 AM
Contact: Amel Guettatfi

Media: CBS News
Phone:
Fax:
Cell: (202) 594-1965
Pager:
Email: GuettatfiA@cbsnews.com
Request:
Dear Whitney,
I spoke to someone from your office who recommended I email you in person
regarding a story on Trump we're working on here at CBS News.
complaints?
turnaround.
Thank you,
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
(w) 202 457 1546
Answer:
Staffer: WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:

Aaron O'Brien
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Questions/Comments:

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Questions/Comments:
was a student of
many residents?
Bethann Dillon
9/3/2015 5:02:53 PM
cc: Becky Kring,Kylie Mason
Subject: Trump University complaints only
These records do not have replies and names of PDFs contain the dates of the
complaints.
One complaint 5/16/2009 >
Two email complaints dated 1/03/2011 & 5/26/2011 >
Two postal complaints dated 9/24/2013 & 3/31/2014 >
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987

Aaron O'Brien
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Questions/Comments:

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Questions/Comments:
was a student of
many residents?
Re: Fw: Miami Herald records request

Mark Hamilton to: Gerald Whitney Ray
02/11/2016 12:16 PM
Cc: Trish Conners
Just let me know what works for you all

Mark
Gerald Whitney Ray
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Good morning Whitney - it's Mike Vasquez at th...
02/11/2016 11:19:24 AM
Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG

Trish Conners/OAG@oag, Mark Hamilton/OAG@oag
02/11/2016 11:19 AM
Fw: Miami Herald records request
Let's discuss
From: Vasquez, Michael <mrvasquez@miamiherald.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 11:14 AM
Subject: Miami Herald records request
Good morning Whitney - it's Mike Vasquez at the Miami Herald. I'd like to request the
following: all complaints that your office has received regarding Trump University. Thanks!
-Mike Vasquez
Miami Herald Staff Writer
305-376-3631
mrvasquez@MiamiHerald.com
@MrMikeVasquez on Twitter
Fw: CS RESULTS // Press Inquiry from 02/11/2016 - Trump University

02/12/2016 09:00 AM
If you need anything from me, just let me know.

Mark
----- Forwarded by Mark Hamilton/OAG on 02/12/2016 08:59 AM ----From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:

Bethann Dillon/OAG@OAG
Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG, Kym
Oswald/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
02/11/2016 05:13 PM
Re: CS RESULTS // Press Inquiry from 02/11/2016 - Trump University
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Bethann Dillon
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
REQUEST: all complaints that your office has re...
02/11/2016 04:24:15 PM
Bethann Dillon/OAG
Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@OAG
Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Kym Oswald/OAG, Janna
Barineau/OAG@OAG, Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
02/11/2016 04:24 PM
CS RESULTS // Press Inquiry from 02/11/2016 - Trump University
REQUEST: all complaints that your office has received regarding Trump University .
CS, please provide all complaints we have received about Trump University .
RESULTS: Found 4 complaints against Trump University since January 2011.
[attachment "Trump University - Redacted.pdf" deleted by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG]
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
Consumer Service Analyst
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987
*Please note that Florida has a broad public records law, and that all correspondence emailed to me may
be subject to disclosure.*

Status: Assigned

Action Taken:
REQUEST: all complaints that your office has received regarding Trump University.
CS, please provide all complaints we have received about Trump University.
SEARCH: Trump University AND field Subject does not contain Checking OR Request OR Miscellaneous OR Follow
OR Response OR Solicitation OR Thank OR Information
02/11/2016 04:01 PM - sent to Kym for approval.
02/11/2016 04:19 PM - approved.
Date Resolved:
Date Received: 02/11/2016 12:57:21 PM
From: Gerald Whitney Ray
Unit:
To:
Becky Kring; Kym Oswald; Citizen Help; Janna Barineau; Mark Hamilton; Trish Conners
cc:
Kylie Mason
Subject:
Press Inquiry from 02/11/2016 - Trump University
Deadline:
Date:
Time:
Media Request
02/11/2016
12:56 PM
Contact: Mike Vasquez

Media: Miami Herald
Phone:
Fax:
Cell: (305) 376-3631
Pager:
Email: mrvasquez@MiamiHerald.com
Request:
following: all complaints that your office has received regarding Trump University.
Thanks!
Answer:
Staffer: WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Gerald Whitney Ray
Return call made when ?

by:
Re: Fw: CS RESULTS // Press Inquiry from 02/11/2016 - Trump University

02/12/2016 01:38 PM
Cc: Trish Conners
Looks fine to me
Mark
Gerald Whitney Ray
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Draft Response: We have received four compla...
02/12/2016 01:30:56 PM

Trish Conners/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
02/12/2016 01:30 PM
Draft Response:
We have received four complaints about Trump University since January 2011. Please see the
complaints attached below.
[attachment "Trump University - Redacted.pdf" deleted by Mark Hamilton/OAG]
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
----- Forwarded by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG on 02/11/2016 05:13 PM ----From:

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Bethann Dillon/OAG
02/11/2016 04:24 PM
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987

Status: Assigned

Action Taken:
02/11/2016 04:19 PM - approved.
Date Resolved:
Date Received: 02/11/2016 12:57:21 PM
Unit:
To:
cc:
Kylie Mason
Subject:
Deadline:
Date:
Time:
Media Request
02/11/2016
12:56 PM

Media: Miami Herald
Phone:
Fax:
Cell: (305) 376-3631
Pager:
Request:
Thanks!
Answer:
Staffer: WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Gerald Whitney Ray

by:
Re: Press Inquiry from 03/16/2016 - PRR-Trump University

03/16/2016 03:07 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Will check and let you know what we may have.

Mark
Gerald Whitney Ray
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Mark, Please see the public records request b...
03/16/2016 01:55:26 PM

Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG
Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
03/16/2016 01:55 PM
Press Inquiry from 03/16/2016 - PRR-Trump University
Mark,
Please see the public records request below.
I already provided all of the complaints our office received from Jan 2011-last week.
The recent media attention may have resulted in new complaints.
Also, she is requesting records back to 2005. These may be past their retention schedule.
If so, can we please note that?
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media Request
Maggie Severns
PoliticoPro
Media:
Phone:
Cell:
Fax:
(612) 669-8689
Email:
mseverns@politico.com
Subject: PRR-Trump University

Request:
Pager:
Date:
Time:
03/16/2016
01:51 PM
This is a public records request.

I request that a copy of the following documents (or documents containing the following
information) be provided to me:
Any Florida Attorney Generals office communications, including communications to and
from Pam Bondi or Bill McCollum, related to Trump University and/or Trump Institute
between 2008 and 2016.
Any complaints to the Florida Attorney General between 2005 and 2011 about Trump
University or Trump Institute.
Any records relating to investigations of Trump Institute or Trump University by the
Florida Attorney General between 2008 and 2016.
Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:
Follow up to MH interview .
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Jennifer Meale
12/04/2014 11:10 AM
Jenn,
Draft Response:
Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to talk to Mark Hamilton yesterday. I wanted to follow up on a few
remarks from the interview. You mentioned Bridgepoint, Trump University and the New York
Times story. Our office provided detailed responses about the companies highlighted in the NYT
story, unfortunately the responses were not published.
Our office met with Bridgepoint on November 13, 2013 in Tallahassee, and we had
received only a handful of complaints about Ashford University or Bridgepoint--all prior to
the meeting. In our meeting, Bridgepoint laid out all of the substantial changes they had
undertaken at their schools to address the issues that had been prevalent in the other
for-profit matters we had investigated and settled. They also explained the
circumstances surrounding the investigation Iowa, which showed that either the
concerns there were limited to the schools with a physical presence in Iowa or had been
addressed subsequently by the significant changes Bridgepoint had made. We have
received no complaints about Ashford University or Bridgepoint since that meeting.
And if you plan to mention Trump University, it's important to note that this administration only
received one complaint about the school, and since the NY lawsuit against the company would
provide relief to all students (including those in Florida), we found it prudent not to pursue
litigation.
Finally, you mentioned that critics claim our office may not be doing enough to protect
consumers. In light of those claims I wanted to share with you that just yesterday, the Federal
Trade Commission recognized our offices for our efforts to protect Florida consumers.
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
NEWS RELEASE
Date:
Dec. 3, 2014
Contact:
Jenn Meale
Phone: 850.245.0150

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.The Federal Trade Commissions Bureau of Consumer Protection today
presented a first-of-its-kind award to Attorney General Pam Bondis Consumer Protection Division for its
outstanding partnership in protecting consumers. The Partner Award recognizes the Consumer
Protection Division for its shared commitment to attack fraud and deception in the marketplace. It notes
that the FTC and the Attorney General Bondis office have worked on dozens of cases and outreach
programs to advance the shared mission of protecting consumers. The Director of the FTC Southeast
Region, Cindy Liebes, presented the award to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Consumer Protection
Division Director Richard Lawson and members of the Consumer Protection Division today in Ft.
Lauderdale at the Consumer Protection Divisions statewide team meeting.
"We are honored that the Federal Trade Commission has recognized our work to protect Floridas
consumers with this award, stated Attorney General Pam Bondi. We appreciate the FTCs partnership
and will continue to work with them, as well as other federal, state and local entities, to protect consumers
Examples of consumer protection cases that the FTC and the Consumer Protection Division have
collaborated on include:

Your Yellow Pages
Tax Club
Universal Timeshare
Senior Safe Alert
Kirkland Young
VGC/All Dreams
For more information on Attorney General Bondis efforts to protect consumers, visit MyFloridaLegal.com.
###
Fw: Follow up to MH interview .
12/08/2014 09:35 AM
Jenn,
Revised Response:
Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to talk to Mark Hamilton last week. I wanted to follow up on a few
remarks from the interview. You mentioned Bridgepoint and the New York Times story. Our
office provided detailed responses about the companies highlighted in the NYT story,
unfortunately the responses were not published.
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
NEWS RELEASE
Date:
Dec. 3, 2014
Contact:
Jenn Meale
Phone: 850.245.0150


Your Yellow Pages
Tax Club
Universal Timeshare
Senior Safe Alert
Kirkland Young
VGC/All Dreams
###
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
----- Forwarded by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG on 12/08/2014 09:34 AM -----
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Jennifer Meale/OAG
12/04/2014 01:48 PM
Re: Follow up to MH interview.

Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Gerald Whitney Ray
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Jenn, Draft Response:
12/04/2014 11:10:03 AM

Jennifer Meale/OAG@OAG
12/04/2014 11:10 AM
Follow up to MH interview.
Jenn,
Draft Response:
Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to talk to Mark Hamilton yesterday. I wanted to follow up on a few
remarks from the interview. You mentioned Bridgepoint, Trump University and the New York
Times story. Our office provided detailed responses about the companies highlighted in the NYT
story, unfortunately the responses were not published.
And if you plan to mention Trump University, it's important to note that this administration only
received one complaint about the school, and since the NY lawsuit against the company would
provide relief to all students (including those in Florida), we found it prudent not to pursue
litigation.
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
NEWS RELEASE
Date:
Dec. 3, 2014
Contact:
Jenn Meale
Phone: 850.245.0150


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Re: Fw: Follow up to MH interview .
12/08/2014 09:50 AM
OK. I will make the change and then send it along.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
Jennifer Meale
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Let's reword the part about the not resp...
12/08/2014 09:37:47 AM
Jennifer Meale/OAG
12/08/2014 09:37 AM
Re: Fw: Follow up to MH interview.
Let's reword the part about the not responded.

Just say, while we provided the below response to the NYT, it was not included in the article. I believe that
this response helps address the questions you raised."
Something like that....
Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
Gerald Whitney Ray
Jenn, Revised Response:
12/08/2014 09:35:28 AM
Gerald Whitney Ray
Jenn, Draft Response:
12/04/2014 11:10:03 AM
Press Inquiry from 02/27/2015 - For Profit
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Trish Conners, Mark Hamilton
02/27/2015 04:54 PM
Cc: Tyler Cathey, Trey Stapleton
Let's discuss.
Deadline:
Contact:
Date:
Time:
02/27/2015
04:53 PM
Mike Vasquez
Miami Herald
Media:
Phone:
Cell:
Media Request
Fax:
(305) 725-3755
Email:
Pager:
305-725-3755
Subject: For Profit

Request:
Hi Whitney - we are looking at about a month from now on publication. I will let you
know once I have a firm date. I know your office sent me a response previously dealing
with that NY Times article from last year, but I have a follow-up question on that, along
with a more general question:
1) The NY Times story includes an e-mail from Chris Tampio at Dickstein Shapiro,
which scheduled a meeting regarding Bridgepoint Education for sometime in November
of 2013. Did that meeting ever take place, and if so, who attended? Please include
anyone who attended even just part of the meeting.
2) We've identified nearly $50,000 in for-profit industry donations to Attorney General
Bondi's re-election campaign (the bulk of it from Donald Trump and James Heavener of
Full Sail University). Our question: should the attorney general be accepting ANY
money from an industry that her office is currently investigating, particularly when more
than 1,000 Floridians have filed complaints with her office regarding this industry?
Of course, with it being late in the day, I don't need responses on these questions
today. If you can provide responses by sometime next week, that would be most
appreciated.
Thanks as always.
Mike Vasquez
305-376-3631 ofc
305-725-3755 cell
Answer:
Staffer:
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:
Fw: Press Inquiry from 02/27/2015 - Bridgepoint

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Trish Conners
03/03/2015 03:13 PM
Cc: Mark Hamilton
Trish,
Should I send these now and try to schedule a background to explain that we only received one
complaint on Trump and just 2 on Bridgepoint?
We could also sent the info below that we previously sent to the Times.
Here is what we offered the NYT:
Bridgepoint: Our office met with Bridgepoint on November 13, 2013 in Tallahassee,
and we had received only a handful of complaints about Ashford University or
Bridgepoint--all prior to the meeting. In our meeting, Bridgepoint laid out all of the
substantial changes they had undertaken at their schools to address the issues that had
been prevalent in the other for-profit matters we had investigated and settled. They also
explained the circumstances surrounding the investigation Iowa, which showed that
either the concerns there were limited to the schools with a physical presence in Iowa or
had been addressed subsequently by the significant changes Bridgepoint had made. We
have received no complaints about Ashford University or Bridgepoint since that meeting.
Draft Response:
We have only received two complaints about Bridgepoint, one in 2013 and one in 2014. Please
see the complaints attached below.
Bridgepoint complaint 2013.pdf
bridgepoint education - 1.pdf
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Becky Kring/OAG
Trish Conners/OAG@OAG
Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@OAG, Mark Hamilton/OAG@OAG, Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Citizen
Help@OAG, Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Bethann Dillon/OAG@OAG
03/02/2015 04:24 PM
Re: Press Inquiry from 02/27/2015 - Bridgepoint
Sorry. Total of two complaints, none prior to 2013.
Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226
Trish Conners
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
So, to be clear...there were only two? How man...
03/02/2015 03:15:52 PM
Trish Conners/OAG
Becky Kring/OAG@OAG
03/02/2015 03:15 PM
So, to be clear...there were only two? How many were there before 2013?
Becky Kring
Gerald Whitney Ray
Becky Kring
Gerald Whitney Ray
Mark Hamilton
Gerald Whitney Ray
One more then -- March 2013. Becky Kring

Thank you. This reporter will want us to go ba...
Searching from 1/1/14 to present - 1 complaint,...
Good Afternoon, CS, will you please provide a...
Yes, they will need to provide the complaint num...
Good Afternoon, Should I loop in CS?
02/27/2015 04:21:30 PM
02/27/2015 03:29:53 PM
02/27/2015 03:28:04 PM
02/27/2015 03:08:22 PM
02/27/2015 02:38:52 PM
02/27/2015 02:15:23 PM
Re: Fw: Press Inquiry from 02/27/2015 - Bridgepoint

Gerald Whitney Ray to:
03/04/2015 08:56 AM
Cc: Mark Hamilton, Trish Conners
Good Morning,
I did not send this yesterday. I'd like to send it this morning,
Draft Response:
Bridgepoint complaint 2013.pdf
bridgepoint education - 1.pdf
Also, are you available later this week or early next to discuss your other two requests on
background?
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
Gerald Whitney Ray
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Trish, Should I send these now and try to sche...
03/03/2015 03:13:08 PM

03/03/2015 03:13 PM
Fw: Press Inquiry from 02/27/2015 - Bridgepoint
Trish,
Should I send these now and try to schedule a background to explain that we only received one
complaint on Trump and just 2 on Bridgepoint?
We could also sent the info below that we previously sent to the Times.
Here is what we offered the NYT:
Draft Response:
[attachment "Bridgepoint complaint 2013.pdf" deleted by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG] [attachment
"bridgepoint education - 1.pdf" deleted by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG]
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Becky Kring/OAG
03/02/2015 04:24 PM
Sorry. Total of two complaints, none prior to 2013.

Becky Kring
PL01 The Capitol
Toll-free in FL: (866) 966-7226
Trish Conners
Becky Kring
Gerald Whitney Ray
Becky Kring
Gerald Whitney Ray
Mark Hamilton
Gerald Whitney Ray

03/02/2015 03:15:52 PM
02/27/2015 04:21:30 PM
02/27/2015 03:29:53 PM
02/27/2015 03:28:04 PM
02/27/2015 03:08:22 PM
02/27/2015 02:38:52 PM
02/27/2015 02:15:23 PM
Internet Contact Information

Fred Sayin
1315 Florence Ct
Holly Hill, FL, 32117 Volusia
Phone: (386) 682-8668
Email: Fred.Sayin@gmail.com
Name/Firm/Company: University of the Rockies and Bridgeport Education
Subject/Category: Higher Education
Street Address: 555 East Pikes Peak Avenue
City: Colorodo Springs, CO
Website: University of the Rockies and Bridgeport Education
Amount Paid: xxxx
Questions/Comments:
First by my Bill of Rights end of #5 am I not given the liberty to decide how I
will pay for something like getting a scholarship as I'm a good writer. The
University of the Rockies pushed their financial aid program on me when I said
"No" stating I was just getting disability. When the program was available
online in 2006 Ibefore starting I asked about accredidation and they said
"Yes". I took courses between Spring 2006 and Spring 2010 and as I was failing
my 3rd course in Spring 2010 and would have been expelled so I quit during my
9th course. Being mad at the online instructor I checked the Internet to see
if there were any complaints which is when a Class Action suit was coming up
displayed coming up in Jan 2010 in San Diego CA where one charge was
misrepresentation or lying about accredidation. Plus I'm not the only person
who feels that way. Go to ripoffreport.com and when asked enter the University
of the Rockies. Go to VoiceofSanDiego.com with an article written 3/23/11
accessed 3/14/13 about Bridgepoint Education-owner of the University of the
Rockies- quote from article:" "Bridgepoint Education is lining investors'
pockets with money from Federal Student Aid money and not helping students".
Also see a YouTube video called "College is an Evil Debt Trap". All my loans
need to be forgiven (Sallie Mae & Great Lakes). I want fraud charges against
the University of Rockies and accessory to fraud charges against Sallie Mae and
Great Lakes.

Venus Harris
610 Dent St
Tallahassee, FL, 32304 Leon
Phone: (850) 570-4995
Email: venusharris11@yahoo.com
Name/Firm/Company: BRIDGEPOINT EDUCATION, LLC AND ASHFORD UNIVERSITY, LLC
Subject/Category: Frauding students of loans and illegal sales practices of time frame on degree
Street Address: 13500 Evening Creek Drive North, Suite 600
City: San Diego, CA 92128
Phone: 18586682586
Website: http://bridgepointeducation.com/index.htm
Questions/Comments:
Ashford University trained their counselors to use illegal sale practices. They
over priced their fees to students in the online program. They use illegal
practices to justify their reasoning. Example: Ashford University Charges
Technology Fees that run from 1200 dollars up. They have used their own
calculation on fees in order to obtain all the aid money from the government,
instead of education.
** I have spoken with the Iowa Attorney General Office they have found findings
in their state. I have spoken with a Teggin Brown. He has stated their office
will fully cooperate. His number is 515-281-6411 or 515-281-5164

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Mark Hamilton
03/04/2015 11:17 AM
Cc: Trish Conners
Mike has another follow up.
Can you run a complaint search for Ashford University as well, and send me any email/postal
complaints that come up? Thanks as always.
I imagine this needs to go to CS?
I am working on setting up background at 4:00 Thurs.
Thanks,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
Mark Hamilton
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
FYI - I cannot do Friday afternoon and am traveli...
03/04/2015 09:52:46 AM
Mark Hamilton/OAG
Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG@oag
03/04/2015 09:52 AM
FYI - I cannot do Friday afternoon and am traveling to DC next Monday - Wednesday on the EDMC
(for-profit) mediation matter case that I mentioned the other day. However, I believe his remaining inquiry
was really about donations to the re-election campaign. I don't think I would be able to add anything
regarding that for background and may not be needed though.

Mark
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483
Trish Conners
Good Morning,
03/04/2015 09:04:23 AM

03/04/2015 01:08 PM
Cc: Trish Conners
We are set for Thursday at 4:00.

Shall we meet in Trish's office?
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
Mark Hamilton
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Ok. Yes, CS will need to run. FYI - Ashford Univ...
03/04/2015 12:48:40 PM
Mark Hamilton/OAG
03/04/2015 12:48 PM
Ok. Yes, CS will need to run.

FYI - Ashford University is a part of Bridgepoint Education.
Mark S. Hamilton
State of Florida
The Capitol, PL-01
Phone: (850) 414-3300
Facsimile: 850-488-4483
Gerald Whitney Ray
Mark Hamilton
Trish Conners
Mike has another follow up. Can you run a co...

FYI - I cannot do Friday afternoon and am traveli...
Good Morning,
03/04/2015 11:17:13 AM
03/04/2015 09:52:46 AM
03/04/2015 09:04:23 AM
Press Inquiry from 02/27/2015 - For Profit

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Trey Stapleton
Deadline:
Contact:
Date:
Time:
02/27/2015
04:53 PM
Mike Vasquez
Miami Herald
Media:
Phone:
Cell:
Media Request
03/11/2015 04:11 PM
Fax:
(305) 725-3755
Email:
Pager:
305-725-3755
Subject: For Profit

Request:
Hi Whitney - we are looking at about a month from now on publication. I will let you
know once I have a firm date. I know your office sent me a response previously dealing
with that NY Times article from last year, but I have a follow-up question on that, along
with a more general question:
1) The NY Times story includes an e-mail from Chris Tampio at Dickstein Shapiro,
which scheduled a meeting regarding Bridgepoint Education for sometime in November
of 2013. Did that meeting ever take place, and if so, who attended? Please include
anyone who attended even just part of the meeting.
Of course, with it being late in the day, I don't need responses on these questions
today. If you can provide responses by sometime next week, that would be most
appreciated.
Thanks as always.
Mike Vasquez
305-376-3631 ofc
305-725-3755 cell
Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:

03/13/2015 04:09 PM
Yes, but just the complaints.

Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
Trish Conners
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Did you send this one already...just trying to figur...
03/13/2015 02:40:46 PM
Trish Conners/OAG
03/13/2015 02:40 PM
Did you send this one already...just trying to figure out which ones to concentrate on.
Gerald Whitney Ray
Trish, Should I send these now and try to sche...
03/03/2015 03:13:08 PM
Trish Conners
Becky Kring
Gerald Whitney Ray
Becky Kring
Gerald Whitney Ray
Mark Hamilton
Gerald Whitney Ray

03/02/2015 03:15:52 PM
02/27/2015 04:21:30 PM
02/27/2015 03:29:53 PM
02/27/2015 03:28:04 PM
02/27/2015 03:08:22 PM
02/27/2015 02:38:52 PM
02/27/2015 02:15:23 PM
Re: Media Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Guettatfi, Amel
09/03/2015 11:45 AM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Amel,
Thank you for taking a moment to speak to me about this issue. I will be in touch as soon as I have more
information.
I noticed that you email says 2005. I'm not sure we have ever looked back that far, so when I was
speaking to you I was speaking about the one complaint we received since Attorney General Bondi took
office in 2011.
I will look back as far as our records allow, but please note that any complaints received before 2011
would have been received under two previous administrations Bill McCollum and Charlie Crist.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Dear Whitney, I spoke to someone from your offi...
09/03/2015 11:31:43 AM
"Guettatfi, Amel" <GuettatfiA@cbsnews.com>

"whitney.ray@myfloridalegal.com" <whitney.ray@myfloridalegal.com>
09/03/2015 11:31 AM
Media Request
Dear Whitney,
I spoke to someone from your office who recommended I email you in person regarding a story on
Trump we're working on here at CBS News.
How many complaints have been filed against Trump University in the state of Florida between 2005 and
2010? Also, can you provide us with copies of these complaints?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please know that we have a fairly tight turnaround.
Thank you,
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
(w) 202 457 1546
Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
Becky Kring, Kym Oswald, Citizen Help,

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Janna Barineau, Scott Hunt, Richard
Lawson, Anna Prince-Palmer,
09/03/2015 11:50 AM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Hello,
I spoke to the reporter on background about how grossly inaccurate the stories about
the one Trump University complaint we received had been reported, and how we only
received one complaint (that could be resolved in the NY litigation) and how there never
was an investigation as the media keeps reporting.
She seemed receptive but still wants all complaints going back to McCollum and Crist
Admin.
Request:
How many complaints have been filed against Trump University in the state of Florida
between 2005 and 2010? Also, can you provide us with copies of these complaints?
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media Request
Amel Guettatfi
CBS News
Media:
Phone:
Cell:
Fax:
(202) 594-1965
Email:
GuettatfiA@cbsnews.com

Request:
Dear Whitney,
Pager:
Date:
Time:
09/03/2015
11:45 AM
I spoke to someone from your office who recommended I email you in person regarding
a story on Trump we're working on here at CBS News.
turnaround.
Thank you,
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
(w) 202 457 1546
Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:
RE: Media Request
09/03/2015 11:51 AM
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
I see, I'll keep that in mind. Thank you.

Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
09/03/2015 11:50 AM
RE: Media Request
I see, I'll keep that in mind.

Thank you.
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
From: Gerald Whitney Ray [Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 11:45 AM
To: Guettatfi, Amel
Subject: Re: Media Request
09/03/2015 11:50:48 AM
Dear Whitney,
Thank you,
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
(w) 202 457 1546
Re: Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints

09/03/2015 04:09 PM
Anna Prince-Palmer, Becky Kring, Citizen Help, Janna Barineau,

Cc: Kylie Mason, Kym Oswald, Richard Lawson, Scott Hunt, Trish
Conners, Trish.conners, Victoria Butler
We can answer this one tomorrow, but I want to make sure we have the info in the morning as we are
going into a holiday weekend.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Gerald Whitney Ray
From:
To:
Hello, Please see the media request below an...
09/03/2015 11:50:58 AM

Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Kym Oswald/OAG@OAG, Citizen Help <Citizen_Help@oag.state.fl.us>,
Janna Barineau/OAG@OAG, Scott Hunt/OAG@OAG, Richard Lawson/OAG@OAG, Anna
Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG, Trish.conners@myfloridalegal.com, Trish Conners/OAG@OAG,
Victoria Butler/OAG@OAG
Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
09/03/2015 11:50 AM
Press Inquiry from 09/03/2015 - Trump Complaints
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Hello,
I spoke to the reporter on background about how grossly inaccurate the stories about
the one Trump University complaint we received had been reported, and how we only
received one complaint (that could be resolved in the NY litigation) and how there never
was an investigation as the media keeps reporting.
She seemed receptive but still wants all complaints going back to McCollum and Crist
Admin.
Request:
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Media Request
Date:
Time:
09/03/2015
11:45 AM
Contact:
Amel Guettatfi
CBS News
Media:
Phone:
Cell:
Fax:
(202) 594-1965
Pager:
GuettatfiA@cbsnews.com
Email:

Request:
Dear Whitney,
I spoke to someone from your office who recommended I email you in person regarding
a story on Trump we're working on here at CBS News.
turnaround.
Thank you,
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
(w) 202 457 1546
Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:
Re: Trump University complaints only

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Bethann Dillon
09/03/2015 05:03 PM
Thank you!
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Bethann Dillon
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
These records do not have replies and names of...
09/03/2015 05:02:53 PM
Bethann Dillon/OAG
Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
09/03/2015 05:02 PM
Trump University complaints only
These records do not have replies and names of PDFs contain the dates of the complaints.
One complaint 5/16/2009 > [attachment "Trump University -postal 5-16-09.pdf" deleted by Gerald Whitney
Ray/OAG]
Two email complaints dated 1/03/2011 & 5/26/2011 > [attachment "Trump University -email
1-3-11_5-26-11.pdf" deleted by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG]
Two postal complaints dated 9/24/2013 & 3/31/2014 > [attachment "Trump University -postal
3-31-14_9-24-13_Redacted.pdf" deleted by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG]
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987
Fw: Trump University complaints only

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Kylie Mason
09/04/2015 05:31 PM
Please work on this Monday with Tyler.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Bethann Dillon/OAG
Becky Kring/OAG@OAG, Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
09/03/2015 05:02 PM
Trump University complaints only
These records do not have replies and names of PDFs contain the dates of the complaints.
One complaint 5/16/2009 > Trump University -postal 5-16-09.pdf
Two email complaints dated 1/03/2011 & 5/26/2011 > Trump University -email 1-3-11_5-26-11.pdf
Two postal complaints dated 9/24/2013 & 3/31/2014 >
Trump University -postal 3-31-14_9-24-13_Redacted.pdf
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987

Aaron O'Brien
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Questions/Comments:

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Questions/Comments:
was a student of
many residents?
RE: Media Request
09/10/2015 11:55 AM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Amel,
Just touching base to let you know we will have your request fulfilled today.
Thank you for your patience,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Dear Whitney, Last week we spoke about compl...
09/09/2015 04:04:59 PM

'Gerald Whitney Ray' <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
09/09/2015 04:04 PM
RE: Media Request
Dear Whitney,
Last week we spoke about complaints filed against Trump University in the state of Florida since 2005.
Have you been able to locate any relevant documents?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Amel
From: Gerald Whitney Ray [mailto:Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com]
To: Guettatfi, Amel
Subject: RE: Media Request
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel" ---09/03/2015 11:50:48 AM---I see, I'll keep that in mind. Thank you.
From: "Guettatfi, Amel" <GuettatfiA@cbsnews.com>
To: Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 09/03/2015 11:50 AM

Thank you.
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
To: Guettatfi, Amel
Amel,
information.
I noticed that you email says 2005. I'm not sure we have ever looked back that far, so when I was speaking to you I
was speaking about the one complaint we received since Attorney General Bondi took office in 2011.
I will look back as far as our records allow, but please note that any complaints received before 2011 would have
been received under two previous administrations Bill McCollum and Charlie Crist.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel" ---09/03/2015 11:31:43 AM---Dear Whitney, I spoke to someone from your office who
recommended I email you in person regarding a
To: "whitney ray@myfloridalegal.com" <whitney.ray@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 09/03/2015 11:31 AM
Subject: Media Request
Dear Whitney,
Thank you,
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
(w) 202 457 1546
RE: Media Request
09/10/2015 04:13 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Amel,
As our retention schedule for complaints is five years, our records only show complaints
going back to 2009. Since that time, we have received four complaints.
In 2009, we received the complaint attached below. Please note that this complaint was
received during Attorney General Bill McCollums Administration.
Trump University -postal 2009_Redacted.pdf
Two complaints sent to this office in 2011, and one received in 2013 and 2014 are
attached below. It was determined that all four complaints would be resolved by the
New York Litigation, as this litigation was filed on behalf of consumers nationwide.
Trump University -postal 1-1-11 to 9-2-15_Redacted.pdf
Trump University -email 1-1-11 to 9-2-15.pdf
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thanks again Whitney. I appreciate you taking th...

'Gerald Whitney Ray' <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
09/10/2015 11:57 AM
RE: Media Request
Thanks again Whitney.

I appreciate you taking the time.
Amel
09/10/2015 11:57:55 AM
To: Guettatfi, Amel

Cc: Kylie Mason
Amel,
Just touching base to let you know we will have your request fulfilled today.
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel" ---09/09/2015 04:04:59 PM---Dear Whitney, Last week we spoke about complaints filed
against Trump University in the state of Flo
To: 'Gerald Whitney Ray' <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 09/09/2015 04:04 PM
Dear Whitney,
Last week we spoke about complaints filed against Trump University in the state of Florida since
2005.
Have you been able to locate any relevant documents?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Amel
To: Guettatfi, Amel
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel" ---09/03/2015 11:50:48 AM---I see, I'll keep that in mind. Thank you.
Date: 09/03/2015 11:50 AM

Thank you.
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965

To: Guettatfi, Amel
Amel,
information.
I noticed that you email says 2005. I'm not sure we have ever looked back that far, so when I was speaking to you I
was speaking about the one complaint we received since Attorney General Bondi took office in 2011.
I will look back as far as our records allow, but please note that any complaints received before 2011 would have
been received under two previous administrations Bill McCollum and Charlie Crist.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Guettatfi, Amel" ---09/03/2015 11:31:43 AM---Dear Whitney, I spoke to someone from your office who
recommended I email you in person regarding a
To: "whitney ray@myfloridalegal.com" <whitney.ray@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 09/03/2015 11:31 AM
Subject: Media Request
Dear Whitney,
Thank you,
Amel Guettatfi
(c) 202 594 1965
(w) 202 457 1546

Aaron O'Brien
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Questions/Comments:

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Questions/Comments:
was a student of
many residents?
Becky Kring, Kym Oswald, Citizen Help,

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Janna Barineau, Mark Hamilton, Trish
Conners
02/11/2016 12:57 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Media Request
Deadline:
Contact:
02/11/2016
12:56 PM
Mike Vasquez
Miami Herald
Media:
Phone:
Cell:
Date:
Time:
Fax:
(305) 376-3631
Email:
Pager:
mrvasquez@MiamiHerald.com

Request:
Thanks!
Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
Re: CS RESULTS // Press Inquiry from 02/11/2016 - Trump University

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Bethann Dillon
02/11/2016 05:13 PM
Becky Kring, Janna Barineau, Kylie Mason, Kym Oswald, Mark

Cc:
Hamilton, Trish Conners
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Bethann Dillon
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
REQUEST: all complaints that your office has re...
02/11/2016 04:24:15 PM
Bethann Dillon/OAG
02/11/2016 04:24 PM
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987

Status: Assigned

Action Taken:
02/11/2016 04:19 PM - approved.
Date Resolved:
Date Received: 02/11/2016 12:57:21 PM
Unit:
To:
cc:
Kylie Mason
Subject:
Deadline:
Date:
Time:
Media Request
02/11/2016
12:56 PM

Media: Miami Herald
Phone:
Fax:
Cell: (305) 376-3631
Pager:
Request:
Thanks!
Answer:
Staffer: WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Gerald Whitney Ray

by:

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Trish Conners, Mark Hamilton
02/12/2016 01:30 PM
Draft Response:
We have received four complaints about Trump University since January 2011. Please see the
complaints attached below.
Trump University - Redacted.pdf
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Bethann Dillon/OAG
02/11/2016 04:24 PM
Respectfully,
Bethann Dillon
PL-01, The Capitol
Phone: (850) 414-3987

Status: Assigned

Action Taken:
02/11/2016 04:19 PM - approved.
Date Resolved:
Date Received: 02/11/2016 12:57:21 PM
Unit:
To:
cc:
Kylie Mason
Subject:
Deadline:
Date:
Time:
Media Request
02/11/2016
12:56 PM

Media: Miami Herald
Phone:
Fax:
Cell: (305) 376-3631
Pager:
Request:
Thanks!
Answer:
Staffer: WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:

Gerald Whitney Ray

by:
Per Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Vasquez, Michael
02/12/2016 02:14 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Mike,
We have received four complaints about Trump University since January 2011. Please
Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Questions/Comments:
was a student of
many residents?

Aaron O'Brien
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Questions/Comments:
Fw: Per Your Request
02/26/2016 03:24 PM
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/taking-names-scott-maxwell/os-pam-bondi-donald-trump-university
-scott-maxwell-story.html
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Questions/Comments:
was a student of
many residents?

Aaron O'Brien
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Questions/Comments:
Fw: Complaints against Trump U
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Kylie Mason
03/03/2016 03:04 PM

From: Clark, Kristen <kclark@miamiherald.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 1:47 PM
To: Whitney Ray
Subject: Complaints against Trump U
Hi, Whitney:
Could you provide me with copies of any complaints that have been filed with the Attorney
General's office about Trump University (a.k.a. Trump Entrepreneur Institute)? As well, the
status/resolution of those complaints?
Thank you,
~Kristen
-Kristen M. Clark
State government reporter, Miami Herald
336 E. College Ave., Suite 303, Tallahassee FL 32301
cell: (850) 251-8950 | office: 850-222-3095 | twitter: @ByKristenMClark
kclark@miamiherald.com | www.miamiherald.com
Per Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: WWashington
03/04/2016 03:19 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Wayne,
Please find the answers to your questions below.
1. Did the attorney general review complaints against either Trump University or
Trump Institute or both?
This administration received one complaint about Trump University on May 26, 2011,
one complaint on Sept. 24, 2013, and one on March 31, 2014. All of these complaints
were reviewed by either our Citizens Services Office, our Consumer Protection Division
or both.
2. Why did the attorney general not join the New York suit at the urging of
Jacobson?
The May 26, 2011 complaint was the first this administration received, and since the
New York litigation was filed on behalf of consumers nationwide, it was rightfully
determined this complaint would be addressed by the New York litigation.
3. Was Jacobson the only Floridian to complain to the attorney generals office
about Trump University or Trump Institute? If not, how many complained?
We have received two additional complaints about Trump University during Attorney
General Bondis administration.
4. Did the $25,000 contribution play a role in the decision not to join the lawsuit?
No.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Re: Fw: Per Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Clark, Kristen
03/04/2016 04:03 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Kristen,
Thank you for your patience as I was out of the office yesterday.
Please see the answers to your follow up questions below.
9/24/13 Harold Stevens
The complainant was already aware of the New York litigation and attached a copy of
his complaint filed with the New York Attorney Generals Consumer Frauds and
Protection Bureau. Our office forwarded this complaint to the states voluntary mediation
program at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Our office
also suggested a private attorney for legal guidance, as our office under F.S.S 16.01(3)
is not authorized to render legal opinions or guidance to private individuals or entities.
10/31/14 Mike Murphy
This complainant was also already aware of the New York litigation. His initial contact
with our office was more of an inquiry, to which we encouraged him to file a formal
complaint to our office and provided the consumer complaint form. His follow-up
correspondence included information on two separate businesses, Labor Ready and
Trump University. Our office referred him to the to the states voluntary mediation
program at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, as he was
seeking a refund from Labor Ready. Since the complaint also referenced Trump
University and a real estate opportunity, our office referred him to the Florida
Department of Business and Professional Regulation, the agency that licenses and
regulates the real estate industry in Florida. Please note, that this complainant did not
mention any transaction or monetary loss in his complaint against Trump University. In
addition, our office also suggested a private attorney for any legal guidance.
Please let me know if you have any further questions,
Thanks again,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Clark, Kristen"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you again! Much appreciated! On Thu, M...
03/03/2016 04:53:31 PM
"Clark, Kristen" <kclark@miamiherald.com>

03/03/2016 04:53 PM
Thank you again! Much appreciated!

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
wrote:
Kristen,
Attached below are the complaints our office received from January 2011 through
yesterday.
(See attached file: Trump University - Redacted.pdf)
The one complaint we received and reporters erroneously reported that we were
investigating, is the complaint received on 5/26/11 on page 1. We reviewed the
complaint and rightfully determined it would be addressed by the New York litigation,
as that suit was filed on behalf of consumers nationwide.
Kylie will check to see how the other compliant this administration received was
addressed.
Please let me know if you have any further questions

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
-Kristen M. Clark

03/04/2016 04:17 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Clark, Kristen"
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
No worries. Thanks for getting back to me! Hope...
03/04/2016 04:05:12 PM

Kylie Mason <Kylie.Mason@myfloridalegal.com>
03/04/2016 04:05 PM
No worries. Thanks for getting back to me! Hope you're feeling better!
~Kristen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
wrote:
Kristen,
Protection Bureau. Our office forwarded this complaint to the states voluntary
mediation program at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Our office also suggested a private attorney for legal guidance, as our office under
F.S.S 16.01(3) is not authorized to render legal opinions or guidance to private
individuals or entities.

Thanks again,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Clark, Kristen" ---03/03/2016 04:53:31 PM---Thank you again! Much appreciated! On Thu, Mar 3,
2016 at 4:51 PM, Gerald Whitney Ray <
From: "Clark, Kristen" <kclark@miamiherald.com>
Date: 03/03/2016 04:53 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Per Your Request

wrote:
Kristen,
Attached below are the complaints our office received from January 2011
through yesterday.
The one complaint we received and reporters erroneously reported that we

were investigating, is the complaint received on 5/26/11 on page 1. We
reviewed the complaint and rightfully determined it would be addressed by the
New York litigation, as that suit was filed on behalf of consumers nationwide.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
-Kristen M. Clark
-Kristen M. Clark
RE: Per Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Washington, Wayne (CMG-WestPalm)
03/04/2016 04:55 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
You are welcome.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Washington, Wayne (CMG-WestPalm)"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you From: Gerald...
03/04/2016 04:51:02 PM
"Washington, Wayne (CMG-WestPalm)" <WWashington@pbpost.com>

03/04/2016 04:51 PM
Thank you
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 3:19 PM
To: Washington, Wayne (CMGWestPalm)
Subject: Per Your Request
Wayne,
or both.
Jacobson?

No.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Michael Auslen
03/14/2016 03:52 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Michael,
Thank you for taking a moment to discuss the Trump University complaint we received.
Below is the additional information we provided Kristen regarding the two additional complaints we
received.
Thanks again,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:

Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
03/04/2016 04:03 PM
Kristen,

Thanks again,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Clark, Kristen"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/03/2016 04:53:31 PM

03/03/2016 04:53 PM

wrote:
Kristen,
yesterday.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
-Kristen M. Clark
03/14/2016 03:52 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Here is the other email I sent Kristen.
complaint and rightfully determined it would be addressed by the New York litigation, as
that suit was filed on behalf of consumers nationwide.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:

Kylie Mason/OAG@oag
03/03/2016 04:51 PM
Kristen,
yesterday.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray

Office: 850-245-0150
Re: Per Your Request
03/14/2016 03:55 PM
You are welcome.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Michael Auslen
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you! --
03/14/2016 03:54:10 PM
Michael Auslen <mauslen@tampabay.com>

03/14/2016 03:54 PM
Thank you!
Michael Auslen
Tampa Bay Times | tampabay.com
Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
3034199857 (cell)
8502247263 (office)
@MichaelAuslen (Twitter)
From: Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>

Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 3:52 PM
To: Michael Auslen
Subject: Fw: Per Your Request
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
----- Forwarded by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG on 03/14/2016 03:52 PM ----From: Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG
To: "Clark, Kristen" <kclark@miamiherald.com>
Cc: Kylie Mason/OAG@oag
Date: 03/03/2016 04:51 PM
Kristen,
yesterday.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
(See attached file: Trump University Redacted.pdf)
Re: Sentinel article
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Korn, Melissa
03/14/2016 04:45 PM
Got it.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Korn, Melissa"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-13/b...
03/14/2016 04:43:56 PM
"Korn, Melissa" <melissa.korn@wsj.com>

whitney.ray@myfloridalegal.com
03/14/2016 04:43 PM
Sentinel article
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-13/business/os-trump-institute-complaints-20130913
_1_trump-entrepreneur-initiative-trump-university-florida-attorney-general
--
Melissa Korn
Reporter
The Wall Street Journal
O: 212-416-2271
M: 917-856-6074
Melissa.Korn@wsj.com
Twitter @melissakorn
Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: melissa.korn
03/14/2016 05:29 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Melissa,
As you can see below, our original response sent to the Orlando Sentinel on 9/11/13,
we stated that this office was currently reviewing the allegations.
We never stated, nor would we have stated, that we were reviewing the allegations to
determine whether or not to join a multistate complaint. The complaint is not and was
not then a multistate complaint. A "multistate lawsuit" is a suit joined by many states.
This lawsuit was filed by only New York and no other state joined the litigation; that
remains the case. Upon review of the allegations, we determined that the lawsuit filed
by the New York Attorney Generals Office sought relief for any and all aggrieved
consumers, not just New Yorkers. Therefore, it was not necessary for any state,
including Florida, to join the complaint.
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media Request
Orlando Sentinel
Phone:
(407) 420-5256
(407) 474-2202
Email:
09/11/2013
08:28 AM
Richard Burnett
Media:
Cell:
Date:
Time:
Fax:
Pager:
rburnett@orlandosentinel.com
Subject: Trump lawsuit

Request:
Hello Jenn...I'm completing my work on the Trump Institute story this morning on
deadline. One key question that has come up from complainants: Is the Florida AG
going to join the NY AG's suit v. Trump, et. al., and seek recovery of refunds for those
who complained about the Florida affiliate? for the record....please advise. Thank you.
/rb
Answer:
Under this administration, we have received one complaint regarding Donald Trump,
Staffer:
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
09/11/2013
10:40
Jennifer Meale
Re: Trump U questions /issues
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Marc Caputo
03/14/2016 06:12 PM
Cc: Matthew Dixon
Marc,
I just called. Should I reach out to Matt?
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Marc Caputo
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Whitney and Adam, can you send us statement/...
03/14/2016 05:59:44 PM
Marc Caputo <mcaputo@politico.com>

Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>, Matthew Dixon <mdixon@politico.com>,
Adam Goodman <adam@victorygroup.com>
03/14/2016 05:59 PM
Trump U questions/issues
Whitney and Adam, can you send us statement/s on the Trump U matter? Please respond to each point
in the following statement from Our Principles PAC:
She should have to answer for this. Its very clear Pam Bondi is attracted to the glitz and glamor of
Donald Trump. He gave her money. There was a problem. And she didnt investigate. It sounds to me
that he did exactly what he accuses others of. Theres a big question mark. Most Attorneys General try
to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Theres now an open police investigation in Florida over whether Trumps campaign manager battered
a reporter, Michelle Fields. Is she going to get a fair investigation over her complaint?
Its clear whats going on here. Trumps people knew we had an ad* over how he views women. And
this is them playing defense. Its see? I dont have a problem with women. Look at this woman attorney
general who endorsed me. But every time Im surprised someone endorsed him, theres a quid pro quo
$25,000 buys a lot when it comes to a statelevel politician. Its too bad people defrauded out of
money by Trump University dont have that kind of money to buy an advocate in the Florida Attorney
Generals Office. Clearly, the victims of Trump University cant expect to have a fair hearing.
*ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkSRJSUY0vs
Re: Taped phone interview request today : WMNF News

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Sean Kinane
03/15/2016 12:12 PM
Sean,
What is your phone number?
The Attorney General never made a decision as to whether to investigate the ONE
complaint our office received during that time period.
After a staff review of the ONE complaint, the decision was rightfully made by our
Citizens Services office to refer the complainant to the New York Attorney General's
Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved consumers nationwide.
There have also been erroneous reports that NY had a multi-state lawsuit into Trump
University that our office refused to join. Before you file your report, please look up the
NY lawsuit so you can see for yourself that no other state has joined this suit, as the NY
suit has nationwide standing.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Sean Kinane
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Hello Mr. Ray, I'm working on a story today follo...
03/15/2016 11:54:33 AM
Sean Kinane <sean@wmnf.org>

03/15/2016 11:54 AM
Taped phone interview request today: WMNF News
Hello Mr. Ray,

I'm working on a story today following up on Attorney General Bondi's endorsement of Donald
Trump. I'd like to ask her about that and also about the 2013 donation from the Trump
Foundation to Bondi's PAC And Justice for All around the time of her decision to not investigate
complaints alleging fraud by Trump University.
I anticipate a 34 minute taped phone interview.
My deadline is 2:00 pm ET today.
Thank you,
Sean
==
Sen Kinane
Assistant director, news & public affairs
WMNF Community Conscious Radio 88.5 FM Tampa
@WMNFnews
http://wmnf.org/news
sean@wmnf.org
Fw: Taped phone interview request today : WMNF News

03/15/2016 12:14 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
FYI...
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To:
Date:
Subject:

03/15/2016 12:12 PM
Re: Taped phone interview request today: WMNF News
Sean,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Sean Kinane
From:
To:
Date:

03/15/2016 11:54 AM
03/15/2016 11:54:33 AM
Subject:
Hello Mr. Ray,

Thank you,
Sean
==
Sen Kinane
@WMNFnews
sean@wmnf.org
Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: 24449-91374652
03/16/2016 01:02 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason

Bcc: Mark Hamilton, Leslie Jacobs
Good Morning,
We have received your public records request; however, we are unable to fulfill it, as we
do not have the ability to search every database, file and employee's desktop for
records containing a single word.
I can provide you consumer complaints and responsive, quickly and with no charge.
Here are the complaints our office received from 2011 - last week.
They include the ONE complaint some media outlets are erroneously reporting was not
handled appropriately. After a staff review of the ONE complaint, the decision was
rightfully made by our Citizens Services office to refer the complainant to the New York
Attorney General's Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved
consumers nationwide.
University that our office refused to join. You may also want to review the NY lawsuit to
see that no other state joined the suit, as the NY suit has nationwide standing.
Please let me know how you would like to proceed.
You can email me, or call me at (850) 245-0150.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Re: Public records request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Maggie Severns
03/16/2016 01:51 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason, Mark Hamilton
Maggie,
I have received your public records request.
I will be in touch once I have more records, or a cost estimate.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Got it and thank you very much. Whitney, will loo...
03/16/2016 01:25:58 PM
Maggie Severns <MSeverns@politico.com>

Leslie Jacobs <Leslie.Jacobs@myfloridalegal.com>
03/16/2016 01:25 PM
Got it and thank you very much. Whitney, will look forward to working with you.
Maggie Severns
Reporter, POLITICOPro
Cell (preferred): 612.669.8689

Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns
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here: http://www.politico.com/morningeducation
From: Leslie Jacobs <Leslie.Jacobs@myfloridalegal.com>

Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 1:24 PM
To: Maggie Severns
Cc: Gerald Whitney Ray
Subject: Re: Public records request
Dear Ms. Severns,
The Office of the Attorney General has received your request for public records. Since I do not handle
requests from the media, I am copying Whitney Ray, our Director of Media Relations, on this response,
He will be happy to assist you with your request.
Sincerely,
Leslie Jacobs
Public Records Coordinator
PL 01, The Capitol
(850) 245-0140(o)
(850) 487-2564 (f)
Maggie Severns ---03/16/2016 01:10:43 PM---Hi there-- Hope you're well. I called your office and they
said you are the best person to submit a
From: Maggie Severns <MSeverns@politico.com>
To: "leslie.jacobs@myfloridalegal.com" <leslie.jacobs@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 03/16/2016 01:10 PM
Subject: Public records request
Hi there
Hope you're well. I called your office and they said you are the best person to submit a public
records request to?
See my request below, and I'll attach a copy. Many thanks
Maggie
___________________________________________________________________
March 16, 2016
Maggie Severns
1100 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia, 22209
(612) 6698689
maggieseverns@gmail.com
Leslie Jacobs
leslie.jacobs@myfloridalegal.com
Dear Leslie,
I request that a copy of the following documents (or documents containing the following information) be provided
to me: Any Florida Attorney Generals office communications, including communications to and from Pam Bondi
or Bill McCollum, related to Trump University and/or Trump Institute between 2008 and 2016. Any complaints to
the Florida Attorney General between 2005 and 2011 about Trump University or Trump Institute. Any records
relating to investigations of Trump Institute or Trump University by the Florida Attorney General between 2008
and 2016.
In order to help to determine my status to assess fees, you should know that I am a member of the media. These
records will directly contribute to the public interest because they will contribute to POLITICOs reporting on
Donald Trump.
Please contact me if there are any fees associated with this request. I request the documents in electronic format,
if possible.
Thank you for your consideration of this request.

Sincerely,
Maggie B. Severns
(612) 6698689
Maggie Severns

Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns
(See attached file: Severns.Openrecordsrequest.docx)

03/16/2016 01:55 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Mark,
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media Request
03/16/2016
01:51 PM
Maggie Severns
PoliticoPro
Media:
Phone:
Cell:
Date:
Time:
Fax:
(612) 669-8689
Email:
Pager:

Request:

Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:

03/16/2016 02:00 PM
Cc: Maggie Severns

Bcc: Kylie Mason
Maggie,
I also wanted to provide a synopsis of how our office appropriately responded to the
other two complaints we received.
Since you are a national outlet, you may want to check to see how other states
addressed Trump University complaints. I have not see any reporting about how other
states address the complaints, and I am only aware of the New York litigation, that has
nationwide standing.
I will be in touch once I have more records.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray

Office: 850-245-0150
Gerald Whitney Ray
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Maggie, I have received your public records re...
03/16/2016 01:51:51 PM

03/16/2016 01:51 PM
Maggie,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns
03/16/2016 01:25:58 PM
03/16/2016 02:01 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Thank you.
FYI... I will be out of the office Thurs and Fri, but I am CCing Press Secretary Kylie Mason, who can assist
in my absence.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you, Whitney! Noted on those clarification...
03/16/2016 01:58:51 PM

03/16/2016 01:58 PM
Thank you, Whitney! Noted on those clarifications. Talk to you soon.

Maggie
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

To: Maggie Severns
Maggie,

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns ---03/16/2016 01:25:58 PM---Got it and thank you very much. Whitney, will look
forward to working with you. Maggie Severns
To: Leslie Jacobs <Leslie.Jacobs@myfloridalegal.com>
Cc: Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 03/16/2016 01:25 PM
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

To: Maggie Severns
Dear Ms. Severns,
Sincerely,
Leslie Jacobs
PL 01, The Capitol
(850) 245-0140(o)
(850) 487-2564 (f)
Date: 03/16/2016 01:10 PM
Hi there
records request to?
Maggie
___________________________________________________________________
March 16, 2016
Maggie Severns

(612) 6698689
Leslie Jacobs
Dear Leslie,
and 2016.
Donald Trump.
if possible.

Sincerely,
Maggie B. Severns
(612) 6698689
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns
03/16/2016 02:01 PM
Great. Thank you.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Got it -- and yes I have reached out to other stat...
03/16/2016 02:00:52 PM

03/16/2016 02:00 PM
Got it and yes I have reached out to other states, too. Thanks.
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

Cc: Maggie Severns
Maggie,

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Gerald Whitney Ray---03/16/2016 01:51:51 PM---Maggie, I have received your public records request.
To: Maggie Severns <MSeverns@politico.com>
Date: 03/16/2016 01:51 PM
Maggie,
[attachment "Trump University - Redacted.pdf" deleted by Gerald Whitney

Ray/OAG]
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/16/2016 01:25 PM
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

To: Maggie Severns
Dear Ms. Severns,
Sincerely,
Leslie Jacobs
PL 01, The Capitol
(850) 245-0140(o)
(850) 487-2564 (f)
Date: 03/16/2016 01:10 PM
Hi there
records request to?
Maggie
___________________________________________________________________
March 16, 2016
Maggie Severns

(612) 6698689
Leslie Jacobs
Dear Leslie,
and 2016.
Donald Trump.
if possible.

Sincerely,
Maggie B. Severns
(612) 6698689
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

03/16/2016 03:19 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Mark Hamilton
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Will check and let you know what we may have....
03/16/2016 03:07:48 PM
Mark Hamilton/OAG
Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
03/16/2016 03:07 PM

Mark
Gerald Whitney Ray
03/16/2016 01:55:26 PM
Fw: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Trey Stapleton, Tyler Cathey
03/21/2016 10:10 AM
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
----- Forwarded by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG on 03/21/2016 10:09 AM ----From:

To:
Date:
Subject:
James Rosica <jim@floridapolitics.com>

Gerald Whitney Ray <whitney.ray@myfloridalegal.com>
03/21/2016 09:59 AM
Fwd: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation
Let me know if you'll be commenting.

I'll start work on something.
---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Jordan Libowitz <jlibowitz@citizensforethics.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:45 AM
Subject: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation
To: jim@floridapolitics.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MARCH 21, 2016
CONTACT: Jordan Libowitz

202-408-5565 | jlibowitz@citizensforethics.org
CREW FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST TRUMP FOUNDATION

Washington, D.C.The Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have illegally given $25,000 to a political
organization associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi while her office was reportedly
considering joining a lawsuit involving Trump University, and to have failed to disclose the contribution in
its tax return, according to an IRS complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW).
According to Florida campaign finance records, in September 2013 the Trump Foundation contributed
$25,000 to And Justice for All, a section 527 political organization. Section 501(c)(3) private foundations
like the Trump Foundations, however, are prohibited from all political activity, including contributing to
political organizations. Despite making the political contribution, on its tax forms, the Trump Foundation
claimed it did not transfer any money to a 527 organization or engage in any political activity and failed to
report the contribution to And Justice for All.
The rules are clear: a tax-exempt charitable foundation cannot support a political group, CREW Executive
Director Noah Bookbinder said. The apparent failure to tell the IRS about this political activity makes
matters worse and is something weve seen too many organizations doing lately.
According to news accounts, the contribution was made three days after it was reported that Bondis office
was reviewing joining the New York Attorney Generals lawsuit against Trump University. Bondis office
decided not to join the suit or open an investigation.
The IRS needs to look into this, Bookbinder said. It is a serious problem if charitable foundations are
used to influence politics.
Read the complaint here and the exhibits here and here
-30Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit legal watchdog group
dedicated to holding public officials accountable for their actions. For more information, please visit
www.citizensforethics.org or contact Jordan Libowitz at 202-408-5565 or jlibowitz@citizensforethics.org.
Disclaimer: If you do not wish to receive further news/releases from Citizens for Respons bility and Ethics in Washington CREW,
please click the following link: [Remove Me]. Requests will take a maximum of 2 business days to process.
Contact information: Jordan Libowitz, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW, 455 Massachusetts Ave NW 6th
Floor, Washington, DC 20001
-Jim Rosica
State Capital correspondent
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
Email: jim@floridapolitics.com
Twitter: @JimRosicaFL
Re: Records request from New York Times

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Eder, Steve
03/21/2016 11:14 AM
Steve,
handled appropriately.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Eder, Steve"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Hi Whitney - I hope this finds you well. I'm a repo...
03/21/2016 10:43:28 AM
"Eder, Steve" <steve.eder@nytimes.com>

03/21/2016 10:43 AM
Records request from New York Times
Hi Whitney I hope this finds you well. I'm a reporter with the New York Times, and I'm getting in touch
because I'd like to make a request of the Florida attorney's general's office.
I'd like to review any records of the attorney general's office that reference Donald Trump,
Trump Organization, The Trump Foundation, Trump University (Trump Entrepreneur Initiative),
or correspondence with any email addresses at the "@trumporg.com" domain. This would
include, but is not limited to, any investigative files or documents, complaints, any
correspondence, such as emails or letters, and such things as appointment calendars referencing
Trump.
If any of these records, or similar records, have been previously provided to other requesters, we
ask that you can make those documents available to us promptly.
We hope that any responsive records can be made available in digital formats. We ask that this
request be expedited as it relates to a presidential candidate and is of wide, immediate public
interest.
Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached at 347-821-8958.
Many thanks,
Steve Eder
-Steve Eder
New York Times
212-556-8323 (office)
347-821-8958 (mobile)
steve.eder@nytimes.com
twitter.com/SteveEder

03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Mark,
Below is a public records request from the NYT This is similar to the two PRRs we received last week.
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media:
Media Request
03/21/2016
11:14 AM
Steve Eder
NYT
Phone:
Fax:
Cell: 212-556-8323 (office)

347-821-8958 (mobile)
Pager:
Email:
Date:
Time:

Request:
I hope this finds you well. I'm a reporter with the New York Times, and I'm getting in
touch because I'd like to make a request of the Florida attorney's general's office.
I'd like to review any records of the attorney general's office that reference Donald
Trump, Trump Organization, The Trump Foundation, Trump University (Trump
Entrepreneur Initiative), or correspondence with any email addresses at
the "@trumporg.com" domain. This would include, but is not limited to, any investigative
files or documents, complaints, any correspondence, such as emails or letters, and
such things as appointment calendars referencing Trump.
If any of these records, or similar records, have been previously provided to other
requesters, we ask that you can make those documents available to us promptly.
We hope that any responsive records can be made available in digital formats. We ask
that this request be expedited as it relates to a presidential candidate and is of wide,
immediate public interest.
Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:
Re: WSJ seeking comment re : trump complaint

Gerald Whitney Ray to: O'Keeffe, Kathryn
03/21/2016 11:47 AM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Thank you Kate,

I will check to see if we have any comment on the news release, outside of the errors in
the narrative about our office's role in the matter.
Broadly speaking about some of news stories, I can tell you that this administration, at
the time of the erroneous reports about our office not "joining a lawsuit," had received
ONE complaint. After a staff review of the ONE complaint, the decision was rightfully
made by our Citizens Services Office to refer the complainant to the New York Attorney
General's Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved consumers
nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Hi Whitney, Nice chatting just now. I have note...
03/21/2016 11:31:28 AM
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn" <kathryn.okeeffe@wsj.com>

03/21/2016 11:31 AM
WSJ seeking comment re: trump complaint
Hi Whitney,
Nice chatting just now. I have noted your comments on the phone. Please also feel free to send
along any additional thoughts regarding the complaint and the exhibits:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/entry/crew-files-complaint-against-trump-foundation
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
1025 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20036
Email: kathryn.okeeffe@wsj.com
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Follow me on Twitter @Kate_OKeeffe
Read some of my recent stories on wsj.com

03/21/2016 11:52 AM
Thank you Kate, and thank you for taking a moment to talk to me on the phone, many reports have been
filed without journalist even calling our office.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thanks so much, Whitney. I am going to file th...
03/21/2016 11:51:11 AM

03/21/2016 11:51 AM
Re: WSJ seeking comment re: trump complaint
Thanks so much, Whitney. I am going to file the story asap but if you end up having an
additional comment later in the day after it's been published online I can request editors to add it
in.
All the best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
wrote:
Thank you Kate,
I will check to see if we have any comment on the news release, outside of the errors
in the narrative about our office's role in the matter.
made by our Citizens Services Office to refer the complainant to the New York

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn" ---03/21/2016 11:31:28 AM---Hi Whitney, Nice chatting just now. I have noted
your comments on the phone. Please
From: "O'Keeffe, Kathryn" <kathryn.okeeffe@wsj.com>
To: whitney.ray@myfloridalegal.com
Date: 03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Subject: WSJ seeking comment re: trump complaint
Hi Whitney,
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Re:Per Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Bill Allison
03/21/2016 11:56 AM
Bill,
If you do not hear from me please check back at 1:00 and I will let you know if we have anything specific
about the news release, but as for right now my comments are limited to the false narrative.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thanks so much Whitney. As always, I'...
03/21/2016 11:53:40 AM
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:)" <ballison14@bloomberg.net>

Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com
03/21/2016 11:53 AM
Re:Per Your Request
Thanks so much Whitney.

As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've already written up a brief about
he complaint (the tax implications for the Trump Foundation seem to be much more interesting, to be
honest).
Would 2 p.m. be too early for you? I'm going into a meeting now, but will be available afterwards.
Best,
Bill
From: Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com At: Mar 21 2016 11:49:31
Subject: Re:Per Your Request
Bill,
Thank you for taking a moment to speak to me about the recent reports.
I will check to see if we have any comment on the news release, outside of the
errors in the narrative about our office's role in the matter.
Broadly speaking about some of news stories, I can tell you that this
administration, at the time of the erroneous reports about our office not "joining a
lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a staff review of the ONE complaint,
the decision was rightfully made by our Citizens Services Office to refer the
complainant to the New York Attorney General's Office, as their lawsuit sought
relief for any and all aggrieved consumers nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

03/21/2016 01:09 PM
Steve,
I have received this additional public records request.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Eder, Steve"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Whitney - Thanks for these. I understand there t...
03/21/2016 12:53:15 PM

03/21/2016 12:53 PM
Whitney - Thanks for these. I understand there to be several other similar requests for records re:
Trump which are in process. Please consider this to be my request for those records as well.
Thanks,
Steve
wrote:
Steve,
They include the ONE complaint some media outlets are erroneously reporting was
not handled appropriately.
University that our office refused to join. You may also want to review the NY lawsuit
to see that no other state joined the suit, as the NY suit has nationwide standing.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Whitney Ray

Office: 850-245-0150
"Eder, Steve" ---03/21/2016 10:43:28 AM---Hi Whitney - I hope this finds you well. I'm a reporter with
the New York Times, and I'm
From: "Eder, Steve" <steve.eder@nytimes.com>
Date: 03/21/2016 10:43 AM
Subject: Records request from New York Times
Trump Organization, The Trump Foundation, Trump University (Trump Entrepreneur
Initiative), or correspondence with any email addresses at the "@trumporg.com" domain. This
would include, but is not limited to, any investigative files or documents, complaints, any
correspondence, such as emails or letters, and such things as appointment calendars
referencing Trump.
If any of these records, or similar records, have been previously provided to other requesters,
we ask that you can make those documents available to us promptly.
interest.
Many thanks,
Steve Eder
-Steve Eder
New York Times
212-556-8323 (office)
347-821-8958 (mobile)
-Steve Eder
New York Times
212-556-8323 (office)
347-821-8958 (mobile)

03/21/2016 01:14 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Kate,
I have check on this further, and besides the false narrative in the news release, this
matter does not involve the Florida Attorney Generals Office and it would not be
appropriate to comment.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
No problem--of course I wanted to hear your si...
03/21/2016 11:59:00 AM

03/21/2016 11:59 AM
No problem--of course I wanted to hear your side of it. It is disturbing that many reporters do not
make any attempt to get comment.
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
wrote:
Thank you Kate, and thank you for taking a moment to talk to me on the phone, many reports have
been filed without journalist even calling our office.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn" ---03/21/2016 11:51:11 AM---Thanks so much, Whitney. I am going to file the
story asap but if you end up having an additional co
Date: 03/21/2016 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: WSJ seeking comment re: trump complaint
additional comment later in the day after it's been published online I can request editors to add
it in.
All the best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Gerald Whitney Ray <
Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com> wrote:
Thank you Kate,
administration, at the time of the erroneous reports about our office not "joining
a lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a staff review of the ONE
complaint, the decision was rightfully made by our Citizens Services Office to
refer the complainant to the New York Attorney General's Office, as their
lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved consumers nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn" ---03/21/2016 11:31:28 AM---Hi Whitney, Nice chatting just now. I have
noted your comments on the phone. Please
Date: 03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Hi Whitney,
Nice chatting just now. I have noted your comments on the phone. Please also feel free
to send along any additional thoughts regarding the complaint and the exhibits:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/entry/crew-files-complaint-against-trump-found
ation
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Re:Per Your Request
03/21/2016 01:14 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Bill,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Okay, fair enough. Thanks Whitney -- wi...
03/21/2016 11:57:28 AM

03/21/2016 11:57 AM
Re:Per Your Request
Okay, fair enough.

Thanks Whitney -- will include those.
Bill,
If you do not hear from me please check back at 1:00 and I will let you know if we have anything
specific about the news release, but as for right now my comments are limited to the false
narrative.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:53:40 AM---Thanks so much Whitney. As always,
I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've a
From: "Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:)" <ballison14@bloomberg.net>
To: Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com
Date: 03/21/2016 11:53 AM


As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've already written up a brief
about he complaint (the tax implications for the Trump Foundation seem to be much more
interesting, to be honest).
Best,
Bill
Bill,
I will check to see if we have any comment on the news release, outside
of the errors in the narrative about our office's role in the matter.
administration, at the time of the erroneous reports about our office not
"joining a lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a staff review of the
ONE complaint, the decision was rightfully made by our Citizens Services
Office to refer the complainant to the New York Attorney General's Office,
as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved consumers
nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Re: Fwd: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation

Gerald Whitney Ray to: James Rosica
03/21/2016 01:15 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Jim,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
James Rosica
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Let me know if you'll be commenting. I'll start wo...
03/21/2016 09:59:29 AM

03/21/2016 09:59 AM


MARCH 21, 2016


Washington (CREW).
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
Re: Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint

Gerald Whitney Ray to: mica.rosenberg
03/21/2016 01:30 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Mica,
Besides the false narrative in the news release, this matter does not involve the Florida
Attorney Generals Office and it would not be appropriate to comment.
Speaking to the false reporting echoed in the news release, I can tell you that this
lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a staff review of the ONE complaint, the
decision was rightfully made by our Citizens Services Office to refer the complainant to
the New York Attorney General's Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all
aggrieved consumers nationwide.
Please review the NY AG's lawsuit so you can see for yourself that their suit has
nationwide standing and in fact is not a multistate lawsuit. Several reporters are
beginning to do this and it is greatly improving the accuracy of their stories.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Dear Ms. Ray, We are working on a story for Re...
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/21/2016 12:28:45 PM
<mica.rosenberg@thomsonreuters.com>
<Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
03/21/2016 12:28 PM
Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint
Dear Ms. Ray,

We are working on a story for Reuters about this complaint that is being filed with the IRS
(below) related to contributions by the Trump Foundation to a political organization affiliated
with Pam Bondi. I was hoping to get a comment from the Attorney General about this complaint.
Please let me know who can help me with this request and I appreciate your help.
All the best,
Mica
..........................................................
Mica Rosenberg
Thomson Reuters
Reporter
www.reuters.com
3 Times Square, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10036
office: (646) 223-6735
cell: (646) 897-4851
email: mica.rosenberg@thomsonreuters.com
Begin forwarded message:

From: Jordan Libowitz <jlibowitz@citizensforethics.org>
Date: March 21, 2016 at 9:45:38 AM EDT
To: <emily.flitter@thomsonreuters.com>
Reply-To: <jlibowitz@citizensforethics.org>

MARCH 21, 2016


organization associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi while her office was reportedly considering
joining a lawsuit involving Trump University, and to have failed to disclose the contribution in its tax return,
according to an IRS complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
The IRS needs to look into this, Bookbinder said. It is a serious problem if charitable foundations are used
to influence politics.
-30Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit legal watchdog group dedicated
to holding public officials accountable for their actions. For more information, please visit
Disclaimer: If you do not wish to receive further news/releases from Citizens for Respons bility and Ethics in Washington
CREW, please click the following link: [Remove Me]. Requests will take a maximum of 2 business days to process.
Contact information: Jordan Libowitz, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW, 455 Massachusetts
Ave NW 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20001
Re:Per Your Request
03/21/2016 01:31 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Thank you, for talking to me.

You would be surprised how many reporters have filed stories with out even calling our office.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you sir. Best,
03/21/2016 01:16:38 PM

03/21/2016 01:16 PM
Re:Per Your Request
Thank you sir.

Best,
Bill
Bill,
I have check on this further, and besides the false narrative in the news release,
this matter does not involve the Florida Attorney Generals Office and it would not
be appropriate to comment.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:57:28 AM---Okay, fair enough. Thanks Whitney -will include those.
Date: 03/21/2016 11:57 AM
Okay, fair enough.

Bill,
If you do not hear from me please check back at 1:00 and I will let you know if we have
anything specific about the news release, but as for right now my comments are limited to
the false narrative.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:53:40 AM---Thanks so much Whitney. As
always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've a
Date: 03/21/2016 11:53 AM

As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've already written
up a brief about he complaint (the tax implications for the Trump Foundation seem to be
much more interesting, to be honest).
Would 2 p.m. be too early for you? I'm going into a meeting now, but will be available
afterwards.
Best,
Bill
Bill,
Thank you for taking a moment to speak to me about the recent
reports.
I will check to see if we have any comment on the news release,
outside of the errors in the narrative about our office's role in the
matter.
Broadly speaking about some of news stories, I can tell you that
this administration, at the time of the erroneous reports about our
office not "joining a lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a
staff review of the ONE complaint, the decision was rightfully made
by our Citizens Services Office to refer the complainant to the New
York Attorney General's Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any
and all aggrieved consumers nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
RE: Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint

03/21/2016 01:31 PM
OK. Thank you.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Thank you so much for your comments I am ac...
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/21/2016 01:31:24 PM
03/21/2016 01:31 PM
Thank you so much for your comments I am actually no longer working on this story and will pass
these along to our political team.
I appreciate the help!
All the best,
Mica
To: Rosenberg, Mica (Reuters News)
Subject: Re: Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint
Mica,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
---03/21/2016 12:28:45 PM---Dear Ms. Ray, We are working on a story for Reuters about this
complaint that is being filed with th
From: <mica.rosenberg@thomsonreuters.com>
To: <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 03/21/2016 12:28 PM
Subject: Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint
Dear Ms. Ray,

All the best,
Mica
..........................................................
Mica Rosenberg
Thomson Reuters
Reporter
www.reuters.com
New York, NY 10036
office: (646) 223-6735
cell: (646) 897-4851


MARCH 21, 2016


organization associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi while her office was reportedly considering joining a
lawsuit involving Trump University, and to have failed to disclose the contribution in its tax return, according to an IRS
complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
According to Florida campaign finance records, in September 2013 the Trump Foundation contributed $25,000 to And
Justice for All, a section 527 political organization. Section 501(c)(3) private foundations like the Trump Foundations,
however, are prohibited from all political activity, including contributing to political organizations. Despite making the
political contribution, on its tax forms, the Trump Foundation claimed it did not transfer any money to a 527
organization or engage in any political activity and failed to report the contribution to And Justice for All.
The rules are clear: a tax-exempt charitable foundation cannot support a political group, CREW Executive Director
Noah Bookbinder said. The apparent failure to tell the IRS about this political activity makes matters worse and is
something weve seen too many organizations doing lately.
According to news accounts, the contribution was made three days after it was reported that Bondis office was
reviewing joining the New York Attorney Generals lawsuit against Trump University. Bondis office decided not to
join the suit or open an investigation.
The IRS needs to look into this, Bookbinder said. It is a serious problem if charitable foundations are used to
influence politics.
-30Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit legal watchdog group dedicated to holding
public officials accountable for their actions. For more information, please visit www.citizensforethics.org or contact
Jordan Libowitz at 202-408-5565 or jlibowitz@citizensforethics.org.
Re:Per Your Request
03/21/2016 01:42 PM
Thanks again Bill,

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
I am so terrified of getting something wr...
03/21/2016 01:39:20 PM

03/21/2016 01:39 PM
Re:Per Your Request
I am so terrified of getting something wrong that I always call -- thank you for taking the time to talk to me.
Case in point: I would have said used the "joining New York State's lawsuit" language from the press
release had you not told me that there was no offer to join the lawsuit under consideration. So even
though I would have correctly stated your office's conclusion that the NY litigation covered Florida's
citizens, I still would have gotten that wrong.
Best,
Bill
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 01:16:38 PM---Thank you sir. Best,
Date: 03/21/2016 01:16 PM
Thank you sir.

Best,
Bill

Bill,
I have check on this further, and besides the false narrative in the news
release, this matter does not involve the Florida Attorney Generals Office
and it would not be appropriate to comment.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:57:28 AM---Okay, fair enough. Thanks
Whitney -- will include those.
Date: 03/21/2016 11:57 AM
Okay, fair enough.

Bill,
If you do not hear from me please check back at 1:00 and I will let you know if we
have anything specific about the news release, but as for right now my comments
are limited to the false narrative.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:53:40 AM---Thanks so much
Whitney. As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've
a

Date: 03/21/2016 11:53 AM

As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've already
written up a brief about he complaint (the tax implications for the Trump
Foundation seem to be much more interesting, to be honest).
Would 2 p.m. be too early for you? I'm going into a meeting now, but will be
available afterwards.
Best,
Bill
From: Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com At: Mar 21 2016
11:49:31
Bill,
Thank you for taking a moment to speak to me about the
recent reports.
I will check to see if we have any comment on the news
release, outside of the errors in the narrative about our
office's role in the matter.
Broadly speaking about some of news stories, I can tell you
that this administration, at the time of the erroneous reports
about our office not "joining a lawsuit," had received ONE
complaint. After a staff review of the ONE complaint, the
decision was rightfully made by our Citizens Services Office
to refer the complainant to the New York Attorney General's
Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray

Office: 850-245-0150

03/21/2016 02:07 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Jim,
There was never a "multistate" lawsuit to join. No state "joined." Call the NY AG or look
at the NY complaint if you need confirmation.
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/205166-complaint-filed-donald-trump-foundations-tiespam-bondi
"Because the New York case sought relief for all former students, Bondi did not join
the lawsuit, she said."
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
James Rosica
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/21/2016 09:59:29 AM

03/21/2016 09:59 AM


MARCH 21, 2016


Washington (CREW).
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
Re: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation

03/21/2016 02:57 PM
Thx
From: James Rosica
Subject: Re: Fwd: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation
I tweaked it somewhat to replace didn't "get involved" instead of didn't "join".

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
wrote:
Jim,
There was never a "multistate" lawsuit to join. No state "joined." Call the NY AG or
look at the NY complaint if you need confirmation.
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/205166-complaint-filed-donald-trump-foundations-tie
s-pam-bondi
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
James Rosica ---03/21/2016 09:59:29 AM---Let me know if you'll be commenting. I'll start work on
something.
From: James Rosica <jim@floridapolitics.com>
To: Gerald Whitney Ray <whitney.ray@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 03/21/2016 09:59 AM
Subject: Fwd: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation



MARCH 21, 2016

influence politics.
Disclaimer: If you do not wish to receive further news/releases from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW,
Contact information: Jordan Libowitz, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW, 455 Massachusetts Ave NW
6th Floor, Washington, DC 20001
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
Per Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: WWashington
03/04/2016 03:19 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Wayne,
or both.
Jacobson?
No.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Kylie Mason to: Gerald Whitney Ray
03/04/2016 03:24 PM
DRAFT RESPONSE:
Kylie Mason
Press Secretary
Main: 850-245-0150
03/04/2016 04:03 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Kristen,
Thanks again,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Clark, Kristen"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/03/2016 04:53:31 PM

03/03/2016 04:53 PM

wrote:
Kristen,
yesterday.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
-Kristen M. Clark

03/04/2016 04:17 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Clark, Kristen"
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
No worries. Thanks for getting back to me! Hope...
03/04/2016 04:05:12 PM

Kylie Mason <Kylie.Mason@myfloridalegal.com>
03/04/2016 04:05 PM
No worries. Thanks for getting back to me! Hope you're feeling better!
~Kristen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
wrote:
Kristen,

Thanks again,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Clark, Kristen" ---03/03/2016 04:53:31 PM---Thank you again! Much appreciated! On Thu, Mar 3,
2016 at 4:51 PM, Gerald Whitney Ray <
From: "Clark, Kristen" <kclark@miamiherald.com>
Date: 03/03/2016 04:53 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Per Your Request

wrote:
Kristen,
Attached below are the complaints our office received from January 2011
through yesterday.
The one complaint we received and reporters erroneously reported that we

were investigating, is the complaint received on 5/26/11 on page 1. We
reviewed the complaint and rightfully determined it would be addressed by the
New York litigation, as that suit was filed on behalf of consumers nationwide.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
-Kristen M. Clark
-Kristen M. Clark
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Washington, Wayne (CMG-WestPalm)
03/04/2016 04:55 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
You are welcome.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Washington, Wayne (CMG-WestPalm)"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you From: Gerald...
03/04/2016 04:51:02 PM
"Washington, Wayne (CMG-WestPalm)" <WWashington@pbpost.com>

03/04/2016 04:51 PM
Thank you
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 3:19 PM
To: Washington, Wayne (CMGWestPalm)
Subject: Per Your Request
Wayne,
or both.
Jacobson?

No.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
03/14/2016 03:52 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Michael,
Thank you for taking a moment to discuss the Trump University complaint we received.
Below is the additional information we provided Kristen regarding the two additional complaints we
received.
Thanks again,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:

Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
03/04/2016 04:03 PM
Kristen,

Thanks again,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Clark, Kristen"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/03/2016 04:53:31 PM

03/03/2016 04:53 PM

wrote:
Kristen,
yesterday.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
-Kristen M. Clark
03/14/2016 03:52 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:

Kylie Mason/OAG@oag
03/03/2016 04:51 PM
Kristen,
yesterday.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray

Office: 850-245-0150
03/14/2016 03:55 PM
You are welcome.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Michael Auslen
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you! --
03/14/2016 03:54:10 PM
Michael Auslen <mauslen@tampabay.com>

03/14/2016 03:54 PM
Thank you!
Michael Auslen
Tampa Bay Times | tampabay.com
Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
3034199857 (cell)
8502247263 (office)
@MichaelAuslen (Twitter)

To: Michael Auslen
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
----- Forwarded by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG on 03/14/2016 03:52 PM ----From: Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG
To: "Clark, Kristen" <kclark@miamiherald.com>
Cc: Kylie Mason/OAG@oag
Date: 03/03/2016 04:51 PM
Kristen,
yesterday.
addressed.

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Sentinel article
Korn, Melissa to: whitney.ray

History:
03/14/2016 04:43 PM
This message has been replied to.
--
Melissa Korn
Reporter
O: 212-416-2271
M: 917-856-6074
Re: Sentinel article
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Korn, Melissa
03/14/2016 04:45 PM
Got it.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Korn, Melissa"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-13/b...
03/14/2016 04:43:56 PM
"Korn, Melissa" <melissa.korn@wsj.com>

03/14/2016 04:43 PM
Sentinel article
--
Melissa Korn
Reporter
O: 212-416-2271
M: 917-856-6074
Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: melissa.korn
03/14/2016 05:29 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Melissa,
As you can see below, our original response sent to the Orlando Sentinel on 9/11/13,
we stated that this office was currently reviewing the allegations.
We never stated, nor would we have stated, that we were reviewing the allegations to
determine whether or not to join a multistate complaint. The complaint is not and was
not then a multistate complaint. A "multistate lawsuit" is a suit joined by many states.
This lawsuit was filed by only New York and no other state joined the litigation; that
remains the case. Upon review of the allegations, we determined that the lawsuit filed
by the New York Attorney Generals Office sought relief for any and all aggrieved
consumers, not just New Yorkers. Therefore, it was not necessary for any state,
including Florida, to join the complaint.
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media Request
Orlando Sentinel
Phone:
(407) 420-5256
(407) 474-2202
Email:
09/11/2013
08:28 AM
Richard Burnett
Media:
Cell:
Date:
Time:
Fax:
Pager:
rburnett@orlandosentinel.com
Subject: Trump lawsuit

Request:
Hello Jenn...I'm completing my work on the Trump Institute story this morning on
deadline. One key question that has come up from complainants: Is the Florida AG
going to join the NY AG's suit v. Trump, et. al., and seek recovery of refunds for those
who complained about the Florida affiliate? for the record....please advise. Thank you.
/rb
Answer:
Under this administration, we have received one complaint regarding Donald Trump,
Staffer:
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Jennifer Meale
by:
09/11/2013
10:40
Jennifer Meale
Trump U questions /issues

Marc Caputo to:
History:
Gerald Whitney Ray, Matthew Dixon

Goodman
, Adam
03/14/2016 05:59 PM
Re: Trump U questions /issues
Gerald Whitney Ray to: Marc Caputo
03/14/2016 06:12 PM
Cc: Matthew Dixon
Marc,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Marc Caputo
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Whitney and Adam, can you send us statement/...
03/14/2016 05:59:44 PM
Marc Caputo <mcaputo@politico.com>

Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>, Matthew Dixon <mdixon@politico.com>,
Adam Goodman <adam@victorygroup.com>
03/14/2016 05:59 PM
Trump U questions/issues
RE: Trump U questions /issues
Marc Caputo to: Gerald Whitney Ray
03/14/2016 06:12 PM
Cc: Matthew Dixon
Yes. Matt. 8505598552

To: Marc Caputo <mcaputo@politico.com>
Cc: Matthew Dixon <mdixon@politico.com>
Subject: Re: Trump U questions/issues
Marc,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Marc Caputo ---03/14/2016 05:59:44 PM---Whitney and Adam, can you send us statement/s on the
Trump U matter? Please respond to each point i
From: Marc Caputo <mcaputo@politico.com>
To: Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>, Matthew Dixon <mdixon@politico.com>, Adam Goodman <
adam@victorygroup.com>
Date: 03/14/2016 05:59 PM
Subject: Trump U questions/issues
Whitney and Adam, can you send us statement/s on the Trump U matter? Please respond to each point in the
following statement from Our Principles PAC:
She should have to answer for this. Its very clear Pam Bondi is attracted to the glitz and glamor of Donald Trump.
He gave her money. There was a problem. And she didnt investigate. It sounds to me that he did exactly what he
accuses others of. Theres a big question mark. Most Attorneys General try to avoid even the appearance of a
conflict of interest.
Theres now an open police investigation in Florida over whether Trumps campaign manager battered a reporter,
Michelle Fields. Is she going to get a fair investigation over her complaint?
Its clear whats going on here. Trumps people knew we had an ad* over how he views women. And this is them
playing defense. Its see? I dont have a problem with women. Look at this woman attorney general who endorsed
me. But every time Im surprised someone endorsed him, theres a quid pro quo $25,000 buys a lot when it
comes to a statelevel politician. Its too bad people defrauded out of money by Trump University dont have that
kind of money to buy an advocate in the Florida Attorney Generals Office. Clearly, the victims of Trump University
cant expect to have a fair hearing.
RE: Trump U questions /issues
Matthew Dixon to: Gerald Whitney Ray, Marc Caputo
03/14/2016 06:12 PM
Either of us work on this one.

To: Marc Caputo <mcaputo@politico.com>
Cc: Matthew Dixon <mdixon@politico.com>
Subject: Re: Trump U questions/issues
Marc,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Marc Caputo ---03/14/2016 05:59:44 PM---Whitney and Adam, can you send us statement/s on the
Trump U matter? Please respond to each point i
From: Marc Caputo <mcaputo@politico.com>
To: Gerald Whitney Ray <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>, Matthew Dixon <mdixon@politico.com>, Adam Goodman <
adam@victorygroup.com>
Date: 03/14/2016 05:59 PM
Subject: Trump U questions/issues
Whitney and Adam, can you send us statement/s on the Trump U matter? Please respond to each point in the
following statement from Our Principles PAC:
She should have to answer for this. Its very clear Pam Bondi is attracted to the glitz and glamor of Donald Trump.
He gave her money. There was a problem. And she didnt investigate. It sounds to me that he did exactly what he
accuses others of. Theres a big question mark. Most Attorneys General try to avoid even the appearance of a
conflict of interest.
Theres now an open police investigation in Florida over whether Trumps campaign manager battered a reporter,
Michelle Fields. Is she going to get a fair investigation over her complaint?
Its clear whats going on here. Trumps people knew we had an ad* over how he views women. And this is them
playing defense. Its see? I dont have a problem with women. Look at this woman attorney general who endorsed
me. But every time Im surprised someone endorsed him, theres a quid pro quo $25,000 buys a lot when it
comes to a statelevel politician. Its too bad people defrauded out of money by Trump University dont have that
kind of money to buy an advocate in the Florida Attorney Generals Office. Clearly, the victims of Trump University
cant expect to have a fair hearing.
RE: Follow up
Matthew Dixon to: Gerald Whitney Ray

History:
03/14/2016 06:59 PM
Do you know if the Labor Ready is associated with Trump, or is that a separate issue?
To: Matthew Dixon <mdixon@politico.com>
Subject: Re: Follow up
Here is how the others were addressed:

The complainant was already aware of the New York litigation and
attached a copy of his complaint filed with the New York Attorney Generals
Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau. Our office forwarded this
complaint to the states voluntary mediation program at the Florida
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Our office also
suggested a private attorney for legal guidance, as our office under F.S.S
16.01(3) is not authorized to render legal opinions or guidance to private
This complainant was also already aware of the New York

litigation. His initial contact with our office was more of an
inquiry, to which we encouraged him to file a formal
complaint to our office and provided the consumer
complaint form. His follow-up correspondence included
information on two separate businesses, Labor Ready and
Trump University. Our office referred him to the to the
states voluntary mediation program at the Florida
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, as he
was seeking a refund from Labor Ready. Since the
complaint also referenced Trump University and a real
estate opportunity, our office referred him to the Florida

Department of Business and Professional Regulation, the
agency that licenses and regulates the real estate industry
in Florida. Please note, that this complainant did not
mention any transaction or monetary loss in his complaint
against Trump University. In addition, our office also
suggested a private attorney for any legal guidance.
From: Matthew Dixon
Subject: RE: Follow up
So, three total related to this issue?

To: Matthew Dixon <mdixon@politico.com>
Subject: Re: Follow up
This administration received one complaint from the time time Attorney General Bondi took office until
the media began erroneously reporting there was an investigation. In total this administration, from
2011 through last week, had received a total of three complaints.
As for the previous administration, I will have to check, but It may be tomorrow before I can get that
information.
From: Matthew Dixon
Subject: Follow up
When you say your office received one complaint related to this issue, you mean since she was in office?
Seems there were many filed before General Bondi took office.
Matt Dixon
Florida Bureau Chief
POLITICO
8505598552
@Mdixon55
@POLITICOFL
Re: Taped phone interview request today : WMNF News

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Sean Kinane
03/15/2016 12:12 PM
Sean,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Sean Kinane
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/15/2016 11:54:33 AM

03/15/2016 11:54 AM
Hello Mr. Ray,

Thank you,
Sean
==
Sen Kinane
@WMNFnews
sean@wmnf.org
Fw: Taped phone interview request today : WMNF News

03/15/2016 12:14 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
FYI...
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

To:
Date:
Subject:

03/15/2016 12:12 PM
Re: Taped phone interview request today: WMNF News
Sean,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Sean Kinane
From:
To:
Date:

03/15/2016 11:54 AM
03/15/2016 11:54:33 AM
Subject:
Hello Mr. Ray,

Thank you,
Sean
==
Sen Kinane
@WMNFnews
sean@wmnf.org
Your Request
Gerald Whitney Ray to: 24449-91374652
03/16/2016 01:02 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason

Bcc: Mark Hamilton, Leslie Jacobs
Good Morning,
We have received your public records request; however, we are unable to fulfill it, as we
do not have the ability to search every database, file and employee's desktop for
records containing a single word.
I can provide you consumer complaints and responsive, quickly and with no charge.
Please let me know how you would like to proceed.
You can email me, or call me at (850) 245-0150.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Leslie Jacobs to: Maggie Severns
03/16/2016 01:24 PM
Dear Ms. Severns,

Sincerely,
Leslie Jacobs
PL 01, The Capitol
(850) 245-0140(o)
(850) 487-2564 (f)
Maggie Severns
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Hi there-- Hope you're well. I called your office a...
03/16/2016 01:10:43 PM

"leslie.jacobs@myfloridalegal.com" <leslie.jacobs@myfloridalegal.com>
03/16/2016 01:10 PM
Public records request
Hi there
records request to?
Maggie
___________________________________________________________________
March 16, 2016
Maggie Severns
(612) 6698689
Leslie Jacobs
Dear Leslie,
I request that a copy of the following documents (or documents containing the following information) be
provided to me: Any Florida Attorney Generals office communications, including communications to
and from Pam Bondi or Bill McCollum, related to Trump University and/or Trump Institute between 2008
and 2016. Any complaints to the Florida Attorney General between 2005 and 2011 about Trump
University or Trump Institute. Any records relating to investigations of Trump Institute or Trump
University by the Florida Attorney General between 2008 and 2016.
In order to help to determine my status to assess fees, you should know that I am a member of the
media. These records will directly contribute to the public interest because they will contribute to
POLITICOs reporting on Donald Trump.
Please contact me if there are any fees associated with this request. I request the documents in
electronic format, if possible.

Sincerely,
Maggie B. Severns
(612) 6698689
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns
Severns.Openrecordsrequest.docx
03/16/2016 01:51 PM
Maggie,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns
From:
To:
Cc:
Date:
Subject:
03/16/2016 01:25:58 PM

Leslie Jacobs <Leslie.Jacobs@myfloridalegal.com>
03/16/2016 01:25 PM
Maggie Severns

Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

To: Maggie Severns
Dear Ms. Severns,
Sincerely,
Leslie Jacobs
PL 01, The Capitol
(850) 245-0140(o)
(850) 487-2564 (f)
Date: 03/16/2016 01:10 PM
Hi there
records request to?
Maggie
___________________________________________________________________
March 16, 2016
Maggie Severns
(612) 6698689
Leslie Jacobs
Dear Leslie,
and 2016.
Donald Trump.
if possible.

Sincerely,
Maggie B. Severns
(612) 6698689
Maggie Severns

Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

03/16/2016 01:55 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Mark,
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media Request
03/16/2016
01:51 PM
Maggie Severns
PoliticoPro
Media:
Phone:
Cell:
Date:
Time:
Fax:
(612) 669-8689
Email:
Pager:

Request:

Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:

03/16/2016 02:00 PM
Cc: Maggie Severns

Bcc: Kylie Mason
Maggie,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray

Office: 850-245-0150
Gerald Whitney Ray
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Maggie, I have received your public records re...
03/16/2016 01:51:51 PM

03/16/2016 01:51 PM
Maggie,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns
03/16/2016 01:25:58 PM
03/16/2016 02:01 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Thank you.
FYI... I will be out of the office Thurs and Fri, but I am CCing Press Secretary Kylie Mason, who can assist
in my absence.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you, Whitney! Noted on those clarification...
03/16/2016 01:58:51 PM

03/16/2016 01:58 PM
Thank you, Whitney! Noted on those clarifications. Talk to you soon.

Maggie
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

To: Maggie Severns
Maggie,

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/16/2016 01:25 PM
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

To: Maggie Severns
Dear Ms. Severns,
Sincerely,
Leslie Jacobs
PL 01, The Capitol
(850) 245-0140(o)
(850) 487-2564 (f)
Date: 03/16/2016 01:10 PM
Hi there
records request to?
Maggie
___________________________________________________________________
March 16, 2016
Maggie Severns

(612) 6698689
Leslie Jacobs
Dear Leslie,
and 2016.
Donald Trump.
if possible.

Sincerely,
Maggie B. Severns
(612) 6698689
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns
03/16/2016 02:01 PM
Great. Thank you.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Maggie Severns
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Got it -- and yes I have reached out to other stat...
03/16/2016 02:00:52 PM

03/16/2016 02:00 PM
Got it and yes I have reached out to other states, too. Thanks.
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

Cc: Maggie Severns
Maggie,

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Gerald Whitney Ray---03/16/2016 01:51:51 PM---Maggie, I have received your public records request.
To: Maggie Severns <MSeverns@politico.com>
Date: 03/16/2016 01:51 PM
Maggie,
[attachment "Trump University - Redacted.pdf" deleted by Gerald Whitney

Ray/OAG]
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/16/2016 01:25 PM
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

To: Maggie Severns
Dear Ms. Severns,
Sincerely,
Leslie Jacobs
PL 01, The Capitol
(850) 245-0140(o)
(850) 487-2564 (f)
Date: 03/16/2016 01:10 PM
Hi there
records request to?
Maggie
___________________________________________________________________
March 16, 2016
Maggie Severns

(612) 6698689
Leslie Jacobs
Dear Leslie,
and 2016.
Donald Trump.
if possible.

Sincerely,
Maggie B. Severns
(612) 6698689
Maggie Severns
Desk: 703.236.7936
@maggieseverns

03/16/2016 03:07 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason

This message is digitally signed.
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03/16/2016 01:55:26 PM

Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
03/16/2016 01:55 PM
Mark,
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media:
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PoliticoPro
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Email:
Fax:
(612) 669-8689
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by:

03/16/2016 03:19 PM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Thank you.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Mark Hamilton
From:
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Cc:
Date:
Subject:
Will check and let you know what we may have....
03/16/2016 03:07:48 PM
Mark Hamilton/OAG
Kylie Mason/OAG@OAG
03/16/2016 03:07 PM

Mark
Gerald Whitney Ray
03/16/2016 01:55:26 PM

James Rosica to: Gerald Whitney Ray
History:
03/21/2016 09:59 AM
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MARCH 21, 2016


Washington (CREW).
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
Fw: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation

Gerald Whitney Ray to: Trey Stapleton, Tyler Cathey
03/21/2016 10:10 AM
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
----- Forwarded by Gerald Whitney Ray/OAG on 03/21/2016 10:09 AM ----From:

To:
Date:
Subject:

03/21/2016 09:59 AM


MARCH 21, 2016


Washington (CREW).
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340

03/21/2016 11:14 AM
Steve,
handled appropriately.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Eder, Steve"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Hi Whitney - I hope this finds you well. I'm a repo...
03/21/2016 10:43:28 AM

03/21/2016 10:43 AM
Records request from New York Times
Trump Organization, The Trump Foundation, Trump University (Trump Entrepreneur Initiative),
or correspondence with any email addresses at the "@trumporg.com" domain. This would
include, but is not limited to, any investigative files or documents, complaints, any
correspondence, such as emails or letters, and such things as appointment calendars referencing
Trump.
If any of these records, or similar records, have been previously provided to other requesters, we
ask that you can make those documents available to us promptly.
interest.
Many thanks,
Steve Eder
-Steve Eder
New York Times
212-556-8323 (office)
347-821-8958 (mobile)

03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Cc: Kylie Mason
Mark,
Below is a public records request from the NYT This is similar to the two PRRs we received last week.
Thank you,
Whitney
Deadline:
Contact:
Media:
Media Request
03/21/2016
11:14 AM
Steve Eder
NYT
Phone:
Fax:
Cell: 212-556-8323 (office)

347-821-8958 (mobile)
Pager:
Email:
Date:
Time:

Request:
I hope this finds you well. I'm a reporter with the New York Times, and I'm getting in
touch because I'd like to make a request of the Florida attorney's general's office.
I'd like to review any records of the attorney general's office that reference Donald
Trump, Trump Organization, The Trump Foundation, Trump University (Trump
Entrepreneur Initiative), or correspondence with any email addresses at
the "@trumporg.com" domain. This would include, but is not limited to, any investigative
files or documents, complaints, any correspondence, such as emails or letters, and
such things as appointment calendars referencing Trump.
If any of these records, or similar records, have been previously provided to other
requesters, we ask that you can make those documents available to us promptly.
We hope that any responsive records can be made available in digital formats. We ask
that this request be expedited as it relates to a presidential candidate and is of wide,
immediate public interest.
Answer:
Staffer:
WR
Status:
OAG contact:
Record created by:
Gerald Whitney Ray
by:
WSJ seeking comment re : trump complaint

O'Keeffe, Kathryn to: whitney.ray
History:
03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Hi Whitney,
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274

03/21/2016 11:47 AM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Thank you Kate,

I will check to see if we have any comment on the news release, outside of the errors in
the narrative about our office's role in the matter.
made by our Citizens Services Office to refer the complainant to the New York Attorney
General's Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved consumers
nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Hi Whitney, Nice chatting just now. I have note...
03/21/2016 11:31:28 AM

03/21/2016 11:31 AM
WSJ seeking comment re: trump complaint
Hi Whitney,
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274

O'Keeffe, Kathryn to: Gerald Whitney Ray
History:
03/21/2016 11:51 AM
in.
All the best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
wrote:
Thank you Kate,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Hi Whitney,
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274

03/21/2016 11:52 AM
Thank you Kate, and thank you for taking a moment to talk to me on the phone, many reports have been
filed without journalist even calling our office.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thanks so much, Whitney. I am going to file th...
03/21/2016 11:51:11 AM

03/21/2016 11:51 AM
in.
All the best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
wrote:
Thank you Kate,

Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Hi Whitney,
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Re:Per Your Request
03/21/2016 11:56 AM
Bill,
If you do not hear from me please check back at 1:00 and I will let you know if we have anything specific
about the news release, but as for right now my comments are limited to the false narrative.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thanks so much Whitney. As always, I'...
03/21/2016 11:53:40 AM

03/21/2016 11:53 AM
Re:Per Your Request

As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've already written up a brief about
he complaint (the tax implications for the Trump Foundation seem to be much more interesting, to be
honest).
Best,
Bill
Bill,
lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a staff review of the ONE complaint,
the decision was rightfully made by our Citizens Services Office to refer the
complainant to the New York Attorney General's Office, as their lawsuit sought
relief for any and all aggrieved consumers nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

History:
03/21/2016 11:59 AM
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
wrote:
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/21/2016 11:51 AM
it in.
All the best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe

Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Thank you Kate,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Hi Whitney,
ation
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274

03/21/2016 01:09 PM
Steve,
I have received this additional public records request.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Eder, Steve"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Whitney - Thanks for these. I understand there t...
03/21/2016 12:53:15 PM

03/21/2016 12:53 PM
Whitney - Thanks for these. I understand there to be several other similar requests for records re:
Trump which are in process. Please consider this to be my request for those records as well.
Thanks,
Steve
wrote:
Steve,
They include the ONE complaint some media outlets are erroneously reporting was
not handled appropriately.
University that our office refused to join. You may also want to review the NY lawsuit
to see that no other state joined the suit, as the NY suit has nationwide standing.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Whitney Ray

Office: 850-245-0150
"Eder, Steve" ---03/21/2016 10:43:28 AM---Hi Whitney - I hope this finds you well. I'm a reporter with
the New York Times, and I'm
From: "Eder, Steve" <steve.eder@nytimes.com>
Date: 03/21/2016 10:43 AM
Subject: Records request from New York Times
Trump Organization, The Trump Foundation, Trump University (Trump Entrepreneur
Initiative), or correspondence with any email addresses at the "@trumporg.com" domain. This
would include, but is not limited to, any investigative files or documents, complaints, any
correspondence, such as emails or letters, and such things as appointment calendars
referencing Trump.
If any of these records, or similar records, have been previously provided to other requesters,
we ask that you can make those documents available to us promptly.
interest.
Many thanks,
Steve Eder
-Steve Eder
New York Times
212-556-8323 (office)
347-821-8958 (mobile)
-Steve Eder
New York Times
212-556-8323 (office)
347-821-8958 (mobile)

03/21/2016 01:14 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Kate,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn"
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
No problem--of course I wanted to hear your si...
03/21/2016 11:59:00 AM

03/21/2016 11:59 AM
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
wrote:
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/21/2016 11:51 AM
it in.
All the best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Thank you Kate,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Date: 03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Hi Whitney,
ation
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Re:Per Your Request
03/21/2016 01:14 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Bill,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Okay, fair enough. Thanks Whitney -- wi...
03/21/2016 11:57:28 AM

03/21/2016 11:57 AM
Re:Per Your Request
Okay, fair enough.

Bill,
If you do not hear from me please check back at 1:00 and I will let you know if we have anything
specific about the news release, but as for right now my comments are limited to the false
narrative.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:53:40 AM---Thanks so much Whitney. As always,
I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've a
Date: 03/21/2016 11:53 AM


As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've already written up a brief
about he complaint (the tax implications for the Trump Foundation seem to be much more
interesting, to be honest).
Best,
Bill
Bill,
"joining a lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a staff review of the
ONE complaint, the decision was rightfully made by our Citizens Services
Office to refer the complainant to the New York Attorney General's Office,
as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved consumers
nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

03/21/2016 01:15 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Jim,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
James Rosica
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/21/2016 09:59:29 AM

03/21/2016 09:59 AM


MARCH 21, 2016


Washington (CREW).
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
Re: Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint

03/21/2016 01:30 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Mica,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Dear Ms. Ray, We are working on a story for Re...
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/21/2016 12:28:45 PM
03/21/2016 12:28 PM
Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint
Dear Ms. Ray,

All the best,
Mica
..........................................................
Mica Rosenberg
Thomson Reuters
Reporter
www.reuters.com
New York, NY 10036
office: (646) 223-6735
cell: (646) 897-4851


MARCH 21, 2016


organization associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi while her office was reportedly considering
joining a lawsuit involving Trump University, and to have failed to disclose the contribution in its tax return,
according to an IRS complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
The IRS needs to look into this, Bookbinder said. It is a serious problem if charitable foundations are used
to influence politics.
-30Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit legal watchdog group dedicated
to holding public officials accountable for their actions. For more information, please visit
Re:Per Your Request
03/21/2016 01:31 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
Thank you sir. Best,
03/21/2016 01:16:38 PM

03/21/2016 01:16 PM
Re:Per Your Request
Thank you sir.

Best,
Bill
Bill,
I have check on this further, and besides the false narrative in the news release,
this matter does not involve the Florida Attorney Generals Office and it would not
be appropriate to comment.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:57:28 AM---Okay, fair enough. Thanks Whitney -will include those.
Date: 03/21/2016 11:57 AM
Okay, fair enough.

Bill,
If you do not hear from me please check back at 1:00 and I will let you know if we have
anything specific about the news release, but as for right now my comments are limited to
the false narrative.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:53:40 AM---Thanks so much Whitney. As
always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've a
Date: 03/21/2016 11:53 AM

As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've already written
up a brief about he complaint (the tax implications for the Trump Foundation seem to be
much more interesting, to be honest).
Would 2 p.m. be too early for you? I'm going into a meeting now, but will be available
afterwards.
Best,
Bill
Bill,
Thank you for taking a moment to speak to me about the recent
reports.
I will check to see if we have any comment on the news release,
outside of the errors in the narrative about our office's role in the
matter.
Broadly speaking about some of news stories, I can tell you that
this administration, at the time of the erroneous reports about our
office not "joining a lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a
staff review of the ONE complaint, the decision was rightfully made
by our Citizens Services Office to refer the complainant to the New
York Attorney General's Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any
and all aggrieved consumers nationwide.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150

03/21/2016 01:31 PM
OK. Thank you.

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
Thank you so much for your comments I am ac...
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/21/2016 01:31:24 PM
03/21/2016 01:31 PM
Thank you so much for your comments I am actually no longer working on this story and will pass
these along to our political team.
I appreciate the help!
All the best,
Mica
To: Rosenberg, Mica (Reuters News)
Subject: Re: Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint
Mica,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
---03/21/2016 12:28:45 PM---Dear Ms. Ray, We are working on a story for Reuters about this
complaint that is being filed with th
From: <mica.rosenberg@thomsonreuters.com>
To: <Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com>
Date: 03/21/2016 12:28 PM
Subject: Question from Reuters reguarding IRS complaint
Dear Ms. Ray,

All the best,
Mica
..........................................................
Mica Rosenberg
Thomson Reuters
Reporter
www.reuters.com
New York, NY 10036
office: (646) 223-6735
cell: (646) 897-4851


MARCH 21, 2016


influence politics.
Re:Per Your Request
03/21/2016 01:42 PM
Thanks again Bill,

Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
I am so terrified of getting something wr...
03/21/2016 01:39:20 PM

03/21/2016 01:39 PM
Re:Per Your Request
I am so terrified of getting something wrong that I always call -- thank you for taking the time to talk to me.
Case in point: I would have said used the "joining New York State's lawsuit" language from the press
release had you not told me that there was no offer to join the lawsuit under consideration. So even
though I would have correctly stated your office's conclusion that the NY litigation covered Florida's
citizens, I still would have gotten that wrong.
Best,
Bill
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 01:16:38 PM---Thank you sir. Best,
Date: 03/21/2016 01:16 PM
Thank you sir.

Best,
Bill

Bill,
I have check on this further, and besides the false narrative in the news
release, this matter does not involve the Florida Attorney Generals Office
and it would not be appropriate to comment.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:57:28 AM---Okay, fair enough. Thanks
Whitney -- will include those.
Date: 03/21/2016 11:57 AM
Okay, fair enough.

Bill,
If you do not hear from me please check back at 1:00 and I will let you know if we
have anything specific about the news release, but as for right now my comments
are limited to the false narrative.
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"Bill Allison (BLOOMBERG---03/21/2016 11:53:40 AM---Thanks so much
Whitney. As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've
a

Date: 03/21/2016 11:53 AM

As always, I'd rather get something out sooner rather than later, and I've already
written up a brief about he complaint (the tax implications for the Trump
Foundation seem to be much more interesting, to be honest).
Would 2 p.m. be too early for you? I'm going into a meeting now, but will be
available afterwards.
Best,
Bill
From: Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com At: Mar 21 2016
11:49:31
Bill,
Thank you for taking a moment to speak to me about the
recent reports.
I will check to see if we have any comment on the news
release, outside of the errors in the narrative about our
office's role in the matter.
Broadly speaking about some of news stories, I can tell you
that this administration, at the time of the erroneous reports
about our office not "joining a lawsuit," had received ONE
complaint. After a staff review of the ONE complaint, the
decision was rightfully made by our Citizens Services Office
to refer the complainant to the New York Attorney General's
Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray

Office: 850-245-0150

03/21/2016 02:07 PM
Bcc: Kylie Mason
Jim,
There was never a "multistate" lawsuit to join. No state "joined." Call the NY AG or look
at the NY complaint if you need confirmation.
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/205166-complaint-filed-donald-trump-foundations-tiespam-bondi
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
James Rosica
From:
To:
Date:
Subject:
03/21/2016 09:59:29 AM

03/21/2016 09:59 AM


MARCH 21, 2016


Washington (CREW).
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340

03/21/2016 02:28 PM
Exactly. Otherwise, I just repeated what she said at AP.

wrote:
Jim,
s-pam-bondi
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
something.
Date: 03/21/2016 09:59 AM


MARCH 21, 2016

influence politics.
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340

History:
03/21/2016 02:34 PM

wrote:
Jim,
s-pam-bondi
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
something.
Date: 03/21/2016 09:59 AM



MARCH 21, 2016

influence politics.
--
Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
Re: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation

03/21/2016 02:57 PM
Thx
From: James Rosica
Subject: Re: Fwd: CREW Files Complaint Against Trump Foundation

wrote:
Jim,
s-pam-bondi
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
something.
Date: 03/21/2016 09:59 AM



MARCH 21, 2016

influence politics.
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340
-Jim Rosica
FloridaPolitics.com
Tallahassee, Fla.
Phone: (850) 294-3340

03/21/2016 06:19 PM
thanks again, whitney. just one more question...i hope:)

I've just gotten this comment from Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks...she said that the accounts
payable department of the Trump Organization had received a donation request from And Justice
for All and issued a check to the entity from the Trump Foundation because an entity of the same
name was on the IRS's list of charitable organizations. After realizing that it was, in fact, a
political organization, "an adjustment" was made and the matter was resolved, she said.
just fyi in case you guys have any further comment.
best
kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
wrote:
Kate,
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn" ---03/21/2016 11:59:00 AM---No problem--of course I wanted to hear your side of
it. It is disturbing that many reporters do not
Date: 03/21/2016 11:59 AM
No problem--of course I wanted to hear your side of it. It is disturbing that many reporters do
not make any attempt to get comment.
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Thank you Kate, and thank you for taking a moment to talk to me on the phone, many reports
have been filed without journalist even calling our office.
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn" ---03/21/2016 11:51:11 AM---Thanks so much, Whitney. I am going to
file the story asap but if you end up having an additional co
Date: 03/21/2016 11:51 AM
additional comment later in the day after it's been published online I can request editors
to add it in.
All the best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe

Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
Thank you Kate,

"joining a lawsuit," had received ONE complaint. After a staff review of
the ONE complaint, the decision was rightfully made by our Citizens
Services Office to refer the complainant to the New York Attorney
General's Office, as their lawsuit sought relief for any and all aggrieved
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Office: 850-245-0150
"O'Keeffe, Kathryn" ---03/21/2016 11:31:28 AM---Hi Whitney, Nice chatting just now.
I have noted your comments on the phone. Please
Date: 03/21/2016 11:31 AM
Hi Whitney,
Nice chatting just now. I have noted your comments on the phone. Please also
feel free to send along any additional thoughts regarding the complaint and the
exhibits:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/entry/crew-files-complaint-against-trump
-foundation
Thanks and best,
Kate
Kate O'Keeffe
Mobile: +1 202 412 9274
From:
To:
attorney.general@myfloridalegal.com
MICHAELPJMURPHY@OUTLOOK.COM
Subject:
Date:
From Attorney General Pam Bondi

05/02/2014 01:46:01 PM
Dear Mr. Murphy,

This is to acknowledge your follow-up correspondence to the Florida Attorney General's Office regarding
Labor Ready, a TrueBlue company, and Trump University, an organization associated with Mr. Donald
Trump.
Thank you for the additional information you have provided about your personal experiences with those
companies. As you know, the Attorney General's Office is concerned with all potentially unfair and
deceptive trade practices. We use complaints to identify questionable business activities that may
indicate the need for formal investigation or action by our office. We are again forwarding your
information to the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division for review; however, I must reiterate
that our office would not disclose or discuss investigative information.
Additionally, I understand that you are trying to get a refund from Labor Ready, so you may also wish to
reach out to the state's informal voluntary mediation program at the Florida Department of Agriculture
and Consumer Services (DACS), Division of Consumer Services. You may contact DACS directly at:
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Division of Consumer Services
2005 Apalachee Parkway
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
Telephone: (850) 410-3800
Toll-free within FL: (800) 435-7352
Website: http://www.800helpfla.com/
Since Trump University involves a real estate opportunity, you may also wish to contact the Florida
Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) for any information or assistance they may
be able to provide to you. The DBPR is the state agency which licenses and regulates the real estate
industry in Florida. You may contact the DBPR below:
Florida Department of Business
and Professional Regulation
Division of Real Estate
Consumer Complaints Section
400 West Robinson Street, Suite N801
Orlando, Florida 32801-1757
Telephone: (850) 487-1395
Fax: (407) 317-7245
Website: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/
I understand that Labor Ready is a TrueBlue company, which is headquartered in Tacoma, Washington.
Therefore, you may also wish to contact that state's attorney general for any information available
through that office. The contact information for the Washington Attorney General's Office is:
Washington Attorney General's Office
1125 Washington Street Southeast
Post Office Box 40100
Olympia, Washington 98504-0100
Phone: (360) 753-6200
Consumer Protection: (206) 464-6684
Website: www.atg.wa.gov
Finally, if you need legal guidance, please consider consulting a private attorney. An attorney can give
you the legal advice which our office is precluded by law from providing to private individuals. If you need
help finding a Florida attorney, The Florida Bar offers a Lawyer Referral Service toll-free in the U.S. at
(800) 342-8011 or online at www.floridabar.org. If you cannot afford an attorney, The Florida Bar can
provide information about low cost or pro bono assistance through a local legal aid office.
Thank you for contacting Attorney General Bondi's Office. For news on Attorney General Bondi's efforts to
fight fraud, please click the following link and subscribe to the Attorney General's electronic newsletters:
http://myfloridalegal.com/NewsBrie.nsf/Subscriber
Sincerely,
Rose Huskey
PL-01, The Capitol
Telephone: (850) 414-3990
Toll-free within Florida: (866) 966-7226
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL. THIS ADDRESS IS FOR PROCESSING ONLY.
To contact this office please visit the Attorney General's website at www.myfloridalegal.com and complete
the on-line contact form. Again, thank you for contacting the Office of the Florida Attorney General.
____________________________________________________________
Mike P. Murphy re Donald Trump.pdf
Mike P. Murphy re True Blue Companies.pdf
From:
To:
AG@MyFloridaLegal.com
Subject:
Date:

01/11/2011 01:00:28 PM
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi received your email regarding your concerns with Donald Trump
University. Attorney General Bondi asked that I respond. I am sorry for your difficulties.
I appreciate the opportunity to review your concerns, and we will keep your information in our consumer
files. Since this is a real estate investment opportunity, I suggest that you contact the Florida
Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) for any information or assistance they may
be able to provide to you. The DBPR is the state agency which licenses and regulates the real estate
industry in Florida. You may contact the DBPR below:
Florida Department of Business
and Professional Regulation
Division of Real Estate
Consumer Complaints Section
400 West Robinson Street, Suite N801
Orlando, Florida 32801-1757
Telephone: (850) 487-1395
Fax: (407) 317-7245
Website: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/
As you seek to resolve your individual complaint, you may wish to contact the Florida Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Consumer Services (DACS). DACS is the
clearinghouse for consumer complaints and has a voluntary mediation program to assist individual
consumers. You may contact DACS at:
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Division of Consumer Services
2005 Apalachee Parkway
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
Telephone: (850) 488-2221
Toll-free within FL: (800) 435-7352
Website: http://www.800helpfla.com/
The following consumer agencies may also be of assistance to you:
Better Business Bureau of Southeast Florida (serving Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach areas)
Phone: (561) 842-1918
Email: info@wpbbb.com
Website: http://www.seflorida.bbb.org/
Palm Beach County Consumer Protection Office
Phone: (561) 712-6600
Website: http://www.pbcgov.com/pubsafety/consumer/html/home.asp
Finally, Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act provides individuals with a private remedy to
bring an action for damages, attorney's fees and court costs. Please consult a private attorney if you
need any legal guidance. An attorney can provide the legal advice which our office cannot give to
private individuals. If you need help finding a lawyer, The Florida Bar offers a Lawyer Referral Service
toll-free at (800) 342-8060.
Thank you for contacting Attorney General Bondi's Office. I hope this proves helpful. If you would like to
keep current with news on Attorney General Bondi's efforts to fight fraud please follow this link and
subscribe to the Attorney General's weekly and monthly electronic newsletters:
http://myfloridalegal.com/NewsBrie.nsf/Subscriber
Sincerely,
Beverly Bailey
To contact this office please visit the Attorney General's website at www.myfloridalegal.com and
complete the on-line contact form. Again, thank you for contacting the Office of the Florida Attorney
General.
________________________________________________________________________
INTERNET MESSAGE RECEIVED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE ON 01/03/2011
Aaron O'Brien
Tampa, FL 33647
Phone: (813) 486-7239
RE: Donald Trump University
PO Box 811209
Boca Raton, FL 33481
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Transaction Date: 2/2/2007
Subject: Real Estate
From:
To:
AG@MyFloridaLegal.com
Subject:
Date:

06/10/2011 01:03:20 PM
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi received your email asking about a class action lawsuit involving
Donald Trump and Trump University. Attorney General Bondi has asked that I respond. I am sorry for
the difficulties you have experienced.
I appreciate that you have considered our office as a source of assistance. Attorney General Bondi is
concerned with all potentially unfair and deceptive trade practices that mislead consumers. By law, this
office exercises statutory authority to address consumer fraud under Chapter 501, Part II, Florida
Statutes, known as Florida's Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act. We use complaints to develop
information about patterns of business activity which may indicate the need for formal investigation or
action by our office to protect the broad public interest. Please note that our office does not mediate
individual consumer complaints.
Class actions are lawsuits initiated and handled by private lawyers or law firms on behalf of groups of
certain individuals as defined in each class action. As such, the Attorney General's Office is not involved
in class action lawsuits. I encourage you to visit an Internet search engine such as
http://www.yahoo.com or http://www.google.com to search for information on any class action lawsuits
you may benefit from.
Since it appears that the New York Attorney General is currently reviewing complaints about this
university, I recommend that you contact this agency for any information they are able to provide:
Bureau of Consumer Frauds and Protection
120 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10271-0332
Telephone: (212) 416-8345
Toll-free Helpline: (800) 771-7755
Website: http://www.ag.ny.gov/
Complaint forms: http://www.ag.ny.gov/resource_center/complaints/complaints.html
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) also provides information about this university at:
http://www.bbb.org/us/Find-Business-Reviews/name/Trump+University/
Otherwise, you may want to consult an attorney for the legal guidance you may need to determine if any
private remedies are available to you. An attorney can provide the legal advice which our office cannot
give to private individuals. The Florida Bar offers a Lawyer Referral Service toll-free at (800) 342-8060.
The Florida Bar can also provide information about low cost or free local legal aid if you cannot afford a
private attorney. The Bar's website is at:
http://www.floridabar.org
Please understand our duties are prescribed by law. Thank you for contacting Attorney General Bondi's
Office.
Sincerely,
Carmen James

The Capitol, PL-01
Telephone: (850) 414-3990
Toll-free in Florida: (866) 966-7226
Website: http://www.myfloridalegal.com
To contact this office please visit the Attorney General's website at www.myfloridalegal.com and complete
the on-line contact form. Again, thank you for contacting the Office of the Florida Attorney General.
________________________________________________________________________
INTERNET MESSAGE RECEIVED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE ON 05/26/2011
Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Bradenton, FL 34207
Phone: (941) 896-9086
RE: Trump Ùniversity`
United States
Subject: Donald Trump
was a student of
many residents?

Fred Sayin
1315 Florence Ct
Phone: (386) 682-8668
Amount Paid: xxxx
Questions/Comments:
Great Lakes.

Fred Sayin
1315 Florence Ct
Phone: (386) 682-8668
Amount Paid: xxxx
Questions/Comments:
Great Lakes.

Venus Harris
610 Dent St
Tallahassee, FL, 32304 Leon
Phone: (850) 570-4995
Email: venusharris11@yahoo.com
Name/Firm/Company: BRIDGEPOINT EDUCATION, LLC AND ASHFORD UNIVERSITY, LLC
Subject/Category: Frauding students of loans and illegal sales practices of time frame on degree
Street Address: 13500 Evening Creek Drive North, Suite 600
City: San Diego, CA 92128
Phone: 18586682586
Website: http://bridgepointeducation.com/index.htm
Questions/Comments:
Ashford University trained their counselors to use illegal sale practices. They
over priced their fees to students in the online program. They use illegal
practices to justify their reasoning. Example: Ashford University Charges
Technology Fees that run from 1200 dollars up. They have used their own
calculation on fees in order to obtain all the aid money from the government,
instead of education.
** I have spoken with the Iowa Attorney General Office they have found findings
in their state. I have spoken with a Teggin Brown. He has stated their office
will fully cooperate. His number is 515-281-6411 or 515-281-5164

Aaron O'Brien
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Questions/Comments:

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Questions/Comments:
was a student of
many residents?

Aaron O'Brien
Phone: (813) 486-7239
Phone: (561) 989-8876
Questions/Comments:

Charles Jacobson
2725 50th Ave W apt 113
Phone: (941) 896-9086
Questions/Comments:
was a student of
many residents?
Subject: For Today

From:
Gerald Whitney Ray (Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com)
To:
pambondi@yahoo.com; Pam.Bondi@myfloridalegal.com;
Cc:
Trey.Stapleton@myfloridalegal.com; Ned.Hance@myfloridalegal.com; Lynn.Guyton@myfloridalegal.com;

Kylie.Mason@myfloridalegal.com;
Date:
Monday, March 21, 2016 9:58 AM
(See attached file: 3.21.16 Hot Topics.doc)
Attachments
3.21.16 Hot Topics.doc (87.50KB)
Hot Topics
3.21.16
Trump University
x
Our office had only received one complaint by the time that these erroneous
allegations were being made.
That complaint was handled appropriately by staff, and it never rose to my level.
Staff reviewed the complaint and rightfully determined that it would be addressed
in the New York litigation which was filed on behalf of the consumers nationwide.
Additional Information:
x
There have been erroneous reports that NY had a multi-state lawsuit that they
asked us to join. Clearly, anyone who looks at the NY complaint will see that the
lawsuit is clearly not a multistate and that NY is the only state suing.
We have received two additional complaints since the erroneous 2013 stories.
These complainants contacted our office after filing complaints with the NY AG.
KB HOME
x
This multi-million dollar settlement will provide relief to hundreds of homeowners,

ensuring that KB Homes undertakes the business reforms necessary to put an
end to what some homeowners have endured in the past.
Background:
The KB Home settlement covers three things:
-repairs for eligible homeowners (the value to be determined by the # & size of repairs)
-a $6.5 million restitution pool for homeowners who incurred out of pocket expenses
-reforms in the way KB Home does business, including a requirement that KB Home
spend $17 million on training, improved materials, and improved construction practices.
A claims process has been set up for the restitution. Questions about the settlement
and eligibility can be directed to the claims administrator at 1-888-210-5486.
More information and the claims form can be found at www.florida-agkbsettlement.com.
Car Rental Fees
x
We are in settlement negotiations with several of the rental car companies

currently under investigation; however, if agreements are not reached, we are
prepared to litigate.
Heroin Deaths
x
The recent increase in heroin use is a national epidemic; with heroin related
deaths up nearly 250 percent nationwide since 2010.
As the co-chair of the National Association of Attorneys General Substance

Abuse Committee, my office is working with law enforcement partners across the
country to combat this national heroin epidemic.
Furthermore, my Office of Statewide Prosecution is working with federal, state

and local law enforcement to arrest and prosecute drug dealers trafficking heroin
in Florida.
Background
TBT asked: What we have done to help addicts overcome their addition. How much
money did we secure to fight NAS, and how many expectant mothers have that helped?
If asked about NAS:
x
While fighting to shutdown pill mills and save lives, I also worked with state
lawmakers to allocate millions of dollars to help treat expectant mothers addicted
to drugs.
The reoccurring yearly allocation is $10 million. During the fiscal year of 20142015, this $10 million was used to provide in-resident services to 2,288 expectant
mothers with substance abuse issues in Florida.
Increases in NAS reported:

x
An increase in awareness coupled with improvements in reporting Neonatal

Abstinence Syndrome are beginning to provide a clearer picture of the scope of
this tragic problem, proof that key recommendations made by the task force are
working.
CDC Opiod Guidelines

x
We have made a lot of progress in Florida to stop prescription drug abuse and
these new CDC guidelines will further our efforts and help save lives.
Rx Shortage:
x No one wants to see anyone suffer, and no one wants to see parents lose a
child.
x
Nothing in the legislation we supported has had any bearing on a patient in

legitimate pain, from filling a script for medication.
3/19/16 NEW CDC OPIOID GUIDELINES DESIGNED TO FIGHT ADDICTION, Inquisitr

New CDC opioid guidelines were issued earlier this week in a bid to stem the growing
tide of opioid addiction in the United States. The new opioid guidelines drafted by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were designed to guide physicians in their
practice and include several recommendations for changes to existing policy.
The opioid group of drugs includes morphine, heroin, and a number of prescription
painkillers such as oxycodone (or OxyContin), hydrocodone, and methadone which
represent the issue driving the new CDC opioid guidelines.
The new CDC opioid guidelines are based on hard research and facts. According to
CDC data, 2014 was a banner year for all deaths due to drug overdose. To put the
tragedy into perspective, more than 500,000 Americans died of drug overdoses from
2000 to 2014 or about 78 Americans every single day. The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention estimates that more than 60 percent of those deaths were due to
opioids the driving force behind the new CDC opioid guidelines.
Death Penalty
x
The governor signed the new death-sentencing statutes in to law, and I want to
thank Governor Scott and state lawmakers for prioritizing this important
legislation to ensure Floridas death sentencing statutes are constitutional.
Our office remains engaged in ongoing litigation, and will continue to respond to
each challenge properly presented for review.
24-hour Waiting Period

x
We are pleased that the court agrees that the law should remain in effect, and we
look forward to defending this important law against any challenges.
Broward Health
x
As this matter is still active and ongoing, it would not be appropriate to comment
further.
Background
3/18/16, Florida Attorney General demands Broward Health pay $5.3 million for
Medicaid fraud, Florida Bulldog
The Florida Attorney Generals office has demanded that Broward Health pay more than
$5.3 million to settle state Medicaid fraud claims uncovered during a federal
whistleblower investigation. Broward Health paid $69.5 million to settle the federal case
last summer. The arrival of Attorney General Pam Bondis ominous demand seeking
millions more in state damages comes amid snowballing legal troubles at the
beleaguered North Broward Hospital District. The specific settlement demands
$5,325,671, an amount that Bondis office said is recoverable under the Florida False
Claims Act. If this matter is not resolved through settlement, we may pursue Florida
False Claims Act litigation in Leon County Circuit Court, seeking treble damage and civil
penalties of not more than $11,000 for each false claim submitted, says a March 10
letter signed by Assistant Attorney General Jill Bennett. Bondis office released a copy
of the letter in response to a public records request from FloridaBulldog.org.The letter
accuses Broward Health of participating in an illegal scheme to commit Medicaid fraud
with nine of its doctors. The letter says Broward Health violated the federal Physician
Self-Referral Law, the Florida Anti-Kickback Statute and the FCA. The states
allegations mirror the federal Medicare/Medicaid case made against Broward Health.
Youth Services International
x
I thank Secretary Daly and the DJJ for their partnership in holding this provider
accountable.
Background
3/16/16, Florida DJJ Ends All Contracts with Youth Services International, DJJ Release
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice announced it will begin immediately
transitioning all contracts statewide for residential programs run by private provider
Youth Services International Inc. YSI holds contracts for the current year for seven
programs throughout Florida. For several months, DJJ worked in conjunction with the
Florida Attorney Generals office in relation to a False Claims Act Complaint filed by
former staff of Youth Services International. The lawsuit involved allegations that YSI
failed to provide the necessary and appropriate services and falsified documents
concerning contract terms. The lawsuit, recently resolved through mediation, requires
YSI to relinquish its contracts with DJJ and reimburse the State for the financial losses.
Immigration
x
On three occasions, the federal courts have sided with 26 states in this important
case involving separation of powers and we look forward to the U.S. Supreme
Court hearing this case about the president overstepping the power granted to
him by our U.S. Constitution.
This lawsuit is not about immigration, rather this lawsuit is about President
Obamayet againoverstepping the power granted to him by our Constitution.
The President repeatedly said he would not violate the law, then decided to do
just that. The powers granted to the President are expressly laid out in the
Constitution, yet President Obama has decided to ignore those parameters.
We need to fix our system of immigration, but willfully turning a blind eye to the
inconvenience of law and rule is not the path to a remedy, but a prescription for
unwarranted presidential overreach.
Designer Drug Enforcement Act

x
Flakka use is killing people and we must work together to ensure it does not
overwhelm our state like Oxycodone did just a few years ago.
The bill passed this session will categorically outlaw synthetic drugs, instead of
outlawing individually identified chemical compounds.
These changes will end the cycle of government trying to catch up with the
newest illicit drugs being manufactured.
News Clips 9.20.13

Other
Complaints about Boca Raton real estate institute draw attention to Donald Trump,
Palm Beach Post
Under Fire, Feds Add Health Law Privacy Protections, CBS Miami
Opinions
Florida leaders determined to ensure that the uninsured stay that way, Bradenton
Herald
Other
Complaints about Boca Raton real estate institute draw attention to Donald
Trump, Palm Beach Post
Leesburg pool cleaner Kenneth Lafrate still awaits a refund of the $7,000 he paid the
Trump Institute of Boca Raton. Connecticut Realtor Mitzie Andrade got her $3,000
back, but only after months of trying.
Both said they put aside their usual skepticism about get-rich seminars and ponied
up for courses that promised to deliver Donald Trumps dealmaking secrets and
both said they were disappointed.
I got scammed, Lafrate said.
Trump-branded educational materials drew scrutiny last month, when New York
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a fraud suit against Trump, the billionaire
developer who lives part-time in Palm Beach, and The Trump Entrepreneur
Initiative of New York.
Schneiderman demanded that Trump and his school repay $40 million in fees
collected from some 5,000 students.
Mr. Trump used his celebrity status and personally appeared in commercials
making false promises to convince people to spend tens of thousands of dollars they
couldnt afford for lessons they never got, Schneiderman said last month.
Trump lashed back, calling Schneiderman a hack.
Trumps school known as Trump University before New York officials demanded
a name change licensed its name to the Trump Institute of Boca Raton. No longer
in business, the Trump Institute drummed up sales by hosting seminars throughout
the country.
Trump Institute was run by seminar mavens Mike and Irene Milin, the Sacremento
Bee reported in 2006. According to consumer complaints filed in Florida, students
paid $1,200 to $1,400 for classes, including books, DVDs and CDs emblazoned with
Trumps face. One-on-one coaching cost extra, and some pupils paid $20,000 or
more.
In 2009, unhappy customers from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida,
Michigan, New York, Oregon and Washington lodged complaints about the Bocabased Trump Institute with the Florida Attorney Generals Office. Bill McCollum was
attorney general at the time. He was succeeded in 2010 by Pam Bondi, who said
shes taking another look at the consumer complaints from 2009.
While we have received no complaints during this administration, we are

relevance in Florida, said Bondi spokeswoman Jenn Meale.
Lafrate was aiming to buy a self-storage facility while bank lending was on
lockdown, and he thought the Trump Institute would help him navigate a difficult
mortgage market. But the courses didnt yield a deal.
The whole thing blew up in my face, Lafrate said.
Andrade said she was attracted by tutelage in tax-lien sales a way to buy
properties on the cheap from local governments. After fruitless phone calls to city
hall in search of such deals, Andrade decided she had been misled.
It sounded good at first, Andrade said. But I tried applying the principles
theres nothing like that.
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) In the wake of criticism from Republicans
including Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the Obama administration is beefing up security
measures for data submitted to navigators by people seeking insurance under the
federal health overhaul.
Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius and Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Edith Ramirez met with senior
White Houseofficials and several state officials on Wednesday before announcing
the new plans aimed at protecting private information in advance of the Oct. 1 rollout of online health insurance marketplaces.
Today, we are sending a clear message that we will not tolerate anyone seeking to
defraud consumers in the Health Insurance Marketplace, Sebelius said in a
statement Wednesday.
Consumers will be able to report fraud through a toll-free hotline and on the
website healthcare.gov. The administration plans to route complaints through a
central database and set up a rapid response mechanism for data breaches. State
and federal agencies will be able to access the hub to investigate fraud, and state and
federal fraud experts will meet regularly to monitor potential fraud associated with
the marketplace.
Navigators and assisters help people apply for insurance on the online
marketplaces, or exchanges, which are a crucial part of carrying out the federal
Affordable Care Act.
Sebelius said the federal agencies are using the same protections already in use as
safeguards for Medicaid, Medicare and the Childrens Health Insurance Program.
Scott, a Republican who launched his political career fighting against the health care
law, quickly issued a statement taking credit for the Obama administrations
attention to the security issues, which Scott raised in a letter to congressional
leaders on Monday. Scott noted that Florida has become ground zero for the
frenzy of activity to sign people up through the online exchanges. Sebelius has
made Florida a frequent stopping place to promote the health care law.
Whenever the federal government forces a brand new program this big to move
this fast, mistakes are made just as we saw last week in Minnesota, Scott said in
statement Wednesday. An employee of the state health exchange in Minnesota
mistakenly sent an e-mail containing about 2,400 insurance agents personal data,
including Social Security numbers to a man applying to become a navigator.
Opinions
Florida leaders determined to ensure that the uninsured stay that way,
Bradenton Herald
It's impressive to see the lengths that Florida's leaders are going to keep state
residents from getting health care insurance.
In a state that has the second-highest number of uninsured in the nation -- one out
of four Floridians lack heath insurance -- you'd imagine that state leaders would be
looking for ways reduce the enormous financial costs of uncompensated care by
reducing the ranks of the uninsured.
But the opposite is happening.
The state Legislature opposed the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, paid
nearly entirely with federal dollars, by ginning up wildly inflated estimates of state
costs.
That move froze out more than 1.3 million poor Floridians from getting insurance,
leaving the rest of us to pay for their visits to emergency rooms for primary health
care.
And Florida also refused to set up a state exchange under Obamacare that would
have provided Florida consumers a state-run marketplace of affordable insurance.
Instead, state leaders have energetically constructed obstacles to the federal
government's efforts to make Floridians aware of their health care options under
the law.
The main thrust of this obstruction these days has taken the form of scaring
uninsured Floridians from talking to federal employees called "navigators," who will
begin next month to help uninsured state residents to sign up for health insurance.
The thrust of this obstruction is to convince Floridians that these navigators will be
infiltrated with scammers looking to steal the identities of Floridians, or to rat on
them to the Internal Revenue Service.
"It is unclear how the federal government will protect personal information from
being stolen or otherwise misused," Gov. Rick Scott said at a Cabinet meeting last
month.
It's more than ironic that Scott, who made a fortune presiding over a hospital chain
that used the private information of patients to bilk Medicare, is now playing the
role as public watchdog on health care matters.
Fortunate for him, he's got plenty of help.
"This is a consumer protection issue and an identity theft issue," said Florida
Attorney General Pam Bondi. "Identity theft runs rampant through our country and
state."
Bondi was on Fox News Tuesday, spreading the alarm with a healthy dose of
misinformation.
"Now we have navigators coming into our state, and they're not doing background
checks, they're not doing fingerprints," she said. "Census takers have better
background checks than the navigators. We hope that they're all honest, but this is a
consumer protection issue."
Bondi should know better. The state passed a law last spring that requires all health
care navigators in the state to be fingerprinted and screened by the Florida
Department of Law Enforcement.
They're licensed by the federal Health and Human Services Department after
completing a 20-hour training program.
The idea that the state is under attack by federal invaders from Obamaland who
have come to steal and spy on Floridians is ridiculous.
The main group signing up Floridians is Florida Covering Kids & Families, a
University of South Florida organization that has been operating in Florida for the
past 15 years to provide insurance services to state residents.
"Navigators will not be collecting any personal information from the people they
sign up," director Jodi Ray said.
"They're just there to sit down and help people to fill out the forms for the
insurance. They're not walking away with any personal information from the people
they sign up."
Ray said there are plenty of responsible and highly educated applicants for the job,
which pays about $24 an hour.
And everyone who is hired is fingerprinted and run through a criminal background
check before they start.
To poison the sign-up process even more, Florida has taken the extraordinary step
to ban these navigators from helping the uninsured at any of the county health
department offices throughout the state. After all, that's a natural place for people to
come for health care issues.
Ray said it's something her group can work around. And the uninsured are eager,
she said.
"We haven't even started the outreach and people are contacting us to sign up for
insurance," she said. "We're already taking appointments."
Oh, well. It looks like Florida's leaders may have to invent another roadblock to stop
state residents from helping themselves.
Frank Cerabino, writes for The Palm Beach Post. E-mail:
frank_cerabino@pbpost.com.
Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/09/20/4726851/floridaleaders-determined-to.html#storylink=cpy
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Date:
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News Clips 10.16.13
Opinions
Column: Trump funds Bondi as the AG considered a probe, Orlando Sentinel
Other
Bondi lauds fathers role in helping special needs children, Tampa Tribune
St. Pete firefighter's case attracts Legislature's attention, Miami Herald
Nationwide Pools owner has license revoked, WPLG
Opinions
Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi was supposedly thinking about going after Donald Trump for
running a get-rich seminar that some Floridians said fleeced them out of thousands of dollars.
New York's A.G. had already filed suit, saying that Trump's seminars conducted there and in Florida
were little more than a "bait and switch" meant to separate customers from their money.
So on Sept. 14, the Sentinel quoted a spokeswoman for Bondi who said that Florida's attorney general was
studying the New York lawsuit to see whether she wanted to take action here as well.
Three days later, on Sept. 17, Trump's foundation cut a $25,000 check to a committee associated with Bondi's
campaign.
It was one of the largest checks that the "And Justice for All" committee has received.
Pictures: New York Comic Con
And it looks awfully fishy.
Think about it. A prosecutor says she's trying to decide whether to sue someone and that someone
suddenly gives her campaign war chest $25,000?
Most prosecutors would be insulted.
But I'm increasingly convinced Pam Bondi simply isn't like most prosecutors.
For Bondi, the pursuit of campaign cash trumps the pursuit of justice.
After all, it was just last month that Bondi made national news for postponing an execution so that she
could throw herself a campaign party.
(That decision paid off nicely for her, by the way. While the victim's family was aghast that Bondi postponed
an execution 25 years in the making for a campaign event, the News Service of Florida found that Bondi
raked in $140,000 that day.)
To be honest, I really don't think Bondi, a Republican in her first term as A.G., would let a single campaign
donation affect the way she dispenses justice. It's just too obvious.
Then again, I don't think most prosecutors would even let themselves get in such a situation.
They would make a firm rule that their campaigns and any efforts set up to help them wouldn't take
money from anyone they are considering investigating.
Technically, "And Justice for All" wasn't set up by Bondi. It was set up for Bondi, according to paperwork
filed with the state Division of Elections. Supporters formed something called an "electioneering
communication organization," which can accept unlimited donations.
Bondi's office wouldn't say much about all this except to vow to monitor future complaints and "take
appropriate action if it appears there is significant harm to Floridians." Spokeswoman Jenn Meale also noted
that all but one of the complaints about Trump were filed before Bondi took office.
Some unhappy customers said they shelled out thousands of dollars for advice and contacts that they say
never panned out.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman described the seminars as an elaborate "bait and switch." He
said customers were lured by the promise of a free 90-minute seminar to learn Trump's money-making
secrets. That became a pitch for a $1,500, three-day seminar, which in turn became a pitch for "elite"
programs that cost as much as $35,000, Schneiderman said.
A Leesburg man told the Sentinel's Richard Burnett that he paid a total of nearly $7,000 for services and
mentoring that were never delivered as promised.
Trump's seminars have since shut down. Still, the billionaire star of "The Apprentice" called the accusations
baseless and a "publicity stunt," saying most of his customers were happy.
Trump also called New York's attorney general "stupid," a "lightweight hack" and "the dumbest attorney
general in the United States."
Elected prosecutors have plenty of ethical reasons to avoid taking money from would-be targets. But if the
ethical reasons aren't good enough, consider the political ones.
Bondi is now in a position where she either pursues Trump and looks like she was pressured to do so. Or
she does nothing and looks like Trump gave her an incentive to take a pass.
Either way, it's a dog of a story. Bondi and her supporters would do well to give this money back and not
take any more from potential targets.
Floridians want their top cop chasing bad guys harder than campaign dollars.
Other
TEMPLE TERRACE Focus Academy Principal Frances McCrimmon expressed a sense of divine
intervention as she stood before those whod gathered to honor the spirit of a man who many say deserves
much of the credit for the startup of a new charter high school specifically for exceptional education students.
That man was Dr. Joe Bondi a longtime educator, middle school pioneer, author and former Temple Terrace
mayor who campaigned for and championed the idea of opening the first-of-its-kind school on the campus
of Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran church, where he was a parishioner. He died in January.
His efforts were celebrated via the dedication of plaque in his name that will become a permanent fixture at
the school.
On hand for the ceremony were County Commissioners Ken Hagan and Al Higginbotham, Christ Our
Redeemer Pastor Wally Meyer and former Hillsborough County Public Schools board member Dr. Jack
Lamb, who each made comments about Bondis positive impact on the areas educational wellbeing.
Bondis daughter, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, was also among the dignitaries who spoke. She was
flanked by her mother, Patsy Bondi and sister, Beth Bondi McIntyre, a Focus Academy founding board
member.
Kids used to be assigned to schools by ZIP codes, but not anymore, she said. One size fits all doesnt work
for all children so now its about letting parents choose whats best for their children.
She acknowledged the parents and administrators who worked tirelessly to see the school come to fruition.
I know my dad is smiling today for all you have done for this school, Pam Bondi said.
Temple Terrace Mayor Frank Chillura was charged with overseeing the ceremonious ribbon cutting to
officially open the academy, although classes began in late August in tandem with the other Hillsborough
County public schools.
I knew Dr. Bondi very well and he spoke to me last year about his dream. He is here today with us in spirit,
Chillura said. I am proud to honor Dr. Bondi and his entire family.
Patsy Bondi said she was delighted with the large turnout at the ceremony and particularly pleased to see the
students smiling faces among the audience members.
This is really a nice tribute to everyone, especially Joe, she said.
Gloria and Clarence Sheppard Sr., whose 16-year-old mentally disabled son Clarence Sheppard Jr., attends
the new school, said his previous school wasnt a good fit for him. Rather than try to educate him, they
simply allowed him to play.
Everything here is so perfect and ever since he started here hes been so happy, she said.
Clarence Sr. agreed.
Here he feels wanted, he said.
Christine Quetgled, also a Focus Academy founding board member, has also seen a marked improvement in
the overall demeanor of her 15-year-old autistic son, Austin, since the beginning of the school year.
At his other school its like they were trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, she said. But here hes
safe, hes happy and he has the opportunity to grow.

A closely-watched legal case involving workers' compensation benefits, a disabled firefighter and the city of
St. Petersburg is now before the Florida Supreme Court, which on Tuesday added it to its list of high-profile
cases because of extensive public and media attention.
The case has drawn the interest of numerous business organizations, trial lawyers, unions, the Legislature and
Attorney General Pam Bondi as well.
At the center of the case is Bradley Westphal, a former St. Pete firefighter who suffered a catastrophic spinal
injury while moving furniture at a fire in 2009. As the Tampa Bay Times' Mark Puente has reported, Westphal
sued the city after it stopped paying him temporary disability benefits at a time when he did not qualify for
permanent total disability status. The First District Court of Appeal ruled in Westphal's favor and struck down
as unconstitutional a provision in the state workers' compensation law that limits temporary disability benefits
to two years.
Both houses of the Legislature have sided with the city of St. Petersburg in the case. Other friend-of-the-court
briefs have been filed on the city's side by Publix Supermarkets, the Florida Chamber of Commerce,
Associated Industries and the National Federation of Independent Business. The Florida Justice Association,
Florida Worker Advocates and the Florida Police Benevolent Association have taken up Westphal's cause in
court.

EMBROKE PARK, Fla. The state of Florida revoked the license of the owner of Nationwide Pools, a pool-construction company
accused of ripping off its customers and leaving their pools unfinished.
Court documents say Nationwide Pools owner Keith Stuart agreed to not fight the 35 complaints filed against
him that totaled $1,011,641. The state didn't levy a fine against him.
In June, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a lawsuit against Stuart, alleging his company used
false and deceptive marketing practices; failed to pay subcontractors, causing liens to be placed on customers'
homes; charged illegal credit card fees; misrepresented pool financing, rebates, and warranties; and, failed to
complete the construction of pools.
In an email to Local 10 after the lawsuit was announced, Stuart wrote: "We are currently cooperating with the
AG's office as well as DBPR. I personally apologize to all clients that this has affected, it was always our
intention to build & complete every swimming pool project."
The lawsuit seeks consumer restitution and permanent injunctive relief banning the company and its owners
and managers from future pool construction.
-Molly McFarland
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Opinions
Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi was supposedly thinking about going after
Donald Trump for running a get-rich seminar that some Floridians said fleeced them
out of thousands of dollars.
New York's A.G. had already filed suit, saying that Trump's seminars conducted
there and in Florida were little more than a "bait and switch" meant to separate
customers from their money.
So on Sept. 14, the Sentinel quoted a spokeswoman for Bondi who said that Florida's
attorney general was studying the New York lawsuit to see whether she wanted to
take action here as well.
Three days later, on Sept. 17, Trump's foundation cut a $25,000 check to a
committee associated with Bondi's campaign.
It was one of the largest checks that the "And Justice for All" committee has
received.
Pictures: New York Comic Con
And it looks awfully fishy.
Think about it. A prosecutor says she's trying to decide whether to sue someone
and that someone suddenly gives her campaign war chest $25,000?
Most prosecutors would be insulted.
But I'm increasingly convinced Pam Bondi simply isn't like most prosecutors.
For Bondi, the pursuit of campaign cash trumps the pursuit of justice.
After all, it was just last month that Bondi made national news for postponing an
execution so that she could throw herself a campaign party.
(That decision paid off nicely for her, by the way. While the victim's family was
aghast that Bondi postponed an execution 25 years in the making for a campaign
event, the News Service of Florida found that Bondi raked in $140,000 that day.)
To be honest, I really don't think Bondi, a Republican in her first term as A.G., would
let a single campaign donation affect the way she dispenses justice. It's just too
obvious.
Then again, I don't think most prosecutors would even let themselves get in such a
situation.
They would make a firm rule that their campaigns and any efforts set up to help
them wouldn't take money from anyone they are considering investigating.
Technically, "And Justice for All" wasn't set up by Bondi. It was set up for Bondi,
according to paperwork filed with the state Division of Elections. Supporters formed
something called an "electioneering communication organization," which can accept
unlimited donations.
Bondi's office wouldn't say much about all this except to vow to monitor future
complaints and "take appropriate action if it appears there is significant harm to
Floridians." Spokeswoman Jenn Meale also noted that all but one of the complaints
about Trump were filed before Bondi took office.
Some unhappy customers said they shelled out thousands of dollars for advice and
contacts that they say never panned out.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman described the seminars as an
elaborate "bait and switch." He said customers were lured by the promise of a free
90-minute seminar to learn Trump's money-making secrets. That became a pitch for
a $1,500, three-day seminar, which in turn became a pitch for "elite" programs that
cost as much as $35,000, Schneiderman said.
A Leesburg man told the Sentinel's Richard Burnett that he paid a total of nearly
$7,000 for services and mentoring that were never delivered as promised.
Trump's seminars have since shut down. Still, the billionaire star of "The
Apprentice" called the accusations baseless and a "publicity stunt," saying most of
his customers were happy.
Trump also called New York's attorney general "stupid," a "lightweight hack" and
"the dumbest attorney general in the United States."
Elected prosecutors have plenty of ethical reasons to avoid taking money from
would-be targets. But if the ethical reasons aren't good enough, consider the
political ones.
Bondi is now in a position where she either pursues Trump and looks like she
was pressured to do so. Or she does nothing and looks like Trump gave her an
incentive to take a pass.
Either way, it's a dog of a story. Bondi and her supporters would do well to give this
money back and not take any more from potential targets.
Floridians want their top cop chasing bad guys harder than campaign dollars.
Other
TEMPLE TERRACE Focus Academy Principal Frances McCrimmon expressed a
sense of divine intervention as she stood before those whod gathered to honor the
spirit of a man who many say deserves much of the credit for the startup of a new
charter high school specifically for exceptional education students.
That man was Dr. Joe Bondi a longtime educator, middle school pioneer, author
and former Temple Terrace mayor who campaigned for and championed the idea
of opening the first-of-its-kind school on the campus of Christ Our Redeemer
Lutheran church, where he was a parishioner. He died in January.
His efforts were celebrated via the dedication of plaque in his name that will become
a permanent fixture at the school.
On hand for the ceremony were County Commissioners Ken Hagan and Al
Higginbotham, Christ Our Redeemer Pastor Wally Meyer and former Hillsborough
County Public Schools board member Dr. Jack Lamb, who each made comments
about Bondis positive impact on the areas educational wellbeing.
Bondis daughter, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, was also among the
dignitaries who spoke. She was flanked by her mother, Patsy Bondi and sister, Beth
Bondi McIntyre, a Focus Academy founding board member.
Kids used to be assigned to schools by ZIP codes, but not anymore, she said. One
size fits all doesnt work for all children so now its about letting parents choose
whats best for their children.
She acknowledged the parents and administrators who worked tirelessly to see the
school come to fruition.
I know my dad is smiling today for all you have done for this school, Pam Bondi
said.
Temple Terrace Mayor Frank Chillura was charged with overseeing the
ceremonious ribbon cutting to officially open the academy, although classes began
in late August in tandem with the other Hillsborough County public schools.
I knew Dr. Bondi very well and he spoke to me last year about his dream. He is here
today with us in spirit, Chillura said. I am proud to honor Dr. Bondi and his entire
family.
Patsy Bondi said she was delighted with the large turnout at the ceremony and
particularly pleased to see the students smiling faces among the audience members.
This is really a nice tribute to everyone, especially Joe, she said.
Gloria and Clarence Sheppard Sr., whose 16-year-old mentally disabled son Clarence
Sheppard Jr., attends the new school, said his previous school wasnt a good fit for
him. Rather than try to educate him, they simply allowed him to play.
Everything here is so perfect and ever since he started here hes been so happy,
she said.
Clarence Sr. agreed.
Here he feels wanted, he said.
Christine Quetgled, also a Focus Academy founding board member, has also seen a
marked improvement in the overall demeanor of her 15-year-old autistic son,
Austin, since the beginning of the school year.
At his other school its like they were trying to fit a square peg into a round hole,
she said. But here hes safe, hes happy and he has the opportunity to grow.
A closely-watched legal case involving workers' compensation benefits, a disabled
firefighter and the city of St. Petersburg is now before the Florida Supreme Court,
which on Tuesday added it to its list of high-profile cases because of extensive public
and media attention.
The case has drawn the interest of numerous business organizations, trial lawyers,
unions, the Legislature and Attorney General Pam Bondi as well.
At the center of the case is Bradley Westphal, a former St. Pete firefighter who
suffered a catastrophic spinal injury while moving furniture at a fire in 2009. As the
Tampa Bay Times' Mark Puente has reported, Westphal sued the city after it
stopped paying him temporary disability benefits at a time when he did not qualify
for permanent total disability status. The First District Court of Appeal ruled in
Westphal's favor and struck down as unconstitutional a provision in the state
workers' compensation law that limits temporary disability benefits to two years.
Both houses of the Legislature have sided with the city of St. Petersburg in the case.
Other friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed on the city's side by Publix
Supermarkets, the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Associated Industries and the
National Federation of Independent Business. The Florida Justice Association,
Florida Worker Advocates and the Florida Police Benevolent Association have taken
up Westphal's cause in court.
EMBROKE PARK, Fla. The state of Florida revoked the license of the owner of Nationwide Pools, a poolconstruction company accused of ripping off its customers and leaving their pools
unfinished.
Court documents say Nationwide Pools owner Keith Stuart agreed to not fight the
35 complaints filed against him that totaled $1,011,641. The state didn't levy a fine
against him.
In June, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a lawsuit against Stuart,
alleging his company used false and deceptive marketing practices; failed to pay
subcontractors, causing liens to be placed on customers' homes; charged illegal
credit card fees; misrepresented pool financing, rebates, and warranties; and, failed
to complete the construction of pools.
In an email to Local 10 after the lawsuit was announced, Stuart wrote: "We are
currently cooperating with the AG's office as well as DBPR. I personally apologize to
all clients that this has affected, it was always our intention to build & complete
every swimming pool project."
The lawsuit seeks consumer restitution and permanent injunctive relief banning the
company and its owners and managers from future pool construction.
News Clips 10.18.13

Nationwide Pools
Pompano pool company's assets frozen, Sun Sentinel
Other
Trump contribution to Pam Bondis re-election draws more scrutiny to her
fundraising, Tampa Bay Times (also in Miami Herald, Bradenton Herald)
Friends bid farewell to children's advocate Dottie Berger MacKinnon, Tampa Bay
Times
After saying no to feds on Medicaid expansion, Florida may ask for more money,
Miami Herald
Nationwide Pools
A Broward County judge this week granted a state request to freeze the assets of a
Pompano Beach-based pool company that allegedly tried to keep selling pools after
being ordered to stop four months ago.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed suit in June against Nationwide Pools in
Broward Circuit Court under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
The complaint sought restitution for consumers and a permanent injunction that
prevented the company and its officials, including President Keith Stuart, from
building more pools.
In an amended complaint filed last week, Bondi accused Nationwide of transferring
assets to another company, National Construction Group, and continuing to take
payments from unsuspecting customers. Circuit Judge Michael L. Gates approved a
temporary injunction and asset freeze on Monday.
"We will not allow them to circumvent the litigation by creating and funneling
money to a separate business in order to engage in the same alleged unfair and
deceptive conduct," Bondi said in a statement.
Nationwide officials could not be reached for comment Thursday.
In June, Bondi accused Nationwide of charging illegal credit card fees and failing to
pay subcontractors or complete jobs. The amended complaint accuses Stuart of
intentionally bankrupting Nationwide to avoid creditors.
Photos: Faces of meth, before and after
Dozens of South Florida homeowners filed complaints about Nationwide with the
Better Business Bureau. The company received an "F" rating from the consumer
watchdog group.
Florida consumers who want to report alleged fraud can call a toll-free hotline at 1866-966-7226 or file an online complaint at MyFloridaLegal.com.
Other
Trump contribution to Pam Bondis re-election draws more scrutiny to her
fundraising, Tampa Bay Times (also in Miami Herald)
TALLAHASSEE For the second time in as many months, campaign contributions
fueling the re-election efforts of Attorney General Pam Bondi are raising questions
about the overlap between politics and how Florida's top law enforcement officer
performs her duties.
Bondi apologized last month after she persuaded Gov. Rick Scott to delay an
execution so she could host a fundraiser at her South Tampa home that ended up
raising $140,000.
Now comes criticism of a $25,000 contribution made by one of Donald Trump's
foundations to a political committee associated with Bondi. The donation came
three days after an Attorney General's Office spokeswoman said Bondi was
reviewing allegations in a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general against
get-rich-quick seminars associated with Trump.
New York's Eric Schneiderman filed the lawsuit Aug. 25, alleging that Trump
University and its affiliates were "sham for profit colleges" that ripped off 5,000
consumers. He's seeking $40 million in restitution for the complainants.
"Mr. Trump used his celebrity status and personally appeared in commercials
making false promises to convince people to spend tens of thousands of dollars they
couldn't afford for lessons they never got," Schneiderman said in a statement.
A Sept. 14 Orlando Sentinel story noted that Schneiderman cited dozens of
complaints filed with the Florida Attorney General's Office in 2008, two years before
Bondi took office. A spokeswoman for Bondi was quoted as saying the office was
reviewing the New York lawsuit.
Three days later, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, based in New York, made a
$25,000 contribution to And Justice for All, a political fundraising committee raising
money for Bondi's re-election.
Florida hasn't followed New York's lead against Trump. Bondi couldn't be reached
for comment. Jenn Meale, a Bondi spokeswoman, suggested no action is necessary
because the affected Florida consumers would be compensated if New York wins
that case.
But a review of the 22 complaints filed in 2008 show they named the "Trump
Institute," an entity not named in the New York suit. Because those are technically
different entities, it's unclear how many making those complaints would be covered,
then, by the New York suit.
Meale points out that since Bondi has been attorney general, the office has received
only one complaint about the Trump seminars. It was filed in 2011 by Charles
Jacobson, who is now 62 and retired in Delray Beach. He says he lost $26,000 in fees
to attend a three-day seminar in West Palm Beach.
"I took it because they told us it would make us rich, but it didn't teach me
anything," he said. "Except my bankruptcy."
Jacobson has since asked Bondi's office to join the New York suit so that Florida
consumers like him can get their money back. He says he was told that Florida
doesn't get involved in class-action suits, which the New York case is not. When told
about Trump's $25,000 contribution, Jacobson said it didn't look right.
"That's probably why she won't do it," he said. "But that should have nothing to do
with it."
The contribution was made to a political committee that is technically not part of
Bondi's official campaign.
Nancy Watkins, treasurer of And Justice for All, said there was no regret. "Based on
the information at hand, we are comfortable with the propriety of the contribution
from the Trump Foundation," she said.
Trump didn't answer why he was contributing to a Florida attorney general race or
if he has contributed to other attorney general races.
But he did release a statement: "Pam Bondi is a fabulous representative of the
people Florida is lucky to have her. The case in New York is pure politics
brought by an incompetent attorney general, a political hack."
Friends bid farewell to children's advocate Dottie Berger MacKinnon, Tampa
Bay Times
TAMPA Dottie Berger MacKinnon won countless accolades in the months leading
up to her death for her tireless work on behalf of abused and neglected children.
Friends and family celebrated her devotion to that cause, her love for her 15
grandchildren, the upbeat manner in which she stared down cancer twice and the
way she so often put others before herself.
"We don't have to build Dottie up in death," said Hillsborough County Sheriff David
Gee, a friend of Mrs. Berger Mac-Kinnon and her husband, Sandy MacKinnon. "Her
life and service to the community speaks for itself."
Hundreds filed Thursday afternoon into St. John's Episcopal Church in South Tampa
to pay tribute to Mrs. Berger MacKinnon, 71, who died Sunday after a more than
three-year battle with bile duct cancer that doctors warned would claim her much
sooner. She had previously fought breast cancer a dozen years earlier, never taking
a break from her advocacy for children.
Family members, many from her native Kentucky, carried sunflowers, her favorite.
In the audience were mayors of Tampa past and present, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor,
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, county commissioners, City Council members,
judges and a host of other public figures.
Mrs. Berger MacKinnon was once one of them, serving a term on the Hillsborough
County Commission from 1994 to 1998.
That barely rated a mention Thursday as friends remembered the woman who in
the 1990s co-founded the Joshua House and Friends of the Joshua House, the former
a haven for abused and neglected children in Lutz.
In the past decade, she led efforts to help foster children, in part by seeking to keep
siblings removed from abusive homes together, as a central figure in the formation
of the Kids Charity of Tampa Bay. Fundraising ultimately led to the creation of a 60bed shelter on Lithia Pinecrest Road called A Kid's Place.
"She saw the gaps in the system and she chose to make us different in Hillsborough
County," Gee said. "And it became her life's work. She had an unbridled passion for
children. She translated that love into an unbridled zeal to protect and to foster the
most vulnerable in our community."
Gee and Bondi, who regularly visited Mrs. Berger MacKinnon in her final weeks,
recalled someone who had no problem asking for money to help support her causes.
She didn't just ask once, Gee said, even if you had given before.
Bondi said she set an example for others in her dedication to her causes but also in
her unconditional and engaged friendship, even as she battled illness.
"Dottie not only gave of herself, but she inspired others," said Bondi, who informed
those in attendance that Mrs. Berger MacKinnon will be receiving one more honor,
as Gov. Rick Scott will name her to the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
Of course, she adored her own family and the grandchildren, who called her Nana.
Even as the prognosis grew grim, she painted her toenails blue to impress the little
ones, said friend Cathy Unruh. When the end came near, Unruh said, her friend got
her hair done, stylish until the end.
Unruh said Mrs. Berger MacKinnon had a regular farewell when parting from
friends. She offered it as a closing to Thursday's memorial service.
"Love you guys. God bless," she said.

After saying no to feds on Medicaid expansion, Florida may ask for more
money, Miami Herald
TALLAHASSEE -- Months after Florida lawmakers rejected $51 billion from the
federal government to expand Medicaid, state officials are prepared to request
billions in new federal aid for a different program to improve care for the poor,
uninsured and under-insured.
But this cash grab, for whatever reason, has yet to ignite a political furor.
State officials want to grow their Low Income Pool (LIP) program from $1 billion a
year to possibly $3 billion a year, said Justin Senior, deputy secretary for Medicaid at
the Agency for Health Care Administration. The additional money could be used to
help hospitals cover charity care, provide premium support for low-income
Floridians or expand current healthcare programs.
Our feeling at the agency is that there are opportunities here to make the LIP
program larger, Senior recently told lawmakers, who didnt object. We have talked
with the federal government about that, and the federal government, by and large,
they seem generally receptive to the possibility of it.
Even contemplating accepting additional federal LIP dollars seems at odds with the
Legislatures stone-cold rejection of additional Medicaid funding tied to healthcare
reform. But it highlights how intertwined Tallahassee and Washington are
whether Republican lawmakers in the state Capitol like it or not.
Rep. Matt Hudson, the Naples Republican who chairs the Houses healthcare budget
committee, said its best to keep the two discussions separate.
While opponents would love to water down the Houses opposition to Medicaid
expansion to a single sound bite, its not that simple, he said in an email. We will
evaluate these decisions based on the long term physical and fiscal well-being of
Florida.
For years, the Legislature has signed off on leveraging local tax dollars to qualify for
additional healthcare funding from the federal government. But its hardly enough,
healthcare officials say, and less than what states like Texas and California receive.
Florida is embarrassingly low in the amount of money it gets from the federal
government in supplemental payments, Tony Carvalho, president of the Safety Net
Hospital Alliance of Florida, told the panel.
Florida receives roughly $1.4 billion a year in supplemental Medicaid funding,
according to a report commissioned by Carvalhos organization. California collects
about $5 billion a year for similar programs and Texas expects $7.5 billion each
year, the same study said.
Texas uses the money to help pay hospitals that treat large numbers of uninsured
patients and to fund innovative health programs.
Florida officials say it will tie the request for more funding to Floridas application
for an extension of the federal waiver that privatized Medicaid. The waiver
application will be submitted in about a month. Most likely, the federal government
will insist on new quality improvement benchmarks as a trade-off for any new
money.
Linda Quick, president of the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association,
said the need for more funding became even more pronounced after House
Republicans blocked a plan to expand Medicaid to 1 million low-income Floridians
earlier this year. The federal healthcare law also reduces some supplemental
funding hospitals now receive.
Even if that werent true, Florida will always have people who are uninsured or
dont have enough insurance coverage, Quick said. And that means hospitals and
health centers will always need this supplemental money, she said.
Unfortunately, those people are not going anywhere, and theyre not getting
insurance, she said. And therefore we need to continue to put money into the Low
Income Pool.
The state is hoping the federal government will give at least conditional approval to
its Medicaid waiver renewal and funding increase by early 2014. That will allow the
Legislature time to pass any laws needed to implement it for the 2014-15 fiscal year.
House Republicans rejected Medicaid expansion largely because it relied on federal
funding to reduce the number of uninsured. Now, they may be needed to sign off on
how any new dollars are allocated.
I suppose there is some sense of irony if not hypocrisy there, Quick said, that well
take money with a different title and tag on it.

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Date:
Monday, October 21, 2013 8:05 AM
News Clips 10.21.13
Health Care
Soundalike sites weave a tangled web for health care, Palm Beach Post
Trump
AG Bondi Draws Criticism Over Trump Group Donation, CBS Miami
Health Care
Urging consumers to enroll, the website has requested names, contact information, Social Security numbers
and individual and household income: Finally, Affordable Health Insurance!
No, its not healthcare.gov, the starting point to enroll in the official government online marketplace for
health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Palm Beach County has 136 health insurance plans for its residents to choose from
This website features the phrase Obamacare Enrollment Team in red, white and navy blue, and includes a
Stuart address in South Florida. Its one of at least two cases referred to the Florida Attorneys Generals
Office for review.
Someone affiliated with the Illinois health insurance marketplace reported the website was trying to gather
Social Security numbers and called it a matter of immediate concern, records requested by The Palm Beach
Post show.
In New Hampshire, state officials issued a cease and desist order against an Arizona company whose website
they thought looked deceptively like an official government exchange. Similar concerns have arisen in
California and Washington state.
Complicating matters, consumers continue to report difficulty getting into the official online marketplace
three weeks after its Oct. 1 launch. Watchdog groups warn that people trying to get to the government site
might not realize if they arrive instead at an official-looking commercial website trying to generate business
leads or in a worst case, a vehicle for identity thieves.
People looking for the official government marketplace should go to healthcare.gov and click on the
appropriate links for Florida or other states, advised Christopher Budd, threat communications manager for
Tokyo-based security software firm Trend Micro.
Do not use a search engine, Budd said. Thats not going to give you any sort of prioritization of legitimate
sites. Start at healthcare.gov. Use that to find the appropriate state sites.
Its a good moment to be on guard, specialists say, because the online exchanges are new, many people cant
get in or are still sorting out what the law means for them, and opportunties for confusion abound.
The Florida Attorney Generals Office is reviewing two complaints, a spokeswoman said. In the other, an
Orlando resident reported a call from a group that seemed to imply they were with the government and were
offering health insurance through another website.
A Stuart insurance agency associated with getobamacarenow.com said its just trying to help customers sort
out their options, with no intent to mislead.
After The Post contacted them, the sites operators said Friday they took down the Social Security number
request and added a disclaimer that they are not affiliated with the government
We want to explain we are not the government, said Nick Fiorella, vice president of Fiorella Insurance
Agency in Stuart. It is not our intent to deceive anybody.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wasnt commenting on other sites that
may be competing for consumer attention, but said officials were working hard to smooth out difficulties.
We continue to work around the clock to improve the consumer experience on HealthCare.gov, HHS
spokesman Fabien Levy said. Volume remains high, with 17 million unique visitors in the first two weeks.
We are seeing progress: wait times to begin the online process have been virtually eliminated, and more
consumers are creating accounts, completing applications and ultimately enrolling in coverage if they choose
to do so at this time. However, we will not stop addressing issues and improving the system until the doors to
HealthCare.gov are wide open.
Floridas Department of Financial Services has received 564 calls related to the Affordable Care Act through
Oct. 16, with many inquiring about coverage options and costs, said spokeswoman Ashley Carr.
A few referrals have been made regarding websites that may prove confusing to consumers, Carr said,
noting it was difficult to track precisely how many because of the way complaints are classified within the
state system. Additionally, weve been made aware of individuals, some agents, who are offering plans not
approved for the federally facilitated marketplace.
Her department is working closely with the federal government, specifically the Federal Trade Commission,
which is handling suspected fraud and identity theft cases, she said.
More than 40,000 agents and brokers nationally have been trained and certified to help consumers with their
Affordable Care Act options, federal officials have said, making them a resource along with government-paid
navigators, including more than 20 in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.
While shopping online for health coverage offers many potential benefits, it represents a big transition for the
industry and for many people now trying to buy insurance, Budd said.
His company started seeing spam runs mentioning the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare starting in
September, and unsolicited advertisements in emails and other communications now account for 10 percent
to 20 percent of spam volume, he said.
The exchange website is the new kid on the digitial block, said Jim Quiggle, director of communications
for the Washingt0n, D.C.-based Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, which calls itself an alliance speaking for
consumers, insurance companies, government agencies and others. He warned of a high potential for
confusion until people become more familiar with the system.
Getting people signed up has been slow and difficult, said John Foley, a government-paid navigator with
Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County. His group has resumed making appointments with people who
want to enroll, he said, but the system is still plagued by glitches and his organization has not been able to
get anyone past initial registration, and that has been very time consuming.
Foley said he is not directly aware of any scams, but in talking with potential enrollees, we have had
questions, particularly in the area of the penalty and the collection of the penalty.
Thats the $95 or more people without health insurance could be required to pay for the 2014 tax year if they
fail to sign up for coverage by March 31.
Uncertainty about the penalty could provide an opening for unscrupulous sales pitches, but the states
Department of Financial Services says no one should be contacting consumers at home to ask for sensitive
information or demand a fee.
Never give your personal health or financial information to someone who calls or comes to your home
uninvited, even if they say they are from the marketplace, the state agency advises. Dont give your Social
Security number or credit card or banking information to companies you didnt contact or in response to
unsolicited advertisements.
Avoiding Affordable Care Act problems

Heres what government agencies and consumer groups advise:
*Dont use a search engine to find the online government marketplace. Go to healthcare.gov and choose the
links for Florida or other states (assuming technical problems ease and more people can get in).
*Dont give your Social Security number or credit card or banking information to companies you didnt
contact or in response to unsolicited advertisements.
*To report suspected fraud, call the Health Insurance Marketplace call center at 1-800-318-2596 or contact
the Federal Trade Commission. State agencies also can handle and pass along complaints.
Trump
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) Floridas Attorney General is drawing heat from Democrats after a
group backing her re-election accepted a $25,000 donation from a Donald Trump charity group.
The criticism comes as Trump faces complaints over so-called wealth seminars.
While New Yorks attorney general has sued over the seminars, only one complaint has been filed with Pam
Bondis office since she was elected about the get-rich programs put on by organizations affiliated with
Trump. That complaint was filed in 2011 by a Delray Beach retiree who said he lost $26,000 that he paid for
a three-day seminar in which he learned nothing.
Bondi spokeswoman Jenn Meale said at the time of that complaint, officials in Bondis office notified the man
that New York state was investigating similar complaints against Trump University, and suggested he
contact officials in New York.
Those complaints in New York led to a lawsuit filed in August by that states attorney general alleging that
the seminars ripped off 5,000 consumers. Meale said consumers in Florida who may have been victims of the
alleged wrongdoing would be covered under the New York suit, if the state wins.
The new controversy arose when not long after New York sued over the Trump seminars, Meale said Florida
would review that lawsuit as it does all others by attorneys general in other states. Then, a few days later, the
Donald J. Trump Foundation gave $25,000 to And Justice for All, a political committee supporting Bondis
re-election, though it isnt part of her campaign.
The organizations treasurer, Nancy Watkins, told the Tampa Bay Times that the group was comfortable with
the propriety of the contribution from the Trump Foundation.
The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.
-Molly McFarland
Attachments
News Clips 10.21.13

Health Care
Trump
Health Care
Urging consumers to enroll, the website has requested names, contact
information, Social Security numbers and individual and household income: Finally,
Affordable Health Insurance!
No, its not healthcare.gov, the starting point to enroll in the official government
online marketplace for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Palm Beach County has 136 health insurance plans for its residents to choose from
This website features the phrase Obamacare Enrollment Team in red, white and
navy blue, and includes a Stuart address in South Florida. Its one of at least two
cases referred to the Florida Attorneys Generals Office for review.
Someone affiliated with the Illinois health insurance marketplace reported the
website was trying to gather Social Security numbers and called it a matter of
immediate concern, records requested by The Palm Beach Post show.
In New Hampshire, state officials issued a cease and desist order against an Arizona
company whose website they thought looked deceptively like an official government
exchange. Similar concerns have arisen in California and Washington state.
Complicating matters, consumers continue to report difficulty getting into the
official online marketplace three weeks after its Oct. 1 launch. Watchdog groups
warn that people trying to get to the government site might not realize if they arrive
instead at an official-looking commercial website trying to generate business leads
or in a worst case, a vehicle for identity thieves.
People looking for the official government marketplace should go to healthcare.gov
and click on the appropriate links for Florida or other states, advised Christopher
Budd, threat communications manager for Tokyo-based security software firm
Trend Micro.
Do not use a search engine, Budd said. Thats not going to give you any sort of
prioritization of legitimate sites. Start at healthcare.gov. Use that to find the
appropriate state sites.
Its a good moment to be on guard, specialists say, because the online exchanges are
new, many people cant get in or are still sorting out what the law means for them,
and opportunties for confusion abound.
The Florida Attorney Generals Office is reviewing two complaints, a spokeswoman
said. In the other, an Orlando resident reported a call from a group that seemed to
imply they were with the government and were offering health insurance through
another website.
A Stuart insurance agency associated with getobamacarenow.com said its just

trying to help customers sort out their options, with no intent to mislead.
After The Post contacted them, the sites operators said Friday they took down the
Social Security number request and added a disclaimer that they are not affiliated
with the government
We want to explain we are not the government, said Nick Fiorella, vice president
of Fiorella Insurance Agency in Stuart. It is not our intent to deceive anybody.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wasnt
commenting on other sites that may be competing for consumer attention, but said
officials were working hard to smooth out difficulties.
We continue to work around the clock to improve the consumer experience on
HealthCare.gov, HHS spokesman Fabien Levy said. Volume remains high, with 17
million unique visitors in the first two weeks. We are seeing progress: wait times to
begin the online process have been virtually eliminated, and more consumers are
creating accounts, completing applications and ultimately enrolling in coverage if
they choose to do so at this time. However, we will not stop addressing issues and
improving the system until the doors to HealthCare.gov are wide open.
Floridas Department of Financial Services has received 564 calls related to the
Affordable Care Act through Oct. 16, with many inquiring about coverage options
and costs, said spokeswoman Ashley Carr.
A few referrals have been made regarding websites that may prove confusing to
consumers, Carr said, noting it was difficult to track precisely how many because of
the way complaints are classified within the state system. Additionally, weve been
made aware of individuals, some agents, who are offering plans not approved for
the federally facilitated marketplace.
Her department is working closely with the federal government, specifically the
Federal Trade Commission, which is handling suspected fraud and identity theft
cases, she said.
More than 40,000 agents and brokers nationally have been trained and certified to
help consumers with their Affordable Care Act options, federal officials have said,
making them a resource along with government-paid navigators, including more
than 20 in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.
While shopping online for health coverage offers many potential benefits, it
represents a big transition for the industry and for many people now trying to buy
insurance, Budd said.
His company started seeing spam runs mentioning the Affordable Care Act or
Obamacare starting in September, and unsolicited advertisements in emails and
other communications now account for 10 percent to 20 percent of spam volume, he
said.
The exchange website is the new kid on the digitial block, said Jim Quiggle,
director of communications for the Washingt0n, D.C.-based Coalition Against
Insurance Fraud, which calls itself an alliance speaking for consumers, insurance
companies, government agencies and others. He warned of a high potential for
confusion until people become more familiar with the system.
Getting people signed up has been slow and difficult, said John Foley, a
government-paid navigator with Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County. His group
has resumed making appointments with people who want to enroll, he said, but the
system is still plagued by glitches and his organization has not been able to get
anyone past initial registration, and that has been very time consuming.
Foley said he is not directly aware of any scams, but in talking with potential
enrollees, we have had questions, particularly in the area of the penalty and the
collection of the penalty.
Thats the $95 or more people without health insurance could be required to pay for
the 2014 tax year if they fail to sign up for coverage by March 31.
Uncertainty about the penalty could provide an opening for unscrupulous sales
pitches, but the states Department of Financial Services says no one should be
contacting consumers at home to ask for sensitive information or demand a fee.
Never give your personal health or financial information to someone who calls or
comes to your home uninvited, even if they say they are from the marketplace, the
state agency advises. Dont give your Social Security number or credit card or
banking information to companies you didnt contact or in response to unsolicited
advertisements.
Avoiding Affordable Care Act problems
Heres what government agencies and consumer groups advise:
*Dont use a search engine to find the online government marketplace. Go to
healthcare.gov and choose the links for Florida or other states (assuming technical
problems ease and more people can get in).
*Dont give your Social Security number or credit card or banking information to
companies you didnt contact or in response to unsolicited advertisements.
*To report suspected fraud, call the Health Insurance Marketplace call center at 1800-318-2596 or contact the Federal Trade Commission. State agencies also can
handle and pass along complaints.
Trump
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) Floridas Attorney General is drawing heat from
Democrats after a group backing her re-election accepted a $25,000 donation from a
Donald Trump charity group.
While New Yorks attorney general has sued over the seminars, only one complaint
has been filed with Pam Bondis office since she was elected about the get-rich
programs put on by organizations affiliated with Trump. That complaint was filed in
2011 by a Delray Beach retiree who said he lost $26,000 that he paid for a three-day
seminar in which he learned nothing.
Bondi spokeswoman Jenn Meale said at the time of that complaint, officials in
Bondis office notified the man that New York state was investigating similar
complaints against Trump University, and suggested he contact officials in New
York.
Those complaints in New York led to a lawsuit filed in August by that states
attorney general alleging that the seminars ripped off 5,000 consumers. Meale said
consumers in Florida who may have been victims of the alleged wrongdoing would
be covered under the New York suit, if the state wins.
The new controversy arose when not long after New York sued over the Trump
seminars, Meale said Florida would review that lawsuit as it does all others by
attorneys general in other states. Then, a few days later, the Donald J. Trump
Foundation gave $25,000 to And Justice for All, a political committee supporting
Bondis re-election, though it isnt part of her campaign.
The organizations treasurer, Nancy Watkins, told the Tampa Bay Times that the
group was comfortable with the propriety of the contribution from the Trump
Foundation.
The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.
News Clips 10.22.13

Trump
Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi, draws criticism over Trump Group
donation,WTSP
Other
Hillsborough sting nets 15 arrests on child-sex charges, Tampa Tribune
State analysts discuss financial impact of proposed medical marijuana law, Miami
Herald
Supreme Court will rule on role of mental disability in death row case, Miami Herald
Trump
Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi, draws criticism over Trump Group
donation, WTSP
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - Florida's Attorney General is drawing heat from
Democrats after a group backing her re-election accepted a $25,000 donation from a
Donald Trump charity group.
While New York's attorney general has sued over the seminars, only one complaint
has been filed with Pam Bondi's office since she was elected about the get-rich
programs put on by organizations affiliated with Trump. That complaint was filed in
2011 by a Delray Beach retiree who said he lost $26,000 that he paid for a three-day
seminar in which he learned nothing.
Bondi spokeswoman Jenn Meale said at the time of that complaint, officials in
Bondi's office notified the man that New York state was investigating similar
complaints against "Trump University," and suggested he contact officials in New
York.
Those complaints in New York led to a lawsuit filed in August by that state's
attorney general alleging that the seminars ripped off 5,000 consumers. Meale said
consumers in Florida who may have been victims of the alleged wrongdoing would
be covered under the New York suit, if the state wins.
The new controversy arose when not long after New York sued over the Trump
seminars, Meale said Florida would review that lawsuit as it does all others by
attorneys general in other states. Then, a few days later, the Donald J. Trump
Foundation gave $25,000 to And Justice for All, a political committee supporting
Bondi's re-election, though it isn't part of her campaign.
The organization's treasurer, Nancy Watkins, told the Tampa Bay Times that the
group was "comfortable with the propriety of the contribution from the Trump
Foundation."
Other
A weekend multi-agency sex sting has resulted in the arrests of 15 men on child sex
charges in unincorporated Hillsborough County.
In a news release, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Monday said the
five-day operation called Operation e-Guardian targeted child predators.
Using social media sites and online chat rooms, undercover agents communicated
with the men, who believed they were talking with a child. They drove to a specific
location to have sex with whom they thought was an underage boy or girl, the FDLE
said.
Sadly, sexual predators will use any means available to them, including the
Internet, to lure children in order to exploit them, Florida Attorney General Pam
Bondi said. This operation was a great multi-agency collaboration that has brought
down 15 child predators. My office has developed an online safety tip sheet for
parents and kids, and I encourage Floridians to visit MyFloridaLegal.com and follow
the human trafficking pages to download this information.
Special agents arrested 15 suspects from Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Polk,
Sarasota and Palm Beach counties:
Trinton Andre Jones, 23, of Riverview
Jeffrey Bryan Willey, 53, of Riverview
Robert John Frank, 45, of Zephyrhills
Jason Randall Miles, 46, of Tampa
Ocnel Blanc, 28, of Temple Terrace
Michael William Murphy, 23, of Sarasota
Daniel R. Anderson, 37, of Tampa
Clay Lee Johnson, 25, of Thonotosassa
Clay Lee Reddick, 28, of Winter Haven
Mark Anthony Thompson, 23, of Riverview
Samuel David Ramirez, 23, of Ruskin
Bryan Lee La Clair, 51, of Bartow
Jose Ramon Alvarez III, 23, of Wellington
Branden Robert Sarno, 23, of Palm Harbor
David R. Yoder, 68, of Dade City
The operation included law enforcement officials with FDLE, along with the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office, Office of
Statewide Prosecution and the State Attorneys Office, 13th Judicial Circuit.
Operation e-Guardian is prime example of the force-multiplier of law enforcement

partnerships. All involved are to be commended, FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey
said.
State analysts discuss financial impact of proposed medical marijuana law,
Miami Herald
A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana is still well
short of the signatures needed to make it on the 2014 ballot. But enough people
have expressed support for the referendum that a team of state analysts has started
the process of drafting the financial impact statement that would have to be
included in the ballot language.
Today's Financial Impact Estimating Conference meeting included an overview of
how other states have implemented medical marijuana laws and reviews of national
studies on the topic. The analysts discussed different ways the law could be
implemented in Florida, if voters approve, and how it could affect the state's bottom
line.
For example, depending on how medical marijuana is classified, there could be new
sales tax or property tax revenue coming into the state. The law will bring new
costs, as well. State agencies will have to oversee implementation and enforcement.
A representative of the Florida Sheriff's Association also warned about increases in
drug dependency and traffic crashes.
Led by prominent attorney John Morgan, supporters of medical marijuana have
turned in 109,310 valid signatures so far, according to the state Division of Elections
website. They need 683,149 signatures in order for the proposed amendment to
appear on the November 2014 ballot.
Enough signatures have been turned in to trigger a review of the ballot language by
Attorney General Pam Bondi and the drafting of a financial impact statement.
That committee hopes to reach an agreement and finalize that language by Nov. 4.
Their next meeting is Oct. 28 to review more information about potential costs and
revenue associated with the law, as well as estimates of the number of Floridians
who would elect to participate in a medical marijuana program.
Chief state economist Amy Baker said the number will likely fall between 175,000
and 450,000 Floridians, but additional information will help narrow the window.
The ballot initiative aims to legalize marijuana use for "individuals with debilitating
diseases as determined by a licensed Florida physician." It also would allow
caregivers to legally assist these patients with using marijuana.
Federal laws that prohibit carrying marijuana across state laws would remain in
effect, and the Florida law would not allow the use of marijuana for non-medical
purposes. As the law currently reads, the state would be solely responsible for
regulating distribution centers that produce and dispense medical marijuana.
Supreme Court will rule on role of mental disability in death row case, Miami
Herald
WASHINGTON -- Freddie Lee Hall has survived Floridas death row for decades
since he was convicted and sentenced for a 1978 murder.
Now the Supreme Court will use his case to judge the states strict standard for
determining when a convicted criminals mental disability is severe enough to rule
out the death penalty.
On Monday, the high court announced that it will hear Halls challenge to Floridas
rule that a convicted criminal must have a tested IQ of 69 or lower in order to be
deemed intellectually disabled. This determination is a matter of life or death, as the
Supreme Court has ruled previously that the intellectually disabled formerly
referred to as the mentally retarded cannot face the death penalty.
Im very pleased they will be taking the case up, Eric Pinkard, Halls Tampa-based
appellate attorney, said in a telephone interview Monday. The Florida definition
leads to the possibility that the mentally retarded will be executed.
Whitney Ray, the press secretary to Florida Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi, said
in a statement that Florida courts had found that Hall is not intellectually disabled.
We will urge the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Halls sentence.
Pinkard argues that Floridas explicit definition, which allows the execution of
someone with a tested IQ of 70 or above, fails to account for standard measurement
error. The Supreme Court itself, in the 2002 decision protecting the intellectually
disabled from execution, declared that an IQ between 70 and 75 is typically
considered the cutoff score.
The sixteenth of 17 children, Hall was tortured by his mother and abused by his
neighbors, according to a 1993 dissenting opinion in the Florida Supreme Court. He
had an IQ of 60 and was functionally illiterate and has the short-term memory of a
first-grader, the dissenting opinion observed. In later years, though, Halls IQ was
variously measured at 71 and 73.
Unfortunately, Pinkard wrote in his petition to the high court, the human race has
not developed a test for mental retardation that is like a blood pressure machine,
hooked up to a defendants arm with a (gauge) that reads R for retarded or N for
not retarded.
Pinkard is with the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, a state-funded agency whose
attorneys represent indigent death-row inmates. Their cases can take years to
unfold; Pinkard has been representing Hall since 1999.
Hall and Mack Ruffin Jr. were charged in the Feb. 21, 1978, murders of Karol Lea
Hurst, a 21-year-old housewife who was seven months pregnant, and Hernando
County Deputy Sheriff Lonnie Coburn. According to a court summary, Hall and
Ruffin collaborated in kidnapping Hurst in her own car from a Pantry Pride
supermarket parking lot in Leesburg, Fla. They drove to a wooded area, where, Hall
told investigators, Ruffin beat, sexually assaulted and shot Hurst.
Shortly thereafter, prosecutors say, Coburn confronted the two men, and was killed
with his own gun.
Hall and Ruffin were tried separately for the Hurst murder, of which both men were
convicted and received death sentences. Ruffins sentence later was commuted to
life in prison. Hall, whos now 68, is one of 405 inmates who await execution in
Florida.
In addition to the intelligence test score cutoff, Florida defines intellectual disability
as a condition that appears in childhood and is accompanied by deficits in adaptive
behavior, which essentially means the ability to live independently. By one count,
more than a dozen other states use an IQ score of 70 as a cutoff point, giving the
Supreme Courts ultimate ruling potentially more significance.
This is not just a single case; its not just a single state, said Richard Dieter, the
executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. A fair number of
defendants lives depend on this. This could have broad implications.
The courts decision to hear Halls appeal means that at least four of the nine justices
are interested in revisiting a 2012 Florida Supreme Court opinion that rejected the
inmates death-penalty challenge. Simply getting this far is also a victory of sorts for
Hall and Pinkard, as the U.S. Supreme Court typically agrees to hear only about 75
cases out of the 9,000 or so petitions filed annually.
In the 2002 case, called Atkins v. Virginia, a divided court first concluded that the
execution of the intellectually disabled violated the Constitutions Eighth
Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. The courts 6-3
majority reasoned that society views mentally retarded offenders as categorically
less culpable than the average criminal.
Two of the justices who dissented in that case, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas,
remain on the court. A staunch law-and-order conservative, Justice Samuel Alito, has
replaced Sandra Day OConnor, who voted with the majority in the Atkins case. A
frequent swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy was a member of the majority in
2002 that limited the death penalty.
News Clips 10.23.13

Prisoners
Attorney General Bondi, FDLE Commissioner Bailey and Big Bend Crime Stoppers
Offer up to $20,000 in Total for Tips on Release of Two North Florida Inmates, Bay
County Press (also in Ft. Myers News Press)
20K Reward For Information On Convicts Release, WCTV
FDLE: Suspects Targeted But 'A Lot We Don't Know' In Escape Case, WJCT
Fla. AG, Crimestoppers Offers Reward for Info on Escaped Prisoners, WTVY
Opinions
Editorial: Bondi should demand return of $25,000 check from Trump, Palm Beach
Post
Editorial: A Medicaid tale of two GOP governors, Tampa Bay Times
Other
State attorney general to address chamber, Daytona Beach News Journal
Judge Fulford rules against net ban as 'legal absurdity', Tallahassee Democrat
Prisoners
Attorney General Bondi, FDLE Commissioner Bailey and Big Bend Crime
Stoppers Offer up to $20,000 in Total for Tips on Release of Two North Florida
Inmates, Bay County Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.Attorney General Pam Bondi, Florida Department of Law
Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey, and the Crime Stoppers of the Big Bend
today announced that they are offering up to $20,000 in total for those who provide
tips on the release of the two North Florida inmates. Attorney General Pam Bondi
partnered with Crime Stoppers of the Big Bend Executive Director Sharon Ofuani to
offer up to $10,000 for information provided to FDLE that leads to the arrest and
conviction of the party or parties that constructed the forged documents or
harbored and assisted Jenkins and Walker after the escape. This amount is in
addition to the up to $10,000 that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is
offering for the same information, bringing the total up to $20,000.
The illegal operation to help release two murderers who were serving life
sentences involved more than just the prisoners, and we have partnered with the
Big Bend Crime Stoppers to provide up to $10,000 to those who come forward with
information that leads to the arrest of those who helped the inmates. This money is
in addition to the up to $10,000 that FDLE is offering, stated Attorney General Pam
Bondi.
This investigation is a top priority for FDLE and leads continue to come in, said
FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey. This reward money should entice someone to
help us find answers sooner rather than later.
I am proud to collaborate with Attorney General Pam Bondi to offer up to $10,000
to those who provide tips that lead to the arrest of those who helped the two
inmates by forging documents or otherwise assisting them, stated Sharon Ofuani,
Executive Director of Big Bend Crime Stoppers.
Anyone who has tips should contact Big Bend Crime Stoppers at 850-574-TIPS
(8477).

Tallahassee, FL - Saturday night, Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins were waiting on
a vehicle from Atlanta to pick them up from a Panama City motel and take them out
of state.
Instead the two convicted murderers, who were released from the Franklin
Correctional Institute on forged documents, were arrested.
"Jenkins and Walker are already serving life sentences," noted Florida Department
of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey. "They have very little to lose," he
said. "But those who helped them have very much to lose," Bailey added.
Bailey also revealed Jenkins tried a similar scheme in 2011 but failed.
Altogether Bailey says in the last few years, including the Jenkins and Walker case,
there have been five forged document escape atttempts from Franklin Correctional
Institute, one from Gulf Correctional Institute and one from the Pinellas County Jail.
Additionally Bailey says they found two other Franklin C.I. inmates were in the
process of getting fake release documents.
The commissioner also says it's possible there may be prisoners released on
fraudulent papers they don't know about.
"We are worried about that and we will do everything we can to confirm whether
there is or is not more out there," he said.
FDLE has seized computers and printers from Franklin C.I. and an I-Pad and cell
phone from the motel where Jenkins and Walker were captured.
The investigation is focusing on who created the forged documents and tracking
those documents through the system with a focus on one stop on their journey
where the documents were mailed, the Orange County Clerk of Court's Office.
Bailey: "There are no arrests anticipated for today."
Reporter: "There will be in the future?"
Bailey: "Yes there definitely will be in the future."
Bailey says Jenkins and Walker aren't cooperating.
FDLE, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Big Bend Crime Stoppers are offering up to
$20,000 in rewards for information leading to additional arrests.
TALLAHASSEE (The News Service of Florida) The head of the statewide lawenforcement agency said Tuesday several suspects have been "targeted" for helping
two murderers escape from prison by using forged documents. But he added, "there
is a way to go" in the investigation.
"There is still a lot we do not know and a lot we have yet to prove," Florida
Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey told reporters during
a mid-day news conference.
After the news conference, Bailey said he hopes to have new information to share
before he goes in front of the Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations
Subcommittee in two weeks to address the escapes.
Bailey said the state is widening the scope of its investigation into how Charles
Walker and Joseph Jenkins, both sentenced to life sentences for murder, were able
to get out of the Franklin Correctional Institution.
The FDLE and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in conjunction with Big Bend Crime
Stoppers, have each offered rewards of up to $10,000 for information about people
who helped create and submit the bogus court paperwork for Jenkins and Walker,
both 34 and from the Orlando area.
The paperwork, received in the mail by the Orange County clerk of courts, indicated
Walker and Jenkins had their life sentences reduced, earning releases.
Bondi, in a release, said an "illegal operation" aided in the escapes.
Walker and Jenkins, who were caught Saturday at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in
Panama City as they awaited someone from the Atlanta area to transport them out
of state, are not cooperating with authorities.
Interviews continue with family members and friends of the inmates, Bailey said.
What the FDLE and others knew about the use of forged documents in attempted
escapes is expected to be discussed by the Senate subcommittee.
Sen. Rob Bradley, a Fleming Island Republican who is chairman of the Senate
subcommittee, announced late Sunday that he will hold a hearing on how the
escapes occurred and whether there exist any other, as yet undetected, erroneous
inmate releases.
Bailey said the use of such fake documents was discussed this summer during talks
between the FDLE and state's 20 state attorneys.
"At that time it had not rose to the level that obviously this case has risen too,"
Bailey noted.
It remains unknown who submitted the paperwork, how Walker and Jenkins were
able to travel from Franklin County after their releases and how widespread the use
of false documents has been by inmates.
"We are worried about that and we are doing everything to confirm there is not
more out there," Bailey said.
Bailey said authorities know of at least five other attempted escapes using the same
method of faked documents, including two that were in process when discovered.
One of the prior attempts was by Jenkins. The attempts have occurred at the
Franklin Correctional and Gulf Correctional institutions and the Pinellas County Jail.
The first known attempt using similar faked court papers was in October 2009 in a
case involving Nydeed Nashaddai. The papers indicated charges of cashing stolen
checks against Nashaddai had been dismissed. Nashaddai was out of jail for about
16 hours before the papers were deemed false and he was apprehended. Nashaddai
was sentenced to 20 years for escape and housed at the Franklin facility.
Meanwhile, FDLE and the Department of Corrections are also combing through
several years of inmate records statewide to determine if others used fraudulent
orders to con their way from behind bars.
Bailey said forensic and digital experts are reviewing the forged papers, computer
equipment from the Franklin Correctional Institution library and an iPad and mobile
phone that were located in the motel room where Jenkins and Walker were picked
up.
On Monday, Ninth Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr., issued an order that
changes procedures for dealing with criminal-court documents to try to prevent any
other inmates from making similar escapes.
Perry advised the Orange County and Osceola County clerks of court that "effective
immediately" they must verify with a judge or judicial assistant that an order was
issued before the clerk processes and transmits the order to the appropriate
Department of Corrections facility.
Perry's directive follows letters sent Friday from the Department of Corrections to
chief judges and judges in each circuit that when an inmate's sentence is modified,
the FDLE will require the judge whose name is on the document to attest in a followup check to verify the change in sentencing.
Jenkins, serving a life sentence on a first-degree murder conviction from Orange
County, received his release from Franklin Correctional Institution on Sept. 27 by
using fake documents that indicated his sentence had been reduced.
Walker, serving a life sentence on a second-degree murder conviction also from
Orange County, used the same means to get out of the Franklin prison Oct. 8.
The forged documents used by Walker and Jenkins included the seal of the Orange
County clerk of court's office and signatures of numerous officials from the circuit,
including Perry and Orange County State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton.
Perry and Ashton both gained national fame through the 2011 Casey Anthony
murder trial, which has made their signatures easy to locate online due to the highprofile case.
"Absent the measure of redacting signatures and seals, cooperation between the
Court and agencies to diligently follow uniform internal policies will help to ensure
verification of an entire court document as legitimate before any action is taken,"
Perry wrote in his order.
Perry also ordered the clerks of court in both counties to no longer accept criminalcase orders that have been placed in public drop-off boxes. Also, he ordered clerks
and prosecutors to establish procedures to ensure the validity of filings indicating
the state is no longer pursuing or prosecuting cases.
today announced that they are offering up to $20,000 in total for those who provide
tips on the release of the two North Florida inmates. Attorney General Pam Bondi
partnered with Crime Stoppers of the Big Bend Executive Director Sharon Ofuani to
offer up to $10,000 for information provided to FDLE that leads to the arrest and
conviction of the party or parties that constructed the forged documents or
harbored and assisted Jenkins and Walker after the escape. This amount is in
addition to the up to $10,000 that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is
offering for the same information, bringing the total up to $20,000.
Big Bend Crime Stoppers to provide up to $10,000 to those who come forward with
information that leads to the arrest of those who helped the inmates. This money is
in addition to the up to $10,000 that FDLE is offering, stated Attorney General Pam
Bondi.
This investigation is a top priority for FDLE and leads continue to come in, said
FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey. This reward money should entice someone to
help us find answers sooner rather than later.
"I am proud to collaborate with Attorney General Pam Bondi to offer up to $10,000
to those who provide tips that lead to the arrest of those who helped the two
inmates by forging documents or otherwise assisting them," stated Sharon Ofuani,
Executive Director of Big Bend Crime Stoppers.
Anyone who has tips should contact Big Bend Crime Stoppers at 850-574-TIPS
(8477).
Opinions
Editorial: Bondi should demand return of $25,000 check from Trump, Palm
Beach Post
New York authorities dont think too highly of the financial advice doled out for
years at get-rich seminars affiliated with part-time Palm Beacher Donald Trump.
Many customers who spent thousands to attend say they were ripped off. But it
seems as if The Donald himself can still spot a good investment from time to time.
Take his foundations sudden interest in the reelection campaign of Florida Attorney
General Pam Bondi. Just days after Ms. Bondis office announced that it might to join
a lawsuit against Mr. Trump and his school, Mr. Trumps foundation cut a $25,000
check to a Pam Bondi reelection committee.
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Despite the timing, the political committee found nothing amiss. It kept the money,
and Ms. Bondi decided not to participate in the lawsuit. The committees treasurer
told the Tampa Bay Times that we are comfortable with the propriety of the
contribution.
Ms. Bondi does not have direct control over the committee that took the cash. But
she could ask that the money be returned to Mr. Trumps foundation, and she
should. Even if the donation had no effect on her decision regarding the lawsuit
only one disgruntled Trump University customer in Florida, Charles Jacobson, 62, of
Delray Beach, reportedly has registered a complaint since Ms. Bondi took office it
creates a significant appearance of impropriety.
The lawsuit was filed in August by New Yorks attorney general against Mr. Trump
and the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative (formerly Trump University), which New
York accuses of being a sham. Many customers criticize the company and its
affiliates for promising to reveal Mr. Trumps deal-making secrets but teaching little
of use. New York seeks $40 million in restitution on behalf of 5,000 customers.
Complaints about Boca Raton real estate institute draw attention to Donald Trump
Cerabino: Donald Trump has a new target for his anger
But not all Trump seminar attendees are affected. As The Posts Jeff Ostrowski
reported last month, several Palm Beach County residents who felt jilted by such
seminars had paid their money to a company now out of business called the Trump
Institute of Boca Raton, which paid to license Trump Universitys name. That
shuttered company is not named in the lawsuit.
Whatever the outcome of the litigation, Floridas decision not to participate is
tainted by Mr. Trumps donation. It ought to go without saying that law enforcement
officials shouldnt accept money, directly or indirectly, from people they are
investigating. Yet Ms. Bondi seems to have concluded that such lofty principles are a
bad investment .
This is a tale of two Republican governors who oppose the Affordable Care Act. One
looks out for the best interests of his state's residents, and one does not. One is
pragmatic about accepting federal money to cover the uninsured, and one is
hypocritical. Guess which one is Ohio Gov. John Kasich and which one is Florida Gov.
Rick Scott.
Hint: Both governors live in states with highly ranked college football teams, but the
pragmatic one lives where it snows.
Kasich took extraordinary measures this week to win legislative approval to accept
more than $2.5 billion in federal dollars in the next fiscal year to expand Medicaid
and cover 275,000 uninsured Ohioans. That makes Ohio the 25th state to move
toward accepting Medicaid expansion money, including a number of states with
Republican governors. Yet Florida sits on the sidelines because of a weak governor
and a stubborn state House speaker who places ideology above the health of the
state's residents.
Florida would receive $51 billion in federal money over 10 years to cover 1 million
uninsured residents if the Legislature would vote to accept the Medicaid expansion
money under the Affordable Care Act. Federal money would cover the entire cost of
the expansion for the first three years, and then the state would gradually pick up
part of the cost until it paid 10 percent. Now low-income Floridians who would be
covered by the expansion fall into a gap: They don't qualify for Medicaid, and they
make too little money to qualify for subsidies to buy insurance in the new federal
marketplace. So they will continue to show up in hospital emergency rooms for
expensive charity care, and the costs are paid by taxpayers at public hospitals and
by paying patients through higher insurance premiums. Scott said Florida should
take the Medicaid expansion money, but unlike Kasich, he hasn't lifted a finger to
force the issue.
One of House Speaker Will Weatherford's specious arguments against accepting the
Medicaid expansion money is that the federal government can't be trusted to pay its
share and could force the state to pay more. Yet the Scott administration wants the
federal government to contribute another $2 billion a year to a different program
that helps cover health care costs for the poor and uninsured. So it's fine to seek
federal money and use it to pay for health care costs for poor Floridians as long
as the money is not tied to President Barack Obama's signature health care reform.
That's the kind of pretzel logic that only makes sense in Tallahassee.
In Ohio, the governor's office says on its website that if the state did not accept the
Medicaid expansion money, the federal money and the jobs it will create would go to
other states. That is exactly what Florida is doing by giving up billions in federal
dollars and the thousands of jobs it would help create to provide health care to
residents who need it.
There is a smarter approach. Scott should prod the Legislature to accept the federal
Medicaid expansion money, and Florida does not even have to spend it on Medicaid.
It could use the Arkansas model, which uses the money to subsidize the cost of
private insurance for the uninsured. Until then, uninsured Floridians who don't
qualify for Medicaid but earn too little income to qualify for insurance subsidies
have a last resort:
Buy a snow shovel and move to Ohio, where the Republican governor and legislative
leaders are more compassionate and economically pragmatic than their Florida
counterparts.
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DAYTONA BEACH State Attorney General Pam Bondi will be the guest speaker at
a lunch forum hosted by the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 6.
The event, which begins at noon, will be at the Ocean Center, the Volusia County-run
beachside convention center at 101 N. Atlantic Ave. in Daytona Beach.
Pam Bondi will update our community on a number of issues affecting the business
community including Affordable Care Act, efforts to halt synthetic drugs, deceptive
trade practices, addressing human trafficking as well as other topics, said Jim
Cameron, the chambers senior vice president of government relations, in a news
release. It will be enlightening to hear more about her plan to create jobs and
promote economic development, he added.
The luncheon is open to the public with advance reservation. The cost to attend is
$25 per person for chamber members and $30 for non-members. Admission
includes parkin and lunch catered by Ovations Food Services. Pre-payment should
be made to the Daytona Regional Chamber via check or credit card. For
reservations, call Josie Bull of the chamber at 386-523-3675 or email her at
Josie@daytonachamber.com.
In a sweeping judgment in favor of Wakulla County commercial mullet fishermen,
Leon County Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford on Tuesday ordered a halt to enforcement
of Floridas constitutional amendment limiting net fishing in state coastal waters.
Fulford sided with the Wakulla Commercial Fisherman's Association, Panacea baitand-tackle shop owner Ronald Fred Crum and county mullet fishermen Jonas Porter
and Keith Ward, who sued FWC in 2011. They argued during a two-day hearing last
year the mesh size of nets the agency forces them to use kills too many baby fish and
violates the very constitutional amendment its rules are meant to protect. Fulford,
who spent a year considering her decision, went out on the water off St. Marks last
September to see for herself how the nets worked.
Calling contradictions between the so-called net ban approved by voters in 1994
and rules adopted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in
1997 to implement it a legal absurdity, Fulfords decision is the latest turn in a 20year legal battle that she said may only be resolved by further amending of the
constitution.
The court is not saying that preserving our marine life is absurd. Instead the
absurdity is created in the law and how it is being applied. It is abundantly unfair for
the courts to continue to attempt enforcement of laws that contradict each other,
Fulford wrote in her 11-page ruling. An absolute mess has been created.
I think her order is entirely correct, not just because we prevailed, but because she
has for the first time conducted an evidentiary hearing, said Tallahassee attorney
Ronald Mowrey, who represented the fishermen and has litigated the issue for
decades. The evidence was very, very clear You cant reconcile the rules they
have enacted with their legislative authority with the constitution. They are
discriminating against the mullet fishermen.
Within hours of Fulfords order, Attorney General Pam Bondis office filed on behalf
of FWC a notice of appeal of the judges decision to the 1st District Court of Appeal.
We are disappointed with the courts ruling, said FWC spokeswoman Amanda
Nalley. We are appealing because we dont think it is valid.
The appeal puts Fulfords order to not enforce the law on hold, Nalley said.
We are going to continue to enforce the law, she added.
Crum expected FWC to appeal, but he wishes the two sides could settle and work
together to fix the inconsistencies between the agencys rules and the constitutional
amendment.
Weve been at this for 20 years, Crum said. I wish we could get it over with.
Mowrey said he and his clients would be happy to set aside the appeals process and
try to mediate an agreement with state officials. Alternatively, he said, the matter
should immediately go to the states highest court.
This is a major public-policy matter that needs to be addressed by the Supreme
Court, Mowrey said.
At issue is an FWC rule that defines any net with a stretched mess size greater than
2 inches a gill net and thereby illegal under Florida law. But Fulford pointed out in
her forcefully worded order that under the net ban amendment, all nets except a
cast net are illegal and in fact gill, or entangle, fish.
We cannot have a provision in our Constitution which outlaws the use of all nets in
fishing, except use of a hand thrown cast net, and at the same time have rules
adopted by the FWC that make exceptions to this constitutional provision, Fulford
wrote. It is also absurd that a net as defined by FWC as lawful for the mullet
fishermen to use, cannot even be used in the manner prescribed by FWC to catch
fish.

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News Clips 10.28.13
Health Care
Sign-Up Push For Obamacare' Goes Statewide, Lakeland Ledger
Rx Drugs
F.D.A. Shift on Painkillers Was Years in the Making, NY Times
Internet Cafes
Florida lawmakers may have to tackle Internet cafes again, Sun Sentinel (also in Orlando Sentinel)
Opinions
Commentary: Florida marijuana amendment proposal rife with flaws, bad impacts, Bradenton Herald
Commentary: Medical marijuana would be bad medicine for Florida, Palm Beach Post
Other
Bondi receives cash from notable names, Tampa Tribune
Health Care
Organizers trying to sign people up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act say they're launching
their most extensive effort yet in Florida.
Hundreds of volunteers for Get Covered America have been going door to door, making phone calls and
taking part in nearly 100 community events through the weekend to encourage people to sign up for
"Obamacare." They also hosted events at churches and synagogues as part of "Health Care in the Pulpit."
The group's Florida director, Nicholas Duran, said residents have been eager to learn about options.
However, counselors across the state have had difficulty actually enrolling consumers because of the troubled
healthcare.gov website run by federal health officials. Many have been unable to even see how much health
plans cost because of the website problems.
Rx Drugs
When Heather Dougherty heard the news last week that the Food and Drug Administration had
recommended tightening how doctors prescribed the most commonly used narcotic painkillers, she was
overjoyed. Fourteen years earlier, her father, Dr. Ronald J. Dougherty, had filed a formal petition urging
federal officials to crack down on the drugs.
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Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, backed limits on prescription painkillers.
Dr. Dougherty told officials in 1999 that more of the patients turning up at his clinic near Syracuse were
addicted to legal narcotics like Vicodin and Lortab that contain the drug hydrocodone than to illegal narcotics
like heroin.
Since then, narcotic painkillers, or opioids, have become the most frequently prescribed drugs in the United
States and have set off a wave of misuse, abuse and addiction. Experts estimate that more than 100,000
people have died in the last decade from overdoses involving the drugs. For his part, Dr. Dougherty, who
foresaw the problem, retired in 2007 and is now 81 and living in a nursing home.
Too many lives have been ruined, his daughter said.
The story behind the F.D.A.s turnaround on the pain pills, last Thursday, involved a rare victory by
lawmakers from states hard hit by prescription drug abuse over well-financed lobbyists for business and
patient groups, one that came during a continuing public health crisis.
Just last year, Representative Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan the Houses biggest recipient during
the last election cycle of drug industry campaign contributions, with nearly $300,000 blocked a measure
that would have imposed the restrictions the F.D.A. backed last week.
Among the provisions in the bill, pushed by Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, was one
that is central to the new F.D.A. recommendations: reducing to 90 days the length of time in which a patient
could obtain refills for painkillers containing hydrocodone without a doctor visit. The drugs are now widely
sold by generic producers.
Mr. Upton, who is the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, argued that imposing new
limits would harm patients who needed the drugs, which are used to treat pain from injuries, arthritis, dental
extractions and other problems. That stance was echoed by patient groups, lobbyists representing drug
makers, pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS, local drugstores and physicians groups like the American
Medical Association.
The F.D.A.s long resistance to added restrictions on the drugs underscores what critics say is its continuing
struggle to address the complexities of the painkiller problem in its often conflicting roles one as a
regulator that approves drugs and the other as a drug safety watchdog.
On Friday, public health advocates who had cheered the agencys decision the day before were dismayed
when the F.D.A. approved a new, high-potency painkiller despite an 11-2 vote by an expert panel of its own
advisers not to do so. The panel concluded in December that the long-acting opioid, called Zohydro, could
lead to the same type of abuse and addiction as OxyContin.
A top F.D.A. official, Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, said Zohydro would give doctors another drug to treat
long-term pain. But Representative Harold Rogers, Republican of Kentucky, said on Friday that top F.D.A.
officials had recently assured him they would only approve new opioids like Zohydro if they were marketed
in formulations intended to deter abuse. OxyContin is now formulated that way, but Zohydro, which is
contains hydrocodone without acetaminophen, is not. Its producer, Zogenix, says it will closely monitor use
of the drug.
It is like the original OxyContin, so that is real problematical, Mr. Rogers said.
It was in 1999 that Dr. Dougherty noticed there was something unusual about the regulations governing the
pain pills to which his patients were becoming addicted.
Hydrocodone, the active narcotic in the pills, faced tighter prescribing restrictions if used alone than if it was
contained in a medication that combined it with acetaminophen, an over-the-counter painkiller found in
products like Tylenol.
Controlled substances are overseen by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which classifies drugs and their
prescribing rules into categories called schedules based a medications potential for abuse. In the 1970s, drug
companies successfully argued to Congress that Vicodin and similar products should be placed in a less
restrictive category known as Schedule III because the use of over-the-counter drugs like acetaminophen in
them would reduce their misuse and increase their effectiveness.
Schedule III drugs are easier for doctors to prescribe and for patients to refill than those considered to pose
the highest abuse risk, which are placed in Schedule II. For example, patients can get refills for a Schedule III
drug for as long as six months before seeing a doctor again, twice as long as for a Schedule II drug. Also,
drugstores face tighter and more costly storage and record-keeping requirements for Schedule II drugs.
By the 1980s, however, drugs like Vicodin were being widely abused, and when Dr. Dougherty petitioned
D.E.A. officials in 1999 urging a crackdown, the number of overdose deaths was also climbing.
The D.E.A. began a lengthy investigation, and the agency called on the F.D.A. in 2004 to undertake a review.
Law enforcement has documented the diversion of millions of dosage units of hydrocodone by theft, doctor
shopping, fraudulent prescriptions, bogus call-in prescriptions, D.E.A. officials wrote at the time.
The F.D.A. concluded in 2008 that the pain pills should remain in Schedule III. It argued that the drugs were
less prone to abuse and that indicators of problems associated with them, like increased emergency room
visits, were, when viewed on a relative basis, not as high as for Schedule II drugs because the pills at issue
were prescribed far more often.
Experts said there was actually little clear data on either side. For one, scant testing existed on the question of
whether acetaminophen lowered hydrocodones abuse. And data about the drugs effect in the real world, like
hospital visits, was imprecise and could be interpreted in different ways.
It made no sense that these were Schedule III drugs, said Dr. Edward Michna, a pain expert at Brigham and
Womens Hospital in Boston.
But there were other issues besides scientific ones. Lobbying groups representing interests like drugstores and
patient organizations like the American Cancer Society had long argued that changing the medications
scheduling would have broad patient effects and that other steps could be taken to curtail the drugs abuse.
Such patient groups receive drug company contributions, and while they insist those do not influence their
policies, they often join lobbying forces with drug companies on issues related to access to medications.
Amid the debate, some lawmakers tried to take action.
Before joining the Senate in 2010, Mr. Manchin, as governor of West Virginia, had watched the devastation
caused by prescription painkiller abuse. Doctors are passing out this drug like candy, he said.
He came to Washington determined to change things. But last year he witnessed the influence of the drug
industry when Mr. Upton, the representative from Michigan, after receiving appeals from pharmaceutical
industry executives and other groups to intervene, blocked the proposal that Mr. Manchin had persuaded the
Senate to adopt.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Upton said he believed Congress should not be micromanaging agencies.
Drug scheduling requires the expertise of the F.D.A. and D.E.A., that spokeswoman, Noelle Clemente,
said. This decision should be made by the agencies.
Mr. Manchin, however, salvaged what then appeared to be a minor concession, a requirement that the F.D.A.
hold a public hearing to review the issue.
When the meeting began in January, it appeared that a panel of outside F.D.A. advisers would side with the
view of agency scientists that there was not enough evidence to warrant action, said Sharon Walsh, a
researcher at the University of Kentucky who was invited by the agency to give a presentation. But as the day
unfolded, she said, the position of those experts appeared to shift as they reviewed the data and heard
compelling testimony both from parents who had lost children to drug abuse and patients helped by the
medications.
At the end, the panel voted 19-10 to tighten prescribing controls. But such votes are not binding on the F.D.A.
As months passed, Mr. Manchin feared lobbyists on the other side would prevail, as they had on his
legislative proposal.
I was getting worried that K Street was about to block this again, he said, using the Washington vernacular
for lobbyists.
So he began a counterattack and, in recent weeks, contacted top officials at the White House, the F.D.A. and
the Department of Health and Human Services. He also enlisted other lawmakers like Senator Tom Harkin,
Democrat of Iowa, to make calls to top Obama administration officials.
On Thursday, both he and Mr. Upton received phone calls from top health officials, notifying them of the
decision.
It is still nice to know that good things can be done, Mr. Manchin said.
Still, experts said, some patients, like those who live in rural areas or are homebound or in nursing homes,
would face new hardships in obtaining the drugs under the new rules. They added that doctors might turn to
less effective drugs.
On Saturday, Dr. Doughertys daughter visited her father and shared the news. His eyes brightened and he
tried to sit up in bed, she said.
It was a long time coming, wasnt it, Dad? she said.
Yes, it was, she said he replied.
Internet Cafes
Florida lawmakers may have to tackle Internet cafes again, Sun Sentinel
Legislators moved swiftly last spring to shutter senior arcades and Internet cafes popping up all over the
state.
But less than a year after they did that, they may have to go back to the drawing board because several
businesses are reopening.
"These people are very sophisticated and the technology is very sophisticated, so it wouldn't surprise me if
we had to go back and take a look at it," said state Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, who drafted the
legislation last spring and is a key adviser to Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville.
Internet cafe operators argued they were legal under the sweepstakes law that allowed, for example,
McDonald's to run its popular Monopoly giveaways. At Internet cafes, players received "sweepstakes entries"
for buying time to use the Internet, but the instantaneous sweepstakes results were portrayed as a slot
machine. The typical wagers were 25 cents per play, and patrons could collect cash winnings at any time.
Senior arcades, in contrast, argued they were legal under the "Chuck E. Cheese" law, which awarded patrons
for playing games of skill. At senior arcades, players had to hit a "stop" button on a machine. The minimum
play was usually 8 cents, and the payouts were typically $25 or $50 gift cards from companies such as Publix
or Visa.
The current law didn't enact an outright ban. Rather, it banned the business model by outlawing cash prizes or
gift cards and the types of machines that Internet cafes and senior arcades used.
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Most closed their doors immediately, but now some of those companies are reopening with retrofitted
machines and are giving away prizes such as towels or cookware.
The state isn't tracking how many have reopened, though they are collecting anecdotal evidence.
About 40 senior arcades reopened over the summer. Additionally, Thrasher said 15 Internet cafes have
sprouted up in Duval County.
Senior arcades, more popular in South Florida, have argued that they shouldn't have been caught up in the
law that Thrasher sponsored to shut down Internet cafes. They view themselves as collateral damage.
Last March, a state and federal investigation into the group Allied Veterans, an Internet cafe operator, ended
in dozens of indictments and the resignation of then-Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, who previously served as a
consultant to the group.
In turn, the House and Senate moved to outlaw Internet cafes, but also included a look at senior arcades.
Arcade owners argued that they were not anything like Internet cafes and they provided safe entertainment
for senior citizens.
But legislators disagreed and Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, who leads the Senate Gaming Committee, said
they won't hesitate to look at them again if they are re-emerging.
"I'd say last year in session, we determined that gambling is illegal unless it's legal, and there was no
provision for senior arcades," he said. "So we passed a bill to close them down. I think it's appropriate that
staff take a look at it."
Michael Wolf, a lawyer for the Florida Arcade and Bingo Association, acknowledged that some businesses
changed the model to comply with the new law, but that the changes made last spring "closed many
legitimate and compliant businesses."
If legislators want to keep them closed down for good, they may have to keep coming back to the issue.
In North Carolina, the Legislature has been trying for six years to shutter Internet cafes or sweepstakes cafes.
But the strip-mall casinos simply retool the technology or business model and reopen.
Thrasher said they may need to take a broader approach to keep Internet cafes and senior arcades from
reopening in Florida.
But that will be part of a broader conversation that Richter's committee is having on the status of gambling in
Florida.
Although legislators were resolute in outlawing Internet cafes and senior arcades, they do acknowledge many
other forms of gambling in Florida, including horse and dog tracks, poker rooms, jai alai frontons, and slot
machines at select casinos in South Florida.
Additionally, the state has a compact with the Seminole Tribe, which gives it the exclusive right to offer highstakes card games like blackjack at its facilities as long as it gives the state a cut of the proceeds. The state
earns about $200 million a year off of that compact.
Additionally, Las Vegas-style casinos would like to enter the Florida market and build luxury casino hotels in
Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
Opinions
Commentary: Florida marijuana amendment proposal rife with flaws, bad impacts, Bradenton Herald
The Manatee County Substance Abuse Coalition agrees with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi that the
political committee People United for Medical Marijuana's proposed initiative petition being spearheaded by
attorney John Morgan to amend the Florida Constitution is seriously flawed and would have a profoundly
negative impact on the state of Florida.
Our concerns include:
The proposal does not convey its true meaning and ramifications.
The sponsor obscures the most fundamental issue underlying its proposal: the nature and scope of marijuana
use the amendment would allow.
The title and summary suggest the amendment would allow medical marijuana in narrow, defined
circumstances, and only for patients with "debilitating diseases." But if the amendment passes, Florida law
would allow marijuana in limitless situations.
Any physician could approve marijuana for seemingly any reason to seemingly any person (of any age) -including those without "debilitating diseases."
Rather than informing voters that federal criminal law restricts medical marijuana, the ballot summary
misleadingly suggests the opposite.
We have reviewed this document and also have grave concerns about the loopholes that create the possibility
of replacing pill mills with pot shops.
Anyone wishing a copy can email me at skramer@drugfreemanatee.org, and I will provide a copy of the
proposed amendment.
MCSAC believes that once Floridians are provided with clear, correct information, they will prove to be
smarter than the political committee and John Morgan realize.
We need to protect our Constitution, the foundation document meant to provide for our basic rights and
organization of government.
As the Florida Chamber of Commerce noted, our Constitution should be protected and not be sold to special
interest groups trying to purchase a place in it for their ideas to be forced on the rest of us.
Further, it must be emphasized that under federal statute marijuana is still illegal, limiting the ability of
financial institutions to support an illegal industry; the sale of marijuana is therefore a cash business.
Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube and Bradenton Police Chief Michael Radzilowski wisely warned us that
legalization will lead to an increase in crime and fraud.
Congratulations to them for having the courage to alert us to what they know, as professional law officers,
will negatively impact Manatee.
Recently John Morgan, Kevin Sabet, Ph.D. (director of the Drug Policy Institute at UF College of Medicine)
and Charlie Brown (Denver city councilmen) participated in a NPR radio debate (WUSF Florida Matters:
Medical Marijuana).
Mr. Brown, who is on the committee attempting to regulate marijuana in Denver, clearly states that a
constitutional amendment is a big mistake, and he talked about the regulation nightmare in Colorado.
Those interested in understanding this issue can listen to the debate at

http://www.wusf.usf.edu/news/program/florida_matters/episode/2013-10/florida_matters_medical_marijuana
There is a reason that law enforcement, major medical associations and substance abuse prevention and
treatment groups oppose the effort to determine marijuana as medicine at the ballot box.
Once Floridians understand the impact of this ballot initiative on our children, the economy and public safety,
MCSAC believes that, compassion aside, they will refuse to allow a special interest group to hijack our
legislative and safe medicine processes for their own gain.
Sharon Kramer, M.Ed, CPP, is the executive director and chief executive of the Manatee County Substance
Abuse Coalition.
Commentary: Medical marijuana would be bad medicine for Florida, Palm Beach Post
If the term medical marijuana makes you think of people in extreme pain getting relief from a lifethreatening illness, consider that in California only 2 percent of medical marijuana patients have the most
serious medical conditions, and that so-called medical marijuana is the same stuff sold by drug dealers.
The legalization of medical marijuana is sure to get more discussion as Florida considers joining states that
have approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes. A referendum that would allow medical marijuana
has been submitted for Floridas ballot in 2014, and has already gathered the votes needed to trigger a Florida
Supreme Court review of its language. In addition, last week Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi also
challenged the wording of the ballot amendment.
Bondi casts a cloud over marijuana amendment

Economists consider impact of Florida growing its own medical marijuana laws
The pro-marijuana folks have spent a lot of money and done a great job marketing the idea that marijuana is
medicine, that our jails are full of one-time, small-possession young people, and that somehow the state and
country would save money by legalizing marijuana. As with most political maneuvers and efforts to win
popular opinion, these statements are greatly exaggerated or untrue.
While there may be benefits to the Food and Drug Administration-approved medicine that has been derived
from the marijuana plant, there is plenty of data to suggest that smoking marijuana in its raw form is more
harmful than beneficial. Thats probably why the American Medical Association, the Glaucoma Foundation
and the American Cancer Society have all decided not to endorse the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
Proponents claim that medical marijuana is only for the sick and dying. Yet studies show that the average
user is a 32-year-old white male, and very few of those who seek a recommendation for medical marijuana
have cancer, HIV/AIDS, glaucoma or multiple sclerosis.
While we agree that further discussions should be had on the current laws and the approach to marijuana
arrests, only 0.04 percent of state prisoners with no prior offenses are in jail for marijuana possession.
Also, the idea that legalization would somehow make money is inaccurate. Our nations experiences with
alcohol and tobacco show that for every dollar gained in taxes, we spent $10 on social costs. Considering the
consequences, such as theft, intoxicated accidents, addiction and other destructive behavior associated
marijuana use, the cost to Florida alone could be in the billions.
Finally, legalizing marijuana would surely mean not only increased use in general, but, worse, an increase in
youth use. That means youth whose brains havent fully developed, who will be fighting for the best jobs and
who will need every brain cell they can get to keep up in this rapidly evolving world, would be exposed to
more opportunities to make bad choices. Studies show that youth drug use rates in states with medical
marijuana are twice the rate of states without it.
The Palm Beach County Substance Awareness Coalition would like to make sure that you are informed on
the subject before you are asked to vote, as the decision will affect our entire community. With that in mind,
the coalition will be presenting The Great Debate at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Duncan Theater on the Lake
Worth campus of Palm Beach State College.
Aaron Houston, executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, will debate Kevin Sabet, co-founder
of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, on the issue of medical marijuana legalization. Palm Beach Post Editor of
the Editorial Page Randy Schultz will moderate the debate.
Mr. Sabet has served as a drug policy adviser in three presidential administrations, and Mr. Houston is an
expert on drug policy who was involved in the creation of federal guidelines on medical marijuana. Space is
limited and free tickets can be reserved at www.PBCGreatDebate.org.
Jeff Kadel is executive director of the Palm Beach County Substance Awareness Coalition. Its website is
pbcsac.org.
Other
TALLAHASSEE Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has reported 1,100 contributions for her 2014 reelection campaign, about 50 of them from out of state, according to state campaign finance records.
They include some big names in entertainment and media.
Among them are Philadelphia-based cable television giant and NBC Universal owner Comcast Corp.,
California-based Internet search engine and Web portal Yahoo Inc., and father and daughter real-estate
moguls Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump of New York.
They all gave the $500 maximum, though a law passed this year raises limits effective Nov. 1 to $3,000 for
statewide offices and $1,000 for local and legislative positions.
Even West Coast media executive Efrem Skip Zimbalist III chipped in $500.
He's the son of Efrem Zimbalist Jr., perhaps best known for his starring role in the TV series The FBI,
which ran from 1965 to 1974. His half-sister, Stephanie Zimbalist, starred in the NBC detective series
Remington Steele in the 1980s.
The 47-year-old Bondi, who calls Tampa home and is a former Hillsborough County prosecutor, has
generated nearly $625,000 in direct and in-kind donations.
She now commands a daunting money advantage over Democrat George Sheldon, the only declared
opponent in the race.
Sheldon, 66, is a former state Department of Children & Families secretary and more recently was an acting
assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Bondi also has about $805,000 in a separate political communications fund, $500,000 of which came from
the Republican State Leadership Committee, which helps conservative GOP candidates get into state office.
As a fourth-generation Floridian, Pam Bondi is humbled by the tremendous support she has received from
the people in Florida, said Pablo Diaz, Bondi's campaign manager, in a statement to the Tribune.
She believes that their commitment to the campaign shows clear support of her efforts to make our state a
better and safer place to live and work, he said.
Representatives with Comcast, the nation's largest operator of cable TV services, did not respond to a request
for comment. But the corporation this year also has given to Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam,
several Republican legislators and the state's Republican and Democratic parties, online records show.
Yahoo representatives also did not respond, but it too contributed to Putnam, some lawmakers and the
Republican Party of Florida. Yahoo, however, has given only to Republicans, and far less a reported total
of $13,500 compared to Comcast's roughly $205,000.
Trump raised hackles when his Donald J. Trump Foundation also gave $25,000 to Bondi's other fund, known
as an electioneering communications organization, called And Justice for All.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing Trump for $40 million, citing complaints in Florida,
New York and elsewhere over what was formerly called Trump University.
Schneiderman alleges the program promised to make students rich from real estate deals but saddled them
with pricey and ineffective seminars.
After other concerns that it couldn't legally call itself a university, the school was renamed the Trump
Entrepreneur Initiative in 2011.
Trump's attorneys have denied the claims and because the New York case seeks relief for all former students,
Bondi has not joined the lawsuit.
Zimbalist is chairman and CEO of Active Interest Media, which describes itself as a media company formed
in 2003 to serve niche enthusiast markets.
Its subsidiary, Show Management, produces yacht shows in Florida, including the St. Petersburg Boat Show
and the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
Other companies with business concerns in Florida also contributed, records show. Among those, Cash
America gave $500. It advertises itself as the largest pawnshop chain in the world. The chain, based in Fort
Worth, Texas, has more than 70 stores in Florida.
In his statement, Diaz did not address why individual contributors might have given to Bondi but said she
has been a leader on many issues that are important to people within and beyond the borders of Florida.
He mentioned her initiatives to make Florida a zero-tolerance state on human trafficking, shutting down
illegal pill mills, and joining multi-state efforts to pursue relief for those affected by Medicaid fraud,
mortgage fraud and the BP oil spill.
In addition to her campaign and electioneering communications organization, Division of Elections records
show an affiliated political committee formed in August called Justice for All.
It shares the same address, treasurer and chairperson as Bondi's electioneering communications organization,
is listed as active, but has reported raising no money yet.
-Molly McFarland
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Health Care
Rx Drugs
Internet Cafes
Florida lawmakers may have to tackle Internet cafes again, Sun Sentinel (also in
Orlando Sentinel)
Opinions
Commentary: Florida marijuana amendment proposal rife with flaws, bad impacts,
Bradenton Herald
Commentary: Medical marijuana would be bad medicine for Florida, Palm Beach
Post
Other
Health Care
Organizers trying to sign people up for health insurance under the Affordable Care
Act say they're launching their most extensive effort yet in Florida.
Hundreds of volunteers for Get Covered America have been going door to door,
making phone calls and taking part in nearly 100 community events through the
weekend to encourage people to sign up for "Obamacare." They also hosted events
at churches and synagogues as part of "Health Care in the Pulpit."
The group's Florida director, Nicholas Duran, said residents have been eager to
learn about options.
However, counselors across the state have had difficulty actually enrolling
consumers because of the troubled healthcare.gov website run by federal health
officials. Many have been unable to even see how much health plans cost because of
the website problems.
Rx Drugs
When Heather Dougherty heard the news last week that the Food and Drug
Administration had recommended tightening how doctors prescribed the most
commonly used narcotic painkillers, she was overjoyed. Fourteen years earlier, her
father, Dr. Ronald J. Dougherty, had filed a formal petition urging federal officials to
crack down on the drugs.
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Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, backed limits on prescription
painkillers.
Dr. Dougherty told officials in 1999 that more of the patients turning up at his clinic
near Syracuse were addicted to legal narcotics like Vicodin and Lortab that contain
the drug hydrocodone than to illegal narcotics like heroin.
Since then, narcotic painkillers, or opioids, have become the most frequently
prescribed drugs in the United States and have set off a wave of misuse, abuse and
addiction. Experts estimate that more than 100,000 people have died in the last
decade from overdoses involving the drugs. For his part, Dr. Dougherty, who
foresaw the problem, retired in 2007 and is now 81 and living in a nursing home.
Too many lives have been ruined, his daughter said.
The story behind the F.D.A.s turnaround on the pain pills, last Thursday, involved a
rare victory by lawmakers from states hard hit by prescription drug abuse over
well-financed lobbyists for business and patient groups, one that came during a
continuing public health crisis.
Just last year, Representative Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan the Houses
biggest recipient during the last election cycle of drug industry campaign
contributions, with nearly $300,000 blocked a measure that would have imposed
the restrictions the F.D.A. backed last week.
Among the provisions in the bill, pushed by Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of
West Virginia, was one that is central to the new F.D.A. recommendations: reducing
to 90 days the length of time in which a patient could obtain refills for painkillers
containing hydrocodone without a doctor visit. The drugs are now widely sold by
generic producers.
Mr. Upton, who is the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,
argued that imposing new limits would harm patients who needed the drugs, which
are used to treat pain from injuries, arthritis, dental extractions and other problems.
That stance was echoed by patient groups, lobbyists representing drug makers,
pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS, local drugstores and physicians groups
like the American Medical Association.
The F.D.A.s long resistance to added restrictions on the drugs underscores what
critics say is its continuing struggle to address the complexities of the painkiller
problem in its often conflicting roles one as a regulator that approves drugs and
the other as a drug safety watchdog.
On Friday, public health advocates who had cheered the agencys decision the day
before were dismayed when the F.D.A. approved a new, high-potency painkiller
despite an 11-2 vote by an expert panel of its own advisers not to do so. The panel
concluded in December that the long-acting opioid, called Zohydro, could lead to the
same type of abuse and addiction as OxyContin.
A top F.D.A. official, Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, said Zohydro would give doctors
another drug to treat long-term pain. But Representative Harold Rogers, Republican
of Kentucky, said on Friday that top F.D.A. officials had recently assured him they
would only approve new opioids like Zohydro if they were marketed in
formulations intended to deter abuse. OxyContin is now formulated that way, but
Zohydro, which is contains hydrocodone without acetaminophen, is not. Its
producer, Zogenix, says it will closely monitor use of the drug.
It is like the original OxyContin, so that is real problematical, Mr. Rogers said.
It was in 1999 that Dr. Dougherty noticed there was something unusual about the
regulations governing the pain pills to which his patients were becoming addicted.
Hydrocodone, the active narcotic in the pills, faced tighter prescribing restrictions if
used alone than if it was contained in a medication that combined it with
acetaminophen, an over-the-counter painkiller found in products like Tylenol.
Controlled substances are overseen by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which
classifies drugs and their prescribing rules into categories called schedules based a
medications potential for abuse. In the 1970s, drug companies successfully argued
to Congress that Vicodin and similar products should be placed in a less restrictive
category known as Schedule III because the use of over-the-counter drugs like
acetaminophen in them would reduce their misuse and increase their effectiveness.
Schedule III drugs are easier for doctors to prescribe and for patients to refill than
those considered to pose the highest abuse risk, which are placed in Schedule II. For
example, patients can get refills for a Schedule III drug for as long as six months
before seeing a doctor again, twice as long as for a Schedule II drug. Also, drugstores
face tighter and more costly storage and record-keeping requirements for Schedule
II drugs.
By the 1980s, however, drugs like Vicodin were being widely abused, and when Dr.
Dougherty petitioned D.E.A. officials in 1999 urging a crackdown, the number of
overdose deaths was also climbing.
The D.E.A. began a lengthy investigation, and the agency called on the F.D.A. in 2004
to undertake a review. Law enforcement has documented the diversion of millions
of dosage units of hydrocodone by theft, doctor shopping, fraudulent prescriptions,
bogus call-in prescriptions, D.E.A. officials wrote at the time.
The F.D.A. concluded in 2008 that the pain pills should remain in Schedule III. It
argued that the drugs were less prone to abuse and that indicators of problems
associated with them, like increased emergency room visits, were, when viewed on
a relative basis, not as high as for Schedule II drugs because the pills at issue were
prescribed far more often.
Experts said there was actually little clear data on either side. For one, scant testing
existed on the question of whether acetaminophen lowered hydrocodones abuse.
And data about the drugs effect in the real world, like hospital visits, was imprecise
and could be interpreted in different ways.
It made no sense that these were Schedule III drugs, said Dr. Edward Michna, a
pain expert at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston.
But there were other issues besides scientific ones. Lobbying groups representing
interests like drugstores and patient organizations like the American Cancer Society
had long argued that changing the medications scheduling would have broad
patient effects and that other steps could be taken to curtail the drugs abuse. Such
patient groups receive drug company contributions, and while they insist those do
not influence their policies, they often join lobbying forces with drug companies on
issues related to access to medications. Amid the debate, some lawmakers tried to
take action.
Before joining the Senate in 2010, Mr. Manchin, as governor of West Virginia, had
watched the devastation caused by prescription painkiller abuse. Doctors are
passing out this drug like candy, he said.
He came to Washington determined to change things. But last year he witnessed the
influence of the drug industry when Mr. Upton, the representative from Michigan,
after receiving appeals from pharmaceutical industry executives and other groups
to intervene, blocked the proposal that Mr. Manchin had persuaded the Senate to
adopt.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Upton said he believed Congress should not be
micromanaging agencies.
Drug scheduling requires the expertise of the F.D.A. and D.E.A., that spokeswoman,
Noelle Clemente, said. This decision should be made by the agencies.
Mr. Manchin, however, salvaged what then appeared to be a minor concession, a
requirement that the F.D.A. hold a public hearing to review the issue.
When the meeting began in January, it appeared that a panel of outside F.D.A.
advisers would side with the view of agency scientists that there was not enough
evidence to warrant action, said Sharon Walsh, a researcher at the University of
Kentucky who was invited by the agency to give a presentation. But as the day
unfolded, she said, the position of those experts appeared to shift as they reviewed
the data and heard compelling testimony both from parents who had lost children to
drug abuse and patients helped by the medications.
At the end, the panel voted 19-10 to tighten prescribing controls. But such votes are
not binding on the F.D.A.
As months passed, Mr. Manchin feared lobbyists on the other side would prevail, as
they had on his legislative proposal.
I was getting worried that K Street was about to block this again, he said, using the
Washington vernacular for lobbyists.
So he began a counterattack and, in recent weeks, contacted top officials at the

White House, the F.D.A. and the Department of Health and Human Services. He also
enlisted other lawmakers like Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, to make calls
to top Obama administration officials.
On Thursday, both he and Mr. Upton received phone calls from top health officials,
notifying them of the decision.
It is still nice to know that good things can be done, Mr. Manchin said.
Still, experts said, some patients, like those who live in rural areas or are
homebound or in nursing homes, would face new hardships in obtaining the drugs
under the new rules. They added that doctors might turn to less effective drugs.
On Saturday, Dr. Doughertys daughter visited her father and shared the news. His
eyes brightened and he tried to sit up in bed, she said.
It was a long time coming, wasnt it, Dad? she said.
Yes, it was, she said he replied.
Internet Cafes
Florida lawmakers may have to tackle Internet cafes again, Sun Sentinel
Legislators moved swiftly last spring to shutter senior arcades and Internet cafes
popping up all over the state.
But less than a year after they did that, they may have to go back to the drawing
board because several businesses are reopening.
"These people are very sophisticated and the technology is very sophisticated, so it
wouldn't surprise me if we had to go back and take a look at it," said state Sen. John
Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, who drafted the legislation last spring and is a key
adviser to Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville.
Internet cafe operators argued they were legal under the sweepstakes law that
allowed, for example, McDonald's to run its popular Monopoly giveaways. At
Internet cafes, players received "sweepstakes entries" for buying time to use the
Internet, but the instantaneous sweepstakes results were portrayed as a slot
machine. The typical wagers were 25 cents per play, and patrons could collect cash
winnings at any time.
Senior arcades, in contrast, argued they were legal under the "Chuck E. Cheese" law,
which awarded patrons for playing games of skill. At senior arcades, players had to
hit a "stop" button on a machine. The minimum play was usually 8 cents, and the
payouts were typically $25 or $50 gift cards from companies such as Publix or Visa.
The current law didn't enact an outright ban. Rather, it banned the business model
by outlawing cash prizes or gift cards and the types of machines that Internet cafes
and senior arcades used.
Photos: Florida traffic laws you were wrong about
Most closed their doors immediately, but now some of those companies are
reopening with retrofitted machines and are giving away prizes such as towels or
cookware.
The state isn't tracking how many have reopened, though they are collecting
anecdotal evidence.
About 40 senior arcades reopened over the summer. Additionally, Thrasher said 15
Internet cafes have sprouted up in Duval County.
Senior arcades, more popular in South Florida, have argued that they shouldn't have
been caught up in the law that Thrasher sponsored to shut down Internet cafes.
They view themselves as collateral damage.
Last March, a state and federal investigation into the group Allied Veterans, an
Internet cafe operator, ended in dozens of indictments and the resignation of thenLt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, who previously served as a consultant to the group.
In turn, the House and Senate moved to outlaw Internet cafes, but also included a
look at senior arcades. Arcade owners argued that they were not anything like
Internet cafes and they provided safe entertainment for senior citizens.
But legislators disagreed and Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, who leads the Senate
Gaming Committee, said they won't hesitate to look at them again if they are reemerging.
"I'd say last year in session, we determined that gambling is illegal unless it's legal,
and there was no provision for senior arcades," he said. "So we passed a bill to close
them down. I think it's appropriate that staff take a look at it."
Michael Wolf, a lawyer for the Florida Arcade and Bingo Association, acknowledged
that some businesses changed the model to comply with the new law, but that the
changes made last spring "closed many legitimate and compliant businesses."
If legislators want to keep them closed down for good, they may have to keep
coming back to the issue.
In North Carolina, the Legislature has been trying for six years to shutter Internet
cafes or sweepstakes cafes. But the strip-mall casinos simply retool the technology
or business model and reopen.
Thrasher said they may need to take a broader approach to keep Internet cafes and
senior arcades from reopening in Florida.
But that will be part of a broader conversation that Richter's committee is having on
the status of gambling in Florida.
Although legislators were resolute in outlawing Internet cafes and senior arcades,
they do acknowledge many other forms of gambling in Florida, including horse and
dog tracks, poker rooms, jai alai frontons, and slot machines at select casinos in
South Florida.
Additionally, the state has a compact with the Seminole Tribe, which gives it the
exclusive right to offer high-stakes card games like blackjack at its facilities as long
as it gives the state a cut of the proceeds. The state earns about $200 million a year
off of that compact.
Additionally, Las Vegas-style casinos would like to enter the Florida market and
build luxury casino hotels in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
Opinions
Commentary: Florida marijuana amendment proposal rife with flaws, bad
impacts, Bradenton Herald
The Manatee County Substance Abuse Coalition agrees with Florida Attorney
General Pam Bondi that the political committee People United for Medical
Marijuana's proposed initiative petition being spearheaded by attorney John
Morgan to amend the Florida Constitution is seriously flawed and would have a
profoundly negative impact on the state of Florida.
Our concerns include:

nature and scope of marijuana use the amendment would allow.

narrow, defined circumstances, and only for patients with "debilitating diseases."
But if the amendment passes, Florida law would allow marijuana in limitless
situations.

person (of any age) -- including those without "debilitating diseases."
criminal law restricts medical marijuana,

the ballot summary misleadingly suggests the opposite.
We have reviewed this document and also have grave concerns about the loopholes
that create the possibility of replacing pill mills with pot shops.
Anyone wishing a copy can email me at skramer@drugfreemanatee.org, and I will
provide a copy of the proposed amendment.
MCSAC believes that once Floridians are provided with clear, correct information,
they will prove to be smarter than the political committee and John Morgan realize.
We need to protect our Constitution, the foundation document meant to provide for
our basic rights and organization of government.
As the Florida Chamber of Commerce noted, our Constitution should be protected
and not be sold to special interest groups trying to purchase a place in it for their
ideas to be forced on the rest of us.
Further, it must be emphasized that under federal statute marijuana is still illegal,
limiting the ability of financial institutions to support an illegal industry; the sale of
marijuana is therefore a cash business.
Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube and Bradenton Police Chief Michael
Radzilowski wisely warned us that legalization will lead to an increase in crime and
fraud.
Congratulations to them for having the courage to alert us to what they know, as
professional law officers, will negatively impact Manatee.
Recently John Morgan, Kevin Sabet, Ph.D. (director of the Drug Policy Institute at UF
College of Medicine) and Charlie Brown (Denver city councilmen) participated in a
NPR radio debate (WUSF Florida Matters: Medical Marijuana).
Mr. Brown, who is on the committee attempting to regulate marijuana in Denver,
clearly states that a constitutional amendment is a big mistake, and he talked about
the regulation nightmare in Colorado.
Those interested in understanding this issue can listen to the debate at
http://www.wusf.usf.edu/news/program/florida_matters/episode/201310/florida_matters_medical_marijuana
There is a reason that law enforcement, major medical associations and substance
abuse prevention and treatment groups oppose the effort to determine marijuana as
medicine at the ballot box.
Once Floridians understand the impact of this ballot initiative on our children, the
economy and public safety, MCSAC believes that, compassion aside, they will refuse
to allow a special interest group to hijack our legislative and safe medicine
processes for their own gain.
Sharon Kramer, M.Ed, CPP, is the executive director and chief executive of the
Manatee County Substance Abuse Coalition.
Commentary: Medical marijuana would be bad medicine for Florida, Palm
Beach Post
If the term medical marijuana makes you think of people in extreme pain getting
relief from a life-threatening illness, consider that in California only 2 percent of
medical marijuana patients have the most serious medical conditions, and that socalled medical marijuana is the same stuff sold by drug dealers.
The legalization of medical marijuana is sure to get more discussion as Florida
considers joining states that have approved the use of marijuana for medical
purposes. A referendum that would allow medical marijuana has been submitted for
Floridas ballot in 2014, and has already gathered the votes needed to trigger a
Florida Supreme Court review of its language. In addition, last week Florida
Attorney General Pam Bondi also challenged the wording of the ballot amendment.
Bondi casts a cloud over marijuana amendment
Economists consider impact of Florida growing its own medical marijuana laws
The pro-marijuana folks have spent a lot of money and done a great job marketing
the idea that marijuana is medicine, that our jails are full of one-time, smallpossession young people, and that somehow the state and country would save
money by legalizing marijuana. As with most political maneuvers and efforts to win
popular opinion, these statements are greatly exaggerated or untrue.
While there may be benefits to the Food and Drug Administration-approved
medicine that has been derived from the marijuana plant, there is plenty of data to
suggest that smoking marijuana in its raw form is more harmful than beneficial.
Thats probably why the American Medical Association, the Glaucoma Foundation
and the American Cancer Society have all decided not to endorse the use of
marijuana for medical purposes.
Proponents claim that medical marijuana is only for the sick and dying. Yet studies
show that the average user is a 32-year-old white male, and very few of those who
seek a recommendation for medical marijuana have cancer, HIV/AIDS, glaucoma or
multiple sclerosis.
While we agree that further discussions should be had on the current laws and the
approach to marijuana arrests, only 0.04 percent of state prisoners with no prior
offenses are in jail for marijuana possession.
Also, the idea that legalization would somehow make money is inaccurate. Our
nations experiences with alcohol and tobacco show that for every dollar gained in
taxes, we spent $10 on social costs. Considering the consequences, such as theft,
intoxicated accidents, addiction and other destructive behavior associated
marijuana use, the cost to Florida alone could be in the billions.
Finally, legalizing marijuana would surely mean not only increased use in general,
but, worse, an increase in youth use. That means youth whose brains havent fully
developed, who will be fighting for the best jobs and who will need every brain cell
they can get to keep up in this rapidly evolving world, would be exposed to more
opportunities to make bad choices. Studies show that youth drug use rates in states
with medical marijuana are twice the rate of states without it.
The Palm Beach County Substance Awareness Coalition would like to make sure that
you are informed on the subject before you are asked to vote, as the decision will
affect our entire community. With that in mind, the coalition will be presenting The
Great Debate at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Duncan Theater on the Lake Worth
campus of Palm Beach State College.
Aaron Houston, executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, will debate
Kevin Sabet, co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, on the issue of medical
marijuana legalization. Palm Beach Post Editor of the Editorial Page Randy Schultz
will moderate the debate.
Mr. Sabet has served as a drug policy adviser in three presidential administrations,
and Mr. Houston is an expert on drug policy who was involved in the creation of
federal guidelines on medical marijuana. Space is limited and free tickets can be
reserved at www.PBCGreatDebate.org.
Jeff Kadel is executive director of the Palm Beach County Substance Awareness
Coalition. Its website is pbcsac.org.
Other
TALLAHASSEE Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has reported 1,100
contributions for her 2014 re-election campaign, about 50 of them from out of state,
according to state campaign finance records.
They include some big names in entertainment and media.
Among them are Philadelphia-based cable television giant and NBC Universal owner
Comcast Corp., California-based Internet search engine and Web portal Yahoo Inc.,
and father and daughter real-estate moguls Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump of
New York.
They all gave the $500 maximum, though a law passed this year raises limits

positions.
Even West Coast media executive Efrem Skip Zimbalist III chipped in $500.
He's the son of Efrem Zimbalist Jr., perhaps best known for his starring role in the
TV series The FBI, which ran from 1965 to 1974. His half-sister, Stephanie
Zimbalist, starred in the NBC detective series Remington Steele in the 1980s.
The 47-year-old Bondi, who calls Tampa home and is a former Hillsborough County
prosecutor, has generated nearly $625,000 in direct and in-kind donations.
She now commands a daunting money advantage over Democrat George Sheldon,
the only declared opponent in the race.
Sheldon, 66, is a former state Department of Children & Families secretary and more
recently was an acting assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services.
Bondi also has about $805,000 in a separate political communications fund,
$500,000 of which came from the Republican State Leadership Committee, which
helps conservative GOP candidates get into state office.
As a fourth-generation Floridian, Pam Bondi is humbled by the tremendous
support she has received from the people in Florida, said Pablo Diaz, Bondi's
campaign manager, in a statement to the Tribune.
She believes that their commitment to the campaign shows clear support of her
efforts to make our state a better and safer place to live and work, he said.
Representatives with Comcast, the nation's largest operator of cable TV services, did
not respond to a request for comment. But the corporation this year also has given
to Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, several Republican legislators and the
state's Republican and Democratic parties, online records show.
Yahoo representatives also did not respond, but it too contributed to Putnam, some
lawmakers and the Republican Party of Florida. Yahoo, however, has given only to
Republicans, and far less a reported total of $13,500 compared to Comcast's
roughly $205,000.
Trump raised hackles when his Donald J. Trump Foundation also gave $25,000 to
Bondi's other fund, known as an electioneering communications organization, called
And Justice for All.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing Trump for $40 million,
citing complaints in Florida, New York and elsewhere over what was formerly called
Trump University.
Schneiderman alleges the program promised to make students rich from real estate
deals but saddled them with pricey and ineffective seminars.
After other concerns that it couldn't legally call itself a university, the school was
renamed the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative in 2011.
Trump's attorneys have denied the claims and because the New York case seeks
relief for all former students, Bondi has not joined the lawsuit.
Zimbalist is chairman and CEO of Active Interest Media, which describes itself as a
media company formed in 2003 to serve niche enthusiast markets.
Its subsidiary, Show Management, produces yacht shows in Florida, including the St.
Petersburg Boat Show and the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
Other companies with business concerns in Florida also contributed, records show.
Among those, Cash America gave $500. It advertises itself as the largest pawnshop
chain in the world. The chain, based in Fort Worth, Texas, has more than 70 stores
in Florida.
In his statement, Diaz did not address why individual contributors might have given
to Bondi but said she has been a leader on many issues that are important to people
within and beyond the borders of Florida.
He mentioned her initiatives to make Florida a zero-tolerance state on human
trafficking, shutting down illegal pill mills, and joining multi-state efforts to pursue
relief for those affected by Medicaid fraud, mortgage fraud and the BP oil spill.
In addition to her campaign and electioneering communications organization,
Division of Elections records show an affiliated political committee formed in
August called Justice for All.
It shares the same address, treasurer and chairperson as Bondi's electioneering
communications organization, is listed as active, but has reported raising no
money yet.
Subject: Accomplishments
From:
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Date:
Monday, January 19, 2015 11:11 AM
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Whitney Ray
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Attorney General Pam Bondis Accomplishments

Pill Mills
Outlining the issue:
x
When I took office, there were seven Floridians dying every day due to
prescription-drug related deaths.
Florida had become the destination for prescription drug distributors and
abusers.
Floridas dubious distinction as the epicenter of the nations pill mill epidemic
was solidified in 2010 when DEAs Automation of Reports and Consolidated
Orders System (ARCOS) reported that 90 of the top 100 oxycodone purchasing
physicians in the nation were located in Florida.
When alcohol is excluded, prescription drugs accounted for 81% of all drug
occurrences in Floridas 2010 Medical Examiners Report.
Facing this public health epidemic, I knew I needed to take swift action to stop
prescription drug abuse in Florida.
We needed to drive these drug dealers in white coats out of Florida, and that
effort began with tough legislation during my first legislative session.
Key points:
x
I worked tirelessly with the Legislature to pass the comprehensive pill mill bill.
The key legislation accomplished the following:
o Toughened criminal and administrative penalties targeting doctors and
clinics engaged in prescription drug trafficking;
o Established standards of care for doctors who prescribe narcotics,
requires them to register with the Department of Health;
o Banned doctors from dispensing the most abused narcotics; and
o Strengthened oversight of pharmacies and wholesale distributors and
strengthens the effectiveness of the prescription drug database by
speeding up the time data must be entered.
This legislation has truly been life-saving legislation.

o TodayNONE of the top dispensing physicians of oxycodone resides in
Florida.
o For the first time in nearly a decade, I was proud to announce in 2012 that
prescription drug-related deaths decreased.
o When we began our fight against pill mills, seven people a day were
overdosing and dying in Florida. Now that number has fallen to around
five a day.
o In 2010, more than 1,500 people overdosed on Oxycodone and died.
In 2013, 534 deaths in Florida were attributed to Oxycodone, a
decline of 65%.
o Overall prescription drug deaths also fell by nearly 30 percent during
the same time period.
o From March 2011 December 2013, Florida law enforcement efforts
through the Regional Drug Enforcement Strike Forces have led to 4,326
arrests (including 78 doctors), more than 870,000 diverted pills removed
from the streets, as well as $11,261,313 in criminal assets seized. While
some of these arrests were made before the launch of the PDMP, most
were made after the PDMP was launched in October 2012.
x
I am proud that Florida has shed its title as the Pill Mill Capital of the Country,
and I have enjoyed sharing Floridas successes in the battle against prescription
drug abuse with my colleagues throughout the country and with Congress.
Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns

x
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) refers to a group of medical complications

associated with the withdrawal process newborns typically experience after birth
if their mothers have used addictive illicit or prescription drugs during pregnancy.
Florida is seeing a growing number NAS cases and these babies are born
suffering from withdrawal symptoms such as tremors, seizures, abdominal pain,
incessant crying, and rapid breathing.
In 2011, there were 1,563 instances of newborns diagnosed with drug exposure
in Florida, a three-fold increase since 2007.
Key points:
x
I worked with the Legislature in 2012 to establish the Prescription Drug Abuse
and Newborns Task Force. The task force examined the extent of prescription
drug abuse among expectant mothers, as well as the costs of caring for babies
with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, the long-term effects of the syndrome, and
prevention strategies.
The Task Force completed its study and recommendations ahead of schedule
and has already been implementing many of the recommendations.
Awareness is a key component to ending prescription drug abuse by expectant

mothers, and we partnered with the Department of Health to launch the
BornDrugFree campaign. The slogan, Your babys life shouldnt begin with
detox was seen and heard throughout Florida, and we established a website
with important information, including how to get help, for pregnant women.
Since the Born Drug-Free Florida statewide educational campaign was

launched to educate expectant mothers on the importance of discussing
prescription drug use with their doctors, approximately 1,000 women have
reached out to the hotline and approximately 200 expectant mothers have
begun treatment.
Synthetic Drugs
x
Dangerous synthetic drugs are marketed as incense, potpourri, K2, spice,

and bath salts.
The National Institute of Drug Abuse has noted that when individuals take
synthetic drugs they are hijacking that key part of the brain controlling critical
functions such as temperature control, food intake, perception, memory and
problem solving.
These drugs are being marketed to our youth and are sold under names like
Scooby Snax, Baked Hulk, and Purple Flake.
x
x
According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network report, 75 percent of synthetic

drug-related ER visits were from people ranging in age from 12-29. The majority
of those people were between 12-17.
Key points:
x
The first action I took as Attorney General in 2011 was to sign an emergency rule
that immediately outlawed synthetic drugs. Spring Break season was about to
begin and it was imperative that we got these drugs off of Florida store shelves.
I have continued to do everything in my power and to consistently work with the

Legislature to ban emergent chemical compounds as the drug makers have
attempted to skirt state law by altering the chemical components of these drugs.
Working with law enforcement and state lawmakers, we have been able to
identify and outlaw 131 dangerous chemical compounds. Despite having
drastically slowed the sale of synthetic drugs, we must remain vigilant in order to
keep synthetic drugs out of the hands of Florida's youth.
National Mortgage Settlement

x
I entered a landmark $25 billion joint federal-state agreement with the nation's
five largest mortgage servicers over foreclosure abuses and unacceptable
nationwide mortgage servicing practices.
More than 92,000 Floridians have benefitted from $9.12 billion in relief. We also
addressed future mortgage loan servicing practices.
Key points:
x
In addition to the terms of the national settlement agreement, I separately

negotiated an agreement with the nations three largest mortgage servicers to
ensure that a guaranteed portion of the overall settlement funds goes to Florida
borrowers.
In 2014, I entered a $2.1 billion joint federal-state agreement with Ocwen

Financial and a $550 million joint federal-state agreement with Suntrust
Mortgage.
Both the Ocwen and Suntrust agreements resolve allegation of mortgage

servicing misconduct that potentially resulted in premature and unauthorized
foreclosures, violations of homeowners rights and protections, and the use of
false and deceptive documents and affidavits, including robo-signing.
In December 2014, under the Ocwen agreement, we distributed checks

amounting to more than $120 million to eligible borrowers who had lost their
homes to foreclosure with $16.2 million going to Florida households.
Under the Suntrust agreement, a fund of $40 million will be distributed to

foreclosed-upon borrowers who file claims in the coming months.
Consumers will also receive first lien principal reductions and other relief under
both of these settlements.
Compliance/continuing efforts
x
This past December, my office and other attorneys general on the National
Mortgage Settlement Monitoring Committee announced that we have been
investigating Ocwen ever since a whistleblower came forward earlier this year
with significant issues about Ocwens internal compliance review. The
investigation by the attorneys general is separate from that announced by NMS
Monitor Joseph Smith, Jr. today, but it relates to the same issues brought to Mr.
Smiths attention in May. While Mr. Smiths investigation focused on ways to
improve the compliance monitoring process in his role as the National Monitor to
address some of the concerns raised by the whistleblower, the states

investigation, in their enforcement role, is directed at determining whether Ocwen
provided false or misleading information during the course of its compliance
reporting.
x
My office takes the allegations that Ocwen may not have operated in good faith
in its efforts to comply with the settlement extremely seriously, and we will fully
investigate these allegations until we have an answer.
My office continues to receive complaints regarding the firms included in the

National Mortgage Settlement (Chase, GMAC/Ally, Bank of America, Citi, and
Wells Fargo) as well as SunTrust and Ocwen.
In 2012, when we began tracking complaints related to these 7 firms, there were
1,106. In 2013, there were 3,572 complaints, and in 2014 there were 1,593
complaints.
To ensure compliance with the settlement agreements and fair treatment of

consumers, I have a established a comprehensive complaint review/resolution
process in my office. Since 2012, my staff has reviewed more than 4,500
complaints against the NMS banks and we continue to expand our review
process to other mortgage servicers.
Each consumer complaint is reviewed and escalated when appropriate so that

staff can assist homeowners seeking loss mitigation relief.
In response to these complaints, my office has tracked and assisted with more
than 770 loan modifications not to mention countless other resolutions such as
short sales, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, etc.
We continue to investigate other servicers for allegations of similar mishandling

of mortgage loans and to enhance our consumer complaint resolution processes.
We've made much progress since the early days of the NMS settlement, but
there's still work to be done. Ultimately, if the banks do not comply, we will not
hesitate to take further legal action.
Human Trafficking
x
According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, there are 27

million people enslaved worldwide.
In 2011, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center ranked Florida 3rd in
the number of calls received by the centers human trafficking hotline.
Victims of human trafficking include children, women and men who are
subjected to sexual exploitation or forced labor through force, fraud or coercion.
According to a study of U.S. Department of Justice human trafficking task force

cases, 83 percent of sex trafficking victims identified in the United States were
U.S. citizens. The average age that U.S. citizens are first used for commercial
sex is 1214.
I am committed to an all-hands-on-deck approach to eradicating human

trafficking.
Attorney Generals Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts

2012:
Worked with the Legislature on anti-human trafficking legislation. The new laws
went into effect on July 1, 2012.
The legislation:
o Combined Floridas three existing human trafficking statutes into one statute;
o Increased penalties for crime of human smuggling from a first-degree
misdemeanor to a third degree felony;
o Provided that those convicted of human sex trafficking may be designated as
sex offenders and sex predators;
o Provided that any property used for human trafficking is subject to forfeiture;
o Required massage establishments and their employees to present valid photo
identification upon request; and
o Gave jurisdiction for human trafficking to the Statewide Prosecutor and the
Statewide Grand Jury.
2013
May 2013: We partnered with businesses of various industries throughout Florida
who are dedicated to stopping human trafficking.
o Businesses are uniquely positioned to combat human trafficking in that
they can serve as the eyes and ears throughout Florida to help recognize
the signs of human trafficking and report it.
o My office developed an online toolkit to help businesses create policies
and internal training sessions to end human trafficking.
June 2013: We worked with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to

develop a two-hour online training course for law enforcement officers that
specifically addresses human trafficking. More than one thousand five hundred
law enforcement officers throughout Florida have already taken this course.
September 2013: We launched an awareness initiativeFrom Instant Message
to Instant Nightmarethat encourages parents to talk to their kids about human
trafficking and online safety. This campaign was funded by settlement dollars, not
taxpayer dollars.
o As part of the campaign, a downloadable tip sheet was created for parents
to print and read, and the sheet includes a pledge for children to sign about
safe Internet use.
o The campaign raised awareness about human trafficking with the
campaign itself receiving earned media coverage of more than a million
impressions
o Additionally, Sheriff Benton in the Sebring area is embracing this
campaign and spreading it within her own community, as is a teacher in New
Jersey who contacted our office after seeing one of the billboards.
o The campaign includes: 96 billboards, 140 posters, 40 bus shelters, and
50 mall displays throughout Florida by using the Florida Outdoor Advertising
Association, which guarantees a 3:1 value match. The total of eyes-onimpressions for the $241,150 campaign with FOAA is more than 115 million,
which equates to less than one cent per impressionwithout spending
taxpayer dollars on the campaign.
2014
Human Trafficking Council
o Last session, I worked with the Legislature on House Bill 7141, specifically
as it relates to the Council. The bill not only enhances the care provided to
victims of human trafficking, but also it establishes a Statewide Council of
Human Trafficking within my office.
March 2014: I travelled to Mexico, as part of delegation consisting of five
attorneys general, to address transnational crime, including human trafficking.
Our work with the attorneys general continues and I will continue to pursue other
partnerships to raise awareness about human trafficking.
Consumer Protection
Division Settlements and Recoveries
x
In 2014, my consumer protection division had 82 settlements, with recoveries

totaling $2.8 billion for consumers nationwide. These recoveries include
settlements in which we were on the executive committee, negotiating on behalf
of other states included in the settlement.
Settlement recoveries for just the state of Florida total to more than $589 million.
Of that, a total of more than $577 million is required restitution for Florida
consumers.
Notable settlements included those with AT&T and T-Mobile, resolving

allegations of cramming; a settlement with Sirius XM Radio, resolving allegations
of negative options and unauthorized charges; and Ocwen and Suntrust
Mortgage.
Total Florida Recoveries by Year
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
$
23,393,280.76
$
32,179,914.12
$
18,494,303.66
$
18,852,883.27
$
34,175,941.36
$ 161,430,485.31
$ 238,711,518.62
$ 431,377,508.80
$
63,432,044.54
$ 106,960,781.03
$ 9,696,279,506.56
$ 589,257,854.60
Totals 2003 2006

Totals 2007 2010
Totals 2011 2014
$
92,920,381.81
$ 865,695,454.09
$10,455,930,186.73
-- A breakdown, year-by-year, of staff on Economic Crime Unit.

The number of Consumer Protection full time positions has increased during this
administration:
July 2011:
July 2012:
July 2013:
July 2014:
74 FTEs
74 FTEs
83 FTEs
86 FTEs
-- In the last four years, the top consumer protection cases in terms of dollars
recovered were Florida led the case or was the sole plaintiff.
The following are the cases with the most substantial recoveries by year for each year
of this Administration where this office was the sole plaintiff or either led or co-led a
case with other states or another state or federal agency. In the cases where other
states or agencies were co-leads, the numbers listed are Florida-only numbers, with the
exception of the VGC case, which is a national number (Florida-only numbers are not
yet available and Florida was the only state to work with the FTC on this matter):
National Mortgage Settlement*
Ocwen Financial Corporation
Advanced Wellness Research, Inc.
CSA-Credit Solutions of America
VGC Corp. / All Dream Vacation Corp.
Janssen Labs/Risperdal
AT&T Mobility LLC
Mortgage
Mortgage
Negative Option
Deceptive Advertising
Off label marketing
Negative Option
American Marketing Group and Gino Marquez
Lender Processing Services, Inc.

West Publishing Corp
CCH Inc./Wolters Kluwer
Kaplan, Inc.
Sirius XM Radio
GlaxoSmithKline/Advair
GlaxoSmithKiline/Avandia
Abbot Labs/Depakote
International Marketing and Finance Group, Inc.
DaData, Inc.
Worldwide Resort, Inc.
Hicks, Inc. d/b/a Universal Marketing Solutions (timeshare)
Document Production
Negative Option
Negative Option
Aid Misrepresentation
Negative Option
Cramming
Worldwide Resorts & Robert Hutchins (timeshare) Sum Judg

Hess Kennedy Chartered, LLC (additional restitution)
Sketchers USA, Inc.
Mortgage Crisis Solutions Association, LLC
Baker, Kennedy & Associates/Macari & Take2 Enterprises
$9,536,568,530.00
$ 342,000,000.00
$ 25,893,662.35
$ 20,413,474.00
$ 14,017,776.00
$ 11,788,628.00
$ 11,760,000.00
$
9,497,855.28
$
8,642,513.00
$
7,500,000.00
$
6,400,000.00
$
6,200,000.00
$
5,250,000.00
$
5,166,065.18
$
5,136,219.86
$
4,878,241.00
$
4,675,573.31
$
4,205,922.85
$
3,957,365.57
$
3,257,844.56
$
3,240,202.00
$
2,985,000.00
$
2,847,301.00
$
2,825,402.56
$
2,402,662.25
Timeshare Resale Fraud

x
x
x
Florida leads the nation with the highest volume in timeshare sales [$2.3 billion]
and the largest concentration of resorts [23% of the national total]. Florida is at
the forefront of the battle against resale scams in the timeshare industry.
Orlando is one of the most visited cities in the U.S., [with more than 50 million
visitors in 2013].
Our office is aggressive in identifying the most egregious timeshare resale
scams. We have combined our efforts with local, state and national law
enforcement agencies to reduce the potential for future financial harm.
Identified as boiler rooms, where telemarketers make high pressure sales
pitches to unsuspecting consumers, timeshare resale scams:
o Promise and guarantee to consumers that their timeshare will be sold or

rented within a fixed timeframe;
o Tell consumers that a particular buyer or renter has been identified to
purchase the consumers timeshare;
o These scams collect an upfront fee with additional recurring charges;
o Even though the company will only advertise the consumers timeshare
on obscure website with no guaranteed sale
Key points:
x
During the 2011 legislative session, my office unveiled a legislative initiative that
further protects consumers from timeshare resale fraud, a top complaint received
by the Attorney Generals Office.
The Timeshare Resale Act, along with criminal enforcement, has proven to be a
tremendous deterrent to those attempting to scam timeshare owners.
Weve turned the corner on timeshare resale scams. Complaints regarding

timeshare-related activities have dropped 84 percent from 2011. There were
8,700 timeshare-related complaints in 2011. In 2014, that number was down to
1,554.
Since 2011, more than 40 timeshare-related cases have been referred to law
enforcement agencies for potential criminal prosecution.
In 2014, our office resolved approximately 10 cases resulting in payment of over

$125,000 in recovery and $300,000 in consumer restitution.
Medicaid Fraud
x
Floridas Medicaid program is a more than $22.9 billion state and federal
partnership that serves more than 3 million Floridians.
My Medicaid Fraud Control Units investigations involve fraudulent billing

schemes.
From Jan. 2011 to Nov. 2014, Attorney General Bondi's MFCU has obtained
more than $471 million in settlements and judgments. Additionally, the MFCU
investigates allegations of patient abuse, neglect, and exploitation in facilities
receiving payments under the Medicaid program.
We often work with law enforcement agencies throughout the state to crack down
on those who are defrauding our Medicaid system.
When criminals defraud the system, they are essentially stealing from Floridas
taxpayers who fund the program.
We will continue working to protect the integrity of the Medicaid program.
Total MFCU recoveries since 2011.
2015
POTENTIAL Q&A
1. Same Sex Marriage

x
All along, I have maintained that the U.S. Supreme Court should decide the same sex
marriage issue in order to provide uniformity in Florida and resolve the legal issue
nationwide. I am pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the same sex marriage
issue and provide finality on the matter.
OTR
x
My Fox Orlando 1/18/14

If the voters choose to pass it, its my job to defend it. Its not up to one person to pick
and choose. Thats why we have voters.
It has nothing to do with anybodys personal beliefs. We say there are good people on
both sides of this issue but we need a resolution in front of the United States Supreme
Court.
"We need consistency in these cases and right now there are multiple rulings throughout
the country."
Ocala Star Banner 10/13/14

"This isn't legislation. This isn't policy. This is in the Constitution of the state of Florida."
"When I was sworn in as your 37th attorney general, I put my hand on a Bible, and I
raised my other hand, and I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States and of
the state of Florida, and that's what I'm doing."
"This needs to be decided by our courts. We need finality on both sides of the issue and
if the (U.S.) Supreme Court punts it, we're not going to get finality," Bondi said.
"We've got to have finality from our court system because right now there are different
laws in different states, and that's why I'm challenging it. It's my job and obligation as
your attorney general and I will continue to do so."
WPLG 10/28/15
"I'm continuing my stance to get it to the Florida Supreme Court as soon as possible,"
said Bondi. "We're waving the appellate court in order to have finality and save
taxpayers money."
Media availability 01/06/15
"My solicitor general is looking at everything, but best wishes to all the couples who were
married yesterday in Miami."
"My solicitor general will be looking at it, we just want uniformity throughout the state of
Florida and the country, what we have been saying all along."
"We hope they take it, that is what we wanted all along, because we want uniformity, so
think about it, it's not fair if someone can get married in Miami, but not another county.
We need uniformity."
"We hope the supreme court will see it that way and take the case and review it,
because that's what we need again and best wishes to all who are married."
"I don't look at anything politically, I look at it as doing my job and upholding my oath of
office."
News Release 6/2/14

In 2008, Florida voters amended their state constitution to define marriage as a union
between a man and a woman. In response to a recent challenge to this provision, and in
keeping with my sworn duty to uphold the laws of the land, my office recently filed a legal
brief defending the voters' decision.
The fundamental argument of our brief is that the voters had the right to adopt this
definition of marriage, just as they have the right in the future to change their minds and
afford legal recognition to same sex marriage, should they so choose.
Defending the wishes of the voters who enacted Florida's marriage amendment
necessarily requires me to make good faith legal arguments. In presenting those
arguments, my office understands and respects that there are many who profoundly
disagree with the voters' decision. But anything less than the best defense of our voters'
policy preferences would disenfranchise the electorate, undermine the judicial process,
and cast aside the professional responsibility that guides me every day as Attorney
General.
The subject of same sex marriage is understandably a matter of intense personal

concern and sensitivity for Floridians on all sides of the debate. While defending this
constitutional amendment, we have remained respectful and showed consideration for
those with differing viewpointsacknowledging in the introduction that this issue is one
with good people on all sides.
Therefore, I take exception to those who have sought to manipulate our brief, trying to
make it something it is not. The brief does not argue for or against same sex marriage as
a matter of policy, wisdom, or fairness. Those decisions are for the voters of each state,
not for lawyers or courts. It is my duty to protect Florida from the harm of a federal
injunction overriding the will of Florida voters.
Some states recognize same-sex marriage, and some states do not. As the brief
explains on pages two and three:
This case is not about which policy choice is better or worse. And this case is not about
whether the debate should continue (which it surely will). This case is about whether
states can make their own determinations.
If the ongoing debate leads Floridas citizens to change their policyas several States
recently havethey may do so. In the meantime, this Court should exercise great
caution when asked to take sides in an ongoing public policy debate, Lofton v. Secy,
Fla. Dept of Children & Family Servs., 358 F.3d 804, 827 (11th Cir. 2004), and leave
Floridas important policy determinations to Floridas citizens.
We are defending this amendment based solely upon judicial precedent and not the
personal views of anyone in our office. Anything else would be bad lawyering--just as in
all cases, the personal opinions of the advocates and the judges involved are utterly
irrelevant.
Our brief makes the case in defense of Florida's marriage amendment with great
respect for the plaintiffs and those whom they represent. Any suggestions to the contrary
are not only wrong, but hurtful, designed to inflame, and insulting to everyone involved.
When I defend the voters' decisions with professionalism and civility, I'm simply doing
my job because my job is not to write the law, but to defend it.
Same Sex Cost (MVS)

x
Attorneys within the Solicitor General's Office routinely represent the state in defending
state laws and the constitution. Barring an attorney/client relationship (i.e. where we are
providing legal representation on behalf of a state agency and bill the respective
agencies), in cases where we are not representing a particular agency and do not bill,
we do not have cost-estimates because the attorneys are fulfilling their daily job duties
and there is no client or cost that any entity incurs, other than our regular, recurring
annual operating expenses.
To assist you with your request by providing what an approximate cost for staff time
might be, which, again, we did not already have. We estimated that if there were a "cost"
associated with the remainder of the cases in which there is not a client, and therefore
no need for billing, it would be approximately $15,150.
2. FDLE
x
My office was told Commissioner Bailey was resigning and was never told
anything other than that.
I was dissatisfied with the manner in which the matter was handled
OTR
x
I think hes an amazing man. Its interesting because I almost talked about him
today. It escaped me. They kept going. But hes a very private man. But Ive
been talking to my staff about doing something in his honor.
I can tell you that Ive know Commissioner Bailey for many many years. In fact, I
knew him back when he prosecuted the boot camp case back in the days of
(Former FDLE Commissioner) Guy Tunnel when I was a prosecutor. And Gerry
Bailey came into this agency and restored integrity, so I think the world of Gerald
Bailey.
Im fine with (new FDLE Commissioner) Rick Swearingen. I think Gerry Bailey
has retired. I think hes a very private person. And you can talk to him about that.
3. New York Times

x
My office aggressively protects Floridians from unfair and deceptive business practices,
and absolutely no access to me or my staff is going to have any bearing on my efforts to
protect Floridians.
Accretive: As with any potential enforcement matter, this office conducted its own due
diligence by, among other things, contacting the Minnesota Attorney General's Office
when Minnesota's allegations came to light. We subsequently determined that not only
had this office not received a single related consumer complaint, but also that the unfair
debt collection practices alleged in the Minnesota complaint appeared to be largely
Minnesota-specific, a fact later confirmed by the Federal Trade Commission in a closing
letter to Accretive Health's counsel.
Herbalife: Over the past two years, we have received three complaints regarding
Herbalife, and there is no formal investigation at this time.
Online Travel: The Attorney General's Office dismissed the case after a ruling by the
First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee on February 28, 2013 that the transactions
were not taxable. The Florida Department of Revenue, which would be the agency
responsible for collecting the tax, has taken the position that the law is ambiguous and
any statement by our office to that effect was based upon that agency's view, as well as
judicial rulings during the course of our litigation. The ruling, which was a 2-1 decision,
reflects the ambiguity in state law. Our case was still in the early procedural stages when
the First DCA ruled on the case now before the Supreme Court. When the First DCA
ruled that the transactions were not taxable, our case had no chance of successfully
advancing on the merits, whether we took a voluntary dismissal or waited for the trial
court to dismiss based upon the binding First DCA decision and then appealed that
dismissal to the First DCA. Because the First DCA had already ruled on the issue, any
appeal from a trial court dismissal would also have had no chance of success. If the
Supreme Court ultimately reverses the First DCA and rules in the local governments'
favor, we will be in a position to take advantage of that ruling and refile the case as
warranted. We are in the same position regardless.
Trump University: On Aug. 24, 2013 the New York Attorney General sued Trump
University, a company headquartered in NYC. The lawsuit seeks relief for any and all
aggrieved consumers, regardless of their state residence. Although the New York
lawsuit alleges that Trump University conducted live seminars both in New York and
nationally, no other state is involved in this lawsuit. This administration has received one
consumer complaint regarding Trump University the complaint was received in May
2011. Our office has been informed by the New York Attorney Generals Office that the
Trump University seminars at issue in the New York lawsuit have not been offered
anywhere since 2010.
x
An entirely separate entity, Boca-based Proven Methods Systems, previously operated

in Florida, using the name Trump Institute pursuant to a licensing agreement. Florida
Attorney Generals Office entered an AVC with this entity in 2001. In 2009, in response
to consumer complaints, the office reopened an investigation and attempted to enforce
the AVC. However, the office learned that the entity was bankrupt and defunct. The
office accordingly closed the case in 2009.
The previous administration received 22 complaints referencing either Trump Institute,

Trump University or some combination thereof. There are three categories that
consumers fall into:
a. Those who could benefit from New Yorks Trump University (and related
entities) lawsuit;
b. Those who had complaints under the previous administration against Trump
Institute, which was run by Proven Methods Systems, that the previous
Administration found was bankrupt and defunct and the case was closed; and
c. Those who had/have complaints against Trump Institute, Trump University or
some combination thereof, which makes it unclear as to whether they would be
affected by the New York AGs lawsuit or were affected by the 2009 enforcement
who may have taken seminars that fall under the New York AGs lawsuit and are
not part of the previous Administrations AVC and subsequently closed case
against Proven Methods Systems.
OTR
x
NYT 10/28/14
My office aggressively protects Floridians from unfair and deceptive business practices,
and absolutely no access to me or my staff is going to have any bearing on my efforts to
protect Floridians, she said.
NYT 11/12/14
Earlier, Ms. Kalani and two lawyers from her firm flew on a chartered flight with Ms.
Bondi to a Michigan conference. A spokeswoman for Ms. Bondi said the attorney
general does not allow personal friendships to affect her objectivity.
NYT 12/6/14
When the federal government oversteps its legal authority and takes actions that hurt
our businesses and residents, its entirely appropriate for us to partner with the adversely
affected private entities in fighting back, said Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida,
whose top deputy attended the meeting.
4. Amicus Briefs
x
OTR
Defending Florida against federal government overreach has been one of my priorities
as Attorney General, and it is appropriate to file friend of the court briefs in cases where
states rights or individual freedoms are being threatened.
Tampa Bay Times 10/24/14

An attorney general's participation in amicus briefs is important because the U.S.
Supreme Court and other federal courts routinely establish legal precedents that
influence both the policy choices available to Florida policy makers and the individual
rights enjoyed by Floridians, even when our state is not directly involved in the case,"
Jennifer Meale wrote in an email.
"The only consideration Attorney General Bondi gives to matters before her office,
including decisions on whether to participate in amicus briefs, is what is best for
Floridians," Meale wrote.
Background
10/24/14 Excerpt: Pam Bondi, with Republican attorney general coalition, involves
herself in faraway court fights
TALLAHASSEE Earlier this year, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi opposed a ban
on certain kinds of semiautomatic weapons. Her only comments were made in a short
email sent by her spokeswoman: "I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state
attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of
Americans' Second Amendment rights."
Guns aren't the only topic covered in numerous other briefs, many seemingly unrelated
to Florida, that reflect how much big money is expanding the scope of attorney general
offices across the country. Since the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision,
super PACs like RAGA and its Democratic counterpart, DAGA, can raise unlimited cash
from corporations and unions. In passing contributions along to candidates, the groups
are further politicizing an office that had been removed from overt partisanship.
5. Chesapeake Bay
x
x
x
Fighting against federal government overreach has been one of my priorities as Attorney
General. And federal overreach is precisely what is at issue in American Farm Bureau
Federation v. EPA.
While the details of that case involve the Chesapeake Bay, the principles at stake are far
broader. Indeed, the federal court deciding the case explained that the dispute, at its
core, raises questions regarding the proper division of duties between the states and the
federal government under the Clean Water Act.
OTR
Oped 03/01/14
As a fourth generation Floridian, I care deeply about protecting our waterways and
environment. I believe that Florida has always had the best expertise and resources to
determine how to protect our waters, as does each unique state. Under the current
administration, the federal Environmental Protection Agency continually seeks expanded
authority to trump state regulation. But Congressnot the EPAdecides the extent of
federal regulatory authority. And under the Clean Water Act, Congress left important
authority to the States, expressly determining to recognize, preserve, and protect the
primary responsibilities and rights of States to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution,
[and] to plan the development and use of land and water resources. The EPA has a
role to play, but the States do too.
Fighting against federal government overreach has been one of my priorities as Attorney
General. And federal overreach is precisely what is at issue in American Farm Bureau
Federation v. EPA. While the details of that case involve the Chesapeake Bay, the
principles at stake are far broader. Indeed, the federal court deciding the case explained
that the dispute, at its core, raises questions regarding the proper division of duties
between the states and the federal government under the Clean Water Act. Because of
that critical issue, a coalition of 21 state attorneys general joined a friend-of-the-court
brief led by Kansas defending individual states authority in environmental regulation.
Contrary to what has been reported, by signing on to the friend-of-the-court brief, no
taxpayer money was spent.
The twenty-one states are not alone in objecting to this federal overreach. Eight counties
in three affected states (Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia) also filed a friendof-the-court brief. According to those counties, which are suffering as a result of the
EPAs unauthorized actions, the EPA usurped the state and local function and simply
went too far. As a result, these counties anticipate that a significant area of their
farmland will have to be removed from production. There are real consequences when
the federal government acts beyond its authority.
Those who suggest that the attorneys general who joined the brief are anti-environment
entirely miss the point. Everyone involved agrees that our environment must be
protectedwhether its the Chesapeake Bay, Floridas springs, or the Mississippi River.
The issue is the division of federal and state authority. By joining the brief, I sought to
defend Floridas right to continue protecting its own environment without unnecessary
federal intervention.
Florida has taken dramatic steps to protect its own resources, and Im confident Florida
will continue to do so. Recently, my office asked the United States Supreme Court to
ensure that Florida receives its fair share of water flowing from Georgia, which is our
best chance to save Apalachicola and the surrounding region from the devastation
caused by Georgias overconsumption. I also ended years of litigation by working with
the EPA to reach an agreement to protect Floridas waterways from excess nitrogen and
phosphorus pollution. The agreement between the EPA and Floridas Department of
Environmental Protection allowed Florida's leaders, who know our waterways best, to
implement their own sound criteria that will safeguard our water from excess nitrogen
and phosphorus pollution.
The best way to serve the cause of environmental protection is to recognize states'
authority and be vigilant about EPA overreach. This brief is not about whether to protect
the environment; it is about defending the important role Congress gave States in
protecting their own widely varying environments. I will remain steadfast in my efforts to
stop the federal government from exceeding its authority and infringing on our rights.
6. Environmental Cases:
x
The only thing I consider when deciding whether or not my office will join an amicus brief
is the rule of law. When the EPA or any other federal government agency oversteps its
authority, its important to take action in the interest of our states rights.
7. Medical Marijuana
x
If there is a proposed amendment to the State Constitution submitted to my office by the

Secretary of State, we will review it and petition the Florida Supreme Court incompliance
with the Florida Constitution.
OTR Amendment 2
x

"If it passes, I have to defend it, and I will defend it," said Bondi. "But I feel very strongly
about this. I feel very, very strongly about what it will do to our law enforcement officers.
So please encourage everybody on that."
Background
16.061 Initiative petitions.
(1)The Attorney General shall, within 30 days after receipt of a proposed revision or
amendment to the State Constitution by initiative petition from the Secretary of State,
petition the Supreme Court, requesting an advisory opinion regarding the compliance of
the text of the proposed amendment or revision with s. 3, Art. XI of the State Constitution
and the compliance of the proposed ballot title and substance with s. 101.161. The
petition may enumerate any specific factual issues that the Attorney General believes
would require a judicial determination.
8. Restoration of Civil Rights change
x
The Florida Constitution, the people's charter of government, disqualifies an individual

who has been convicted of a felony from voting or holding office until his or her civil
rights have been restored.
I believe that felons must first prove their rehabilitation through the test of time before
having their civil rights restored.
I strongly supported legislation to separate the restoration of civil rights from the
occupational licensing process so as not to impede a felons ability to obtain a job and
become a productive member of society after being vetted by the appropriate authority.
9. Heroin
x
When considering heroin use and prescription drug abuse, its crucial to remember that
heroin has always been illegal, and prescription drugsby their very natureare legal.
They are legal drugs that can be used illegally.
From 2003 to 2010, prescription drug related deaths increased each year.
While all drug abuse is a cause for great concern, and heroin use has risen with the
crackdown on prescription opioids, heroin deaths continue to pale in comparison to the
number of deaths caused by prescription drug abuse.
Law enforcement had expected and has experienced an increase in the use of heroin.
This upward trend that coincides with the opioid crackdown is not limited to Floridait is
a nationwide trend.
I co-chair the National Attorneys General Association Substance Abuse Committee, and
we recently worked on a report documenting this trend to share with our counterparts
throughout the country.
Its important to note that the movement from prescription drug abuse to heroin is not on
a one-for-one replacement. Nevertheless, in my second term, I am making it a priority to
aggressively stop a resurgence in heroin use in Florida by working with state, local and
federal law enforcement to ensure we are doing all we can to interdict the flow of heroin
into our state from Mexico.
As I mentioned, the increase in heroin is not limited to Florida. In Kentucky, overdose

deaths resulting from heroin increased from 43 in 2011 to 170 through the first three
quarters of 2013.
10. Naloxone
x We defer to law enforcement on this issue as they would be the ones administering the
drugs.
11. RX Shortage
x
My heart goes out to anyone who is in pain and cannot get the prescriptions they are
legally entitled to have.
The legislation we supported in 2011 does not hinder any pharmacists from filling
legitimate scripts for pain killers or any other legal narcotic.
Our legislation has helped reduce the number of Oxycodone deaths in Florida by more
than half and reduced overall pill overdoses by more that 20 percent.
Subject: Briefing Material

From:
To:
Jason.Rodriguez@myfloridalegal.com; Lynn.Guyton@myfloridalegal.com; pambondi@yahoo.com;
Cc:
cate.crutcher@myfloridalegal.com;
Date:
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:38 PM
Good Afternoon,
Please see the briefing material attached below.
(See attached file: Formatted_Associated Press Legislative Planning Session.doc)(See attached file:
Formatted 2015 AP Legislative Session Q&A.doc)(See attached file: Accomplishments2015.docx)
Thank you,
Whitney
Whitney Ray
Press Secretary
Office: 850-245-0206
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Associate Press Legislative Planning Session

Questions and Answers
Index
FDLE ........................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Putnams Response .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Cabinet Reform Proposals ............................................................................................................................. 4
Atwater Response ............................................................................................................................................ 5
Governors Response to CFO ........................................................................................................................ 7
Govs FDLE FAQs ............................................................................................................................................... 7
SAME SEX MARRIAGE ...................................................................................................................................... 10
Same Sex Cost (MVS) .................................................................................................................................... 14
NEW YORK TIMES ............................................................................................................................................. 15
AMICUS BRIEFS .................................................................................................................................................. 18
CHESAPEAKE BAY: ............................................................................................................................................ 19
ENVIRONMENTAL CASES:.............................................................................................................................. 22
MEDICAL MARIJUANA ..................................................................................................................................... 23
IMMIGRATION LAWSUIT ................................................................................................................................ 24
ALLIED VETERANS ............................................................................................................................................ 29
RESTORATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS ................................................................................................................ 30
HEROIN .................................................................................................................................................................. 31
NALOXONE & RX DRUG SHORTAGE ........................................................................................................... 32
KRATOM ................................................................................................................................................................ 33
National Mortgage Settlement ...................................................................................................................... 34
FDLE
x As Attorney General, and as a former prosecutor, I take the rule of law
very seriously, especially in matters affecting the safety and security of
the people of Florida.
x I believe the Governor, and every member of this Cabinet, share that
view. But the recent process behind the appointment of a new FDLE
Commissioner has raised serious questions, and those questions should
be answered to ensure transparency, and the publics right to know.
x Since the last Cabinet meeting on January 13th, my office has been
vigorously discussing how to do just that.
x At the next Cabinet meeting, on February 5th, we will discuss these
issues, thoroughly, and in the sunshine.
Follow up
x These matters are better addressed at the next Cabinet meeting.
OTR
x My office was told Commissioner Bailey was resigning and was never
told anything other than that.
x I was dissatisfied with the manner in which the matter was handled
1/13/15 TBT
x I think hes an amazing man. Its interesting because I almost talked
about him today. It escaped me. They kept going. But hes a very private
man. But Ive been talking to my staff about doing something in his
honor.
x I can tell you that Ive know Commissioner Bailey for many many years.
In fact, I knew him back when he prosecuted the boot camp case back in
the days of (Former FDLE Commissioner) Guy Tunnel when I was a
prosecutor. And Gerry Bailey came into this agency and restored
integrity, so I think the world of Gerald Bailey.
x Im fine with (new FDLE Commissioner) Rick Swearingen. I think Gerry
Bailey has retired. I think hes a very private person. And you can talk to
him about that.
Where Should Cabinet Be Held?
x Although I am pleased to have the Cabinet meeting in her hometown to
honor local heroes, I am prepared to discuss the recent issues involving
FDLE at a Cabinet meeting anywhere in the state.
Do you support changes at OIR, DFS and OFR?
x These matters are better addressed at the next Cabinet meeting.
Does the Attorney General believe the governor should be asking for resumes
before the Cabinet decides if the Insurance Commissioner should be replace?
Is there a concern by the Attorney General that the governor is taking unilateral
action that is supposed to be dependent upon the desire of the Cabinet?
Has the Attorney General made any inquiry of the governor or heard from the
governor as to why he is taking such action on his own?
Putnams Response
x "There should be some followup to those allegations and whether they
were incidents of illegal activity versus sloppy campaign-official type of
interactions that occurred," Putnam said.
x The Florida Cabinet system has served this state well for many years.
Cabinet meetings provide a chance for the public to see the thought
process and deliberation of its elected officials. Over the past month, it
has become apparent that the Florida Cabinet should institute a more
formal process for agency appointments and that there is also a need for
increased accountability of those agencies that report to the Cabinet.
Ive offered proposals to start this conversation, and I look forward to
having this discussion at the next Cabinet meeting.
Cabinet Reform Proposals
January 21, 2015
Purpose

Items for Consideration
(1) Create formal appointment process for Cabinet consideration
ablish appointment process at Cabinet meeting
o Nominate/approve interim*
o Discuss process for identifying permanent agency head
- Clarify statutory requirements for specified agency head, as well as vote
requirements
- Update position description with duties, minimum qualifications
- Announce application time frame

o Review qualified candidate resumes
o Conduct interviews
o Identify candidates for the Governor and Cabinets consideration

*In the event of a vacancy, the Governor would name an interim that the Cabinet
would vote to approve no later than the next regularly scheduled Cabinet
meeting
(2) Form an appointments selection committee, when deemed
appropriate
ns following applicable sunshine laws and
specified statutory requirements for position

consideration
(3) Establish a process for regular review of agency business

o Annual Cabinet agency reviews
o Cabinet agencies to present quarterly performance accountability measures
o Cabinet agencies to submit complete legislative budget requests** and
legislative proposals for Cabinet consideration no less than 30 days before
deadline to submit to legislature and Governor
** Current statutory deadline set no later than October 15, unless an alternative
date is agreed upon by the Governor and chairs of the appropriations
committees
Atwater Response
x "From what I've seen and read reported about the allegations that Mr.
Bailey raised, I think they're very serious and they should be looked
into," Atwater said. "I don't know the appropriate jurisdictions, but
someone should look into those, and everyone should be able to see all
this. It should be all very transparent and exposed all the questions
answered."
CFO Letter:
Governors Response to CFO

Thank you for your letter and support of FDLE Commissioner Rick
Swearingen. As you indicate in your letter, I believe there is always room for
improvement in any system and I look forward to any ideas you would like to
share for an improved process in the next Cabinet meeting.
As you know, I believe that government needs to be more like business and
frequently change leadership to bring in new ideas and fresh energy. There
are no lifetime appointments in executive government just as there are no
guaranteed lifetime jobs in the private sector outside of government.
In that vein, I am hopeful that we can have a discussion at the upcoming
Cabinet meeting about how to begin a search for new leadership at the Office
of Insurance Regulation, the Office of Financial Regulation and the
Department of Revenue so we can get fresh ideas into those Cabinet positions
at the start of a second term. Your input on these financial areas will be
important.
As you suggest, there can also be a cabinet search commenced for other FDLE
candidates; however, I would not support any change to Commissioner Rick
Swearingens current position during this time in order to avoid unnecessary
turmoil within an organization of great men and women working hard every
day to keep Florida safe.
Govs FDLE FAQs
FDLE FAQs January 22, 2015
Q: Is it true that Gerald Bailey was forced to resign?
Prior to December 16, 2015, the Governors staff notified cabinet staff
(including the offices of the Attorney General, the Chief Financial Officer, and
the Commissioner of Agriculture) that the Governor wanted new leadership at
FDLE. Cabinet staff raised no objection.
r 16, 2014, cabinet staff were notified that Gerald
Bailey would be met with that day about the Governors desire for new
leadership at FDLE. Peter Antonacci, then general counsel, met with Bailey
and said the Governor wanted new leadership at FDLE and requested his
resignation. Bailey sent a letter to the Governor saying he was stepping

down that same day, December 16th.
Q: Is it true that you or your aides instructed FDLE to identify Alan
Williams in a daily media report about the Dream Defender protest at
the capitol?

reports in response to a high volume of media requests for information
(including the costs of the protest, activities of protestors and incidents in the
capitol during the protest).

memo from Gerald Bailey emailed to the Governors office on Tuesday, July 23,
2013 at 4:40 pm and then included in a memo to press at 4:57 that same day.
the protest, it was standard practice to provide as much information
to the media as possible without compromising the security concerns of the
capitol building.
Q: Did Governors staff direct Bailey to target Interim Orange County
Clerk Colleen Reilly as part of the investigation of two escaped inmates?

coordinate an FDLE press conference. Bailey asked to speak with Collins and
FDLE communications staff before the press conference.
he discussions with Bailey were about how to provide the most complete
account of who could have been involved in the high-profile escape of two
inmates, which included both the Clerks Office and the Department of
Corrections.
out targeting any individual.
Q: Did you ask FDLE to get involved in a federal money laundering case
so a donor could be appointed to a position?

investigation in any way.
re is no record of an appointment application in the Governors
office, it is likely he was considered for an appointment at some point
because there was a request for a background check. However, there was no
request to FDLE to influence any kind of investigation.
Q: Is it true that FDLE was forced to transport staffers from your reelection campaign in state vehicles?

travel with the Governor and the First Lady.
not transport Meghan Collins on one occasion, which created
some confusion because the campaign was already working to reimburse any
cost to the state for staff travel.
Q: Is it true your campaign solicited donations from FDLE on their state
emails?
ny emails used for campaign donations would have been obtained through
lists operated by organizations that included individuals who opted in for
communication. Unfortunately, those lists were not regularly cleaned to
ensure they did not have any government email addresses on them.

have allowed any recipient to automatically be removed from a list at any
time.
Q: Is it true that Pete Antonacci requested FDLE to delete public records?

Q: Is it true that campaign aides asked for FDLE to help develop
campaign policy by getting on a phone call?

request for assistance.
Q: What about the allegation from Bailey that your administration forces
agencies to make certain hiring decisions?

not require agencies to hire anyone.
Q: What about the allegation from Bailey that the Governors office
stopped FDLE from briefing the cabinet on their plan to increase pay for
crime lab employees?

include any pay increases in their Legislative Budget Requests because pay
increases for all state agencies were to be considered as a whole at a later
date. The Governors full budget proposal will be released next week.
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SAME SEX MARRIAGE

x All along, I have maintained that the U.S. Supreme Court should decide
the same sex marriage issue in order to provide uniformity in Florida
and resolve the legal issue nationwide. I am pleased that the U.S.
Supreme Court will hear the same sex marriage issue and provide
finality on the matter.
OTR
My Fox Orlando 1/18/14
x If the voters choose to pass it, its my job to defend it. Its not up to one
person to pick and choose. Thats why we have voters.
x It has nothing to do with anybodys personal beliefs. We say there are
good people on both sides of this issue but we need a resolution in front
of the United States Supreme Court.
x "We need consistency in these cases and right now there are multiple
rulings throughout the country."
x "This isn't legislation. This isn't policy. This is in the Constitution of the
state of Florida."
x "When I was sworn in as your 37th attorney general, I put my hand on a
Bible, and I raised my other hand, and I swore to uphold the
Constitution of the United States and of the state of Florida, and that's
what I'm doing."
x "This needs to be decided by our courts. We need finality on both sides
of the issue and if the (U.S.) Supreme Court punts it, we're not going to
get finality," Bondi said.
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x "We've got to have finality from our court system because right now
there are different laws in different states, and that's why I'm
challenging it. It's my job and obligation as your attorney general and I
will continue to do so."
WPLG 10/28/15
x "I'm continuing my stance to get it to the Florida Supreme Court as soon
as possible," said Bondi. "We're waving the appellate court in order to
have finality and save taxpayers money."
Media availability 01/06/15
x "My solicitor general is looking at everything, but best wishes to all the
couples who were married yesterday in Miami."
x "My solicitor general will be looking at it, we just want uniformity
throughout the state of Florida and the country, what we have been
saying all along."
x "We hope they take it, that is what we wanted all along, because we
want uniformity, so think about it, it's not fair if someone can get
married in Miami, but not another county. We need uniformity."
x "We hope the supreme court will see it that way and take the case and
review it, because that's what we need again and best wishes to all who
are married."
x "I don't look at anything politically, I look at it as doing my job and
upholding my oath of office."
News Release 6/2/14
x In 2008, Florida voters amended their state constitution to define
marriage as a union between a man and a woman. In response to a
recent challenge to this provision, and in keeping with my sworn duty to
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uphold the laws of the land, my office recently filed a legal brief
defending the voters' decision.
x The fundamental argument of our brief is that the voters had the right
to adopt this definition of marriage, just as they have the right in the
future to change their minds and afford legal recognition to same sex
marriage, should they so choose.
x Defending the wishes of the voters who enacted Florida's marriage
amendment necessarily requires me to make good faith legal
arguments. In presenting those arguments, my office understands and
respects that there are many who profoundly disagree with the voters'
decision. But anything less than the best defense of our voters' policy
preferences would disenfranchise the electorate, undermine the judicial
process, and cast aside the professional responsibility that guides me
every day as Attorney General.
x The subject of same sex marriage is understandably a matter of intense
personal concern and sensitivity for Floridians on all sides of the debate.
While defending this constitutional amendment, we have remained
respectful and showed consideration for those with differing
viewpointsacknowledging in the introduction that this issue is one
with good people on all sides.
x Therefore, I take exception to those who have sought to manipulate our
brief, trying to make it something it is not. The brief does not argue for
or against same sex marriage as a matter of policy, wisdom, or fairness.
Those decisions are for the voters of each state, not for lawyers or
courts. It is my duty to protect Florida from the harm of a federal
injunction overriding the will of Florida voters.
x Some states recognize same-sex marriage, and some states do not. As
the brief explains on pages two and three:
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x This case is not about which policy choice is better or worse. And this
case is not about whether the debate should continue (which it surely
will). This case is about whether states can make their own
determinations.
x If the ongoing debate leads Floridas citizens to change their policyas
several States recently havethey may do so. In the meantime, this
Court should exercise great caution when asked to take sides in an
ongoing public policy debate, Lofton v. Secy, Fla. Dept of Children &
Family Servs., 358 F.3d 804, 827 (11th Cir. 2004), and leave Floridas
important policy determinations to Floridas citizens.
x We are defending this amendment based solely upon judicial precedent
and not the personal views of anyone in our office. Anything else would
be bad lawyering--just as in all cases, the personal opinions of the
advocates and the judges involved are utterly irrelevant.
x Our brief makes the case in defense of Florida's marriage amendment
with great respect for the plaintiffs and those whom they represent. Any
suggestions to the contrary are not only wrong, but hurtful, designed to
inflame, and insulting to everyone involved. When I defend the voters'
decisions with professionalism and civility, I'm simply doing my job
because my job is not to write the law, but to defend it.
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Same Sex Cost (MVS)

x Attorneys within the Solicitor General's Office routinely represent the
state in defending state laws and the constitution. Barring an
attorney/client relationship (i.e. where we are providing legal
representation on behalf of a state agency and bill the respective
agencies), in cases where we are not representing a particular agency
and do not bill, we do not have cost-estimates because the attorneys are
fulfilling their daily job duties and there is no client or cost that any
entity incurs, other than our regular, recurring annual operating
expenses.
x To assist you with your request by providing what an approximate cost
for staff time might be, which, again, we did not already have. We
estimated that if there were a "cost" associated with the remainder of
the cases in which there is not a client, and therefore no need for billing,
it would be approximately $15,150.
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NEW YORK TIMES

x My office aggressively protects Floridians from unfair and deceptive
business practices, and absolutely no access to me or my staff is going to
have any bearing on my efforts to protect Floridians.
x
Accretive: As with any potential enforcement matter, this office

conducted its own due diligence by, among other things, contacting the
Minnesota Attorney General's Office when Minnesota's allegations came
to light. We subsequently determined that not only had this office not
received a single related consumer complaint, but also that the unfair
debt collection practices alleged in the Minnesota complaint appeared
to be largely Minnesota-specific, a fact later confirmed by the Federal
Trade Commission in a closing letter to Accretive Health's counsel.
Herbalife: Over the past two years, we have received three

complaints regarding Herbalife, and there is no formal investigation at
this time.
Bridgepoint: Our office met with Bridgepoint on November 13,

2013 in Tallahassee, and we had received only a handful of complaints
about Ashford University or Bridgepoint--all prior to the meeting. In our
meeting, Bridgepoint laid out all of the substantial changes they had
undertaken at their schools to address the issues that had been
prevalent in the other for-profit matters we had investigated and
settled. They also explained the circumstances surrounding the
investigation Iowa, which showed that either the concerns there were
limited to the schools with a physical presence in Iowa or had been
addressed subsequently by the significant changes Bridgepoint had
made. We have received no complaints about Ashford University or
Bridgepoint since that meeting.
Online Travel: The Attorney General's Office dismissed the case

after a ruling by the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee on
February 28, 2013 that the transactions were not taxable. The Florida
Department of Revenue, which would be the agency responsible for
collecting the tax, has taken the position that the law is ambiguous and
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any statement by our office to that effect was based upon that agency's
view, as well as judicial rulings during the course of our litigation. The
ruling, which was a 2-1 decision, reflects the ambiguity in state law. Our
case was still in the early procedural stages when the First DCA ruled on
the case now before the Supreme Court. When the First DCA ruled that
the transactions were not taxable, our case had no chance of
successfully advancing on the merits, whether we took a voluntary
dismissal or waited for the trial court to dismiss based upon the binding
First DCA decision and then appealed that dismissal to the First DCA.
Because the First DCA had already ruled on the issue, any appeal from a
trial court dismissal would also have had no chance of success. If the
Supreme Court ultimately reverses the First DCA and rules in the local
governments' favor, we will be in a position to take advantage of that
ruling and refile the case as warranted. We are in the same position
regardless.
x
Trump University: On Aug. 24, 2013 the New York Attorney

General sued Trump University, a company headquartered in NYC.
The lawsuit seeks relief for any and all aggrieved consumers, regardless
of their state residence. Although the New York lawsuit alleges that
Trump University conducted live seminars both in New York and
nationally, no other state is involved in this lawsuit. This
administration has received one consumer complaint regarding Trump
University the complaint was received in May 2011. Our office has
been informed by the New York Attorney Generals Office that the
Trump University seminars at issue in the New York lawsuit have not
been offered anywhere since 2010.
An entirely separate entity, Boca-based Proven Methods Systems,

previously operated in Florida, using the name Trump Institute
pursuant to a licensing agreement. Florida Attorney Generals Office
entered an AVC with this entity in 2001. In 2009, in response to
consumer complaints, the office reopened an investigation and
attempted to enforce the AVC. However, the office learned that the
entity was bankrupt and defunct. The office accordingly closed the case
in 2009.
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The previous administration received 22 complaints referencing

either Trump Institute, Trump University or some combination
thereof. There are three categories that consumers fall into:
a.
Those who could benefit from New Yorks Trump

University (and related entities) lawsuit;
b.
Those who had complaints under the previous

administration against Trump Institute, which was run by
Proven Methods Systems, that the previous Administration found
was bankrupt and defunct and the case was closed; and
c.
Those who had/have complaints against Trump Institute,

Trump University or some combination thereof, which makes it
unclear as to whether they would be affected by the New York
AGs lawsuit or were affected by the 2009 enforcement who may
have taken seminars that fall under the New York AGs lawsuit
and are not part of the previous Administrations AVC and
subsequently closed case against Proven Methods Systems.
OTR
x NYT 10/28/14: My office aggressively protects Floridians from unfair
and deceptive business practices, and absolutely no access to me or my
staff is going to have any bearing on my efforts to protect Floridians,
she said.
x NYT 11/12/14 Earlier, Ms. Kalani and two lawyers from her firm flew
on a chartered flight with Ms. Bondi to a Michigan conference. A
spokeswoman for Ms. Bondi said the attorney general does not allow
personal friendships to affect her objectivity.
x NYT 12/6/14: When the federal government oversteps its legal
authority and takes actions that hurt our businesses and residents, its
entirely appropriate for us to partner with the adversely affected
private entities in fighting back, said Attorney General Pam Bondi of
Florida, whose top deputy attended the meeting.
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AMICUS BRIEFS
x Defending Florida against federal government overreach has been one
of my priorities as Attorney General, and it is appropriate to file friend
of the court briefs in cases where states rights or individual freedoms
are being threatened.
OTR
Tampa Bay Times 10/24/14
x
An attorney general's participation in amicus briefs is important
because the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts routinely
establish legal precedents that influence both the policy choices
available to Florida policy makers and the individual rights enjoyed by
Floridians, even when our state is not directly involved in the case,"
Jennifer Meale wrote in an email.
x
"The only consideration Attorney General Bondi gives to matters
before her office, including decisions on whether to participate in
amicus briefs, is what is best for Floridians," Meale wrote.
Background
10/24/14 Excerpt: Pam Bondi, with Republican attorney general
coalition, involves herself in faraway court fights
TALLAHASSEE Earlier this year, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi
opposed a ban on certain kinds of semiautomatic weapons. Her only
comments were made in a short email sent by her spokeswoman: "I'm
proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who
consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans'
Second Amendment rights."
Guns aren't the only topic covered in numerous other briefs, many
seemingly unrelated to Florida, that reflect how much big money is
expanding the scope of attorney general offices across the country.
Since the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, super PACs like
RAGA
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CHESAPEAKE BAY:
x Fighting against federal government overreach has been one of my
priorities as Attorney General. And federal overreach is precisely what
is at issue in American Farm Bureau Federation v. EPA.
x
x While the details of that case involve the Chesapeake Bay, the principles
at stake are far broader. Indeed, the federal court deciding the case
explained that the dispute, at its core, raises questions regarding the
proper division of duties between the states and the federal
government under the Clean Water Act.
OTR
Oped 03/01/14
x As a fourth generation Floridian, I care deeply about protecting our
waterways and environment. I believe that Florida has always had the
best expertise and resources to determine how to protect our waters, as
does each unique state. Under the current administration, the federal
Environmental Protection Agency continually seeks expanded authority
to trump state regulation. But Congressnot the EPAdecides the
extent of federal regulatory authority. And under the Clean Water Act,
Congress left important authority to the States, expressly determining
to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities and
rights of States to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution, [and] to plan
the development and use of land and water resources. The EPA has a
role to play, but the States do too.
x Fighting against federal government overreach has been one of my
priorities as Attorney General. And federal overreach is precisely what
is at issue in American Farm Bureau Federation v. EPA. While the details
of that case involve the Chesapeake Bay, the principles at stake are far
broader. Indeed, the federal court deciding the case explained that the
dispute, at its core, raises questions regarding the proper division of
duties between the states and the federal government under the Clean
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Water Act. Because of that critical issue, a coalition of 21 state attorneys

general joined a friend-of-the-court brief led by Kansas defending
individual states authority in environmental regulation. Contrary to
what has been reported, by signing on to the friend-of-the-court brief,
no taxpayer money was spent.
x The twenty-one states are not alone in objecting to this federal
overreach. Eight counties in three affected states (Pennsylvania,
Delaware, and West Virginia) also filed a friend-of-the-court brief.
According to those counties, which are suffering as a result of the EPAs
unauthorized actions, the EPA usurped the state and local function
and simply went too far. As a result, these counties anticipate that a
significant area of their farmland will have to be removed from
production. There are real consequences when the federal government
acts beyond its authority.
x Those who suggest that the attorneys general who joined the brief are
anti-environment entirely miss the point. Everyone involved agrees that
our environment must be protectedwhether its the Chesapeake Bay,
Floridas springs, or the Mississippi River. The issue is the division of
federal and state authority. By joining the brief, I sought to defend
Floridas right to continue protecting its own environment without
unnecessary federal intervention.
x Florida has taken dramatic steps to protect its own resources, and Im
confident Florida will continue to do so. Recently, my office asked the
United States Supreme Court to ensure that Florida receives its fair
share of water flowing from Georgia, which is our best chance to save
Apalachicola and the surrounding region from the devastation caused
by Georgias overconsumption. I also ended years of litigation by
working with the EPA to reach an agreement to protect Floridas
waterways from excess nitrogen and phosphorus pollution. The
agreement between the EPA and Floridas Department of
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Environmental Protection allowed Florida's leaders, who know our

waterways best, to implement their own sound criteria that will
safeguard our water from excess nitrogen and phosphorus pollution.
x The best way to serve the cause of environmental protection is to
recognize states' authority and be vigilant about EPA overreach. This
brief is not about whether to protect the environment; it is about
defending the important role Congress gave States in protecting their
own widely varying environments. I will remain steadfast in my efforts
to stop the federal government from exceeding its authority and
infringing on our rights.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CASES:
x The only thing I consider when deciding whether or not my office will
join an amicus brief is the rule of law. When the EPA or any other
federal government agency oversteps its authority, its important to
take action in the interest of our states rights.
Questions:
I was hoping to get some information on some amicus briefs and petitions that
have been signed by Bondi's office.
-- White Stallion Energy Center, LLC et al vs. US EPA (12-1100)
-- National Mining Association vs. EPA (related case)
-- American Nurses Association vs. Jackson (08-2198)
-- Mingo Logan Coal Company v. U.S. EPA.
-- Petition to join other states asking U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to
recommend a permit for the expansion of the Keystone XL Pipeline project.
-- American Farm Bureau Federation v. Environmental Protection Agency
-- The State of Florida and Charles Bronson v. Lisa P. Jackson
I'm particularly interested in two main questions:
1) Who asked that Bondi's office sign on to these issues/cases?
2) Did Bondi's office consult with DEP or any other state environmental
agencies/experts before choosing to sign on?
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MEDICAL MARIJUANA
x If there is a proposed amendment to the State Constitution submitted to
my office by the Secretary of State, we will review it and petition the
Florida Supreme Court incompliance with the Florida Constitution.
OTR Amendment 2
x "If it passes, I have to defend it, and I will defend it," said Bondi. "But I
feel very strongly about this. I feel very, very strongly about what it will
do to our law enforcement officers. So please encourage everybody on
that."
Background
16.061 Initiative petitions.
(1)The Attorney General shall, within 30 days after receipt of a
proposed revision or amendment to the State Constitution by initiative
petition from the Secretary of State, petition the Supreme Court,
requesting an advisory opinion regarding the compliance of the text of
the proposed amendment or revision with s. 3, Art. XI of the State
Constitution and the compliance of the proposed ballot title and
substance with s. 101.161. The petition may enumerate any specific
factual issues that the Attorney General believes would require a
judicial determination.
01/27/15 Sen Jeff Brandes files medical marijuana bill
Less than three months after a narrow defeat at the polls, state Sen. Jeff
Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, has filed a bill that would legalize medical
marijuana in Florida.
Under the bill, a licensed Florida physician can prescribe medical marijuana to
patients with a specific list of nine diseases including, cancer, HIV or AIDS,
which is commonly referred to as Lou Gehrigs disease.
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IMMIGRATION LAWSUIT
Message Points
x
This lawsuit is not about immigration.
This lawsuit is about President Obamayet againoverstepping the

power granted to him by our United States Constitution.
The President repeatedly said he would not violate the law, then
decided to do just that.
The powers granted to the President are expressly laid out in the United
States Constitution, yet President Obama has decided to ignore those
parameters.
We need to fix our immigration system but willfully turning a blind eye
to the rule of law is not the path to a remedy, but a prescription for
unwarranted presidential overreach.
Most Americans cherish the heritage we have as a nation of immigrants,

where diversity is our strength and our identity
Most Americans believe we need some kind of immigration reform,

beginning with securing our borders
The current failure of Washington to pass meaningful reform must

never be used as an excuse by the President, or anyone else, to subvert
the rule of law
This President promised us, time and again, that he would not subvert
the law to pass his remedy for immigration reforms. Then, he did just
that.
This creates a dangerous precedent. What if the next president

disagrees with Congress on an issue of taxes, healthcare, social security,
or some other issue? Can he or she just rewrite the laws Congress
passed?
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Key Facts
x
Hearing in Federal District Court in Texas took place on January 15,

2015
Several Members of Congress (over 60) filed an Amicus. Three

Members from Florida are part of the group Bilirakis, Yoho and
Clawson (new Member in Connies old seat).
Florida has joined with 24 other states/parties.

(Texas, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas,
Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, AG
Schuette People of Michigan, Governor of Mississippi, Governor of
Maine, Governor of North Carolina, Governor of Idaho.)
Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief
The Presidents actions give rise to at least two legal claims by the
States.
First, the Presidents actions violate his oblations under the
Constitutions Take Care Clause. On the merits, the Presidents
unilateral action violates his constitutional duty to take Care that the
Laws be faithfully executed. U.S. CONST. art.II, 3, cl. 5. That clause
specifically intended to limit the Presidents power not to expand it.
And the clause ensures that the President will faithfully execute
Congresss laws not rewrite them under the guise of executive
discretion.
And second, it violates the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). A

long line of precedent under Section 704 of the APA allows judicial
review of administrative guidance documents when they create
substantive duties or rights, and when they purport to speak with the
effect of binding law that is when they are legislative rules. (From
Texas Legal Analysis Memo)
The parties have asked the Court for expeditious action
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Judge: U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen
If asked about earlier programs under earlier presidents:

x
There has never been anything like this. This action is not in response to
any special circumstances or emergency: this is just the President's
disagreement with current law.
Obamas Own Words (from Complaint)

there are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in
terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to
simply through executive order ignores those congressional mandates would
not confirm with my appropriate role as President.
We are a nation of immigrants.But were also a nation of laws. So what Ive
said is, we need to fix a broken immigration system. And Ive done everything
that I can on my own.
If this was an issue that I could do unilaterally I would have done it a long
time agoThe way our system works is Congress has to pass legislation. I
then get an opportunity to sign and implement it.
What I have said in the past remains true, until Congress passes a new law,
then I am constrained in terms of what I am able to do.
Other statements:
Jeb Bush
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called Obama's action "ill-advised" and said it
"undermines all efforts to forge a permanent solution to this crisis" that
should come from Congress.
"President Obama has once again put divisive and manipulative politics before
the sober leadership and sound laws required of an exceptional nation," Bush
said in a statement. "It is time for Republican leaders in Congress to act. We
must demonstrate to Americans we are the party that will tackle serious
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challenges and build broad-based consensus to achieve meaningful reforms

for our citizens and our future."
Marco Rubio
"We need immigration reform. But the right way to do it is to first bring illegal
immigration under control by securing the borders and enforcing the laws,
then modernizing our legal immigration system," Rubio said in a statement.
"After we do these things, we will eventually have to deal with those here
illegally in a reasonable but responsible way. The President's actions now
make all of this harder and are unfair to people in our immigration system
who are doing things the right way."
POTUS Executive Action on Immigration (Nov. 2014)
Message Points (from first statement issued)
x
Many of us listened carefully to President Obamas remarks about his

intended, unilateral actions regarding immigration.
The President stated that, people who live in this country should play
by the rules. The American people also believe the President should
play by the rules and respect the rule of law.
The President cannot ignore the American people, the states or an

entire branch of government.
Our countrys unique strength derives from its history of immigration.
Our nations immigration laws must be enforced and our borders must
be secure.
Our country should also be welcoming to those who want to join us on

this American journey in the manner established by our laws.
As Attorneys General we are committed to the rule of law and ensuring
that we remain a nation of laws, enacted as prescribed by our
Constitution.
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Each president takes an oath to faithfully execute the Office of

President of the United States, and to the best of [his] Ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. We
expect President Obama to fulfill this oath.
As attorneys general we will uphold our constitutional oath to take

whatever actions may be appropriate to uphold the rule of law.
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ALLIED VETERANS
x
Before we took on the Allied Veterans cases, there were more than
1,800 internet cafes in Florida.
Working with law enforcement, we were able to bring the industry to a

standstill.
My Office of Statewide Prosecution prosecuted two law enforcement

officers caught up in the Allied Veterans operation. They should have
known better, and now thanks to my Office of Statewide Prosecution,
these former offices will never carry a badge again.
Also, the unscrupulous lawyer who misrepresented to government and

law enforcement statewide how these operations and systems worked
in an effort to spread the illegal cafes all over the state was convicted
and is facing a prison sentence following his appeal.
To date, working with the Seminole County Sheriffs Office, we have

settlements of more than $15 Million dollars
Background:
01/26/15 Mark Woods: What was the "strong message" of the Allied Veterans case?
Two years later, though, its hard to figure out what to make of all of that.
What was billed as one of the biggest busts in recent state history now feels
more like the attorney general opening the door to Al Capones vault. Most of
the seized money has been returned. Prosecution to the fullest extent of the
law has turned out to be mostly a series of plea deals, many of them little
more than a slap on the wrist. The final deal came this month when Nelson
Cuba, the former head of the Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police, agreed to
house arrest for a year, probation for four years and a $45,000 donation to a
veterans group. His deal had something in common with every previous deal:
no prison time.
Of the 57 people who were arrested in 2013, only one is facing prison time
the one who refused to take a deal, saying he was innocent and planned to
fight.
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RESTORATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS

x The Florida Constitution, the people's charter of government,
disqualifies an individual who has been convicted of a felony from
voting or holding office until his or her civil rights have been restored.
x I believe that felons must first prove their rehabilitation through the test
of time before having their civil rights restored.
x I strongly supported legislation to separate the restoration of civil rights
from the occupational licensing process so as not to impede a felons
ability to obtain a job and become a productive member of society after
being vetted by the appropriate authority.
Background
01/26/15 Florida among nation's toughest places to have voting rights restored, Orlando
Sentinel
Commit any felony in Florida and you lose your right to vote for life unless the governor
and the clemency board agree to give that right back to you.
The result: more than 1.6 million Floridians about 9 percent cannot vote, hold office
or serve on a jury, according to The Sentencing Project, a prison-reform group. In most
states, the percentage is less than 2.
Only two other states have that tough a policy.
Getting back those rights has become far tougher in the past four years. Under Gov. Rick
Scott, 1,534 nonviolent felons had their rights restored. More than 11,000 others applied
but are still waiting for an answer.
Under former Gov. Charlie Crist, the clemency board automatically restored the rights of
nonviolent offenders who served their time and a total of 155,315 got them back during
his four-year term.
Now, some members of the Florida Legislature, as well as voting-rights groups, are pushing
a state constitutional amendment that would return the vote to convicted felons except
those found guilty of murder or sexual offenses after they have served their time and
completed parole and probation.
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HEROIN
x When considering heroin use and prescription drug abuse, its crucial to
remember that heroin has always been illegal, and prescription drugs
by their very natureare legal. They are legal drugs that can be used
illegally.
x From 2003 to 2010, prescription drug related deaths increased each
year.
x While all drug abuse is a cause for great concern, and heroin use has
risen with the crackdown on prescription opioids, heroin deaths
continue to pale in comparison to the number of deaths caused by
prescription drug abuse.
x Law enforcement had expected and has experienced an increase in the
use of heroin. This upward trend that coincides with the opioid
crackdown is not limited to Floridait is a nationwide trend.
x I co-chair the National Attorneys General Association Substance Abuse
Committee, and we recently worked on a report documenting this trend
to share with our counterparts throughout the country.
x Its important to note that the movement from prescription drug abuse
to heroin is not on a one-for-one replacement. Nevertheless, in my
second term, I am making it a priority to aggressively stop a resurgence
in heroin use in Florida by working with state, local and federal law
enforcement to ensure we are doing all we can to interdict the flow of
heroin into our state from Mexico.
x As I mentioned, the increase in heroin is not limited to Florida. In
Kentucky, overdose deaths resulting from heroin increased from 43 in
2011 to 170 through the first three quarters of 2013.
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NALOXONE & RX DRUG SHORTAGE

Naloxone
x We defer to law enforcement on this issue as they would be the ones
administering the drugs.
RX Shortage
x My heart goes out to anyone who is in pain and cannot get the
prescriptions they are legally entitled to have.
x The legislation we supported in 2011 does not hinder any pharmacists
from filling legitimate scripts for pain killers or any other legal narcotic.
x Our legislation has helped reduce the number of Oxycodone deaths in
Florida by more than half and reduced overall pill overdoses by more
that 20 percent.
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KRATOM
x The DEA has Kratom on its watch list, and my office has been working
with law enforcement to closely monitor reports of Kratom use in
Florida.
x So far we have not seen enough reports of a statewide nature that
warrant my office taking emergency action to ban the drug.
x We are seeing Kratom use mainly in Palm Beach County and are
watching to see if it spreads, particularly to college towns.
x If it determines that this becomes an issue with statewide impact, we
will certainly move in the interest of public safety.
Background
01/21/15 Palm Beach Post, Bill would ban kratom statewide
Kratom, a popular herbal drug, would become a Schedule 1 controlled
substance under a bill filed by freshman Rep. Kristin Jacobs. kratom2a
Jacobs, D-Coconut Creek, unsuccessfully pushed to ban kratom last year in her
final weeks as a Broward County commissioner. HB 287 fulfills Jacobs
campaign promise to file a bill banning the drug during the upcoming
legislative session.
Kratom, the leaf of a tree that grows in Southeast Asia, is in the same family as
the coffee tree and has been used as an herbal drug. But it can produce opiumlike effects, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
On July 16, 2014, Ian Mautner, 20, drove his Isuzu Trooper to a bridge above
Interstate 95 in Boynton Beach, parked his car, walked across the street,
removed his sandals and dived off the 23rd Avenue overpass into the
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National Mortgage Settlement

x I have staff dedicated to assisting borrowers eligible for relief thanks to
the National Mortgage Settlement.
x When an eligible borrower contacts my office with an issue they have
not been able to settle with their lender, we contact the bank for them.
x Since 2012, my team has reviewed over 4500 homeowner complaints
and assisted 770 homeowners in obtaining some form of mortgage
relief.
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Executions
x Our litigation in the Jerry Correll case is ongoing. For information on any
future death warrants please contact the Governors Office.
Background
Glossip v. Gross, 14-7955. Granting the petition of three Oklahoma death-row
inmates, the Court will address whether Oklahomas lethal-injection protocol
violates the Eighth Amendments prohibition of cruel and unusual
punishment. In Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35 (2008), the Court upheld the threedrug protocol Kentucky used. Petitioners contend that Oklahoma uses a
different drug than Kentucky for the first stage of the protocol, a drug that
cannot maintain [the] deep, comalike unconsciousness needed to ensure the
inmate does not feel pain when the second and third drugs are administered.
01/25/15 Reuters, Supreme Court to review Oklahoma execution procedure
(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review Oklahoma's
controversial method of execution by lethal injection, taking up a case brought
by three death row inmates who accuse the state of violating the U.S.
Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The high court just last week allowed the execution of a convicted killer in
Oklahoma over the objection of its four liberal members.
The three-drug process used by Oklahoma prison officials has been under
scrutiny since the April 2014 botched execution of convicted murderer
Clayton Lockett. He could be seen twisting on the gurney after death chamber
staff failed to place the IV properly.
The inmates challenging the state's procedures argue the sedative used by
Oklahoma, midazolam, cannot achieve the level of unconsciousness required
for surgery, making it unsuitable for executions.
The case draws fresh attention to the ongoing debate over whether the death
penalty should continue in the United States at a time when most developed
countries have abandoned it.
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The State v. Ray Sansom

x We are providing legal counsel to the Florida Legislature in this case,
and as the litigation is ongoing, it would not be appropriate to comment
further at this time.
Background
01/27/15 The Fine Print, Pam Bondi, the reporter and the money
Remember the lawsuit that disgraced former House Speaker Ray Sansom
filed against the state to recover more than $800,000 in legal fees?
Sansom, if you recall, was charged with manipulating the state budget process
in order to obtain $6 million in state money to pay for a hangar at the Destin
airport that was really intended to be used by a businessman and major
Republican donor.
His trial in 2011 ended when State Attorney Willie Meggs dropped the
charges after a judge refused to let a key witness testify.
Sansom filed a civil lawsuit asking for payment of his legal fees. He asserts that
his legal fees should be paid by taxpayers because it was connected to his legal
duties.
The state, however, has fought this request, saying that despite the charges
being dropped that Sansom's action were still "tainted" because he was
seeking to do something on behalf of private interests not the public.
Well the trial is coming up soon and the office of Attorney General Pam
Bondi has subpoenaed Tampa Tribune reporter James Rosica to testify in the
case.
Rosica covered the trial for The Associated Press at the time.
Why is Bondi's office seeking to compel a reporter to appear at the trial?
That's not really clear.
A spokesman for the attorney general refused to comment citing the pending
litigation.
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Index
RUN OF SHOW .............................................................................................................................................. 2
INTRODUCTION: ............................................................................................................................................ 3
FIRST TERM SUCCESSES: ........................................................................................................................... 5
HUMAN TRAFFICKING ............................................................................................................................... 5
BANNING PILL MILLS ................................................................................................................................. 8
NEONATAL ABSTINENCE SYNDROME ..................................................................................................... 11
OUTLAWING SYNTHETIC DRUGS............................................................................................................. 13
NATIONAL MORTGAGE SETTLEMENT ..................................................................................................... 14
MEDICAID FRAUD CONTROL UNIT .......................................................................................................... 16
CONSUMER PROTECTION ....................................................................................................................... 18
2015 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES: .................................................................................................................... 19
PROTECTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS......................................................................................... 19
DEFENDING PILL MILL REGULATIONS ..................................................................................................... 20
BANNING MORE SYNTHETIC DRUGS....................................................................................................... 22
CIVIL RICO................................................................................................................................................ 23
UNLAWFUL RECORDINGS ....................................................................................................................... 24
BEYOND 2015: ............................................................................................................................................. 25
BULLYING ................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
CONSUMER PROTECTION ....................................................................................................................... 27
CLOSING: .................................................................................................................................................... 30
WHY I SERVE............................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
RUN OF SHOW
2:00 Brendan Farrington Introduces You
approx 1 min
2:01 Your Introduction
approx 1 min
2:02 First Term successes
approx 5 mins
2:07 Legislative Priorities
approx 4 mins
2:11 Beyond Legislative Session
approx 3 mins
2:14 Closing
approx 1 min
2:15 Question and Answer
approx 15 mins
2:30 Thank you and Goodbye
INTRODUCTION:
x Thank you Brendan, and thank you all for inviting me here today.
x I have spent my life fighting dangerous criminals and upholding
the rule of law.
x Before becoming the Attorney General, I spent 18 years working
as a state prosecutor, putting violent offenders behind bars.
x Now, in my second term as Attorney General I am as dedicated as
ever to the rule of law and to protecting Floridians.
x As your Attorney General it is my job to shield our youth from
drug dealers and human traffickers and to protect fellow
Floridians from scams and deceptive trade practices.
x Spending the last four years traveling the state and hearing about
the problems facing our consumers, I am as motivated as ever to
continue working to ensure Florida remains the best place to
work, live and raise a family.
x In the upcoming legislative session and in the months and years
beyond, I plan to continue working with law enforcement and
lawmakers to defend the vulnerable and protect Floridas
consumers.
x My father dedicated his life to public service as the mayor of a

growing Tampa Bay city and as a lifelong Floridian, I always knew I
wanted to give back to the people of this great state.
x In my first four years in office, we were able to ban dangerous
synthetic drugs, shutdown pill mills, protect victims of human
trafficking, help babies born drug exposed and much more.
x In my second term, we will continue to advance these priorities
and take on new challenges to make Florida safer place to live
FIRST TERM SUCCESSES:

HUMAN TRAFFICKING
First Term Successes
x In my first term as Attorney General, through great teamwork and
strong partnerships with law enforcement and lawmakers, we
were able to increase penalties for human trafficking and offer
better protection for victims of these horrific crimes.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING:
2012 Legislation
x In 2012, we combined Floridas three existing human trafficking
statutes into one statute;
x Increased penalties for the crime of human smuggling from a firstdegree misdemeanor to a third degree felony;
x Provided that those convicted of human sex trafficking may be
designated as sex offenders and sex predators;
x Provided that any property used for human trafficking is subject
to forfeiture;
x Required massage establishments and their employees to present
valid photo identification upon request; and
x Gave jurisdiction for human trafficking to the Statewide
Prosecutor and the Statewide Grand Jury.
2013 Partnering with Businesses

x We partnered with businesses of various industries throughout
Florida who are dedicated to stopping human trafficking.
Law Enforcement Training
x We worked with the law enforcement to develop a two-hour
online training course for law enforcement officers that
specifically addresses human trafficking. More than 1,500 law
enforcement officers throughout Florida have already taken this
course.
From Instant Message to Instant Nightmare
x And we launched an awareness initiativeFrom Instant Message
to Instant Nightmarethat encourages parents to talk to their
kids about human trafficking and online safety. This campaign was
funded by settlement dollars, not taxpayer dollars.
2014 Statewide Council
x Last legislative session, I worked with the Legislature on a bill to
enhance care provided to victims of human trafficking, and to
establish a Statewide Council of Human Trafficking within my
office.
x I travelled to Mexico, as part of a delegation consisting of five

attorneys general, to address transnational crime, including
human trafficking.
x Our work with the attorneys general continues and I will keep
pursuing other partnerships to raise awareness about human
trafficking.

BANNING PILL MILLS
x When I took office, there were seven Floridians dying every day
due to prescription-drug related deaths.
x Florida had become the destination for prescription drug
distributors and abusers.
x Our state was nicknamed the Pill Mill Capital of the Country and
90 of the top 100 Oxycodone purchasing physicians in the nation
were located in Florida.
2011 Legislation
x When I took office, we immediately went to work to protect
Floridians against this pill epidemic.
x In just months working with law enforcement and lawmakers to
pass legislation that:
o Toughened criminal and administrative penalties targeting
doctors and clinics engaged in prescription drug trafficking;
o Established standards of care for doctors who prescribe
narcotics, and require them to register with the Department
of Health;
o Banned doctors from dispensing the most abused narcotics;

and
o Strengthen the effectiveness of the prescription drug
database by speeding up the time data must be entered.
x This legislation has truly been life-saving.
o TodayNONE of the top dispensing physicians of oxycodone
reside in Florida.
o For the first time in nearly a decade, I was proud to
announce in 2012 that prescription drug-related deaths
decreased.
o When we began our fight against pill mills, seven people a
day were overdosing and dying in Florida. Now that number
has fallen to around five a day.
o In 2010, more than 1,500 people overdosed on Oxycodone
and died. In 2013, 534 deaths in Florida were attributed to
Oxycodone, a decline of 65%.
o Overall prescription drug deaths also fell by nearly 30
percent during the same time period.
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2014 PDMP Funding

x Last year, session ended without new funding for Floridas
Prescription Drug Monitoring Database.
x The database is crucial in the fight to stop drug abuse and
overdoses.
x With quick action from my team, we were able to fund the
database for four years without using any taxpayer dollars.
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NEONATAL ABSTINENCE SYNDROME
x Through our efforts to protect Floridians from pill epidemic, I
quickly learned that the crisis was having a major impact on the
health of drug exposed babies.
x In 2011, more than 15-hundred newborns were born drug
exposed, and suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
Rx Drug Abuse Task Force
x The following legislative session I worked with lawmakers to
establish the Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns Task Force.
x The task force examined the extent of prescription drug abuse
among expectant mothers, as well as the costs of caring for babies
with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, the long-term effects of the
syndrome, and prevention strategies.
x The Task Force completed its study and recommendations ahead
of schedule and is already implementing many of the
recommendations.
x Awareness is a key component to ending prescription drug abuse
by expectant mothers, and we partnered with the Department of
Health to launch the Born Drug-Free Florida campaign.
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x The slogan, Your babys life shouldnt begin with detox was
seen and heard throughout Florida, and we established a website
with important information, including how to get help, for
pregnant women.
x Since the Born Drug-Free Florida statewide educational
campaign was launched to educate expectant mothers on the
importance of discussing prescription drug use with their doctors,
approximately 1,000 women have reached out to the hotline and
approximately 200 expectant mothers have begun treatment.
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OUTLAWING SYNTHETIC DRUGS
x The first action I took as Attorney General in 2011 was to sign an
emergency rule that immediately outlawed synthetic drugs.
Spring Break season was about to begin and it was imperative
that we got these drugs off of Florida store shelves.
x These dangerous synthetic drugs were being marketed to
teenagers as incense, potpourri, K2, spice, and bath
salts.
x I have continued to do everything in my power and to consistently
work with the Legislature to ban emergent chemical compounds
as the drug makers have attempted to skirt state law by altering
the chemical components of these drugs.
x Partnering with law enforcement and state lawmakers, we have
been able to identify and outlaw 131 dangerous chemical
compounds.
x Despite having drastically slowed the sale of synthetic drugs, we
must remain vigilant in order to keep synthetic drugs out of the
hands of Florida's youth.
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NATIONAL MORTGAGE SETTLEMENT
x During my first term, I entered a landmark $26 billion joint
federal-state agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage
servicers over foreclosure abuses and unacceptable nationwide
mortgage servicing practices.
x More than 92,000 Floridians have benefitted from $9.12 billion
in relief (check with Vickie). We also addressed future mortgage
loan servicing practices.
Key points:
x In addition to the terms of the national settlement agreement, I
separately negotiated an agreement with the nations three
largest mortgage servicers to ensure that a guaranteed portion of
the overall settlement funds goes to Florida borrowers.
x In 2014, I entered a $2.1 billion joint federal-state agreement with
Ocwen Financial and a $550 million joint federal-state agreement
with Suntrust Mortgage.
x Both the Ocwen and Suntrust agreements resolve allegation of
mortgage servicing misconduct that potentially resulted in
premature and unauthorized foreclosures, violations of
homeowners rights and protections, and the use of false and
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deceptive documents and affidavits, including robo-signing.

x In December 2014, under the Ocwen agreement, we distributed
checks amounting to more than $120 million to eligible borrowers
who had lost their homes to foreclosure with $16.2 million
going to Florida households.
x Under the Suntrust agreement, a fund of $40 million will be
distributed to foreclosed-upon borrowers who file claims in the
coming months.
x Consumers will also receive first lien principal reductions and
other relief under both of these settlements.
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MEDICAID FRAUD CONTROL UNIT
x Medicaid Fraud continues to be a problem plaguing our state, but
Im happy to report today, that my Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
has been working diligently to catch these criminals taking
advantage of the system.
x Floridas Medicaid program is a more than $22.9 billion state and
federal partnership that serves more than 3 million Floridians.
x My Medicaid Fraud Control Units investigations involve
fraudulent billing schemes.
x Additionally, the MFCU investigates allegations of patient abuse,
neglect, and exploitation in facilities receiving payments under
the Medicaid program.
x And partners with local and federal law enforcement agencies to
stop abuse and fraud.
Successes and Recoveries
x From January 2011 to November 2014, my office obtained more
than $471 million in settlements and judgments.
x When criminals defraud the system, they are essentially stealing
from Floridas taxpayers who fund the program.
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x We will continue working to protect the integrity of the Medicaid

program.
Total MFCU recoveries since 2011
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FIRST TERM SUCCESSES

CONSUMER PROTECTION
Division Settlements and Recoveries
x Protecting our consumers has been one of my biggest priorities. In
the first four years of my administration, my office has recovered
nearly $10.5 billion in recoveries. In 2014 alone, the Division saw
nearly $600 million in recoveries.
x Notable settlements included those with AT&T and T-Mobile,
resolving allegations of cramming; a settlement with Sirius XM
Radio, resolving allegations of negative options and unauthorized
charges; and Ocwen and Suntrust Mortgage.
Total Florida Recoveries by Year
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Totals 2003 2006
Totals 2007 2010
Totals 2011 2014
$
23,393,280.76
$
32,179,914.12
$
18,494,303.66
$
18,852,883.27
$
34,175,941.36
$ 161,430,485.31
$ 238,711,518.62
$ 431,377,508.80
$
63,432,044.54
$ 106,960,781.03
$ 9,696,279,506.56
$ 589,257,854.60
$
92,920,381.81
$ 865,695,454.09
$10,455,930,186.73
-- A breakdown, year-by-year, of staff on Economic Crime Unit.

The number of Consumer Protection full time positions has increased
during this administration:
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July 2011:
July 2012:
July 2013:
July 2014:
74 FTEs
74 FTEs
83 FTEs
86 FTEs
2015 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES:

PROTECTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
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x We had a lot of success in our first term from defending Floridians

from unfair and deceptive trade practices to protecting victims of
human trafficking, but there is still more work to be done.
2015 Legislative Agenda

x We continue to work with our Statewide Council on Human
Trafficking to look for better ways to protect victims and to stop
the criminals that exploit them.
x This legislative session we will work with state lawmakers to offer
better protections and more services to victims of human
trafficking.
o We are currently working on a proposal to streamline and
enhance the approval process for a Human Trafficking victim
to receive relocation assistance funding.
o I want to provide every opportunity available for a
trafficking victim to get away from their captor.
2015 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES

DEFENDING PILL MILL REGULATIONS
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x We have seen an astounding 65 percent drop in the number of

Floridians overdosing on Oxycodone.
x But the protections we put in place, that allowed Florida to drop
the title of Pill Mill Capital of the Country, are expiring.
x We must remain diligent and do everything we can to continue to
gain ground in the battle against prescription drug abuse.
x We are working with Representative Spano and Senator
Benaquisto to make sure we dont go back to the days before I
took office, when seven people a day were dying due to
prescription drug abuse
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BANNING MORE SYNTHETIC DRUGS
x We have gained tremendous ground in the fight to keep synthetic
drugs out of the hands of our youth.
x So far, working with law enforcement and lawmakers, we have
outlawed 131 chemical compounds.
x Furthermore the number of compounds we have to ban, is
shrinking each year.
x Still, chemists are working around the clock to try to create new
chemical compounds in an attempt to skirt our laws.
x This is completely unacceptable and this session I will work with
Representative Ingram and Senator Bradley to make sure these
drug dealers are put out of business.
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2015 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES:

CIVIL RICO
x We must be steadfast in our efforts to shutdown racketeering
operations that are defrauding the citizens of our state.
x Enhancing Floridas law will allow our office to pursue
racketeering cases and obtain the value of the property that is
used in the commission of the offense regardless if the property is
sold.
x The updated law will also allow my office to pursue up to
$100,000 in civil penalties for each RICO offense.
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UNLAWFUL RECORDINGS
x I am also working on legislation to ensure rapists and pedophiles
dont exploit our laws to escape justice.
x This December, the Florida Supreme Court threw out the
conviction of an accused pedophile because the recording was
deemed unlawful.
x On more than one occasion, the teenage victim recorded the
offenders request to have sex with her.
x Without this key piece of evidence, this case will be extremely
difficult to prove.
x As a former prosecutor, I believe my office must do everything
within our power to protect victims of sexual assault.
x That is why we are working with the Legislature to fix this statute
and clarify that a minor can lawfully record a confession given by
their offender.
x With the leadership of Speaker Steve Cristafulli and Senate
President Andy Gardiner, I am confident that we will be able to
clarify these protections.
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BEYOND 2015:
Protecting Youth
x Beyond this legislative session, my focus continues to be on
protecting the venerable in our state.
x Our children are continuously targeted by criminals looking to
exploit them to make money or worse.
x We need to do everything we can to ensure our children dont fall
victim to drug dealers, human traffickers, or anyone who sees
them as an easy target.
x As a prosecutor, I focused on putting the bad guys in prison.
x While that is still my mission as Attorney General, I now have the
ability to do even more our youth.
o Its is imperative in my second term, that we will continue to
protect our children from Human Traffickers.
o Keep dangerous synthetic drugs off of store shelves and out
of their hands.
o Keep pill mills closed, so babies arent drug exposed and
teens dont become addicted to prescription drugs.
Bullying
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x And finally, in the months ahead, I will look for better ways to
protect our kids from bullies.
x With social media and internet access everywhere, kids can no
longer escape the constant teasing, and sometimes the bullying
reaches dangerous levels.
x I will continue to use my office to protect Floridas youth from all
these threats and in my second term;
x I will plan a series of roundtable meetings with key stakeholders in
various communities across Florida to discuss existing bullying
prevention efforts.
x And engage school leaders, parents, students and law
enforcement in a discussion about bullying and cyber bulling in
their area.
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BEYOND 2015:
CONSUMER PROTECTION
x In my second term I will also continue efforts to protect Floridas
consumers.
x In my first term, my office recovered nearly $10.5 billion. In 2014 alone,
the Division saw nearly $600 million in recoveries from 82 cases.
x We increased the number of full-time consumer protection positions from
74 to 86 and am asking the Legislature for 22 more permanent positions
this year.
x And I successfully pushed for four consumer-protection-related pieces of
legislation, all needed to better arm my office with the tools and remedies
it needs to protect our consumers.
x In my next four years, I will continue to build on these efforts, enhancing
enforcement in outreach in 5 IMPORTANT AREAS, designed to protect
o 1) our veterans and active military,
o 2) our seniors,
o 3) our small businesses,
o 4) our taxpayer dollars, and
o 5) Floridas homeowners.
1. Protecting our Veterans and Active Military.
x In my first term, I pushed for legislation that provided for enhanced
penalties if the victims of a consumer scam were military personnel,
veterans or their families.
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x I also put together a team of our consumer protection attorneys that

focuses on veterans consumer protection issues.
x My team and I met with the county veteran coordinators at their annual
meeting in October and my team now has the contacts necessary to stay on
top of the latest veteran scams, especially charitable scams that take
advantage of our veterans.
2. Protecting our Seniors.
x In my first term, my office worked closely with Commissioner Putnams
Office to beef up our laws regarding charity scams. I also hosted a Seniors
Consumer Fair in Naples and expect my staff and I will continue that
outreach and education effort in my new term.
x I also pushed for a strong data breach bill, recognizing that many identity
theft victims are seniors, and, through my Victims Assistance office, provide
counseling and assistance for victims of identity theft.
x My team and I will be conducting more outreach and education as well for
seniors so that they are armed with the latest information to avoid being
victims of scams in the first place.
3. Protecting Small Businesses.
x In my first term, it became clear that small businesses are increasingly
becoming the victims of scams, like the fake invoice scam (e.g. Yellow
Pages), utility billing scams (especially restaurants), and unscrupulous
claims by some so-called patent assertion entities (patent trolls).
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x So, my office focused on shutting down some of the biggest offenders and
will continue to build on that effort in the next four years, beginning with
the offices first case against a patent troll, filed earlier this month.
4. Protecting Taxpayer Dollars.
x In my first term, I pushed for a stronger False Claims Act so that we might
better protect our state agencies from false or inaccurate billing and
invoices that can cost millions in taxpayer dollars.
x In my new term, we now have a team dedicated to working false claims
cases in a concentrated effort to recover taxpayer dollars wherever
warranted. Since 2013, my office has recovered my office has obtained
over $28 million in non-Medicaid Fraud false claims cases.
5. Helping Homeowners.
x Perhaps my proudest accomplishment during my first term was the $26
Billion Mortgage Settlement.
x Two other settlements have been reached since the landmark $26 billion
settlement, one with Ocwen and another with Suntrust. Those settlements
are crafted after the first one and provide similar mortgage relief to
homeowners who have Ocwen and Suntrust loans.
x In my next four years, I expect there to be additional similar settlements
with even more homeowners being assisted.
x Also in the next four years, I am expanding upon the homeowner assistance
efforts my office has been providing for over 3 years, and will be adding positions
in my Tampa office to continue to help borrowers who may be eligible under one
of these settlements with the major lenders. Since 2012, my team has reviewed
30
over 4500 homeowner complaints and assisted 770 homeowners in obtaining

some form of mortgage relief.
CLOSING:
x As Attorney General it is my job to protect the vulnerable and
defend our laws.
x As a lifelong Floridian, and a former prosecutor, I have dedicated
my career to helping the victims of crime and seeking justice
against those who prey on our children.
x Im excited about the months and years ahead and I know,
through great partnerships with we can continue to make Florida
the best place to work, live and raise a family.
Subject: Hot Topics for tomorrow

From:
Jennifer Meale (Jennifer.Meale@myfloridalegal.com)
To:
pambondi@yahoo.com;
Cc:
Lynn.Guyton@myfloridalegal.com; Jason.Rodriguez@myfloridalegal.com; Whitney.Ray@myfloridalegal.com;

cate.crutcher@myfloridalegal.com;
Date:
Thursday, October 24, 2013 4:53 PM
Hi, Attorney General.

Please find the hot topics for tomorrow attached to this email. Whitney did a great job with them!
Please let us know if you need anything else.
Thank you,
Jenn
(See attached file: Hot Topics 10.25.13.doc)

Jenn Meale
850-245-0150 (main)
850-294-7294 (cell)
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Hot Topics
10.25.13
Trump
Response
x
Our office received one complaint 2.5 years ago against Trump University,
which is at the center of the NY lawsuit. The NY Lawsuit seeks relief for all
aggrieved consumers.
ObamaCare
Response
x
We have received two complaints about the Affordable Care Act. We are
revewing into those complaints
Background
The Florida Attorney Generals Office is reviewing two complaints, a spokeswoman
said. In the other, an Orlando resident reported a call from a group that seemed to imply
they were with the government and were offering health insurance through another
website.
A Stuart insurance agency associated with getobamacarenow.com said its just trying to
help customers sort out their options, with no intent to mislead.
After The Post contacted them, the sites operators said Friday they took down the
Social Security number request and added a disclaimer that they are not affiliated with
the government
We want to explain we are not the government, said Nick Fiorella, vice president of
Fiorella Insurance Agency in Stuart. It is not our intent to deceive anybody.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wasnt
commenting on other sites that may be competing for consumer attention, but said
officials were working hard to smooth out difficulties.
Nationwide Pools
Response
x
We will not allow them (Nationwide Pools) to circumvent the litigation by creating
and funneling money to a separate business in order to engage in the same
alleged unfair and deceptive conduct.
Background
Attorney General Bondi Obtains Asset Freeze and Stops Nationwide Pools from
Conducting Business During Ongoing Litigation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.Four months ago, Attorney General Pam Bondis office sued
Nationwide Pools, Inc. for deceptive and unfair trade practices related to the companys
sale and construction of pools. However, according to an amended complaint filed by
the Attorney Generals Office, Nationwide Pools transferred its assets to National
Construction Group and continued its unfair and deceptive sales and marketing
practices during this period of active litigation. During the time that it was transferring
assets to the new company, Nationwide Pools was continuing to take payments and
new deposits from consumers. On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondis Office
obtained an order from the Broward County Circuit Court freezing the companys assets
and enjoining the defendants from any further business related to pool construction and
remodeling that could harm Floridas consumers.
We will not allow them (Nationwide Pools) to circumvent the litigation by creating and
funneling money to a separate business in order to engage in the same alleged unfair
and deceptive conduct.
The lawsuit filed in June alleged that Nationwide Pools, Inc. used a variety of false and
deceptive marketing practices related to the sale and construction of pools, including:
failing to pay subcontractors which caused liens to be placed on consumers' homes,
making misrepresentations relating to pool financing, charging illegal credit card fees,
making misrepresentations regarding manufacturer rebates and warranties, and failing
to complete construction of pools. The amended complaint seeks consumer restitution
and permanent injunctive relief banning the companies and their owners from future
pool construction, along with a return of the assets that were transferred to National
Construction Group. Consumers can report fraudulent activity by calling the Attorney
Generals fraud hotline at 1-866-9-NO-SCAM (1-866-966-7226), or by filing a complaint
online at MyFloridaLegal.com.
Crime Stoppers Reward
Response
x
Big Bend Crime Stoppers to provide up to $10,000 to those who come forward
with information that leads to the arrest of those who helped the inmates. This
money is in addition to the up to $10,000 that FDLE is offering.
Background
Attorney General Bondi, FDLE Commissioner Bailey and Big Bend Crime
Stoppers Offer up to $20,000 in Total for Tips on Release of Two North Florida
Inmates
today announced that they are offering up to $20,000 in total for those who provide tips
on the release of the two North Florida inmates. Attorney General Pam Bondi partnered
with Crime Stoppers of the Big Bend Executive Director Sharon Ofuani to offer up to
$10,000 for information provided to FDLE that leads to the arrest and conviction of the
party or parties that constructed the forged documents or harbored and assisted
Jenkins and Walker after the escape. This amount is in addition to the up to $10,000
that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is offering for the same information,
bringing the total up to $20,000.
The illegal operation to help release two murderers who were serving life sentences
involved more than just the prisoners, and we have partnered with the Big Bend Crime
Stoppers to provide up to $10,000 to those who come forward with information that
leads to the arrest of those who helped the inmates. This money is in addition to the up
to $10,000 that FDLE is offering, stated Attorney General Pam Bondi.
This investigation is a top priority for FDLE and leads continue to come in, said FDLE
Commissioner Gerald Bailey. This reward money should entice someone to help us
find answers sooner rather than later.
"I am proud to collaborate with Attorney General Pam Bondi to offer up to $10,000 to
those who provide tips that lead to the arrest of those who helped the two inmates by
forging documents or otherwise assisting them," stated Sharon Ofuani, Executive
Director of Big Bend Crime Stoppers.
Anyone who has tips should contact Big Bend Crime Stoppers at 850-574-TIPS (8477).
Medical Marijuana
Reponse
This matter is now before the Court.
Background
State analysts discuss financial impact of proposed medical marijuana law, Miami
Herald
A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana is still well short of
the signatures needed to make it on the 2014 ballot. But enough people have
expressed support for the referendum that a team of state analysts has started the
process of drafting the financial impact statement that would have to be included in the
ballot language.
Today's Financial Impact Estimating Conference meeting included an overview of how

other states have implemented medical marijuana laws and reviews of national studies
on the topic. The analysts discussed different ways the law could be implemented in
Florida, if voters approve, and how it could affect the state's bottom line.
For example, depending on how medical marijuana is classified, there could be new
sales tax or property tax revenue coming into the state. The law will bring new costs, as
well. State agencies will have to oversee implementation and enforcement. A
representative of the Florida Sheriff's Association also warned about increases in drug
dependency and traffic crashes.
Led by prominent attorney John Morgan, supporters of medical marijuana have turned
in 109,310 valid signatures so far, according to the state Division of Elections website.
They need 683,149 signatures in order for the proposed amendment to appear on the
November 2014 ballot.
Enough signatures have been turned in to trigger a review of the ballot language by
Attorney General Pam Bondi and the drafting of a financial impact statement.
That committee hopes to reach an agreement and finalize that language by Nov. 4.
Their next meeting is Oct. 28 to review more information about potential costs and
revenue associated with the law, as well as estimates of the number of Floridians who
would elect to participate in a medical marijuana program.
Chief state economist Amy Baker said the number will likely fall between 175,000 and
450,000 Floridians, but additional information will help narrow the window.
The ballot initiative aims to legalize marijuana use for "individuals with debilitating
diseases as determined by a licensed Florida physician." It also would allow caregivers
to legally assist these patients with using marijuana.
Federal laws that prohibit carrying marijuana across state laws would remain in effect,
and the Florida law would not allow the use of marijuana for non-medical purposes. As
the law currently reads, the state would be solely responsible for regulating distribution
centers that produce and dispense medical marijuana.
Sansom
Response
x
It is our responsibility to defend the state.
Backgournd
Former Fla. House speaker wants legal fees paid, Naples Daily News
TALLAHASSEE Attorneys for disgraced former House Speaker Ray Sansom were
back in court trying to get the state to pay nearly $1 million in legal fees.
Sansom's attorneys argued before a judge Wednesday that the state was required to
pick up the tab because it did not successfully prosecute the Destin Republican. The
office of Attorney General Pam Bondi is fighting the request.
Sansom was charged over earmarking $6 million in the state budget for a college facility
that was allegedly going to be used by a friend and political supporter.
But prosecutors dropped the charges after a judge refused to let a key witness testify.
Initially prosecutors said Sansom would help reimburse design work done for the facility.
But Sansom's attorney said he never agreed to pay anything.
Freddie Lee Hall
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Freddie Lee Hall faces a death sentence for the 1978 murder of Karol Hurst, and
Florida courts have found that he is not intellectually disabled. We will urge the
U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Hall's sentence.
Background
Freddie Lee Hall was convicted of murdering a pregnant woman and a deputy sheriff in
Florida 35 years ago. Upon resentencing in 1993, he was found to be intellectually
disabled, but his death sentence was upheld.
Then, after the Atkins decision, he was reevaluated and found to have an IQ between
71 and 80 on two tests. Florida, like nine other states (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho,
Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington), uses 70 as
its cutoff for establishing mental retardation.
Flood Insurance
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Due to Congress' failure to better protect consumers, Floridians are now facing
increased flood insurance rates that could force them from their homes and hurt
the economy. While we are in frequent communication with OIR to determine
whether we can legally take additional action, we support Mississippi's lawsuit.

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1.20.16
ARTICLES
Bondi's office shuts down travel scam that includes Daytona Beach company, Orlando Business
Journal
Financial Hurt: Judgment against shuttered South Florida debt management companies, WSVN
Supreme Court review of Obama immigration order gives both sides hope, Palm Beach Post
Execution delay sought amid missing records, News 4 Jax
Malpractice claims against troubled dentist settled, First Coast News
AMVETS in legal battle over gaming machines with Edgewater, Daytona Beach News Journal
OPINIONS
Editorial: U.S. Supreme Court ruling focuses much-needed attention on Altmans death penalty bill,
TC Palm
The Supreme Court, the Nativists and Immigrants, New York Times
ARTICLES
Bondi's office shuts down travel scam that includes Daytona Beach company, Orlando
Business Journal
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondis office has shut down another travel scam, obtaining
temporary injunctions against several related travel companies and owners, including one in
Daytona Beach .
According to the most recent complaint filed by Bondis office, Reservation Services International
knowingly allowed its two distributors, Map Destinations LLC of St. Augustine and Florida Beaches
Destinations Club LLC of Daytona Beach, which operated as Suite Journeys and Diamond
Vacations International, to employ unscrupulous sales tactics to induce consumers into purchasing
its vacation club memberships.
The complaint alleges that the travel companies lured potential customers into attending lengthy
sales presentations with promises of free gifts or cruises that were laden with restrictive terms or
not actually free. The companies also allegedly exaggerated the true savings, nature and value of
the club memberships.
Some consumers paid several thousand dollars for the travel club memberships that the
companies claimed offered deeply discounted wholesale pricing on hotels, condominiums, cruises,
rental cars and vacation packages. Once purchased, consumers reported that they could obtain the
same or better pricing on other free publicly available travel booking websites.
Based upon the attorney generals filed complaint, the court ordered the following relief:
A temporary injunction against Reservation Services International
The appointment of a monitor to oversee the operations of Reservation Services International
A temporary injunction, asset freeze and appointment of a receiver against Map Destinations LLC
and Florida Beaches Destination Club LLC
A temporary injunction against related companies and certain individual owners
View the full complaint here.
Financial Hurt: Judgment against shuttered South Florida debt management companies,
WSVN
WSVN -- The president of two closed South Florida debt management companies now has his own
debt to pay. Investigative reporter Carmel Cafiero broke the story and is back on the case.
When I caught up with Bobby Blackmon last May, he said he was resolving all the consumer
complaints about his Fort Lauderdale debt management and credit counseling company.
Carmel Cafiero: "You didn't take advantage of these people?"
Bobby Blackmon: "Absolutely not. Absolutely not."
He also disputed our reporting that authorities were investigating.
Bobby Blackmon: "When you guys first reported and stated there was this huge investigation.
There was no investigation with the Attorney General's Office."
But there was. Two months after our meeting, Florida's Attorney General sued Blackmon and his
Nation Wide Consumer Debt Relief and Financial Help Services for "...Unfair, deceptive and
unconscionable..." business practices.
And now, the state says, it's pay back time.
7News producer: "We wanted to ask you about having to pay the over 1 million dollar judgment
from the attorney general."
Blackmon didn't answer that question from a 7News producer, but in an agreement with the state,
Blackmon agreed to pay more than $1.6 million.
Some of that money will go to the people who hired him to get out of debt.
The attorney general says Blackmon's companies collected money from people each month, but
consistently failed to pay their creditors on time-- or at all.
From Florida-Laura Jorgensen: "My credit is worse than ever."
To Louisiana-Wendy Windsor: "The creditors were calling everyday and what happened as a result of the missed
payments for two months, all the interest rates went back up."
Even as far away as Hawaii.
Lorene Kula: "Finally it went into default and now two of the accounts are in collection."
Lorene Kula says Financial Help Services deducted money from her father's checking account, but
stopped paying his creditors.
She spoke with us through video chat from Honolulu.
Lorene Kula: "I did explain the situation with the creditors and they understood, but they still went
on with the proceeding with collecting their money."
And Kula isn't alone.
A cascade of 400 complaints from 48 states tell similar stories.
Mike Cohen: "He intends to pay everything that has to be paid."
Blackmon's attorney says his client has fully cooperated with authorities and blames Blackmon's
failed companies on someone else.
Mie Cohen: "He had a manager who, unfortunately, was very dishonest and stole hundreds of
thousands of dollars. And that's what we would have raised as an affirmative defense had this case
gone to trial."
Blackmon is banned from the debt management, credit counseling, and credit repair business in
Florida-- permanently. Carmel Cafiero, 7News.
Consumers who already filed complaints will be contacted by the Attorney General's Office. Those
who have not are asked to do so by the end of the month.
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Supreme Court review of Obama immigration order gives both sides hope, Palm Beach Post
Roughly 22 years after Teresa Berrios came to Lake Worth to build a better life, the 50-year-old
Chilean national is still looking over her shoulder, worried that she could be deported at any time.
While she has raised four children, three of them who automatically became U.S. citizens when
they were born here, her own dreams of being granted legal status have been dashed again and
again most recently last year when a federal judge in Texas blocked President Barack Obamas
overhaul of the nations immigration system from taking effect.
On Tuesday, like an estimated 180,000 undocumented immigrants in Florida and more than 5
million nationwide, Berrios was given reason for renewed hope.
In a decision that all agreed will influence the upcoming presidential election where immigration has
already become a hot-button issue, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review U.S. District Judge
Andrew Hanens rejection of Obamas executive order on immigration. Hanens ruling was upheld
on Nov. 9 by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
On the other side of the issue, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi voiced optimism that the high
court would uphold the lower court decision. Bondi is one of 26 attorneys general, led by Texas,
who have challenged Obamas power to use an executive order to change the nations immigration
laws.
The federal courts have sided with 26 states in this important case involving separation of powers
and we look forward to the U.S. Supreme Court hearing this case about the president overstepping
the power granted to him by our U.S. Constitution, Bondi wrote in an email.
Given the potentially far-reaching constitutional questions, legal experts cautioned against reading
too much into the high courts decision to step into the highly-charged political issue. The court
could easily uphold the lower court rulings, some said.
Were hoping and praying they dont, said Vicky Berrios, 24, who, as a toddler, travelled to Lake
Worth with her mother, Teresa. Other than DAPA theres no way she can stay here legally.
DAPA is the acronym for the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent
Residents. The 2014 executive order allows parents of children who are U.S. citizens to remain
here temporarily as long as they have committed no crimes. Under the program, now on hold by
court order, they would have to apply for reinstatement every three years.
Saying he was tired of waiting for Congress to act, Obama signed the program into law roughly two
years after he inked another immigrant-friendly policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,
known as DACA. It allowed Vicky Berrios, a John I. Leonard High School graduate, to get a driver
license and attend Palm Beach State College with the hope of one day going to law school.
Modeled after the hotly debated but never passed Dreamers Act, DACA allowed youth, brought to
the United States as young children, to remain here rather than face deportation to foreign
countries they had never known.
While DACA wasnt challenged, DAPA created a firestorm among Obamas mostly GOP foes, who
claimed he had usurped Congress legislative authority.
While the fates of millions of immigrants are in the balance, legal scholars said the high courts
decision will ultimately turn on technical constitutional issues. Its a contest between executive
orders and Congressional powers, said attorney Bruce Rogow, a South Florida constitutional law
expert.
David Abraham, who teaches immigration law at the University of Miami School of Law, said its
part of a power struggle that has been playing out throughout Obamas presidency. Its yet another
front in which governors, mostly from Southern states, are trying to trim back federal government
authority, he said of the immigration battle.
Just four years ago, many of the same governors sued to overturn another measure Obama
championed that they vehemently disliked, the Affordable Care Act. Now, Abraham said, they are
attacking Obamas ability to issue executive orders in hopes of keeping him from relaxing the
nations immigration laws. The order is not unlike countless others signed by many of Obamas
predecessors, including President George W. Bush, he said.
Immigrant advocates celebrated the high courts review. They voiced hope the court would reverse
the lower court rulings. In doing so, some said, the court would end what they described as a
politically motivated attack on immigrant families by conservative Republicans who are engaging in
fear-mongering to win the November presidential election.
It is shameful politicians like Gov. (Rick) Scott and Attorney General Bondi continue to play politics
with the lives of families in Florida, said Juan Escalante, director Floridas Voice, an immigrant
advocacy group. Immigrants and advocates alike are expecting the court to rule in favor of DAPA,
and in doing so, the court could send shock waves through major voter blocs that will undoubtedly
have a major impact in the November presidential election.
Most agreed the decision, expected before the high court adjourns for its summer recess, will fuel
passions in the presidential election. However, legal scholars said, a favorable ruling is far from
guaranteed.
The Supreme Court is widely split, with four conservative justices, four liberals and Justice Anthony
Kennedy in the middle, Rogow said. Its not just about immigration, its about executive orders. If
(the president) can do this, he can do other things like gun control, he said, emphasizing the
potential reach of a favorable decision.
As a result, Abraham said, immigrant advocates may be disappointed. The court could make a
limited decision, ruling that Obamas executive order suffered from some technical flaw, he said. Or,
he said, it could make a sweeping decision, turning the election into a referendum on immigration
by allowing voters to elect a president who shares their views.
But, he acknowledged, predictions are difficult. Tea leaves are tough to read, he said. But I dont
think its a foregone conclusion that the presidents executive powers will be upheld.
In any case, Rogow said, the ensuing debates, both political and legal, will be interesting. Its a
great spectator sport, he said. The problem is peoples lives are at stake.
Execution delay sought amid missing records, News 4 Jax
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Attorneys for a convicted murderer scheduled to be put to death on St.
Patrick's Day are asking the Florida Supreme Court for a stay, arguing that records -- including
some stored in an insect-infested shed -- were destroyed.
Mark James Asay's case is even more troubling because the Death Row inmate hasn't had a
lawyer to represent him in state court for nearly a decade and had no legal representation when
Gov. Rick Scott signed the warrant ordering Asay's execution, Asay's new attorney wrote in a
motion filed Tuesday.
A Jacksonville judge appointed Marty McClain to represent Asay last Wednesday, five days after
Scott signed the warrant scheduling Asay's execution for March 17. A circuit judge gave McClain
until Jan. 25 -- 12 days after he was appointed to represent Asay -- to file any motions for relief.
That's not enough time, McClain argued in Tuesday's 27-page filing. Proceeding with the case
"would be a violation of due process, equal protection and fundamental fairness," he wrote.
"Providing an attorney without the client's files and records is the equivalent of providing no counsel
at all," McClain wrote.
Hours after McClain filed his request for a stay, the Supreme Court gave Department of Corrections
Secretary Julie Jones until 5 p.m. Thursday to respond.
Scott may not have been aware that Asay did not have a lawyer, as required by state law for
inmates on Death Row, when the governor signed the death warrant.
"Given that the statute requires that collateral counsel be in place at all times, I would think it would
be wise for the governor's office to make sure that the statute has been complied with before a
warrant is signed," McClain said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
In the court filing, McClain wrote that Scott's staff contacted the state agency that represents Death
Row inmates after the warrant was signed on Jan. 8. Capital Collateral Counsel for the Northern
Region Robert Friedman told the governor's representative that his agency did not represent Asay.
Scott's staff then contacted Thomas Fallis, a private attorney who had represented Asay in federal
court, according to Tuesday's filing. Fallis told the governor's aide that he no longer represented
Asay.
"What additional steps the governor's office took to notify Mr. Asay's state court counsel of the
death warrant is unclear," McClain wrote. "What is clear, however, is that despite being given
information that at a minimum, Mr. Asay's representation was unknown, Governor Scott did not
pause or delay the execution date in order to ensure that Mr. Asay was or would be represented by
competent post-conviction counsel."
A spokesman for Scott said that the governor's office contacted Fallis before the warrant was
signed.
"As is standard procedure in our office, we spoke to his counsel of record, spokesman John Tupps
said in an email.
Fallis withdrew from Asay's case in mid-2014, according to McClain.
Asay was convicted in 1988 of the murders of Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell in
downtown Jacksonville. Asay allegedly shot Booker, who was black, after calling him a racial
epithet. He then killed McDowell, who was dressed as a woman, after agreeing to pay him for oral
sex. According to court documents, Asay later told a friend that McDowell had previously cheated
him out of money in a drug deal.
McClain said he and his partner, Linda McDermott, started trying to locate Asay's files after they
were assigned to the case last week.
"What was learned was quite disconcerting --- numerous boxes, probably a majority, of Mr. Asay's
files and records had been destroyed, while those records that theoretically still exist, have yet to
be located," McClain wrote, adding that 33 boxes of records pertaining to Asay's file are missing or
were destroyed.
Asay was once represented by the predecessor of the Capital Collateral Counsel for the Northern
Region, but the Legislature shut down the agency in 2004. At least some of Asay's records were
transferred to Mary Katherine Bonner, a lawyer who once worked on his case, according to
McClain's brief filed Tuesday.
Fallis, who represented Asay in federal court from 2010 through 2014, obtained about 10 boxes of
documents from a shed that was "infested with snakes, rats and insects" where Bonner stored
them, McClain wrote.
Fallis decided the files were "worthless due to the condition in which they were stored" and
ultimately destroyed them, McClain wrote.
McClain, who has worked on death penalty cases for nearly three decades and represented more
than 250 clients, and his partner "have never found themselves in such dire and disturbing
circumstances when representing a capital post-conviction defendant with an active death warrant,"
the lawyers wrote.
During a case-management hearing Friday, lawyers with Attorney General Pam Bondi's office and
the state attorney who prosecuted Asay told McClain they would provide copies of their records
regarding Asay's case by the end of the day on Tuesday. Bondi's office was unaware that Asay had
gone so long without a lawyer, McClain wrote.
McClain is also trying to get copies of other case files from the Department of State's archives, but
he is unsure when the documents will be provided, he wrote. As of Tuesday, he still did not have
copies of the trial court transcripts.
"Historically, this (Supreme) Court has been especially vigilant to the need for procedural fairness in
capital proceedings, and has accordingly not hesitated to enter stays of execution in order to
ensure that capital petitioners are treated fairly in the litigation of claims for relief during the
pendency of a death warrant," McClain wrote.
The Florida Supreme Court has granted stays in at least two other cases when new lawyers for
inmates scheduled for execution needed more time. In 1990, the court delayed the execution of
Paul Christopher Hildwin to give his lawyers extra time to review his files. In 2014, the court threw
out Hildwin's death sentence based on new DNA evidence.
Malpractice claims against troubled dentist settled, First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A number of medical malpractice claims against Jacksonville Pediatric
Dentist, Dr. Howard Schneider, have been settled. Attorney John Phillips sued Schneider on behalf
of 104 patients.
Phillips said all of his lawsuits have been "amicably resolved, " but he is not permitted to discuss
the details. So he couldn't say when the settlements took place.
Schneider's downfall began after Brandi Fagg-Motley, one of Phillips clients, complained about how
the dentist treated her six year old daughter. Motley said Schneider pulled eight teeth and during
the procedure her daughter fell and had to be taken to the hospital for a head injury,Last year
Motley spoke with First Coast News:
"I stepped out from the room, turned back, when I came back in she was face first on the floor,"
said Motley, "she was in a papoose board so I don't understand how she felled from the chair to the
floor."
Schneider also spoke with First Coast News from his Riverside home:
"I'm not worried about the allegations," said Schneider, "because the allegations are not true."
Motley took her case to social media, posting pictures of her child on Facebook and it went viral.
More of Schneider's patients then came forward with similar complaints.
The groundswell resulted in protests day after day in front of his University Boulevard office. After
nine days of demonstrations, the 78 year old doctor closed his practice and surrendered his state
license.
But that did not stop the state's Medicaid fraud unit from investigating. Over a four year period,
Medicaid paid his office $3.9 million.
The investigation concluded with eleven counts of Medicaid fraud against the former dentist.
Motley was unavailable to comment on the settlement. Attorney John Phillips said under the terms
of the agreements all they can say is the malpractice case against Dr. Howard Schneider has been
amicably resolved.
AMVETS in legal battle over gaming machines with Edgewater, Daytona Beach News
Journal
In an echo of earlier battles over internet cafes, the Edgewater-New Smyrna Beach AMVETS Post
2 is in a legal skirmish with the city of Edgewater after the nonprofit veterans group was cited for
having gaming devices.
AMVETS, a national organization with more than 600 private members in the Edgewater post, was
cited for a zoning violation on Nov. 3 for having sweepstakes/gaming machines on the property at
1209 S. Ridgewood Ave., according to court documents. Fines have accumulated daily to reach
more than $11,000.
Tom Bice, finance officer for AMVETS, said the private organization is challenging the city violation,
alleging they are not an internet cafe and the money from the gaming machines is used to collect
money from private members for community donations and operational costs.
We were hoping to get relief, Bice said. They called us an internet cafe. We are not; we are a
private club.
The Edgewater AMVETS post has only been cited for a zoning violation. Spokeswoman Kylie
Mason with the Florida Attorney General's Office and Spencer Hathaway, spokesman with the
State Attorney's Office for the 7th Judicial Circuit, said neither of their offices has started a criminal
investigation into the veterans organization.
In 2013, seven internet cafes in Volusia and Flagler counties and dozens of others statewide were
shut down after Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation banning the gaming locales that had operated in
a legal gray area. The ban took effect about a month after nearly 60 people were arrested in
connection with a racketeering investigation into Allied Veterans of the World. The charity was
accused of running a $290 million illegal gambling business that directed most of the proceeds into
its owners' pockets.
The AMVETS citation states the post is not properly zoned to have gaming devices. The citation
states that computerized gaming devices are only allowed in areas of the city zoned Light
Industrial, and the AMVETS building location is zoned as a Highway Business.
The original fine for the gaming devices was $75. Instead of paying the $75 civil fine and getting rid
of the gaming machines, AMVETS hired Robert E. Turffs, a Sarasota-based attorney, to fight the
violation.
At a fine of $150 a day, or $1,050 per week, AMVETS now owes more than $11,000 for not
complying since the citation was issued on November 3.
We havent been asked to pay anything yet, but we will be held accountable for all fines, Bice
said. We are holding back.
Edgewater's code enforcement supervisor, Fire Capt. Jeff Lariscy, said this is not the first time
AMVETS has been cited for the gaming machines.
In August 2011 when the veterans post was renting a space at 2111 S. Ridgewood Ave., it also
was found to be out of compliance. Lariscy said there were three gaming machines at the
Ridgewood Avenue location at that time.
They are the only establishment in the city (with gaming machines) not in compliance, Lariscy
said. I have other businesses calling upset, disappointed that the city isnt moving faster to get
these moved out.
Lariscy also said the gaming machines could be against Florida law. He said the machines at
AMVETS collect cash and a person can receive a cash prize.
If they wanted to have these games, and they werent prohibited by Florida statute, they could
have moved to other areas of the city, he said.
The rules pertaining to gaming machines in Florida became much stricter after Scott signed the
2013 bill that prohibits electronic gambling devices and revises provisions relating to drawings by
chance at nonprofits in Florida.

According to the Electronic Gambling Prohibition and Community Protection Act, businesses found
not in compliance with gambling laws can be charged with up to a third-degree felony. In some
instances, businesses found out of compliance could be charged with money laundering or
racketeering.
Section 21-33.05 of the city's land code states an internet/sweepstakes caf is defined as any
business that conducts giveaways through "drawings by chance conducted in connection with the
sale of a consumer product or service, sweepstakes, game promotions, to include any giveaways
obtained with any 'Computerized Sweepstakes Device.'"
Turffs, the attorney for AMVETS, said the problem lies within the city's building codes.
"The definition of an internet caf or a sweepstakes caf, once you boil it down, it is anything in
which you put money in for entertainment," Turffs said.
OPINIONS
Editorial: U.S. Supreme Court ruling focuses much-needed attention on Altmans death
penalty bill, TC Palm
The death penalty was a minor agenda item before the Florida Legislature convened last week.
It became a major issue when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Jan. 12 that Florida's death penalty is
unconstitutional.
Suddenly, a seemingly insignificant bill sponsored by state Sen. Thad Altman, R-Rockledge a bill
Altman has been championing for three years is garnering attention in Tallahassee.
The attention is long overdue.
Florida is one of only three states Alabama and Delaware are the others that doesn't require
a unanimous jury decision to impose the death penalty in a capital murder case. Current law
requires only a simple majority of the jury.
Under Senate Bill 330, a jury would have to agree unanimously to recommend a death sentence.
Jurors also would have to agree unanimously that each aggravating circumstance used to support
the death-penalty recommendation is proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Given the finality of the death penalty, the state should require a unanimous recommendation from
the jury.
Altman's bill, as currently written, doesn't address the issue raised by the Supreme Court. However,
the Legislature should tackle the unanimity issue in tandem with reforms necessitated by the high
court's decision.
Ruling 8-1 in the case of Timothy Lee Hurst, who was convicted of the 1998 murder of his manager
at a Popeye's restaurant in Pensacola, the Supreme Court found Florida gives too much power to
judges to make the final decision to sentence someone to death.
In the Sunshine State, the jury serves only in an advisory capacity. That's a violation of the Sixth
Amendment right to a fair trial, according to the Supreme Court.

The ruling raises questions with respect to the state's implementation of the death penalty. Namely,
could the decision trigger new sentencing appeals from the 390 inmates on Florida's death row? Or
will the ruling apply only to those who have not yet exhausted their appeals?
It will be left to the Florida Legislature and legal experts to resolve the issue. While they're at it,
lawmakers should pass Altman's bill and require a unanimous recommendation from the jury to
impose a death sentence.
Jurors should be in agreement when condemning another human being to death.
The Supreme Court, the Nativists and Immigrants, New York Times
As soon as 26 states took it upon themselves to sue President Obama over the sensible, humane
executive actions he took in late 2014 to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from
deportation, it was inevitable that the lawsuit would land on the Supreme Courts doorstep.
On Tuesday morning, the justices announced that they would hear the case, which means a
decision will most likely come down by the end of June. The states should never have been
allowed standing to sue in the first place, and their substantive claims are groundless.
There are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. No one,
besides Donald Trump, believes the nation has the resources, or the will, to deport them all. The
clearest solution is to focus on removing those who pose an actual threat to public safety while
deferring action on most of the rest and helping them come out of the shadows. In 2012, the
Obama administration allowed young immigrants who were brought here as children to be given
work permits and be exempted from deportation, a program that has worked well. In November
2014, the president announced a plan to offer work permits and a three-year reprieve from
deportation to as many as five million undocumented parents of American citizens or permanent
residents, provided they had no criminal record and had lived in the country at least five years.
Getting hardworking people who have deep roots in their communities out of the shadows isnt a
new issue. In a 1980 presidential debate, George Bush decried the harsh efforts to marginalize
undocumented immigrants. Were creating a whole society of really honorable, decent, familyloving people that are in violation of the law, he said. Mr. Obama, along with other reality-based
politicians on both the left and the right, understands this, but congressional Republicans have
refused to pass any meaningful immigration reform.
Mr. Obamas pragmatic deportation exemption programs are well within his legal and constitutional
authority. The Supreme Court explicitly stated in 2012 that the federal government had broad,
undoubted power over the subject of immigration and the status of aliens under the Constitution.
But Texas and other states mostly conservative ones along the southern border immediately
cried foul, and steered a lawsuit to Judge Andrew Hanen of Federal District Court in Brownsville,
Tex. Last February, Judge Hanen ruled in the states favor and blocked the presidents action. In
November, a panel of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 2 to 1 to affirm that ruling.
In their brief to the Supreme Court, the states concede that the president has discretion to enforce
immigration laws in individual cases. But they argue he does not have power to alter the legal
status of entire classes of people.
This mischaracterizes the presidents actions. Presidents of both parties have long used their
authority to enforce immigration laws selectively, so as to be efficient, rational and humane, as a
group of former immigration and Homeland Security officials wrote in a brief to the court. For
example, both the Reagan and first Bush administrations provided relief from deportation to
spouses and children of those eligible for legalization a class of people whom Congress had
expressly declined to protect in the 1986 immigration reform law.
Every weekday, get thought-provoking commentary from Op-Ed columnists, The Times editorial
board and contributing writers from around the world.
Apart from the fallacious argument on the presidents powers, the states have no standing to sue.
Texas claims that it has that right simply because it thinks the presidents orders would harm its
economy. If the court were to accept this kind of claim, it would mean that any time a state or city
opposed a federal action, it could drag that political dispute into the courts.
Congress should have passed comprehensive immigration reform years ago, rather than, say,
threatening to impeach the president when he took on the issue. Mr. Obama is wholly within his
authority to make wise use of limited enforcement resources. The Supreme Court has already
recognized this fact; now it needs to reiterate it.
Jessica Marr
Communications Specialist
The Capitol PL-01
Office: 850-245-0211

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News Clips
2.4.16
ARTICLES
Evidence mounts against Dr. Howard Schneider, WJXT News 4 Jax
What you need to know for Thursday, Feb. 4, Tampa Bay Times
Charged thousands for undelivered product, couple says, WKMG
Florida bill would allow military force to keep out refugees, NWF Daily News, Gainesville Sun
Justices weigh new trial for Morris in wake of death penalty ruling, Tampa Tribune
House passes bills to allow open gun carry, campus gun carry, AP
ARTICLES
Evidence mounts against Dr. Howard Schneider, WJXT News 4 Jax
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Documents in the pending trial of Dr. Howard S. Schneider on 11 counts of
Medicaid fraud detail claims that the pediatric dentist abused children.
The state said Schneider billed Medicaid more hundreds of thousands of dollars for procedures he
didnt actually perform.
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Included in the evidence against him are similar accounts from about a dozen parents telling
investigators they and their kids experienced in Schneiders office:
That man doctor threw me."
"He choked me and pulled my teeth."
"Theyre lying to you"
The Office of the Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit interviewed them as a part of their
investigation into the pediatric dentist who is accused of abusing his patients and of Medicaid fraud.
Parents of Schneider's patients recounted hearing screams, children injured for procedures, and
children getting procedures the parents didn't even know about.
Parents reported their child's lips were bruised, their kids were vary scared, and one patent was
found face first on the floor.
One parent told investigators they took their child to Schneider's office for a procedure they were
told would only take 30 minutes. After three hours, they went to the window three times, and an
assistant finally told them there was an incident.
When the parent was finally able to see the child, he or she was hyperventilating and had marks,
scratches and blood all over.
According to one document, Schneiders assistant told the person the child was on a papoose
board and we stepped out, came back and he/she was face first on the floor.
But the child had a different story, telling investigators: Theyre lying to you. That man doctor threw
me and that lady picked me up when I was on the board, and she was laughing at me and sat on
me and choked me.
The parent told investigators, I saw that my baby was missing all his/her teeth.
The documents also include what experts told investigators about Schneider, including:
His consent form is too general, and he should get consent from parents before performing
additional procedures.
His charts had poor progress notes.
The quality of work performed on the patients was low and below standards of care.
The type and amount of sedation that Schneider was using on the children was very mild and
would not be strong enough for a child three years or older.
One dentist who treated patients after they had seen Schneider told investigators, "It was like if Dr.
Schneider had done crowns, the crown was gone. If Schneider had done a filling, the filling was
gone.
DOCUMENTS IN EVIDENCE IN SCHNEIDER CASE:
"Now the defense gets a chance to really see what the state has. They have shown their cards.
These are their cards, and now the defense will have an opportunity to play those cards and see
what they can do and how they can defend Dr. Schneider," said Gene Nichols, an attorney not
affiliated with this case.
Schneider, who has not appeared at recent hearings on the case, was ordered by the judge to
appear at the next hearing Feb. 8.
Schneider is also facing civil lawsuits from former patients.
What you need to know for Thursday, Feb. 4, Tampa Bay Times
It's deep-fried Twinkie-tasting, llama-viewing, ride-spinning time for Gov. Rick Scott and the three
members of the Florida Cabinet Attorney General Pam Bondi, Agriculture Commissioner Adam
Putnam and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater. The foursome will be at the Florida State
Fairgrounds in Tampa for the traditional kickoff of the state fair. One tradition getting the boot: they
won't hold their regular Cabinet meeting in Tampa while in town.
Charged thousands for undelivered product, couple says, WKMG
ORLANDO, Fla. - An Orlando couple is accusing a company of charging them thousands of dollars
for a bed and mattresses, but never delivering the products.
"I've never dealt with anything like this," Stephen James told News 6 investigator Louis Bolden.
Joyce and Stephen James said they decided they would get a new bed for their 45th wedding
anniversary.
"Our anniversary was in November and I told my wife I said, 'What do you want for your
anniversary?' and she said, 'A new bed,' and that's how it started," Stephen James said.
Stephen has back problems and uses an electric lift chair in his living room.
When his doctor advised him an orthopedic mattress was medically necessary, he and his wife
decided to get one along with an adjustable bed.
They went to Mattress1One on Alafaya Trail.
"I'm sorry I went to that store," Joyce said.
The coupl said they picked out their bed and mattresses and financed nearly $3,000 on a credit
account they opened in the store.
They said the salesman promised to call them the following Monday to tell them when it would be
delivered, but according to Joyce, it never happened.
"When he didn't call by Thursday, that's when I decided to call back," she said.
After day of leaving messages and not hearing back, when they finally got someone on the phone,
the couple was so frustrated, they said they tried to cancel the order.
They said they were told if they did cancel, the cancellation fee would be 20 percent of the price -$568.
But nearly two weeks later, the entire amount of $2,841 was charged to their card, according to
Joyce.
"I have no electric bed. I have no mattress. I have nothing, but they have my money," she said.
News 6 called the company for a response on the James' case and was transferred to a voicemail,
where Bolden left a detailed message about the James' charges.
Very soon afterward, the charges were removed from the couple's account. Mattress1One later told
News 6 it was already in the process of refunding the couple during that time. The company said
the reason for the delivery delay was because the purchase was a special order.
"We weren't getting anywhere whatsoever, and after we got in touch with you, things started to
move." Stephen said.
"It was just remarkable how fast it turned around after that," he said.
News 6 found out Mattress1One has been accused of wrongdoing in the past.
Last October, Florida's attorney general investigated the company after numerous complaints and
required it to refund customers more than $300,000.
Court records show the company's president signed an assurance of voluntary compliance as part
of the settlement with the state.
The company agreed not to charge cancellation fees for orders canceled prior to delivery, and to
provide refunds within five days, records show.
That agreement also allows the state to inspect the company's records for a period of two years to
ensure compliance.
Mattress1One emailed News 6 the following statement:
As a company dedicated to providing great value and customer satisfaction, Mattress1One is
pleased to have voluntarily settled all complaints filed with the Florida Attorney General. Notably,
the settlement was without an admission of a violation of any law. The company has a long history
of working diligently to be responsive to its customers. Our mission continues to be to provide all
customers quality service and products. We are committed to doing whatever it takes to maintain
their trust.
Florida bill would allow military force to keep out refugees, NWF Daily News, Gainesville
Sun
TALLAHASSEE Florida's governor would be able to use military force to keep out immigrants or
refugees from certain parts of the world under a bill passed by a House committee on Wednesday.
The "Prevention of Acts of War" bill would let the governor designate so-called restricted people
those he determines are from countries where "invaders" live or train in preparation for an attack in
the United States. That includes people coming to the United States from areas near those
countries.
The bill which faces a number of hurdles, including little demonstrated interest from the Senate
would prohibit any state or local government employee or any person receiving state assistance
of any kind, including Medicare, from helping certain immigrants or refugees entering or resettling
in Florida unless the immigrants were born in the Western Hemisphere.
Anyone assisting a restricted person would have to turn that person's personal information over to
the state. The state would be allowed to monitor restricted people. The bill faces two more
committees before it can make it to the House floor for a vote. A similar Senate bill hasn't been
scheduled for its first of three committee hearings, a sign that its prospects are dim.
Under the measure, Gov. Rick Scott or Attorney General Pam Bondi could take legal action to
prevent the federal government from resettling a restricted person in the state. Scott also would be
authorized to use all powers, "including police powers, emergency powers, and military force," to
keep restricted people out of Florida.
It would also require that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement do a background check on
every restricted person in Florida.
Republican Rep. Lake Ray of Jacksonville said his bill is responding to the threat of the Islamic
State group and attacks in Paris and elsewhere. He said terrorists are falsifying passports and
trying to send invaders to the United States. He said Florida has a duty to protect its citizens and
economy.
"God forbid one of these events happened at a Disney or a Universal Studio," Ray said. "You can
put 'For Sale' on the state of Florida."
The bill was approved by the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on a 9-4 vote with only
Republicans in favor and only Democrats opposed. Instead of a simple "yes," Republican Rep.
Charles Van Zant of Keystone Heights cast his vote with an emphatic "Absolutely."
The provision that keeps immigrants born in the Western Hemisphere off the restricted people list
would apply to South and Central Americans, Mexicans and Canadians, but wouldn't automatically
apply to people born in many countries allied with the United States, including Germany, Italy, The
Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Greece and parts of France, Great Britain and Spain.
Ray included language in the bill that states the Florida constitution gives the governor the right to
use all military forces not in active service of the United States, including the general militia, to
defend the state.
There was no debate on the bill from either side. In the Democrats' case, they just didn't bother.
"It's hard to dignify a bill like that by debating it," Democratic Rep. Dave Kerner of Lake Worth said
after the meeting. "It's unconstitutional, it's offensive, it does nothing for the safety and protection of
our state and it's highly ineffective and very subjective. I could go on for hours about problems I
have with the bill."
He also noted that none of the Republican representatives debated in favor of the bill and
suggested that their support is a reflection of their constituents' fears.
"It's playing into an area in which Donald Trump has done very well, and that's capitalizing on the
fears of, more likely than not, good people," Kerner said. "I think a lot of the Republican members
voted for it because they felt compelled to by the constituents and that's a broader reflection on
society right now."
Justices weigh new trial for Morris in wake of death penalty ruling, Tampa Tribune
TALLAHASSEE Relatives and friends of two slain Tampa police officers sat in silence
Wednesday as the Florida Supreme Court spent an hour debating with a public defender and state
prosecutor about whether Dontae Morris deserves a new trial based on a recent U.S. Supreme
Court ruling.
Morris, convicted of fatally shooting officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab in 2010, was the first
death row inmate to have his direct appeal heard by the Florida Supreme Court after the U.S.
Supreme Courts landmark Jan. 12 ruling that invalidated Floridas death penalty sentencing
procedures.
The Florida high court is already struggling over how to proceed in light of that ruling, issuing an
indefinite stay of execution for Cary Michael Lambrix while it considers arguments made Tuesday.
Lambrix was sentenced to die Feb. 11 for the 1983 murder of two people in Glades County.
The U.S. Supreme Courts opinion has far-reaching implications, including whether Florida should
require unanimous jury decisions instead of a simple majority in sentencing someone to death, and
whether the high courts ruling should be applied retroactively to the 390 Florida death row inmates.
We are still trying to figure this out, Florida Justice Barbara Pariente said during arguments.
The Florida Legislature is also grappling with the issue, with both the Senate and House holding
hearings over how best to rewrite statutes to preserve the death penalty against future
constitutional challenges. One House measure follows a recommendation by statewide prosecutors
to require a 9-3 jury vote to impose the death penalty.
And circuit courts throughout the state are putting their death penalty cases on hold until the
Supreme Court and Legislature come up with a solution.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Hurst v. Florida that the states death sentencing statute
violated the Sixth Amendment because Florida law gives a judge the right to override a jurys
recommendation after reviewing the facts. The U.S. Supreme Court said only a jury can impose a
death sentence.
This statute has been declared unconstitutional on its face, Cynthia Dodge, a 10th Circuit public
defender from Bartow who represents Morris, said during oral arguments Wednesday.
Morris was found guilty by a unanimous jury and sentenced to death in May 2014 for the shooting
death of the two officers. A unanimous jury also recommended death.
Dodges motion for a new trial was filed over a year ago and had nothing to do with the issues
raised by Hurst, but rather rested on whether Morris had received a fair trial.
Dodge raised several issues in her motion, including whether Morris right to an impartial jury was
violated because of a change in venue, whether the court should have left out a redacted statement
it allowed to be introduced as evidence, and whether the court should have let law enforcement
identify the voice and image of the shooter on the police dash cam as that of Morris instead of
leaving that for the jury to decide.
Dodge had three days after the U.S. Supreme Courts Hurst ruling to file a supplemental brief Jan.
15, laying out an argument that Hurst also applies to her client. She said the 12-0 recommendation
by the jury didnt matter since the required findings of fact regarding aggravating circumstances
were not made by the jury.
In his 21-page order, Circuit Judge William Fuente said he gave great weight to two aggravating
circumstances the fact that the officers were killed in the line of duty and Morris prior conviction
for murder. Fuente said the 26 mitigating circumstances didnt outweigh the aggravating
circumstances.
Pariente asked Dodge why she didnt ask for a new sentencing hearing that complies with Hurst.
Why isnt renewal for a new sentencing phase not an appropriate way to appeal? Pariente asked.
Dodge said the case couldnt go back for resentencing because there is no longer a statute in
place. Justice Peggy Quince also asked if there werent still enough remnants of a statute in place
to proceed with a resentencing hearing.Statutorily you have the judge sentencing, not the jury
sentencing, Dodge said.
The Legislature would have to step in and write a new statute before any new resentencing trials
are ordered, Dodge said.
Assistant Attorney General Carol Dittmar said Hurst doesnt apply to this case or other already
decided cases because the procedures are still in place to conduct a fair resentencing hearing and
it would cause an undue burden on the court system.
Florida has the second-highest number of people on death row, after California.
Morris is one of 43 death row inmates who have filed direct appeals with the state following their
sentencing and conviction. A direct appeal is the first appellate proceeding after the sentence of
death has been imposed by a trial judge, Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters explained.
The Florida high court has several options in the Morris case: uphold the verdict, vacate the
sentence, order a new trial or a new sentencing hearing, or commute Morris death sentence to life.
If they give him a new trial, all this Hurst stuff becomes irrelevant, Dodge said.
House passes bills to allow open gun carry, campus gun carry, AP
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida House passed bills Wednesday that would let people with
concealed weapons permits openly carry their guns and bring them onto state college campuses,
as well as allow lawmakers to carry concealed weapons on their chamber's floor.
House members debated the measures for three hours combined, with most Democrats strongly
opposing both bills and most Republicans supporting them with equal emotion, saying they defend
gun owners' Second Amendment constitutional rights and would make the state safer.
"You want proof? The proof is in the pudding. The proof is out there. The proof cannot be denied.
Being pro-Second Amendment in the state of Florida has kept the state safer," said Republican
Rep. Jimmie Smith of Inverness. "Enough of the fearmongering."
The bill (HB 163) to allow guns on state college campuses passed on a 80-37 vote and the open
carry bill (HB 4001) passed 80-38. They now need approval in the Senate, where prospects aren't
as bright. Republican Senate President Andy Gardiner said before the House session that the bills
were in trouble in his chamber, and he said he doesn't like the language allowing lawmakers to
carry guns on chamber floors.
Neither did House Democrats.
"Why do we need guns in here? Are we afraid that we're going to need guns to go at each other?"
said Democrat Rep. Larry Lee of Port St. Lucie. "It really disturbs me."
Democrats also argued that college presidents and police chiefs all oppose the guns on campus
bill, as well as most students and faculty. They said it would make colleges more dangerous.
But Republicans said it would deter would-be mass shooters who look for gun-free zones to kill
people.
"These people who walk into gun-free zones are a lot of things - they're terrorists, they're evil, but
they're almost certainly cowards," said Republican Rep. James Grant of Tampa. "If you sit here on
this bill today and you believe that the gun is the defense mechanism, you've missed the entire
point. The threat of a gun is the defense mechanism."
Democratic Rep. Dave Kerner of Lake Worth noted that even the bill language that would let
lawmakers carry guns on the floor wouldn't let them openly carry the weapons.
"Imagine us walking around this chamber with guns on our hips, how awkward that would be in a
lawmaking setting. Now take that same image and put it in the classroom of your child and think
about how frightening that would be," Kerner said. "That's what the state of Florida is heading
toward."
Democratic Rep. Dwight Dudley of St. Petersburg added that open carry would hurt tourism.
"People don't feel very comfortable when everybody's toting guns," he said. "This is the Sunshine
State, not the Gunshine State."
Two other gun bills were sent to Gov. Rick Scott on unanimous votes.
The first (SB 130) would ban recreational use of firearms on residential property in neighborhoods
where are there are one or more homes per acre of land. The bill (SB 130) was written to prohibit
backyard gun ranges. The bill specifies that property owners can still fire a gun to protect
themselves or their property or if there's a venomous snake in their yard.
The second (SB 228) would change Florida's 10-20-life law that now sets mandatory minimum
sentences for crimes involving guns. The bill (SB 228) would give judges flexibility when sentencing
people convicted of aggravated assault instead of being forced to issue a 10-year sentence if
someone displayed a gun and a 20-year sentence if someone fires a gun, including cases where a
gun is fired as a warning and not at an individual.
Jessica Marr
The Capitol PL-01

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News Clips
2.25.16
ARTICLES
Senate passes bill requiring rape kit testing within 30 days, (AP) Sun Sentinel, WCTV WTXL, WTLV
First Coast News
Tornado aftermath: 300+ homes destroyed, damaged, Pensacola News Journal
Viewer alleges he was scammed by golf cart vendor, Local 10 ABC
10Investigates undercover: Hard water, hard sell!, WTSP
Democratic Attorneys General Slam GOP Over Supreme Court Blockade, Huffington Post
Rick Scott for Vice President?, Capitol News Service, News 4 Jax
ARTICLES
Senate passes bill requiring rape kit testing within 30 days, (AP) Sun Sentinel, WCTV, WTXL,
WTLV First Coast News
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida law-enforcement agencies will have to turn over rape kits for
testing within 30 days under a bill that has passed the Florida Senate.
The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday for the bill that is a top priority of Attorney General Pam
Bondi. The legislation was proposed after an audit released last fall showed that as many as
13,000 rape kits have gone untested in Florida.

The legislation (SB 636) sponsored by Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto would require that tests turned
over to the state's crime lab be tested within 120 days after they are submitted.
A similar bill is moving in the Florida House. Legislators are also considering setting aside money to
take care of the backlog of thousands of rape kits that have not been tested.
Tornado aftermath: 300+ homes destroyed, damaged, Pensacola News Journal
Update 12:25 P.M.:
Attorney General Pam Bondi today activated Floridas price gouging hotline for consumers in
Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties. The opening of the hotline comes as Governor Rick Scott
declares a state of emergency for Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties due to severe weather and
tornado damage. Floridas price gouging law only applies within the area of the declared state of
emergency.
State law prohibits extreme increases in the price of essential commodities, such as food, water,
hotels, ice, gasoline, lumber and equipment, needed as a direct result of an officially declared
emergency. Anyone who suspects price gouging during this declared state of emergency should
report it to the Attorney Generals Office by calling 1-866-9-NO-SCAM.
Violators of the price gouging statute are subject to civil penalties of $1,000 per violation and up to
a total of $25,000 for multiple violations committed in a single 24-hour period. In addition to the civil
penalties for price gouging, state law criminalizes the sale of goods and services to the public
without possession of an occupational license. Violators of the law can be charged with a seconddegree misdemeanor.
Specifically, F.S.S. 501.160 states that during a state of emergency, it is unlawful to sell, lease, offer
to sell, or offer for lease essential commodities, dwelling units, or self-storage facilities for an
amount that grossly exceeds the average price for that commodity during the 30 days before the
declaration of the state of emergency, unless the seller can justifying the price by showing
increases in its prices or market trends.
Viewer alleges he was scammed by golf cart vendor, Local 10 ABC
A Local 10 viewer who decided to Call Christina said he got "ripped off" by a man once dubbed a
"golf cart con man."
Company owner Frank Provenzano denies the viewer's allegations.
Fake vehicle history report sites snare online car shoppers into giving up personal informationThe
man said the golf cart he got wasn't what he ordered.
Local 10 News consumer advocate Christina Vazquez uncovered similar complaints filed with state
regulators against the Golf Cart Warehouse.
The Call Christina team hit the road for this man, driving to the company's headquarters outside of
Tampa to get answers, and while there they uncovered the company owner has a lengthy criminal
record in Pinellas County.
'This guy is ripping me off'

When Gary Dubeck of Key West dropped more than $6,000 on a golf cart he ordered with the Golf
Cart Warehouse, his contract stated it would be "street legal."
The technical term is a "low-speed vehicle" whose top speed is greater than 20 mph but not greater
than 25 mph.
Dubeck said it barely goes 16 mph. He also said he paid extra money for a black top, but upon
delivery found it to be a tan top that had been painted black and the fender well rubs on the rear
tires.
He took two laps around a parking lot with two people on board.
"You can see where the plastic melted on the tire, as well as melted on the fender," Dubeck said.
"This guy is ripping me off."
Pattern of complaints
It is a sentiment shared by other consumers who have complained about the company to state
regulators.
In 2015, a Brooksville man told state regulators that the company "delivered a bad product." He
cited problems that included batteries older than promised, a frayed and unusable charger and the
cart quit running minutes after use.
A man from Fort Meyers Beach told the Florida Attorney General's Office that the golf cart he
ordered from the Golf Cart Warehouse was delivered with headlights that would not work and
brakes that locked up.
"I was ripped off for a worn out golf cart," he wrote in 2013 in a separate complaint filed with the
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. "Since purchase I had to spend another
$850 and it still isn't SAFE to use!!!! I NEED THE STATE OF FLORIDA'S HELP!!!!"
In 2012, an Orlando woman told the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services the
golf cart she purchased online with the Golf Cart Warehouse was delivered with the wrong color
paint, a rip in the tan seats and a broken windshield.
Three different consumers said their carts had trouble minutes after delivery.
2012: "Cart broke within 10 minutes of driving"
2014: "The thing start bucking in 10 mins"
2015: "Quit running after minutes of use"
'Palm Harbor Golf Cart Con Man'
When the Call Christina team arrived at the company's headquarters, they were told company
owner Frank Provenzano was out of town in Georgia.
No one answered the door when the Call Christina team also visited his waterfront home.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office provided Local 10 News a copy of Provenzano's mug shot. He
has a rap sheet in Pinellas County dating back to 1999.
Court records show he's served time on a range of charges from cocaine possession and grand
theft to unlicensed roofing contracting and unlicensed general contracting. In the cases cited, he
pleaded no contest.
A 2011 a blog post labeled him the "Palm Harbor Golf Cart Con Man," and the Better Business
Bureau states it has received complaints alleging non-delivery, poor product quality and poor
customer service.
In an email to Local 10 News, Provenzano accused Dubeck of wanting free parts.
Dubeck, who is now spending more money to fix the golf cart, told Local 10 News, "I want what I
bought."
The inspection
In an e-mail, the company's owner told Local 10 News that Dubeck's golf cart "has been inspected
by (the Florida Department of Transportation) and passed inspection."
Vazquez checked. The DOT said it does not inspect golf carts.
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles does, but explained how the
inspection process involves the owner self-certifying that everything is in working order as part of
the application process for registering and titling a low speed vehicle.
That would mean when Provenzano stated that it "passed inspection," what he means is that he
told the state everything was good to issue a title, not that the golf cart, converted to a low-speed
vehicle, passed a rigorous inspection by regulators. The department recommends to anyone
making a major investment of a low-speed vehicle or motor vehicle to inspect it in person if at all
possible.
Low-speed vehicles
Dubeck told Local 10 News he also thought he was getting a 2015 "street legal" golf cart from
Provenzano. The technical term is low-speed vehicle.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration allows a golf cart to be converted to a lowspeed vehicle.
When he received the title, he thought "2015" meant it was a 2015 model. But once he had the golf
cart, he learned it was a 2012 model based on the serial number on the Club Car golf cart.
A Florida number will be assigned to the converted low-speed vehicle. That means the year for the
vehicle listed on the title is the year it was converted and not the model year of the golf cart.
Click here to see how to locate a Club Car serial number.
10Investigates undercover: Hard water, hard sell!, WTSP
TAMPA, Florida When you buy a new home in Florida, youll likely be inundated with postcards
advertising free housewarming gifts, like $50 gift cards to local retailers. But the deal is often too
good to be true, and you never know whom you may be allowing into your home.
10Investigates WTSP went undercover to test the free gift offers from companies trying to sell you
home water filtration systems and installation even though the offer cards typically neglect to
explain all the strings attached to the free offer.
Furthermore, phone operators promising to arrange for delivery of your gift card are more
interested in getting you in front of their sales staff, often using deceiving promises to secure an
appointment in your home.
Floridas attorney general has warned consumers about companies selling water treatment
devices, suggesting Floridians avoid free home water tests altogether, instead testing their water
themselves.
Undercover Test: Florida Suncoast Services
The glossy postcards start arriving just a couple days after you close on your home. They offer
free $50 gift cards to retailers such as Walmart, Target, Lowes, or Home Depot. And the cards,
which continue to arrive once a week or so for months, never give you any idea about the hoops
youll have to jump through to get your free gift card.
DISCLAIMER: The water equipment companies appear to have no relationship whatsoever with
the above retailers, simply purchasing the gift cards from their stores.
Florida Suncoast Services, a lead-providing company, appears to get addresses of new
homeowners from public records and dangles the gift cards to potential customers of its client,
Water Equipment Technologies (WET).
When 10Investigates called and asked about receiving the gift card, an operator said wed need to
simply sit through a brief test of our homes water, then answer six quick questions. When
asked multiple times how long the test would take because our time was valuable, the operator
evaded the question, eventually repeating brief and saying the technicians are not ones to camp
out. The operator also refused to coordinate the gift card delivery without both the reporter and his
wife present.
But when the WET technician arrived with a suitcase full of testing supplies, 10Investigates asked
again how long the test would take. Not long, he said. But when pressed for a more specific
answer, he acknowledged his presentation would take at least 90 minutes. And he didnt have a
gift card with him it was available only by mail long after he left. The undercover reporter asked
him to leave, never receiving the gift.
The misleading sales tactics dont appear to be isolated, either. Floridas attorney generals office
confirms an ongoing investigation into Florida Suncoast Services, while consumer complaints about
similar practices have poured in to the attorney generals office and Division of Consumer Services
about both Florida Suncoast Services and WET. Some of the complaints reference hard selling
techniques, aggressive telemarketing, and scare tactics.
One viewer told 10Investigates they sat through a presentation, then spent three frustrated weeks
hounding Florida Suncoast Services for the promised gift card. She said she ultimately received a
$50 check after she made enough phone complaints to the company.
A representative for Florida Suncoast Services, Derek Wilfong, declined numerous interview
requests but emailed a statement that read, We appreciate you bringing this matter to our
attention. All homeowners that call in response to our variety of complimentary gift offerings are
expressly informed and made aware that their participation in a product demonstration is a
requirement and that at the end of the demonstration they will need to complete a 6 question
multiple choice survey to qualify for the gift card. The length of the demonstration varies depending
on a variety of factors, including how many questions each individual customer has, interruptions
that might occur in the home and other unforeseen events, thus making it impossible to quote an
exact time.
The WET representative that arrived at your home, in response to your inquiry, gave you his
honest estimate of how long he thought his demonstration would take at your home. Our records
indicate that you declined and WET's representative politely left your home.
But even after the 10Investigates reporter identified himself and told the company about its
investigation, phone operators continued to call the reporter numerous times, trying to secure a
make-up appointment for the original sales call that was cut short.
We can get you set you up for your gift card, one operator said, saying it would require only our
honest comments and opinion in the form of six simple questions. He said the test is designed
to be brief, and they dont take that long.
After the Florida Suncoast Services operator was asked four times exactly how long the test could
take, he said an hour or an hour and a half. When the 10Investigates reporter declined, the
operator said it will only take up to an hour at most.
When the offer for the gift card was declined again, the Florida Suncoast Services operator sighed
audibly, paused, then said, Im going to put you on the schedule anyway. The reporter did not
allow him to send a salesman.
A subsequent Florida Suncoast Services operator repeated the promise that the tests are
designed to be brief, while another one told 10Investigates reporter Florida has very bad water.
But few other details were available from the callers as to why a permanent water filter was
necessary.
Undercover Test: Best Waterworks Systems
While not as frequent as Florida Suncoast Services solicitations, new homeowners may also
receive free gift offers from Best Waterworks Systems, a Sarasota company offering free water
tests for new homeowners.
When 10Investigates called to find out what the free gift was and what was required to obtain them,
the dispatch department told the reporter it was Water Awareness Month and that it was a good
thing he called, since Tampas water was dangerous and skunky. The man fielding the phone
call was former felon Michael Best, who incorporated his company in 2014.
Best was convicted on several charges of defrauding elderly victims in insurance- and securitiesrelated sales deals between 1999 and 2004. He avoided jail time, but was sentenced to 10 years
probation and ordered to repay more than $100,000 in restitution to his victims.
After 10 years with nothing but a few small probation violations, Best completed his probation last
year and was told he just needed to set up accounts with the county clerks in Manatee and
Sarasota counties to continue to repay his victims families.

But Best never set up those payment plans, prompting the state to request a suspension of his
drivers license, although the Manatee Co. Clerk failed to follow-up on the request.
Best's legal troubles included civil cases, too, as he lost a small claims suit from his printing and
mail vendor after Best failed to pay a $2,461 bill. According to court documents, Best even tried to
elude the process server looking to serve him with the suit, telling him catch me while you can.
When 10Investigates responded to Bests free gift postcard, he promised a Walmart gift card and
free detergent if he was allowed to conduct a free 30-minute water test and presentation. When he
showed up, he delivered on one promise, handing over a gift card of undisclosed amount and a
small five-pod bag of Tide dishwasher detergent. The gift card turned out to be worth just $5.
Bests presentation lasted more than an hour, mixing chemicals and demonstrating the potential
value of his system. He talked about how dangerous the water could be, even though the city of
Tampas water routinely surpasses quality standards.
But when the reporter told Best he wasnt interested in a $6,000 permanent water softener, Best
offered to lower the price. When that didnt work, he grew agitated, casting his 64 frame over both
the reporter and his wife. He eventually left in a late-model black Lexus.
When 10News anchor Courtney Robinson responded to a Best Waterworks Systems postcard as
well, she was also told it was Water Awareness Month, even though it was a different month. And
Best repeated his claims about Tampas dangerous water, which prompted 10Investigates to
approach Best.
Best said he had paid his dues to society, but drove off without addressing questions about his
unpaid restitution.
10Investigates offered Best an opportunity to sit down and address the concerns, but his attorney
said he is not interested in an interview and his present business represents a positive
development in his life and he intends to continue moving forward and satisfying his customers.
Democratic Attorneys General Slam GOP Over Supreme Court Blockade, Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans promised this week not to hold hearings or meet with
anyone President Barack Obama nominates to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the
Supreme Court. The Senate GOP wants the next president to choose Scalia's successor. But the
partisan fight hasn't only divided Congress -- it also has state attorneys general, who frequently
supervise cases argued before the high court, split along party lines.
Blocking Obama's nominee "is political obstinacy," Maine Attorney General Janet Mills (D) told The
Huffington Post at a recent event in the capital. "It's irrational. The court needs a ninth justice. It'll
block decision-making in a manner that's so nearly unprecedented, it's not justified."
Attorneys general are their states' top lawyers and are often tasked with defending state laws
before the Supreme Court. If Scalia is not replaced, several cases before the Supreme Court could
be upended. Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office, for example, is defending a
controversial law on abortion restrictions and challenging the president's immigration overhaul,
along with dozens of other GOP-led states. Both cases are expected to be decided this term, and
would be affected by a 4-to-4 split.
But attorneys general are also elected officials and ambitious politicians -- the joke is that "AG"
stands for "aspiring governor -- and they aren't above wading into political fray. And on this issue,
Republican attorneys general are echoing their Senate cohorts.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R), who called Scalia's death a tragedy, said the next
Supreme Court justice should be appointed by the incoming president, whether Democrat or a
Republican, because the person has to be confirmed by the Senate.
"It's not going to happen this session in a presidential year, it's not," she said.
Bondi and Mills both attended the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) winter
meeting at a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, D.C. Speaking at the event, Mills said there are
"plenty of people out there without a political agenda" who would qualify for a seat on the high
court, and there have been numerous nominations made to the federal court during the last year of
a president's term. "That's not a new thing," she said.
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller (D) said the top attorneys have "strong thoughts" about the issue.
"I think the constitution is very clear, [the president] should go ahead, and they should consider and
vote on a nominee," he said.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (R) acknowledged that it's the president's job to
nominate someone, and "that's how the process works." But he noted that Republicans seem to be
following the model set forth by Vice President Joe Biden back when he was chairman of the
Senate judiciary committee.
Biden said in 1992 that if a Supreme Court justice resigned during the election year, then the
president should not name a nominee until the campaign season is over, although he promised to
consider a moderate nominee. Senate Republicans have pointed to Biden's example, but the vice
president argued this week that the situations are not similar, because there was no vacancy at the
time he made his remarks.
As to whether he thinks Senate Republicans should hold hearings and meet with the nominee,
Strange said, "I'm going to leave that to them."
Senate Republicans have promised they'll block anyone Obama nominates -- no matter who it is.
They have argued that president shouldn't nominate, and the Senate shouldn't consider, Supreme
Court picks until the election is over. There's no evidence that presidents give up that right in their
final terms. But Senate Republicans have held firm, and even claimed that they're refusing to hold
hearings in order to protect Obama's eventual nominee from a sure-to-be partisan process.
"If, in fact, the Republicans in the Senate take a posture that defies the Constitution, defies logic, is
not supported by tradition simply because of politics, then invariably what you're going to see is a
further deterioration in the ability of any president to make any judicial appointments, Obama told
reporters on Wednesday.
Mills, the Maine Democrat, argued that the situation is too urgent to be left up to partisan bickering.
"There are major, major issues of constitutional dimension, and great public policy issues that need
to be addressed by a full court," she said.
"It's irresponsible for anybody for political reasons, to say that this president --who was elected to a
full-four year term, not three years and two months -- [should not] be able to nominate somebody
for the highest court in the land," she added.
Rick Scott for Vice President?, Capitol News Service, News 4 Jax
Governor Rick Scott is being mentioned as a potential Vice Presidential candidate if Donald Trump
wins the GOP nomination. And as Mike Vasilinda tells us, its an outside chance, but Florida could
wind up with a woman chief executive if Trump and Scott were to win.
Governor Rick Scott made national news when he defended Donald Trump back in January in USA
today. He became the darling of national talk shows.
We need a big change and Donald is talking about it is what Scott told Morning Joe viewers.
Now the former hospital executive is said to be on a short list of potential Vice Presidential
candidates if Trump wins the GOP nomination. Scott told us its not on his radar.
Q:Are you interested?
WhatI focus on is my job here. I have three years left in this job. Weve added a million three
hundred thirty five thousand jobs. I want to add more jobs said Scott.
But Trump supporter and state representative Larry Ahern thinks Scott would be a good choice.
You look at the politics of Washington and you say, whats the biggest problem here? I think its the
political insider that always being played says Ahern.
Super lobbyist Bill Rubin lobbied for Scott before he was Governor and has known him longer than
other Tallahassee insiders,
Theyre both business people that are not connected to the political establishment in a year when
the political establishment is not the choice, in my opinion, of either party says Rubin.
There is a scenario, however improbable in this year of strange political happenings that could see
Florida end up with its first woman Governor without her ever seeking the job.
The Lt. Governor is next in line to take over. But hes running for the US Senateif he wins, the
Attorney General, Pam Bondi would become Governor.
Scott has been elected twice as Governor, but in both.
Jessica Marr
The Capitol PL-01
Office: 850-245-0211
...over two years. Lawmakers in the state capital are also looking at red light cameras and a bill now
circulating in the House would bar cities from using them, according to Patch.com.

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News Clips
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ARTICLES
"Life-saving" drug legislation headed to Governor's office, WEAR ABC 7
Florida reaction to the death of Nancy Reagan, Tampa Bay Times
Tell Mel: Good checks and bad Corvettes, News-Press
Flakka's rise & fall: from crisis to clampdown, Sun Sentinel
Legislators reach deal on school building, worker benefits, (AP) Gainesville Sun
$26,000 loss to Trump University makes disabled Boynton man 'nauseous', Palm Beach Post
Prison hiring is scrapped; Cabinet members will get protection, Tampa Bay Times
Florida state pension plan finds profits with hedge funds, Palm Beach Post
Push to Legalize Fantasy Sports in Florida Fails, (AP) WCTV
Shutdown in pill mills has created spike in heroin use, resulting in increased deaths, arrests, Florida
Times Union
Florida's execution overhaul: Will fewer killers die?, Sun Sentinel
OPINIONS
Editorial: Death penalty fix should have gone further, Tampa Bay Times
ARTICLES
"Life-saving" drug legislation headed to Governor's office, WEAR ABC 7
WEAR A bill to outlaw synthetic drugs in Florida is on its way to Governor Rick Scott's desk.
The Florida Legislature unanimously voted in favor of Senate Bill 1528 Friday.
The bill outlaws any synthetic drug through the use of the classification system, not just individually
identified compounds.
Attorney General Pam Bondi thanked both the House and the Senate, calling it a "Life-Saving"
Legislation.
CLICK HERE to learn more about the efforts to outlaw synthetic drugs in Florida.
Florida reaction to the death of Nancy Reagan, Tampa Bay Times
Gov. Rick Scott: Throughout her life, Nancys incredible commitment to her country and her family
did not falter, and she will continue to inspire all us to live bravely and selflessly. Nancy Reagan
made a monumental impact on our nation, and I know her legacy will live on, just like her
husbands legacy has. Ann and I send our thoughts and prayers to the Reagan family and all those
who knew her."
Rep. David Jolly, R-Indian Shores: "Today the world lost someone who defined dignity and grace, a
survivor and role model and a First Lady who cared deeply about our youth and this nation. Nancy
Reagan was also a strong voice, a fierce protector and confidant to one of the greatest American
Presidents in history. A loving and devoted wife to Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan saved
countless lives with her efforts to fight drug abuse through her Just Say No campaign. A cancer
survivor, she encouraged women to get annual mammograms and her Foster Grandparents
campaign connected children who she said needed to be loved and grandparents who needed to
feel wanted.' "
Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera: "I am saddened to hear the news of the passing of Former First
Lady Nancy Reagan. May we all take comfort knowing that today, Mrs. Reagan will be reunited with
her husband in heaven."
Marco Rubio: "Nancy Reagan was a woman of incredible grace and strength who served as an
inspiration to an entire generation of Americans. As First Lady, she chose not only to lead with her
distinctive style and poise, but also to take a stand on tough issues, such as the prevention of
recreational drug abuse. For conservatives, she has been a powerful living link to her husband's
legacy as one of the greatest modern presidents. Through her work with the Reagan Library, she
has been active in extending the impact of his leadership and message to a new generation. It was
an honor to have met Mrs. Reagan when I spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in
2011. She went out of her way to warmly welcome Jeanette and me. She will be sorely missed by
those who knew her, and forever remembered by a grateful nation."
Attorney General Pam Bondi: Today our nation lost a great woman who served our country with
compassion and grace. Nancy Reagan was a true public servant, dedicating her time to helping the
elderly, our veterans and people with disabilities. Her efforts to stop drug abuse impacted an entire
generation of American youth, and her legacy will live on through the lives that she touched.
Tell Mel: Good checks and bad Corvettes, News-Press
More than 10,000 Floridians will be getting a check in the mail from a marketing company.
And I know this will come as a surprise, but its not a scam. Its a refund.
From April 25, 2010, to Jan. 5, 2016, a company called TN Marketing LLC sent out free DVDs.
People didnt order the DVDs; they just arrived.
Even though the accompanying letter claimed the DVD was a free gift, the recipient was asked to
either return it or pay $12.95.
If you didnt respond the company sent more letters asking for the return of the DVD or the money.
Robert Enemark doesnt remember getting the DVD Becoming Human/Runaway Universe. Nor
does he remember paying for it. But when he got the check for $12.95 he sent me a copy via mail.
This check and info is strange and suspicious, he wrote. So I dont intend to cash it. It sounds to
me like a trap.
I quickly found the attorney generals press release about the settlement with Minnesota-based TN
Marketing and discerned this was not a scam. I called Enemark and told him he should cash the
check. Its only good for 120 days after issue.
The investigation of this deceptive trade practice came about because an employee in the Florida
Attorney Generals Office received one of TN Marketings DVDs. So the complaint about it made it
to the right place.
Every citizen has the same right and responsibility to bring scams to the attention of regulators. So
please, when I ask you to file a complaint or contact the attorney general, do it. I often hear people
say the government wont do anything. But that is simply not true.
Regulators cant crack down on bad actors unless they know about them. If you suspect a scam or
deceptive trade practice contact the Florida Attorney General by going to MyFloridaLegal.com or
calling 866-966-7226 (866-9NO-SCAM).
Flakka's rise & fall: from crisis to clampdown, Sun Sentinel
Nearly as quickly as flakka burst onto Broward County's street-drug scene, unleashing mania that
had users stripping naked in the streets and racing from packs of imagined killers, the designer
drug has faded from the local landscape.
Since cresting last summer and fall, flakka-related fatalities, emergency-room cases, arrests and
admissions to drug treatment centers have dramatically decreased, experts say and data shows.
"Nobody can deny we had a crisis on our hands," said Lt. Ozzy Tianga, of the Broward Sheriff's
Office. "By no means is it 100% gone, but the numbers speak for themselves. We've been
successful."
The county's medical examiner hasn't seen a flakka-related death since Dec. 11. There were a
total of 63 since September 2014.
Flakka-related hospital cases, which had spiked to more than 300 a month in June through
October, dipped to 54 in December.
Admissions of flakka users to the Broward Addiciton Recovery Center fell from a high of 50 in July
to six in January.
Tallies of flakka incidents at the Broward Sheriff's Office have trended downward since hitting a
monthly high of 120 on Oct. 1. That number fell to 14 by Dec. 1.
Broward County in 2014 had led the nation in flakka cases, DEA statistics showed. Flakka cases in
crime labs in Broward far outpaced all other major urban counties in the nation, according to the
DEA.
So how did the dangerous drug, dubbed $5 insanity, decline so remarkably and so quickly?
Experts credit a ban of the drug in the overseas country that was the chief supplier combined with a
laser-focused local effort to eradicate it from the streets.
"Our answer was not to arrest our way out of the problem," Tianga said. "But to educate the
community, show compassion to users and make flakka enforcement of dealers priority No. 1."
Clandestine labs in China manufactured the drug, chemically known as alpha-PVP, and flooded the
local street-drug market via online mail-order business.
The Chinese government on Oct. 1 restricted exportation of alpha-PVP and 115 other chemical
substances used to make synthetic drugs that had been found to have no known legitimate uses.
China's ban was swiftly followed with an unprecedented visit to the communist nation by a
delegation of Broward law enforcement officials, including Tianga, to voice their support of the
restrictions.
Representatives from Fort Lauderdale and Coral Springs police, the U.S. Department of Justice
and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency journeyed to Bejing with Tianga in early November and
met with the U.S. ambassador to China, Chinese police and government officials to drive home the
seriousness of South Florida's flakka epidemic.
"Undoubtedly, the major factor is the banning of alpha-PVP at its source in China," said Jim Hall, an
epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University and Broward's flakka expert. "However, the China
ban is just part of the story."
Equally key in the downturn, said Hall, was the formation nearly 10 months ago of a 40-member
Flakka Community Action Team, a joint effort between government agencies, law enforcement, first
responders, faith leaders and the United Way of Broward County's Commision on Substance
Abuse.
"The team made major efforts in reducing the demand side of the equation," Hall said. "The team
was effective in prevention, community education and treatment resources."
The next step is a statewide, broad-stroke ban of three primary categories of designer drugs, as
recommended by a Broward grand jury in January.

A measure that would do just that blazed through Legislative approvals in Tallahassee and is now
headed to Gov. Rick Scott for his signature. State senators unanimously approved it Friday; House
representatives did the same Feb. 24.
In the past, lawmakers have had to tackle problematic designer drugs one chemical compound at a
time. This led chemists to tweak compounds as soon as they were outlawed and hit the market with
the next derivative.
Backed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, the proposed law would ban designer drugs according to
their pharmaceutical action in the brain rather than their chemical structure.
"That's how we can ban substances even before they appear," Hall said.
The categories included in the ban include synthetic cathinones, of which flakka belongs, as well as
synthetic opioids and synthetic cannabinoids.
"This life saving legislation," Bondi said in a news release, "will allow us to categorically outlaw
synthetic drugs as a whole it will help bolster our efforts to combat the growing threat of
synthetic drug use."
But the next front on the designer-drug battlefield has already revealed itself with the rise locally
and nationally of heroin and its synthetic cousin, fentanyl.
A spike in heroin/fentanyl overdose deaths in October was noted by the Broward Medical
Examiner's Office. It now is in the process of creating a database to track the trend of such
fatalities.
"Flakka is gone fentanyl is the next big thing," Chief Medical Examiner Craig Mallak said in a
recent email. "Had five (fatal overdoses) in one day."
While fentanyl and flakka are each incredibly addictive, their high is radically different. Fentanyl, an
opioid, is a heavy-duty painkiller. It triggers a sense of ultra-relaxed euphoria. Flakka on the other
hand is a stimulant. It enhances alertness and energy. It also prompts a unique reaction termed
"excited delirium," which combines aggressions, delusions and hallucinations.
The county's Flakka Community Action Team, at a meeting two weeks ago, breathed "a sigh of
relief" as it pertains to the flakka front, Hall said. It simultaneously pledged to shift focus to the next
problem with a new moniker the Community Response Team.
"We are prepared now to move on to the opiate epidemic, including heroin, fentanyl and other
prescription opioids and the deaths related to them," Hall said.
Legislators reach deal on school building, worker benefits, (AP) Gainesville Sun
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida legislators racing against the clock on Sunday reached important
budget deals on everything from school construction to pay raises to state workers.
Lawmakers must have a new state budget finished by Tuesday in order to wrap up their session by
this coming Friday. That led to a marathon session of budget talks over the weekend.
One of the major deals that budget chiefs from the House and Senate announced was a decision to
spend more than $700 million on construction projects for Florida's public schools, universities,
colleges and charter schools.
This enabled lawmakers to steer $20 million to a proposed downtown campus for the University of
Central Florida that was a top priority for Senate President Andy Gardiner as a well as $22.5 million
for a downtown medical school being pushed by the University of South Florida. The Florida Board
of Governors just last week approved UCF's plans for a 68-acre parcel of land that used to be the
location of the arena where the Orlando Magic played.
Charter schools, which are public schools run by private groups, will receive $75 million for
construction projects.
The decision to give charter schools the money comes amid a still unresolved tug-of-war between
the House and Senate over whether additional restrictions should be placed on money for charter
schools. A recent analysis by The Associated Press found that as much as $70 million has gone to
Florida charter schools that eventually closed. Taxpayers usually can't recover the capital money
invested in those schools because most of it has been spent on rent or leasing costs.
$26,000 loss to Trump University makes disabled Boynton man 'nauseous', Palm Beach
Post
There was a time, nearly a decade ago, when Charles Jacobson believed in Donald Trump.
That was before Jacobson spent $26,000 on a Trump University real estate course he says was
nothing more than a scheme to make money off ordinary people hoping for tips from the celebrity
mogul. That was before the bankruptcy and before a horrific medical diagnosis.
Now, Jacobson says the sound of Trumps voice makes him nauseous.
And afraid.
Jacobson said hes worried his story and the story of others who say they were victimized by Trump
is emerging too late to stop him from becoming the Republican Partys nominee and, eventually,
president.
Something should have been said or written long ago, when the election started, said Jacobson,
who lives in an assisted living facility in Boynton Beach. Now, I fear its too late.
Jacobson has told some of his story before. He was quoted by The Tampa Bay Times in 2013 after
he asked Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to join a class action suit against Trump.
In an email to The Palm Beach Post, Bondis office says its Citizens Services Office or its
Consumer Protection Division or both reviewed three complaints from Floridians about Trump
University, which is now the subject of lawsuits in New York and California. The office said
Jacobsons complaint was received on May 26, 2011, and the others on Sept. 24, 2013 and March
31, 2014.
The May 26, 2011 complaint was the first this administration received, and since the New York
litigation was filed on behalf of consumers nationwide, it was rightfully determined this complaint
would be addressed by the New York litigation, wrote Whitney Ray, Bondis director of media
relations.
In October 2013, The Times reported that a foundation connected to Trump made a $25,000
contribution to a political committee associated with Bondi. Ray said the contribution did not play a
role in the determination not to take independent action against Trump University.
With Trump now the GOP front-runner in the race for his partys presidential nomination,
Jacobsons story takes on added weight. It feeds into a line of attack Trumps opponents have used
in recent weeks in an attempt to derail his candidacy.
Republican opponents, most notably Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, have called Trump a fraud, a
con artist. Trump University came up during Thursdays debate and has been fodder for new
television ads.
During the debate, Trump said those who took the course gave it high ratings, a point disputed by
debate moderator Megyn Kelly, who noted that the Better Business Bureau gave the course a D
minus rating.
It was elevated to an A, Trump shot back, noting that he could settle the cases but hasnt because
he hasnt misled anyone.
I dont settle cases very easily when Im right, he said.
The heated debate isnt one Jacobson, 65, is paying much attention to these days.
Jacobson said hes trying to get by on a small pension, workers compensation and Medicaid.
It wasnt supposed to be this way.
For nearly 20 years, Jacobson owned a wine and liquor store in Elmont, N.Y., a bedroom
community near Long Island. For eight years after that, Jacobson managed another store. But in
2003 he injured his knee loading champagne cases.
Unable to work, Jacobson said he moved to Florida, living first in Fort Lauderdale and then Delray
Beach.
Around 2007 or 2008 Jacobson said he cant remember precisely which year Jacobson heard
about a course he hoped could dramatically improve his financial fortunes.
It was offered at a West Palm Beach hotel, though Jacobson said he cant remember which hotel.
Jacobson said a friend warned him not to get involved, but Trumps imprimatur was too alluring.
When one of the wealthiest men in the world says youre going to make it, that says something,
Jacobson said.
Jacobson said he wasnt alone in taking the course.
There were over 100 people there, he said.
At one point, an instructor asked if anyone was interested in more detailed coaching, which would
include a mentor who would help students look for real estate opportunities.
Id say 25 people put up the money, Jacobson said.
The course and the mentor cost $26,000. Jacobson said he didnt have that much in cash. So, he
paid for the course with his American Express card, a move he would later regret.
Jacobson said a mentor did accompany him on trips around the area, where they looked at various
property listings.
He went around with me for two weeks, Jacobson said. He was showing me the ropes. He was
working for Donald Trump. We would go around looking for real estate to buy.
The plan, as Jacobson remembers it, was to somehow buy real estate without cash, sell it quickly
and pocket profits.
The plan, though, didnt work.
Nothing came of it, Jacobson said. He defrauded us all.
Jill Martin, an attorney for Trump, disputed Jacobsons contention that the course was a scam.
Trump University delivered valuable real estate teachings, as evidenced by the 98 percent of its
students who rated its programs as excellent, Martin wrote in an email to The Post. Those
students who applied the teachings found great success. As with all education, those who do not
put in the time and effort will not achieve success.
Martin then addressed Jacobsons experience.
He certainly was not misled, as evidenced by his own admissions after completing his education,
including a hands-on mentorship, that he learned everything and rated every aspect of the
program as excellent, Martin wrote. Mr. Jacobson was not only satisfied, but even went so far as
to indicate that he wanted to share his positive experience with Trump University in its monthly
magazine.
Martins email included a pair of evaluation forms she said Jacobson completed.
The handwriting on the forms, dated Oct. 1, 2009 and Oct. 5, 2009, are markedly different. Neither
form was signed.
Reviewing the forms, Jacobson said he remembers completing a portion of the form dated Oct. 1,
2009, though he said the date is incorrect. He reported on the form that his overall experience was
excellent and praised the work of his mentor, listed as someone named Chris Lombardo.
Jacobson said he did not put his name and date on the form, nor did he complete the portion of the
form that asked for numerical ratings for various aspects of the course. A question asking if hed
like to share your success story with Trump University was left blank.
A second form, the one dated Oct. 5, 2009, asks different questions. In handwriting that is different
from that of the previous form, the course gets glowing reviews, with more praise for Lombardo.
Aspects of the course are again given the highest possible ratings, and, this time, the writer says
yes when asked if he would like to share his success story with Trump University.
This is not my handwriting, Jacobson told The Post. Not even close.
Told Jacobsons reaction to seeing the forms, Martin wrote: Those are our records of his
experience. His claims that he did not fill those out (or only partially did so) are nonsense. He
clearly learned a lot. He is not credible.
Jacobson said he does not remember if he ever tried to get his money back. He said he was not
able to apply anything he learned from the course. Financial problems mounted.
Try paying off $26,000 to American Express when you dont have anything coming in, Jacobson
said.
Eventually, Jacobson declared bankruptcy. The money he shelled out for the Trump University
course was the main factor, he said.
Six years ago, things got worse for Jacobson. Much, much worse.
He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Lou Gehrigs disease, an incurable
condition that reduces muscle strength and size. ALS patients typically die three to four years after
diagnosis, though in some rare cases patients can live longer than a decade.
Jacobson says he is not doing terribly yet, but Im going downhill. I know that.
Even with the presidential campaign in full swing, Jacobson said he is trying not to pay much
attention to it, largely because of Trump.
I get nauseous when I see him on TV, he said.
Still, Jacobson said he hears how Trump has performed in debates and has a gnawing fear that the
nomination and then the presidency are within the moguls reach.
He pulls the wool over peoples eyes, Jacobson said. He says a lot, but he wont do anything.
Prison hiring is scrapped; Cabinet members will get protection, Tampa Bay Times
Senate and House negotiators struck agreements on many spending items Friday, including a
rejection of the prison system's request for 734 new correctional officers and giving Cabinet
members the option of state trooper protection for the first time.
Those decisions were among dozens of deals brokered by the Legislature's two main budgetwriters, Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon, and Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-Land O'Lakes, who publicly
ratified deals they and their staffs made in criminal justice, courts, tourism, transportation and
economic development.
In the prison system, independent audits have repeatedly flagged staff shortages as a security
crisis. But even though lawmakers budgeted $12.2 million for new hires, they have approved 215
new correctional officer jobs, not the 734 that Corrections Secretary Julie Jones says she needs,
especially because the agency is changing from 12-hour shifts back to eight-hour shifts. Jones calls
the 734 positions "an operational imperative that will increase both safety and security in our
institutions."
Lee said he and Corcoran decided that the agency could not handle so much hiring while also
reworking a contract for inmate health care. "Our staff felt the department pretty much had its
hands full dealing with the health care issues," Lee said, "and this was probably more than they
could swallow."
Sen. Greg Evers, R-Baker, criticized the Legislature's decision to reject the 734 prison positions. "I
didn't need any more money, but I do need boots on the ground in order to make it a safer situation
for the correction officers and the inmates," Evers said.
Friday's deal included a one-year program to assign a state trooper to each of the three elected
Cabinet members "if deemed appropriate by the department (of highway safety) or in response to a
threat, and upon written request of such Cabinet member."
Corcoran said the request originated with Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has had threats.
Having a trooper behind the wheel of a sleek new SUV could ease transportation headaches for
Cabinet members, who have largely traveled by car after Gov. Rick Scott eliminated state aircraft
when he took office in 2011.
Lee and Corcoran also agreed on dozens of local projects in lawmakers' districts that still must
survive Scott's veto pen. Examples include $3 million for the historic Cocoa Village Playhouse
parking garage; $2 million for Nathan Benderson Park, a rowing facility in Sarasota; $2 million for
an African-American memorial park in Deerfield Beach; $1.5 million for a veterans memorial park in
Hillsborough; $1 million for the Ruth Eckerd Hall expansion in Clearwater; and $600,000 to relocate
the Tampa Heights Youth Civic Center.
Florida state pension plan finds profits with hedge funds, Palm Beach Post
The head of Floridas $140 billion pension plan admits that hedge funds are complicated, costly
and fraught with potential pitfalls.
But properly managed, the contentious investment vehicles produce a handsome profit, says Ash
Williams, executive director and chief investment officer at Floridas State Board of Administration,
which oversees the retirement fund for public workers.
For the three years that ended Nov. 30, Florida made an average annual return of 9.6 percent on
its hedge fund investments after expenses, Williams said. That outpaced the pension plans overall
annual return of 8.9 percent.
The evidence that its working is clear, and its quantitative, Williams said Tuesday at a hedge
fund conference in Palm Beach Gardens.
Florida began dabbling in hedge funds five years ago. Since March 2011, the state pension plan
has invested $3.9 billion with 22 hedge fund managers who were vetted by state investment
officials, Williams said.
Floridas pension fund is administered by a board composed of Gov. Rick Scott, Attorney General
Pam Bondi and Chief Financial Officer ... Read More
During that time, hedge funds have come under increasing scrutiny for steep fees and lackluster
performance. The California Public Employees Retirement System, the nations largest pension
fund, made headlines when it decided in 2014 to dump all $4 billion of its hedge fund investments.
Williams said CalPERS decision came in large part because the system had hired an unwieldy
roster of hundreds of hedge fund managers.
But, Williams said, the question for any investor is clear enough: Why are you fooling around with
these opaque, expensive, intransigent alternative structures when you could just be buying a
passive S&P 500 index and making lots more money and not have any of these problems?
For Williams, hedge funds have an obvious allure. The investment vehicles, which can invest in
stocks, bonds, currencies or commodities, provide diversification and risk management, Williams
said. He acknowledged that while hedge funds havent performed especially well in the past few
years, the vehicles earned their keep during the crash of 2008 and 2009, when they fell less than
the overall market.
Hedge fund managers have created a hard-won mystique, built on a combination of secrecy and
exclusivity. Managers are reluctant to reveal details about their portfolios, and federal rules bar
hedge funds from advertising or taking money from the masses.
Perhaps the biggest gripe about hedge funds is that theyre expensive. Hedge funds are known for
their hefty 2 and 20 admission fee the notorious 2 percent annual management fee plus a 20
percent cut of trading profits.
Floridas pension plan has the heft to negotiate a better deal, and the states fees are comfortably
below 2 and 20, Williams said. In fact, the state pension plan insists on something of a price-match
deal with hedgies that makes certain no one pays less than Floridas pension plan.
In all, Floridas pension plan paid $39.9 million in hedge fund fees in 2014-15, the State Board of
Administration said. The biggest chunk, $4.4 million, went to Anchorage Capital Fund.
Despite the state pension plans hardball negotiating, skeptics such as Simon Lack, a New Jersey
investment adviser and author of the book The Hedge Fund Mirage, arent keen on the idea of
public pension funds moving money into hedge funds.
The most likely outcome is they get a really boring return, and they pay a high cost for it, Lack
said.
Push to Legalize Fantasy Sports in Florida Fails, (AP) WCTV
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida legislators are rejecting for now a push to make fantasy sports
legal in the state.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Destin Republican, made a last ditch effort on Friday to keep a fantasy sports
bill alive in the final days of the 2016 session. But he dropped the effort after getting resistance
from some other Republicans.
Legislators this year proposed bills that would have covered both season-long fantasy leagues, as
well as daily fantasy leagues.
Florida's attorney general back in 1991 issued an opinion that football fantasy leagues were a form
of illegal gambling. But fantasy leagues have continued to flourish and expand since then, including
the creation of daily fantasy leagues.
Fantasy leagues, however, have come under scrutiny in other states. State officials have confirmed
that the U.S. Attorney in Tampa is conducting an investigation, although the scope of it is unclear.
Shutdown in pill mills has created spike in heroin use, resulting in increased deaths,
arrests, Florida Times Union
Three recent deaths in Nassau County and a sharp upward swing in both heroin arrests and deaths
in Northeast Florida are signs of a shift toward the street drug from harder-to-get prescription opioid
drugs, law enforcement and health officials said in a briefing Friday.
A dramatic increase in cases has been seen in Duval, Clay and Nassau counties in current years,
according to the three sheriffs offices.
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said the drug being purchased on the streets is coming from
Mexico and that heroin-related deaths in Duval County increased 265 percent in one year, from 17
in 2014 to 45 in 2015.
Typically it is one or two steps out of Mexico and then into Jacksonville, he said.
Nassau Sheriff Bill Leeper said the county had one heroin-related arrest last year, but that since
Feb. 17, deaths due to the drug occurred in Fernandina Beach, Callahan and Hilliard.
Prior to the last few weeks we have not seen a lot of heroin in Nassau County, he said. But it is
something that is really concerning us now.
Leeper said he believed other drugs being cut with the heroin made it particularly dangerous.
The sheriffs and Medical Director Kelli Wells of the Duval County Public Health Department warned
that the trend could worsen.
The numbers that we are seeing, without a community-based intervention and without raising
concerns of those who are using, we expect these numbers to climb, Wells said.
Drug Free Duval is a community coalition working to develop a comprehensive plan to address the
problem, she said.
Addicts once dependant on prescription-level narcotic opioid drugs have shifted to now easier-toget heroin following the shutdown in prescription pill mills in recent years.
We find now heroin is easier to obtain than the prescription drugs that many were addicted to,
Wells said.
In addition, penalties have increased for dealing in prescription pills as part of that crackdown,
according to an analysis from the Clay County Sheriffs Office, where there has been an increase
from two cases in 2010 classified as heroin-related to 51 in 2015. Clay County had three heroin
deaths last year.
In Jacksonville there were 56 heroin-related arrests in 2013 and 117 in 2015. There have been 19
so far this year.
There were 99 heroin seizures in the city in 2103 and 472 in 2015, with 72 so far this year, Williams
said.
We are on pace to eclipse last years numbers again, he said.
The last spike in heroin cases was two decades ago, Williams said.
Its something that we havent seen around here in many years, he said.
It was a more prevalent drug in the 1970s and spiked again in the 1990s, he said.
We are clearly seeing a re-emergence in the country but especially in Florida, he said.
Williams said law enforcement agencies are working street-level drug crimes as well as into the
higher levels of distribution to make cases.
Heroin is synthesized from morphine which is extracted from the opium poppy plant. About 23
percent of people who use heroin become dependent on it, according to the National Institute on
Drug Abuse.
It can be injected, inhaled by snorting or sniffing, or smoked, all of which contribute to its high risk
of addiction.
Users report feeling a surge of euphoria accompanied by dry mouth, a warm flushing of the skin,
heaviness of the extremities and clouded mental functioning, according to the institute.
Dangers include fatal overdose, spontaneous abortion and risk of infectious diseases like hepatitis
and HIV.
Heroin was developed in Germany in the late 19th century and was promoted as a substitute for
morphine, though it turned out to be more addictive, according to Heroininfo.org. There were
attempts in the United States to control its prescription and sale then its manufacture was banned
in 1924.
Possession of greater than 100 grams of heroin or even a mixture that contains heroin carries a
minimum mandatory sentence of five years in federal prison.
The average cost of a single dose of heroin on the street is about $15 to $20, according to
heroin.net.
Those with addiction issues should contact their medical providers, Wells said.
Every provider in our community is aware of the steep rise that we are seeing in opioid abuse and
overdose, she said.
A federal program for substance abuse and mental health referral service can be reached at (800)
662-4357 (HELP) or for the Florida Poison Information service call (800) 222-1222.
Florida's execution overhaul: Will fewer killers die?, Sun Sentinel
Nearly half of the inmates sentenced to die in Florida in the past 15 years would never have been
sent to death row had a law, just approved by the Florida Legislature, been in effect.
Under it, an inmate would get the death penalty only if at least 10 members of his jury voted for it.
The state's old death-penalty statute, which was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme
Court on Jan. 12, allowed juries to recommend death by a vote of 7-5, a simple majority.
The high court did not expressly order Florida to require juries to vote 12-0 when they sentence an
inmate in capital cases, however, many legal experts say that's the solution legislators should have
drafted.
What will happen under the new 10-2 standard

Experts disagree. Some say it will mean fewer inmates being sent to death row. Others say there
will be little or no change.
Maxwell: Supreme Court takes Florida's death penalty closer to end
From 2000 through the end of last year, 43 percent of Florida's death row inmates were sent there
by juries that voted 7-5, 8-4 or 9-3, according to research by the Florida House Criminal Justice
subcommittee and University of Colorado sociologist Michael Radelet
The most common margin was 9-3, their research shows.
"If history is a guide, the number of new death sentences should be reduced by half," said Robert
Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington D.C.
'Jury dynamics'
Martin McClain, a South Florida death-penalty expert who has won two stays of execution from the
Florida Supreme Court since the Jan. 12 ruling, also predicted there'd be fewer death sentences.
So did Radelet.
But former Circuit Judge O.H. Eaton Jr. of Sanford, who taught death-penalty courses at National
Judicial College, said, "I don't think there'll be any material difference at all."
During deliberations jurors who favor the death penalty will simply work longer and harder until they
convince at least nine other panel members to agree with them, he predicted.
"Deliberations are usually under an hour," McClain said. "They go back. Everybody votes. 'O.K., we
vote 7-5. We're done.' "
The new 10-vote minimum will likely change that, he said.
"When jurors have to deliberate, people change their minds," he said.
"Jury dynamics play a big role in this," said Radelet.
Death sentences dropping
Scott Sundby is a professor at the University of Miami School of Law and an expert on juries. He's
part of a research project that interviewed about 1,200 jurors who'd served in nearly 400 trials.
It's impossible to say what impact the change will have, he said.
"It all depends on what they're told they have to do," he said. "In 95 percent of the cases where
juries vote 10-2 for death on the first ballot, they end up unanimous for death anyway.
"It's not a miscarriage of justice if among 12 fairly selected jurors, two or more of them say, 'I don't
think death is the proper punishment here," he said.
Even before the rewrite, the number of death sentences imposed in Florida was dropping. In 2000,
there were 31. Last year there were two.
Still, there are 389 people on Florida's death row.

Florida is one of only three states that does not require a unanimous vote by jurors during the
sentencing phase of death penalty trials. The others are Alabama and Delaware.
U.S. Supreme Court ruling: 8-1
The U.S. Supreme court rejected Florida's death-penalty statute by a vote of 8-1. In the deciding
opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that Florida's law violated an inmate's right to a trial by jury
because jurors did not spell out why an inmate should be given the death penalty rather than a life
prison sentence.
Up to that point Florida jurors recommended a sentence, but the trial judge made the final decision.
The new legislation was approved Thursday by the Florida Senate. It had earlier passed the Florida
House.
It requires jurors to unanimously agree on at least one specific reason called an aggravating
factor that justifies the death penalty. Ten jurors must then vote in favor of death.
"We are asking people to make decisions that are literally life or death decisions now," said Teresa
Reid, a professor at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida.
A judge will still make the final sentencing decision.
Will 10-2-vote measure stand?
If the jury recommends a sentence of life in prison, he must impose that sentence, but if the jury
recommends the death penalty, he may follow that recommendation or chose life in prison.
The rewrite originally favored by the Florida Senate required a unanimous jury vote, while Florida
House members backed a 9-vote minimum.
They compromised on 10-2.
Gov. Rick Scott is expected to sign the measure.
Many legal experts criticized the 10-vote minimum and predicted the U.S. Supreme Court would
eventually overturn it, as well. They include Radelet, Dunham, McClain, Eaton and Sundby.
It takes a unanimous verdict to decide whether a shoplifting suspect is guilty, Sundby said, but not
whether a convicted killer should be given the death penalty.
"What's alarming to me is the lack of confidence it expresses in the jury system and the citizens
who serve as jurors," he said.
OPINIONS
Editorial: Death penalty fix should have gone further, Tampa Bay Times
Unwilling to abolish the death penalty, the Florida Legislature at least should have done everything
possible to ensure the sentencing process is constitutional. Instead, lawmakers pulled up just short.
That mistake will leave Florida an outlier and likely result in another court challenge.
Legislation sent to Gov. Rick Scott this week addresses the key issue that led the U.S. Supreme
Court to find the state's death penalty sentencing law unconstitutional. But it still would not require
the jury to unanimously recommend the death sentence. Instead, lawmakers bowed to the
demands of prosecutors and raised the requirement for a death sentence recommendation from at
least seven of 12 jurors to at least 10 of 12. Most every other state that still imposes the death
penalty requires unanimous consent from the jury, and that should be the requirement here.
The Legislature did correct the flaw that the U.S. Supreme Court cited in January when it found the
death sentencing law unconstitutional, a decision that resulted in putting all executions on hold and
raised questions about the status of ongoing cases and the impact on inmates already on death
row. The court found in an 8-1 opinion that juries rather than judges should have the final authority
on the fate of defendants in capital cases. Florida's law had juries offering only advisory
recommendations, and the jury's finding of aggravating factors that lead to a death sentence did not
have to be unanimous.
The legislation passed this week by the Senate and expected to be signed into law by Scott would
require that juries vote unanimously for every aggravating factor that is cited to warrant the death
penalty. Prosecutors also will have to notify defendants before trial that they intend to seek the
death penalty and list the aggravating factors they intend to prove. Legislators really had no choice
if they wanted to fix the law, but these changes will not resolve the broader questions raised by the
court's opinion.
Still left to be decided by the Florida Supreme Court is how or whether the U.S. Supreme Court's
decision in Hurst vs. Florida should be applied retroactively to inmates already sentenced to death.
As many as 43 death row inmates are the first who could get life sentences without parole or new
sentencing hearings, because they still have limited challenges to their death sentences known as
direct appeals that have not yet been acted upon by the Florida Supreme Court. Those include
inmates who have been convicted of horrific crimes, and Attorney General Pam Bondi has argued
that the original death sentences should be carried out. But that defies both legal and common
sense, and it would not ensure equal treatment under the law as it now stands.
There are broader reasons to abolish the death penalty. It's arbitrary and expensive to carry out. It
takes too long and does not provide timely, certain closure for victims' families. Most importantly, it
is not error-proof. Florida has the nation's second-largest death row population with 389 inmates,
and it leads the nation in exonerations. Those are not lists Floridians should be proud of leading.
Instead, the Legislature made the minimum changes to the death sentencing law to fix the flaws
found by the U.S. Supreme Court and grudgingly raised the bar for jury recommendations. At the
very least, lawmakers should have required the death sentence recommendation to be unanimous.
But that will be another legal fight for another day.
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ARTICLES
THREE ARRESTED FOR ABUSING WHEELCHAIR-BOUND PATIENT, Havana Herald
Veterans claim they paid hundreds to get free benefit, First Coast News
Technology presents new challenges over access to public records, Lakeland Ledger, Tampa Bay
Times
Sunshine Week: A look at state officials texts messages, (AP) WEAR-TV
9 Investigates: Dentist accused of abusing patients opens practice in Clermont, WFTV
A jury found Shannon Heathcock guilty of attempted sexual battery, WFTS ABC Action News
Grant to fight heroin, pain killer addiction helps Orlando center, Orlando Sentinel
Death penalty trial of Donald Smith delayed again, First Coast News
OPINIONS
Takeaways from Tallahassee: Winners & Losers of the 2016 Legislative Session, Saint PetersBlog
Tia Mitchell: Having a bit of fun with Session Superlatives, Florida Times Union
Government closes door on citizens: Editorial, Orlando Sentinel

Another suit, same issues at schools, Tampa Tribune
ARTICLES
THREE ARRESTED FOR ABUSING WHEELCHAIR-BOUND PATIENT, Havana Herald
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.Attorney General Pam Bondis Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the
Gadsden County Sheriffs Office arrested three individuals in connection to the physical abuse of a
Florida State Hospital resident, a news release from Bondis office stated.
According to the investigation, Robert Blackman, 56, attempted to punch the disabled resident,
shoved the residents head down and then pushed the wheelchair-bound resident into a wall.
Blackman is no longer employed at the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee. Two additional
employees, Shabrika Butler, 27, and Janice James, 49, allegedly witnessed the abuse and did not
report it as required by state law.
Blackman faces two counts of abuse of a disabled adult, third-degree felonies. If convicted,
Blackman faces up to 10 years in prison and more than $10,000 in fines. Butler and James each
face charges for failing to report the abuse of a disabled adult, a misdemeanor. Attorney General
Bondis Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigated the case.
The State Attorneys Office for the Second Judicial Circuit will prosecute this case.
Veterans claim they paid hundreds to get free benefit, First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Call it what you want, but the First Coast News Investigators have
uncovered a trend and an industry that some say are taking advantage of veterans.
An employee of First Coast News told us she was getting hit up for hundreds of dollars when trying
to find financial assistance for her elderly mother who needs full-time care.
"The greatest generation doesn't know about it and how would my mother?" said Cyndy Celmer.
"When I've called, they've said, 'Can your mother go online?' My mother can't really even turn on a
computer at this point."
Scrap becoming part of the tech generation. Cyndy Celmer's mom Lucille is part of the greatest
one.
"They were married 50 years," she said of her parents. Her father passed away in 1994.
Aging, now her mother is in need of more full-time care.
"I was really surprised because I had never heard about it. My brother who is career Air Force had
never heard about it," Celmer said.
The Aid and Attendance benefit is one of the most under-utilized among all benefits offered by the
Department of Veterans Affairs. It's named for seniors who need "aid and attendance" performing
life's daily activities.
"This benefit is known as the best kept secret in long term care," said elder care financial planner
Carroll Schlader.
He's one of many people in the field who are not federal employees but accredited by the VA.
Schlader says he's helped thousands of veterans fill out applications pro bono.
To be eligible for the Aid and Attendance benefit, a veteran must be over 65 or have a disability
that's 100 percent connected to their service.
Celmer reached out to multiple people for help.
"At the end of the conversation, it always came up, 'Oh, by the way, it's $700 or it's $500,'" Celmer
said.
The First Coast News Investigators obtained agreements from different elder planners in Florida.
One noted, "The VA does not allow any of us to charge for completing the actual application.
However, that is part of what I do, but technically there is no charge for that part of the process."
That planner charges an initial fee of $695.
Schlader's agreement has similar wording. He initially charges $400."The professional services I
provide have to do with the financial planning aspects with veterans that have too much money,"
Schlader said.
First Coast News asked Schlader what he tells clients who reach out for help on a free application,
but find out there's a fee attached.
"Well anybody that has to pay, that pays anybody a fee to help them fill their application out is in
violation of federal law," he said. "Federal law says that you cannot charge a person to help them
prepare, present, or prosecute a claim against the VA."
Schlader says he's not doing that.
The benefit provides monthly compensation:
$2,133 to a veteran and spouse.
$1,788 to a single veteran.
$1,149 to a veteran spouse.
First Coast News obtained complaints filed with the Florida Attorney General detailing hundreds
charged to veterans and their adult children for help filling out the benefit application. None of the
complaints were against Schlader.
"These people that are running around and trying to make a dollar the back of our veterans and
their widows is in my opinion quite despicable," said Debbie Burak, founder of VeteranAid.org, a
Richmond, Va. nonprofit that helps veterans and their families received the benefits they're due.The
VA has volunteers that will help fill out applications along with groups like VeteranAid.org.
If you do chose to pay someone for help, make sure the person is accredited with the VA.
"We're talking about considerable monies here," Burak said. "It was over $140,000 dollars we had
missed out on."
Celmer says it's about more than the financial benefit.
"It just felt like to me they were preying upon not only people my mother's age, but by their
children," she said. "It made me furious because I know there are other parents out there, other
children, who are going to be taken advantage by these people."
Technology presents new challenges over access to public records, Lakeland Ledger,
Tampa Bay Times
When Florida's public records law was approved 40 some years ago, people were still using
typewriters and rotary dial telephones.
If you wanted a public record, you got a piece of paper or maybe lots of pieces of paper.
Technology has changed all of that and has presented a challenge for members of the public who
want to know what their government officials are up to and local governments that want to avoid
violating the law.
During Sunshine Week, March 13-19, reporters from newspapers all over Florida are looking at one
aspect of the technological changes: texting.
Local officials send and receive texts relating to their official duties from a number of sources.
Florida's public records law is clear that the public has the right to see all documents relating to the
conduct of public business unless there is a specific exception in the law.
The section of the law governing how long to keep texts is less clear.
"The statute is very vague," said Ed Wolfe, Polk County's director of information technology.
All public record requests coming to Polk County government officials are routed through the
Information Technology Division.
The key issue is whether users consider the messages "transitory." Transitory is defined as texts
and other electronic communications that have short-term value based on their content and
purpose.
Some examples cited in a 2013 presentation to the Florida Association of County Attorneys
included meeting reminders, announcements of office events and copies of formal agency
announcements.
Texts and other electronic communications that should be retained relate to such topics as setting
policy, establishing guidelines and procedures and certifying transactions, according to the
presentation.
The technological issues are clearer if local officials follow the right procedures, Wolfe said.
Polk County has a 32-page written technology policy, which includes information about archiving
text messages from various devices.
Wolfe said Polk County for the past three years has used a program called Mobile Guard, following
the lead of officials in Orange County, who signed on for a system called TextGuard with an annual
fee that has risen from $97,000 to $130,000.
Orange County officials enacted its policy for capturing texts related to public business following a
2012 incident that was dubbed "Textgate" in the media in which commissioners reportedly erased
texts in violation of Florida's public records law related to their deliberations on a controversial
ballot measure involving mandating that private employers provide paid sick time to employees.
"We looked at that as a learning moment," said Polk County's County Attorney Michael Craig. "We
wanted to make sure we had something in place to capture our texts."
In January, Hillsborough County officials approved a policy to issue county-owned cellphones to
commissioners to allow text messages to be captured using software county staffers are
developing. The change came in response to an increase in public records requests for
commissioners' texts, which in the past had been sent and received on commissioners' personal
phones.
That policy change came following a controversy over obtaining public records of texts between
commissioners and a prominent lobbyist over a major transportation contract. The new policy was
part of a larger change in county lobbyist registration rules.
In Osceola County, the official policy dating to 2009 discourages conducting county business by
texting, said Andrew Sullivan, the county's public information coordinator.
He said Osceola IT staff members are able to retrieve any texts county employees or
commissioners send or receive in response to public records requests.
Craigin Mosteller, the Florida Association of Counties' director of communications, said an informal
poll of member counties showed a mixture of approaches. She received responses from 20 of the
67 counties.
Officials in 12 counties Citrus, Escambia, Flagler, Gulf, Hendry, Lee, Leon, Osceola, Pinellas,
Polk, St. Johns and St. Lucie said they had formal policies on texting and many generally
discourage it.
Representatives from Baker, Bradford, Charlotte, Collier, Lafayette, Levy, Miami-Dade and Palm
Beach counties said they had no policy, she said.
Although this is an emerging issue in some jurisdictions, it has been on state officials' agenda for
some time.
The issue was mentioned in informal advisory opinions from the Florida Attorney General's office in
2010.
In that opinion, Attorney General Bill McCollum pushed back against claims that the information
was impossible or difficult to retain.
"Those messages are able to be retained by the flip of a switch," McCollum wrote.
The opinion also urged state officials to update rules on retention of electronic communication
records.
Attorney General Pam Bondi's office provides training and printed materials to help public officials
to comply with Florida's public records laws, said Whitney Ray, the office's director of media
relations.
That information includes the Government in the Sunshine Manual, which makes it clear that the
same standards apply to the retention of texts as public records as for emails and other public
documents.
Sunshine Week: A look at state officials texts messages, (AP) WEAR-TV
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. In an era when text messaging is a universal form of instant
communication -- especially during hectic legislative sessions -- Gov. Rick Scott and his top aide
refuse to do it and don't want their employees doing it either, his office says.
The Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald requested all text messages sent and received by Scott and
his chief of staff, Melissa Sellers, as well as all three Cabinet members and their chiefs of staff,
between Jan. 25 and Jan. 31.
The requests were made as part of an annual project by the Florida Society of News Editors to
document government compliance with public records laws. The effort is part of Sunshine Week, a
nationwide initiative to educate the public about the importance of transparent government.
All three Cabinet members, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, produced several series of routine messages. But Scott
produced no records, and his chief of staff, Sellers, produced one text message received on her
phone.
Scott's chief spokeswoman, Jackie Schutz, said the governor discourages employees from texting
on state business.
"The governor's office discourages the use of text messaging state business by employees
because text messages are hard to catalogue due to the digital nature of the message," Schutz
said.
The single text from Sellers' phone was from a friend identified as "Taylor" who got a job.
"Just accepted. Start week of 9th," said the message, which Scott's office posted on the Project
Sunburst open government website in response to the request.
No reply message was provided, and Scott's office did not identify the person's full name or provide
additional details.
Scott's policy, while highly unusual, was confirmed by lobbyists and legislators who say they
communicate regularly with the governor's office.
"I never send text messages to them, and they wouldn't accept text messages if I did send them,"
said Sen. Jeff Brandes, a tech-savvy Republican from St. Petersburg. "They specifically said, `Call
me.' That's how they want to do business, so I call them."
Barbara Petersen of the First Amendment Foundation, a group supported by Florida media outlets
that advocates in support of open government, said she was skeptical of Scott's position.
"I find it difficult to believe that the governor and his chief of staff don't use the easiest and most
ubiquitous form of communication: text messages," Petersen said. "Given the governor's travel
schedule, I would think the fact that they don't text would make communication much less efficient.
I would want to know the reasoning behind such a decision or policy."
The quantity and quality of Scott's communication with legislators has been much discussed
throughout the session, with Republicans describing Scott as disengaged from the daily minutiae of
writing laws and a new state budget.
Scott frequently travels throughout Florida and out of state on his private jet.
During the week of Jan. 25-31, he held jobs announcements in Broward and Palm Beach counties
before flying to Washington to speak at events hosted by Americans for Tax Reform and the
Heritage Foundation, according to his official schedules for those days.
While in the nation's capital, Scott appeared on CNN and Fox News, and met with Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and syndicated columnist
George Will before he returned to Tallahassee Thursday for a dinner with the board of Enterprise
Florida.
That Friday morning, Scott gave a rousing breakfast speech to EFI board members to advocate for
a $250 million fund to attract jobs to Florida -- a priority that Republican lawmakers would soon
reject.
The Times/Herald has Scott's personal cellphone number. A text message sent to that number on
Thursday was not blocked by Scott's cellphone provider, but no response was provided.
Text messaging has become ubiquitous in the Capitol between individual legislators, between
legislators and lobbyists and between reporters and legislators.
Times/Herald reporters routinely send text messages to legislators, seeking answers to questions
or to quickly schedule one-on-one interviews.
The Times/Herald asked for "all public record text messages sent by or received between 12:01
a.m. Monday Jan. 25 and 12:01 a.m. Monday Feb. 1, including all public record text messages sent
or received on a personal communication device."
By law, text messages sent and received by Florida public officials dealing with official business are
public records, regardless of whether the device used is private or a government-owned phone.
All four officials responded quickly, with Putnam the first to respond. He provided texts with the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers about rising flood levels in South Florida, and Chief of Staff Mike Joyner's
texts on routine agency business.
Bondi produced texts that related to talks over siding with state attorneys in negotiations over how
to rewrite Florida's death penalty sentencing law to comply with an adverse decision from the U.S.
Supreme Court.
"(Sen.) Rob Bradley will be with us," one Bondi text said.
Her office also produced texts between her chief of staff and an official in the Department of
Business and Professional Regulation.
Atwater produced text messages from three lobbyists -- Carlos Cruz, former Sen. Jim Horne and
Paul Sanford -- and from two Republican House members who sought one-on-one meetings.
"Pepe, I didn't see this message until last night," Atwater told Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, R-Miami. "I'm
happy to talk when you are. Happy to come to your office as well."
Scott agreed last August to pay $700,000 to settle a public records lawsuit by attorney Steve
Andrews over Scott's use of a private email account for state business. It was the first time in state
history that a sitting governor agreed to settle allegations of violating public records laws.
Scott and all three Cabinet members agreed last June to provide greater transparency and training
to settle a lawsuit filed by the Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald and other Florida news
organizations.
The lawsuit followed Scott's secret dismissal, without a public vote, of former FDLE Commissioner
Gerald Bailey, who reported to the governor and Cabinet.
9 Investigates: Dentist accused of abusing patients opens practice in Clermont, WFTV
CLERMONT, Fla. 9 Investigates uncovered a dentist accused of badly injuring and nearly killing
a patient in his care is still practicing after opening Gulfstream Dental off Highway 50 in Clermont.
His medical license--previously suspended--has been reinstated.
Michael Tarver is also under criminal investigation for Medicaid fraud. And though a website for the
dental office claims Tarver accepts Medicaid, a claim Tarver echoed during a phone conversation
Friday, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration said it had no record of Tarvers latest
business venture in its Medicaid database.
Recordings obtained by Eyewitness News show Tarver admitted under oath in 2013 that he was
racing through appointments with children to make a profit from Medicaid.
Documents from the Florida Department of Health show Tarver was accused at the time of having a
little girl go into respiratory arrest while under anesthesia one day at an office in Ocala.
[Staff members realized the girl] had stopped breathing and turned blue, an investigator noted,
going on to say Dr. Tarver instructed Polliwog staff members to make no mention of the incident
[and] no one informed [the girls] parents that [she] had stopped breathing and been resuscitated.
Tarvers latest problem started at a building that is now under new ownership in Clermont. Just over
a year ago, he and his wife were still working in Ocala when there was a raid connected to alleged
Medicaid fraud. Tarver told Channel 9 it was the result of a disgruntled employee. He said it's
something he and his family are wanting to get past.
The Florida Board of Dentistry lit into Tarver during a hearing centered on whether board members
would accept a settlement in the alleged abuse case. The board members claimed Tarver
sacrificed safety for a profit by seeing large numbers of patients each day and neglecting to spend
adequate time with many of them.
Tarver has never has been charged criminally.
A jury found Shannon Heathcock guilty of attempted sexual battery, WFTS ABC Action
News
A Citrus County business man who formerly ran for county commission has been found guilty of
attempted sexual battery of a physically helpless person.
Shannon Dain Heathcock, 46, remains out on bond awaiting sentencing.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED: VICTIM SPEAKS EXCLUSIVELY TO ABC ACTION NEWS
Christina Inness, her 15-year-old daughter and their dog Holly are now living in a friend's garage.
The 33-year-old says she lost her home and had to leave her job because of her former boss,
Shannon Heathcock.
Deputies say on March 6 Heathcock, 45, tried to sexually assault Inness while she was passed out
in a car.
Inness came forward to deputies March 7 and stated that the night before she went with her
girlfriends to a local bar to have drinks after work.
Heathcock, according to an arrest affidavit, showed up and began buying the women shots.
"Took a few minutes for us to take the shots. When we did it, they did not taste right," Inness
recalled.
The victim's friends told detectives she became intoxicated and began vomiting. That is when her
friends walked her out to the parking lot and put her in the passenger seat of their car, where she
passed out, deputies said.
Deputies said the women's friends went back into the bar to pay the bill.
An arrest affidavit states when the woman's friends came back to the car, they found their friend
passed out without any clothes on and Heathcock on top of her not wearing any pants.
"I just couldn't believe it. He's not not someone I expected to do anything. He was my boss," she
said.According to Inness's friends, she was in the car for 15 to 20 minutes.
INNESS REFUSES TO RETURN TO WORK
At the time, Heathcock owned and operated Dash Transport Inc ., an Inverness-based company
that offers non-emergency medical transport throughout central Florida.
The company's slogan is: "God is our C.E.O."
Since his arrest, Heathcock stepped down as owner and transferred the business into his wife's
name, state records show. Inness worked in the billing department.
"I cannot go back to work knowing he's done this to me," she said.
Inness told ABC Action News she could not face her boss and did not return to work despite
Heathcock calling and emailing her to return.
As a result, she was no longer able to pay her rent and was evicted.
"Not only have I been victimized by him, but by what comes after. It's a snowball effect," she said.
Inness was denied unemployment.

She also applied for victim's compensation through the State of Florida. While they approved
paying for her counseling, they denied funds for lost wages and relocation.
Whitney Ray, media relations specialist with the Attorney General's Office told ABC Action News
their office is bound by laws.
"Our office is bound by state law when administering victim's compensation payments," Ray wrote
in an email. "Florida State Statutes determine the distribution of all victim's compensation. The
state legislature determines which crimes are compensable, and therefore eligible for victims
compensation."
According to Inness, she was denied the other funds because she did not qualify as 'physically
injured.'
"I would have been better off if he beat me," she added.
Inness says she's tried applying to other jobs in the area and has had no luck. She added with the
amount of counseling she is going through and the time needed to appear in court, most employers
are not interested in hiring her.
Citrus County deputies confirm DNA collect during a routine rape examination kit and blood drawn
from Inness are being analyzed at FDLE labs. They are waiting on the results.
HEATHCOCK DECLINES COMMENT
ABC Action News reached Heathcock by phone but he declined to comment.
His attorney, Bill Grant, said his client is innocent until proven guilty.
"He has no criminal record," said Grant.
Grant added Heathcock is a well-respected businessman.
According to deputies, Heathcock admitted in a recorded phone call he "must have" tried having
sex with Inness if both their pants were down.
Grant told ABC Action News he looks forward to analyzing all the State's evidence and calls the
recorded call nothing more than his client reacting to assertions.
Heathcock is currently out on $10,000 bond.
A judge has awarded Inness a temporary restraining order against Heathcock.
Grant to fight heroin, pain killer addiction helps Orlando center, Orlando Sentinel
Health Care Center for the Homeless is among nine health centers in Florida to receive funding
from the federal government on Friday to fight the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic.
"Unfortunately, we're seeing an increase in use of heroin and opioid addiction," said Bakari Burns,
president and CEO of the health center. "What's going on in our community justifies the funding."
The center will primarily use the two-year, $325,000 grant to start offering medication-assisted
treatment naltrexone (Vivitrol) for opioid- and alcohol-use disorders, said Dewey Wooden, director
of behavioral health at the center.
The grant will also help the center bolster care for its vulnerable population at its six service sites in
Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties.
"This is very timely and is a great boost to Florida's efforts to combat the heroin epidemic in our
state," said Dr. Kevin Sherin, a member of Orange County Heroin Task Force and director of
Orange County health department. "It can help save lives."
Orange County officials created the heroin task force last August in response to the rising number
of deaths from heroin. Orange and Osceola had 90 heroin-related deaths in 2014 twice as many
as Miami-Dade County, which has a larger population. While the latest heroin epidemic is blamed
on the shuttering of pill mills, prescription drugs continue to remain a public health issue here and in
the U.S.
Wooden said that the health center hopes to start offering naltrexone in the next month or so.
The grant is part of a $94 million in Affordable Care Act funding that was distributed to 271 centers
in 45 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Florida received more than $3 million.
Death penalty trial of Donald Smith delayed again, First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The death penalty trial of Donald Smith, accused of kidnapping, raping and
killed 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle in 2013, has been delayed again.
His attorneys say they need more time to analyze a new death penalty bill signed into law by Gov.
Rick Scott Monday.
The new law requires at least 10 out of 12 jurors to recommend execution in order for it to be
carried out. A judge can no longer sentence someone to death without any input from the jury.
Smith is charged with the 2013 kidnapping, rape and murder of Cherish Perrywinkle, 8, of
Jacksonville.
A new trial date could be discussed at Smith's next hearing April 4. Both sides mentioned
September as a possibility.
There are several pending motions in the case that the judge has yet to rule on, including whether
secret jailhouse recordings between Smith and another inmate should be admissible during his
trial. His attorney wants the recordings excluded as evidence.
The judge has also not ruled on a request from the defense to move the trial out of Jacksonville.
OPINIONS
Takeaways from Tallahassee: Winners & Losers of the 2016 Legislative Session, Saint
PetersBlog
What a difference a year makes. Tallahassee went from the dysfunction of 2015 the House going
home early, no budget, a Special Budget Session to the trains-on-time Session of 2016. Heck,
the chilly capital even warmed up to the high 70s by Sine Die. No wonder there are more winners
than losers this year than last. Some of those losses smart, though. As in: Really, Legislature? You
couldnt even pass a measure guaranteeing that school kids get 20 minutes of recess a day?
Now, this sessions Winners and Losers, with a bonus round below (kinda like a Marvel movies
post-end credits scene!):
Pam Bondi Call her a big winner. Every single one of Bondis priorities made it through the
Legislature. The Legislature OKd bills that required evidence kits in sexual offense cases be tested
within 30 days of being received; gave law enforcement more flexibility to prosecute synthetic drug
dealers; and made tweaks to the states RICO Act. She was also able to kill a bill that could have
affected her offices Medicaid fraud litigation.
Tia Mitchell: Having a bit of fun with Session Superlatives, Florida Times Union
Here in Tallahassee, its a ghost town. Session is over, and all the legislators and aides have
returned to their districts.
The session was relatively mild, compared to last year. But there were still fireworks on gun rights
and abortion. And it was an all-out failure for Gov. Rick Scott, who lost his surgeon general and
didnt get the tax cuts or economic development incentives he wanted because lawmakers are tired
of playing nice.
We wait to see what Scott does with the budget in the next two weeks and if he again uses his veto
pen as revenge.
But for now, we take a breather after the 60-day slog. I decided to have a little fun with this column
to balance the hard work over the last two months. And maybe it will give you a little insight into a
few of the 160 elected officials who compose the Florida Legislature.
Without further ado, I present my 2016 Session Superlatives. Feel free to email or send me a
Tweet (@TIAreports) to let me know if you agree or have superlatives of your own.
CHAMPION YOUR CAUSE AWARD
Rep. Janet Adkins,
R-Fernandina Beach
Florida isnt the only state with a sizeable backlog of untested DNA kits collected after a report of
sexual assault; it is just the latest to do something about it. Rep. Adkins made this her cause after
watching a report on First Coast News about untested rape kits and joining forces with Attorney
General Pam Bondi. Senate Bill 636, which Gov. Rick Scott has already signed into law, sets time
limits for when law enforcement agencies must submit rape kits for testing, and there is money in
the budget, too.
Government closes door on citizens: Editorial, Orlando Sentinel
America is the envy of the world because our Constitution gives us the right to live free, speak our
minds and pick our leaders. But democracy only works if citizens know what's going on and can
hold government accountable. And increasingly, politicians are creating barriers to hide what
government is doing.
So on this Sunshine Sunday, an annual occasion when the nation's news media step back to
assess government transparency, we must sadly report that our ability to watch government in
action is eroding.
In Washington, the Obama administration has a terrible record on transparency. Its spokesmen are
often unresponsive or hostile to press inquiries. Federal employees suspected of leaking
information are subject to investigation, including lie-detector tests, according to a report by
Columbia Journalism Review.
Closer to home in Tallahassee, try getting a straight answer from Gov. Rick Scott. It happened
again this past week, when the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" asked the governor about his
friend Donald Trump's view of Muslims. "Do you think Muslims in the state of Florida hate
America?" he was asked. The governor dodged, repeatedly, bringing the answer back to jobs. The
frustrated hosts finally cut him off.
This is the same governor who doesn't use email or text messages, so as not to leave a paper trail
that would let citizens know what he's doing. He uses a private jet, too, so he doesn't have to tell
people where he's going or whom he's meeting with. And last year, he and Attorney General Pam
Bondi signed a $700,000 settlement after the Florida Cabinet was accused of violating publicrecords laws. That money, by the way, didn't come from their pockets. It came from the pockets of
taxpayers.
The Florida Legislature, meanwhile, continues its relentless attack on your right to know. Last year,
12 percent of its bills created new exemptions to our constitutional right of access. This year, the
First Amendment Foundation tracked 74 such bills.
On the surface, some exemptions may sound reasonable, like a law passed last year that shields
the home addresses of current or former U.S. military members who've served since Sept. 11,
2001. But here's the consequence: Before government can tell you about crime reports in your
area, or immigrants accused of Medicare fraud, or a business that beat you out of a contract, you
first must pay someone in government to comb the records to remove the names of any veterans.
While many are well-intentioned, the more-than 1,100 exemptions to the Sunshine Law are making
it harder and more expensive for citizens to hold government accountable.
It's not just the media, either, that face obstructionist tactics.
In Lake City, resident Barbara Lemley was told that to obtain a single-page document from the
hospital authority, she'd have to come in, pre-pay the 30-cent fee and return the next day to pick it
up.
And in Orlando, resident Susan Hewlings fought Orange County Animal Services for four years
four years! to obtain records about her dog having bitten another dog. The Fifth District Court of
Appeal called it a classic case of government making a mountain out of a molehill.
So there you go, this Sunshine Sunday. Our state's public-records and open-meeting laws are
under assault. And when politicians at all levels of government say there's nothing to see, we have
to trust them.
Again, democracy only works if people know what's going on and can hold government
accountable.
Heads up, people. The doors are closing on our right to know.
Another suit, same issues at schools, Tampa Tribune
In 2007, when Pinellas County schools were about to end decades of court-ordered busing, many
black residents feared a return to the bad old days when black schools were shamefully and
deliberately underfunded. During a number of community meetings, members of the school board
assured all who would listen that there was no way that was going to happen.
The fear among some people is that life will go back to what it was before we went under a court
order, said James Madden, assistant superintendent for student assignment, to The Tampa
Tribune back then. Theres absolutely no way the district would let that happen.
Nine years later, many of the fears expressed seem to have come true. As a result, a group of
concerned residents announced the other day that they plan to reopen the federal desegregation
case against the Pinellas County School Board citing broken promises made when the school
district was granted unitary status.

This comes on the heels of a series of articles by the Tampa Bay Times chronicling five
predominantly black schools in south Pinellas Campbell Park, Lakewood, Maximo, Melrose and
Fairmount Park labeling them as failure factories.
We believe that there are massive irregularities in terms of complying with the court order, said
Roger Plata, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
The poor performance of the schools even has caught the attention of some elected officials such
as U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, who last year called for the Justice Department to look into possible
civil rights violations, and state Rep. Darryl Rouson of St. Petersburg, who asked the Florida
Attorney Generals office to launch a civil rights investigation.
Although all of this concern and litigation is noble, the dual system that brought about the original
desegregation lawsuit in 1964 was eliminated long ago. Also, in 2007, the benefits of close-tohome schools were cited as a reason for getting out from under the court order, including more
parental involvement and elimination of the strain busing put on students.
But its also a fact that at the time, civil rights and community organizations wanted the school
district to develop a plan ensuring that the neediest schools those with the biggest number of
struggling students would receive more resources. They believed segregation was inevitable
and had to be offset with extra attention and resources for schools in the low-income areas of
South St. Petersburg. They cited studies that showed single-race, high-poverty schools harm
student achievement, in part because teachers in such schools often were less experienced,
turnover was higher and there was a lack of academic focus.
The Florida Legislature, with the lobbying of Rouson, has done its part by earmarking $400,000 in
the state budget for reading assistance from the University of Florida for schools in South St.
Petersburg. Well see if that makes a difference, but its been clear for years no one has a silver
bullet, policy change or model to elevate student performance.
Many educators and public-policy experts believe the problems in these five south Pinellas schools
are intractable. When students come from poor families, they automatically are labeled at-risk,
which means they have a good chance of entering school not knowing the alphabet, being truant,
not completing homework assignments, getting poor grades, and acting out in class. Its likely that
education is not a priority in their homes. The reasons are complex and the social problems some
of them face, pervasive. All make easy solutions daunting.
Maybe the reopening of the desegregation lawsuit will offer some solutions instead of dismal
statistics. Im afraid, however, the plaintiffs are going to find out improving student performance isnt
always about providing more money to failing schools.
Jessica Marr
The Capitol PL-01
Office: 850-245-0211
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Complaints about Boca Raton real estate institute draw attention to Donald Trump, Palm Beach Post
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Florida leaders determined to ensure that the uninsured stay that way, Bradenton Herald
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Complaints about Boca Raton real estate institute draw attention to Donald Trump, Palm Beach Post
Leesburg pool cleaner Kenneth Lafrate still awaits a refund of the $7,000 he paid the Trump Institute of Boca
Raton. Connecticut Realtor Mitzie Andrade got her $3,000 back, but only after months of trying.
Both said they put aside their usual skepticism about get-rich seminars and ponied up for courses that
promised to deliver Donald Trumps dealmaking secrets and both said they were disappointed.
I got scammed, Lafrate said.
Trump-branded educational materials drew scrutiny last month, when New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman filed a fraud suit against Trump, the billionaire developer who lives part-time in Palm Beach,
and The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative of New York.
Schneiderman demanded that Trump and his school repay $40 million in fees collected from some 5,000
students.
Mr. Trump used his celebrity status and personally appeared in commercials making false promises to
convince people to spend tens of thousands of dollars they couldnt afford for lessons they never got,
Schneiderman said last month.
Trump lashed back, calling Schneiderman a hack.
Trumps school known as Trump University before New York officials demanded a name change
licensed its name to the Trump Institute of Boca Raton. No longer in business, the Trump Institute drummed
up sales by hosting seminars throughout the country.
Trump Institute was run by seminar mavens Mike and Irene Milin, the Sacremento Bee reported in 2006.
According to consumer complaints filed in Florida, students paid $1,200 to $1,400 for classes, including
books, DVDs and CDs emblazoned with Trumps face. One-on-one coaching cost extra, and some pupils
paid $20,000 or more.
In 2009, unhappy customers from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, New York, Oregon
and Washington lodged complaints about the Boca-based Trump Institute with the Florida Attorney Generals
Office. Bill McCollum was attorney general at the time. He was succeeded in 2010 by Pam Bondi, who said
shes taking another look at the consumer complaints from 2009.
While we have received no complaints during this administration, we are reviewing the allegations of the
New York complaint to see if they have any relevance in Florida, said Bondi spokeswoman Jenn Meale.
Lafrate was aiming to buy a self-storage facility while bank lending was on lockdown, and he thought the
Trump Institute would help him navigate a difficult mortgage market. But the courses didnt yield a deal.
The whole thing blew up in my face, Lafrate said.
Andrade said she was attracted by tutelage in tax-lien sales a way to buy properties on the cheap from
local governments. After fruitless phone calls to city hall in search of such deals, Andrade decided she had
been misled.
It sounded good at first, Andrade said. But I tried applying the principles theres nothing like that.
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) In the wake of criticism from Republicans including Florida Gov.
Rick Scott, the Obama administration is beefing up security measures for data submitted to navigators by
people seeking insurance under the federal health overhaul.
Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Federal Trade
Commission chairwoman Edith Ramirez met with senior White Houseofficials and several state officials on
Wednesday before announcing the new plans aimed at protecting private information in advance of the Oct. 1
roll-out of online health insurance marketplaces.
Today, we are sending a clear message that we will not tolerate anyone seeking to defraud consumers in the
Health Insurance Marketplace, Sebelius said in a statement Wednesday.
Consumers will be able to report fraud through a toll-free hotline and on the website healthcare.gov. The
administration plans to route complaints through a central database and set up a rapid response mechanism
for data breaches. State and federal agencies will be able to access the hub to investigate fraud, and state and
federal fraud experts will meet regularly to monitor potential fraud associated with the marketplace.
Navigators and assisters help people apply for insurance on the online marketplaces, or exchanges,
which are a crucial part of carrying out the federal Affordable Care Act.
Sebelius said the federal agencies are using the same protections already in use as safeguards for Medicaid,
Medicare and the Childrens Health Insurance Program.
Scott, a Republican who launched his political career fighting against the health care law, quickly issued a
statement taking credit for the Obama administrations attention to the security issues, which Scott raised in a
letter to congressional leaders on Monday. Scott noted that Florida has become ground zero for the frenzy
of activity to sign people up through the online exchanges. Sebelius has made Florida a frequent stopping
place to promote the health care law.
Whenever the federal government forces a brand new program this big to move this fast, mistakes are made
just as we saw last week in Minnesota, Scott said in statement Wednesday. An employee of the state
health exchange in Minnesota mistakenly sent an e-mail containing about 2,400 insurance agents personal
data, including Social Security numbers to a man applying to become a navigator.
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Florida leaders determined to ensure that the uninsured stay that way, Bradenton Herald
It's impressive to see the lengths that Florida's leaders are going to keep state residents from getting health
care insurance.
In a state that has the second-highest number of uninsured in the nation -- one out of four Floridians lack
heath insurance -- you'd imagine that state leaders would be looking for ways reduce the enormous financial
costs of uncompensated care by reducing the ranks of the uninsured.
But the opposite is happening.
The state Legislature opposed the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, paid nearly entirely with federal
dollars, by ginning up wildly inflated estimates of state costs.
That move froze out more than 1.3 million poor Floridians from getting insurance, leaving the rest of us to
pay for their visits to emergency rooms for primary health care.
And Florida also refused to set up a state exchange under Obamacare that would have provided Florida
consumers a state-run marketplace of affordable insurance.
Instead, state leaders have energetically constructed obstacles to the federal government's efforts to make
Floridians aware of their health care options under the law.
The main thrust of this obstruction these days has taken the form of scaring uninsured Floridians from talking
to federal employees called "navigators," who will begin next month to help uninsured state residents to sign
up for health insurance.
The thrust of this obstruction is to convince Floridians that these navigators will be infiltrated with scammers
looking to steal the identities of Floridians, or to rat on them to the Internal Revenue Service.
"It is unclear how the federal government will protect personal information from being stolen or otherwise
misused," Gov. Rick Scott said at a Cabinet meeting last month.
It's more than ironic that Scott, who made a fortune presiding over a hospital chain that used the private
information of patients to bilk Medicare, is now playing the role as public watchdog on health care matters.
Fortunate for him, he's got plenty of help.
"This is a consumer protection issue and an identity theft issue," said Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
"Identity theft runs rampant through our country and state."
Bondi was on Fox News Tuesday, spreading the alarm with a healthy dose of misinformation.
"Now we have navigators coming into our state, and they're not doing background checks, they're not doing
fingerprints," she said. "Census takers have better background checks than the navigators. We hope that
they're all honest, but this is a consumer protection issue."
Bondi should know better. The state passed a law last spring that requires all health care navigators in the
state to be fingerprinted and screened by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
They're licensed by the federal Health and Human Services Department after completing a 20-hour training
program.
The idea that the state is under attack by federal invaders from Obamaland who have come to steal and spy
on Floridians is ridiculous.
The main group signing up Floridians is Florida Covering Kids & Families, a University of South Florida
organization that has been operating in Florida for the past 15 years to provide insurance services to state
residents.
"Navigators will not be collecting any personal information from the people they sign up," director Jodi Ray
said.
"They're just there to sit down and help people to fill out the forms for the insurance. They're not walking
away with any personal information from the people they sign up."
Ray said there are plenty of responsible and highly educated applicants for the job, which pays about $24 an
hour.
And everyone who is hired is fingerprinted and run through a criminal background check before they start.
To poison the sign-up process even more, Florida has taken the extraordinary step to ban these navigators
from helping the uninsured at any of the county health department offices throughout the state. After all,
that's a natural place for people to come for health care issues.
Ray said it's something her group can work around. And the uninsured are eager, she said.
"We haven't even started the outreach and people are contacting us to sign up for insurance," she said. "We're
already taking appointments."
Oh, well. It looks like Florida's leaders may have to invent another roadblock to stop state residents from
helping themselves.
Frank Cerabino, writes for The Palm Beach Post. E-mail: frank_cerabino@pbpost.com.
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Trump contribution to Pam Bondis re-election draws more scrutiny to her fundraising, Tampa Bay Times
(also in Miami Herald, Bradenton Herald)
Friends bid farewell to children's advocate Dottie Berger MacKinnon, Tampa Bay Times
After saying no to feds on Medicaid expansion, Florida may ask for more money, Miami Herald
Nationwide Pools

A Broward County judge this week granted a state request to freeze the assets of a Pompano Beach-based
pool company that allegedly tried to keep selling pools after being ordered to stop four months ago.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed suit in June against Nationwide Pools in Broward Circuit Court
under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
The complaint sought restitution for consumers and a permanent injunction that prevented the company and
its officials, including President Keith Stuart, from building more pools.
In an amended complaint filed last week, Bondi accused Nationwide of transferring assets to another
company, National Construction Group, and continuing to take payments from unsuspecting customers.
Circuit Judge Michael L. Gates approved a temporary injunction and asset freeze on Monday.
"We will not allow them to circumvent the litigation by creating and funneling money to a separate business
in order to engage in the same alleged unfair and deceptive conduct," Bondi said in a statement.
Nationwide officials could not be reached for comment Thursday.
In June, Bondi accused Nationwide of charging illegal credit card fees and failing to pay subcontractors or
complete jobs. The amended complaint accuses Stuart of intentionally bankrupting Nationwide to avoid
creditors.
Photos: Faces of meth, before and after
Dozens of South Florida homeowners filed complaints about Nationwide with the Better Business Bureau.
The company received an "F" rating from the consumer watchdog group.
Florida consumers who want to report alleged fraud can call a toll-free hotline at 1-866-966-7226 or file an
online complaint at MyFloridaLegal.com.
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Trump contribution to Pam Bondis re-election draws more scrutiny to her fundraising, Tampa Bay
Times (also in Miami Herald)
TALLAHASSEE For the second time in as many months, campaign contributions fueling the re-election
efforts of Attorney General Pam Bondi are raising questions about the overlap between politics and how
Florida's top law enforcement officer performs her duties.
Bondi apologized last month after she persuaded Gov. Rick Scott to delay an execution so she could host a
fundraiser at her South Tampa home that ended up raising $140,000.
Now comes criticism of a $25,000 contribution made by one of Donald Trump's foundations to a political
committee associated with Bondi. The donation came three days after an Attorney General's Office
spokeswoman said Bondi was reviewing allegations in a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general
against get-rich-quick seminars associated with Trump.
New York's Eric Schneiderman filed the lawsuit Aug. 25, alleging that Trump University and its affiliates
were "sham for profit colleges" that ripped off 5,000 consumers. He's seeking $40 million in restitution for
the complainants.
"Mr. Trump used his celebrity status and personally appeared in commercials making false promises to
convince people to spend tens of thousands of dollars they couldn't afford for lessons they never got,"
Schneiderman said in a statement.
A Sept. 14 Orlando Sentinel story noted that Schneiderman cited dozens of complaints filed with the Florida
Attorney General's Office in 2008, two years before Bondi took office. A spokeswoman for Bondi was quoted
as saying the office was reviewing the New York lawsuit.
Three days later, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, based in New York, made a $25,000 contribution to And
Justice for All, a political fundraising committee raising money for Bondi's re-election.
Florida hasn't followed New York's lead against Trump. Bondi couldn't be reached for comment. Jenn Meale,
a Bondi spokeswoman, suggested no action is necessary because the affected Florida consumers would be
compensated if New York wins that case.
But a review of the 22 complaints filed in 2008 show they named the "Trump Institute," an entity not named
in the New York suit. Because those are technically different entities, it's unclear how many making those
complaints would be covered, then, by the New York suit.
Meale points out that since Bondi has been attorney general, the office has received only one complaint about
the Trump seminars. It was filed in 2011 by Charles Jacobson, who is now 62 and retired in Delray Beach. He
says he lost $26,000 in fees to attend a three-day seminar in West Palm Beach.
"I took it because they told us it would make us rich, but it didn't teach me anything," he said. "Except my
bankruptcy."
Jacobson has since asked Bondi's office to join the New York suit so that Florida consumers like him can get
their money back. He says he was told that Florida doesn't get involved in class-action suits, which the New
York case is not. When told about Trump's $25,000 contribution, Jacobson said it didn't look right.
"That's probably why she won't do it," he said. "But that should have nothing to do with it."
The contribution was made to a political committee that is technically not part of Bondi's official campaign.
Nancy Watkins, treasurer of And Justice for All, said there was no regret. "Based on the information at hand,
we are comfortable with the propriety of the contribution from the Trump Foundation," she said.
Trump didn't answer why he was contributing to a Florida attorney general race or if he has contributed to
other attorney general races.
But he did release a statement: "Pam Bondi is a fabulous representative of the people Florida is lucky to
have her. The case in New York is pure politics brought by an incompetent attorney general, a political
hack."
Friends bid farewell to children's advocate Dottie Berger MacKinnon, Tampa Bay Times
TAMPA Dottie Berger MacKinnon won countless accolades in the months leading up to her death for her
tireless work on behalf of abused and neglected children.
Friends and family celebrated her devotion to that cause, her love for her 15 grandchildren, the upbeat
manner in which she stared down cancer twice and the way she so often put others before herself.
"We don't have to build Dottie up in death," said Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee, a friend of Mrs.
Berger MacKinnon and her husband, Sandy MacKinnon. "Her life and service to the community speaks for
itself."
Hundreds filed Thursday afternoon into St. John's Episcopal Church in South Tampa to pay tribute to Mrs.
Berger MacKinnon, 71, who died Sunday after a more than three-year battle with bile duct cancer that
doctors warned would claim her much sooner. She had previously fought breast cancer a dozen years earlier,
never taking a break from her advocacy for children.
Family members, many from her native Kentucky, carried sunflowers, her favorite.
In the audience were mayors of Tampa past and present, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, Florida Attorney General
Pam Bondi, county commissioners, City Council members, judges and a host of other public figures.
Mrs. Berger MacKinnon was once one of them, serving a term on the Hillsborough County Commission from
1994 to 1998.
That barely rated a mention Thursday as friends remembered the woman who in the 1990s co-founded the
Joshua House and Friends of the Joshua House, the former a haven for abused and neglected children in Lutz.
In the past decade, she led efforts to help foster children, in part by seeking to keep siblings removed from
abusive homes together, as a central figure in the formation of the Kids Charity of Tampa Bay. Fundraising
ultimately led to the creation of a 60-bed shelter on Lithia Pinecrest Road called A Kid's Place.
"She saw the gaps in the system and she chose to make us different in Hillsborough County," Gee said. "And
it became her life's work. She had an unbridled passion for children. She translated that love into an unbridled
zeal to protect and to foster the most vulnerable in our community."
Gee and Bondi, who regularly visited Mrs. Berger MacKinnon in her final weeks, recalled someone who had
no problem asking for money to help support her causes. She didn't just ask once, Gee said, even if you had
given before.
Bondi said she set an example for others in her dedication to her causes but also in her unconditional and
engaged friendship, even as she battled illness.
"Dottie not only gave of herself, but she inspired others," said Bondi, who informed those in attendance that
Mrs. Berger MacKinnon will be receiving one more honor, as Gov. Rick Scott will name her to the Florida
Women's Hall of Fame.
Of course, she adored her own family and the grandchildren, who called her Nana. Even as the prognosis
grew grim, she painted her toenails blue to impress the little ones, said friend Cathy Unruh. When the end
came near, Unruh said, her friend got her hair done, stylish until the end.
Unruh said Mrs. Berger MacKinnon had a regular farewell when parting from friends. She offered it as a
closing to Thursday's memorial service.
"Love you guys. God bless," she said.
After saying no to feds on Medicaid expansion, Florida may ask for more money, Miami Herald
TALLAHASSEE -- Months after Florida lawmakers rejected $51 billion from the federal government to
expand Medicaid, state officials are prepared to request billions in new federal aid for a different program to
improve care for the poor, uninsured and under-insured.
But this cash grab, for whatever reason, has yet to ignite a political furor.
State officials want to grow their Low Income Pool (LIP) program from $1 billion a year to possibly $3
billion a year, said Justin Senior, deputy secretary for Medicaid at the Agency for Health Care
Administration. The additional money could be used to help hospitals cover charity care, provide premium
support for low-income Floridians or expand current healthcare programs.
Our feeling at the agency is that there are opportunities here to make the LIP program larger, Senior
recently told lawmakers, who didnt object. We have talked with the federal government about that, and the
federal government, by and large, they seem generally receptive to the possibility of it.
Even contemplating accepting additional federal LIP dollars seems at odds with the Legislatures stone-cold
rejection of additional Medicaid funding tied to healthcare reform. But it highlights how intertwined
Tallahassee and Washington are whether Republican lawmakers in the state Capitol like it or not.
Rep. Matt Hudson, the Naples Republican who chairs the Houses healthcare budget committee, said its best
to keep the two discussions separate.
While opponents would love to water down the Houses opposition to Medicaid expansion to a single sound
bite, its not that simple, he said in an email. We will evaluate these decisions based on the long term
physical and fiscal well-being of Florida.
For years, the Legislature has signed off on leveraging local tax dollars to qualify for additional healthcare
funding from the federal government. But its hardly enough, healthcare officials say, and less than what
states like Texas and California receive.
Florida is embarrassingly low in the amount of money it gets from the federal government in supplemental
payments, Tony Carvalho, president of the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida, told the panel.
Florida receives roughly $1.4 billion a year in supplemental Medicaid funding, according to a report
commissioned by Carvalhos organization. California collects about $5 billion a year for similar programs
and Texas expects $7.5 billion each year, the same study said.
Texas uses the money to help pay hospitals that treat large numbers of uninsured patients and to fund
innovative health programs.
Florida officials say it will tie the request for more funding to Floridas application for an extension of the
federal waiver that privatized Medicaid. The waiver application will be submitted in about a month. Most
likely, the federal government will insist on new quality improvement benchmarks as a trade-off for any new
money.
Linda Quick, president of the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association, said the need for more
funding became even more pronounced after House Republicans blocked a plan to expand Medicaid to 1
million low-income Floridians earlier this year. The federal healthcare law also reduces some supplemental
funding hospitals now receive.
Even if that werent true, Florida will always have people who are uninsured or dont have enough insurance
coverage, Quick said. And that means hospitals and health centers will always need this supplemental money,
she said.
Unfortunately, those people are not going anywhere, and theyre not getting insurance, she said. And
therefore we need to continue to put money into the Low Income Pool.
The state is hoping the federal government will give at least conditional approval to its Medicaid waiver
renewal and funding increase by early 2014. That will allow the Legislature time to pass any laws needed to
implement it for the 2014-15 fiscal year.
House Republicans rejected Medicaid expansion largely because it relied on federal funding to reduce the
number of uninsured. Now, they may be needed to sign off on how any new dollars are allocated.
I suppose there is some sense of irony if not hypocrisy there, Quick said, that well take money with a
different title and tag on it.
-Molly McFarland
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Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi, draws criticism over Trump Group donation,WTSP
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State analysts discuss financial impact of proposed medical marijuana law, Miami Herald
Trump
Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi, draws criticism over Trump Group donation, WTSP
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - Florida's Attorney General is drawing heat from Democrats after a
group backing her re-election accepted a $25,000 donation from a Donald Trump charity group.
While New York's attorney general has sued over the seminars, only one complaint has been filed with Pam
Bondi's office since she was elected about the get-rich programs put on by organizations affiliated with
Trump. That complaint was filed in 2011 by a Delray Beach retiree who said he lost $26,000 that he paid for
a three-day seminar in which he learned nothing.
Bondi spokeswoman Jenn Meale said at the time of that complaint, officials in Bondi's office notified the man
that New York state was investigating similar complaints against "Trump University," and suggested he
contact officials in New York.
Those complaints in New York led to a lawsuit filed in August by that state's attorney general alleging that
the seminars ripped off 5,000 consumers. Meale said consumers in Florida who may have been victims of the
alleged wrongdoing would be covered under the New York suit, if the state wins.
The new controversy arose when not long after New York sued over the Trump seminars, Meale said Florida
would review that lawsuit as it does all others by attorneys general in other states. Then, a few days later, the
Donald J. Trump Foundation gave $25,000 to And Justice for All, a political committee supporting Bondi's
re-election, though it isn't part of her campaign.
The organization's treasurer, Nancy Watkins, told the Tampa Bay Times that the group was "comfortable with
the propriety of the contribution from the Trump Foundation."
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A weekend multi-agency sex sting has resulted in the arrests of 15 men on child sex charges in
unincorporated Hillsborough County.
In a news release, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Monday said the five-day operation
called Operation e-Guardian targeted child predators.
Using social media sites and online chat rooms, undercover agents communicated with the men, who
believed they were talking with a child. They drove to a specific location to have sex with whom they thought
was an underage boy or girl, the FDLE said.
Sadly, sexual predators will use any means available to them, including the Internet, to lure children in order
to exploit them, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said. This operation was a great multi-agency
collaboration that has brought down 15 child predators. My office has developed an online safety tip sheet for
parents and kids, and I encourage Floridians to visit MyFloridaLegal.com and follow the human trafficking
pages to download this information.
Special agents arrested 15 suspects from Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, Sarasota and Palm Beach
counties:
Trinton Andre Jones, 23, of Riverview
Jeffrey Bryan Willey, 53, of Riverview
Robert John Frank, 45, of Zephyrhills
Jason Randall Miles, 46, of Tampa
Ocnel Blanc, 28, of Temple Terrace
Michael William Murphy, 23, of Sarasota
Daniel R. Anderson, 37, of Tampa
Clay Lee Johnson, 25, of Thonotosassa
Clay Lee Reddick, 28, of Winter Haven
Mark Anthony Thompson, 23, of Riverview
Samuel David Ramirez, 23, of Ruskin
Bryan Lee La Clair, 51, of Bartow
Jose Ramon Alvarez III, 23, of Wellington
Branden Robert Sarno, 23, of Palm Harbor
David R. Yoder, 68, of Dade City
The operation included law enforcement officials with FDLE, along with the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office, Office of Statewide Prosecution and the State Attorneys
Office, 13th Judicial Circuit.
Operation e-Guardian is prime example of the force-multiplier of law enforcement partnerships. All
involved are to be commended, FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey said.
State analysts discuss financial impact of proposed medical marijuana law, Miami Herald
A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana is still well short of the signatures
needed to make it on the 2014 ballot. But enough people have expressed support for the referendum that a
team of state analysts has started the process of drafting the financial impact statement that would have to be
included in the ballot language.
Today's Financial Impact Estimating Conference meeting included an overview of how other states have
implemented medical marijuana laws and reviews of national studies on the topic. The analysts discussed
different ways the law could be implemented in Florida, if voters approve, and how it could affect the state's
bottom line.
For example, depending on how medical marijuana is classified, there could be new sales tax or property tax
revenue coming into the state. The law will bring new costs, as well. State agencies will have to oversee
implementation and enforcement. A representative of the Florida Sheriff's Association also warned about
increases in drug dependency and traffic crashes.
Led by prominent attorney John Morgan, supporters of medical marijuana have turned in 109,310 valid
signatures so far, according to the state Division of Elections website. They need 683,149 signatures in order
for the proposed amendment to appear on the November 2014 ballot.
Enough signatures have been turned in to trigger a review of the ballot language by Attorney General Pam
Bondi and the drafting of a financial impact statement.
That committee hopes to reach an agreement and finalize that language by Nov. 4. Their next meeting is Oct.
28 to review more information about potential costs and revenue associated with the law, as well as estimates
of the number of Floridians who would elect to participate in a medical marijuana program.
Chief state economist Amy Baker said the number will likely fall between 175,000 and 450,000 Floridians,
but additional information will help narrow the window.
The ballot initiative aims to legalize marijuana use for "individuals with debilitating diseases as determined
by a licensed Florida physician." It also would allow caregivers to legally assist these patients with using
marijuana.
Federal laws that prohibit carrying marijuana across state laws would remain in effect, and the Florida law
would not allow the use of marijuana for non-medical purposes. As the law currently reads, the state would
be solely responsible for regulating distribution centers that produce and dispense medical marijuana.
WASHINGTON -- Freddie Lee Hall has survived Floridas death row for decades since he was convicted and
sentenced for a 1978 murder.
Now the Supreme Court will use his case to judge the states strict standard for determining when a convicted
criminals mental disability is severe enough to rule out the death penalty.
On Monday, the high court announced that it will hear Halls challenge to Floridas rule that a convicted
criminal must have a tested IQ of 69 or lower in order to be deemed intellectually disabled. This
determination is a matter of life or death, as the Supreme Court has ruled previously that the intellectually
disabled formerly referred to as the mentally retarded cannot face the death penalty.
Im very pleased they will be taking the case up, Eric Pinkard, Halls Tampa-based appellate attorney, said
in a telephone interview Monday. The Florida definition leads to the possibility that the mentally retarded
will be executed.
Whitney Ray, the press secretary to Florida Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi, said in a statement that
Florida courts had found that Hall is not intellectually disabled. We will urge the U.S. Supreme Court to
uphold Halls sentence.
Pinkard argues that Floridas explicit definition, which allows the execution of someone with a tested IQ of
70 or above, fails to account for standard measurement error. The Supreme Court itself, in the 2002 decision
protecting the intellectually disabled from execution, declared that an IQ between 70 and 75 is typically
considered the cutoff score.
The sixteenth of 17 children, Hall was tortured by his mother and abused by his neighbors, according to a
1993 dissenting opinion in the Florida Supreme Court. He had an IQ of 60 and was functionally illiterate
and has the short-term memory of a first-grader, the dissenting opinion observed. In later years, though,
Halls IQ was variously measured at 71 and 73.
Unfortunately, Pinkard wrote in his petition to the high court, the human race has not developed a test for
mental retardation that is like a blood pressure machine, hooked up to a defendants arm with a (gauge) that
reads R for retarded or N for not retarded.
Pinkard is with the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, a state-funded agency whose attorneys represent
indigent death-row inmates. Their cases can take years to unfold; Pinkard has been representing Hall since
1999.
Hall and Mack Ruffin Jr. were charged in the Feb. 21, 1978, murders of Karol Lea Hurst, a 21-year-old
housewife who was seven months pregnant, and Hernando County Deputy Sheriff Lonnie Coburn. According
to a court summary, Hall and Ruffin collaborated in kidnapping Hurst in her own car from a Pantry Pride
supermarket parking lot in Leesburg, Fla. They drove to a wooded area, where, Hall told investigators, Ruffin
beat, sexually assaulted and shot Hurst.
Shortly thereafter, prosecutors say, Coburn confronted the two men, and was killed with his own gun.
Hall and Ruffin were tried separately for the Hurst murder, of which both men were convicted and received
death sentences. Ruffins sentence later was commuted to life in prison. Hall, whos now 68, is one of 405
inmates who await execution in Florida.
In addition to the intelligence test score cutoff, Florida defines intellectual disability as a condition that
appears in childhood and is accompanied by deficits in adaptive behavior, which essentially means the
ability to live independently. By one count, more than a dozen other states use an IQ score of 70 as a cutoff
point, giving the Supreme Courts ultimate ruling potentially more significance.
This is not just a single case; its not just a single state, said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the
Death Penalty Information Center. A fair number of defendants lives depend on this. This could have broad
implications.
The courts decision to hear Halls appeal means that at least four of the nine justices are interested in
revisiting a 2012 Florida Supreme Court opinion that rejected the inmates death-penalty challenge. Simply
getting this far is also a victory of sorts for Hall and Pinkard, as the U.S. Supreme Court typically agrees to
hear only about 75 cases out of the 9,000 or so petitions filed annually.
In the 2002 case, called Atkins v. Virginia, a divided court first concluded that the execution of the
intellectually disabled violated the Constitutions Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual
punishment. The courts 6-3 majority reasoned that society views mentally retarded offenders as
categorically less culpable than the average criminal.
Two of the justices who dissented in that case, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, remain on the court. A
staunch law-and-order conservative, Justice Samuel Alito, has replaced Sandra Day OConnor, who voted
with the majority in the Atkins case. A frequent swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy was a member of the
majority in 2002 that limited the death penalty.
-Molly McFarland
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Prisoners
Attorney General Bondi, FDLE Commissioner Bailey and Big Bend Crime Stoppers Offer up to $20,000 in
Total for Tips on Release of Two North Florida Inmates, Bay County Press (also in Ft. Myers News Press)
Opinions
Editorial: Bondi should demand return of $25,000 check from Trump, Palm Beach Post
Other
Prisoners
Attorney General Bondi, FDLE Commissioner Bailey and Big Bend Crime Stoppers Offer up to
$20,000 in Total for Tips on Release of Two North Florida Inmates, Bay County Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.Attorney General Pam Bondi, Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Commissioner Gerald Bailey, and the Crime Stoppers of the Big Bend today announced that they are offering
up to $20,000 in total for those who provide tips on the release of the two North Florida inmates. Attorney
General Pam Bondi partnered with Crime Stoppers of the Big Bend Executive Director Sharon Ofuani to
offer up to $10,000 for information provided to FDLE that leads to the arrest and conviction of the party or
parties that constructed the forged documents or harbored and assisted Jenkins and Walker after the escape.
This amount is in addition to the up to $10,000 that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is offering
for the same information, bringing the total up to $20,000.
The illegal operation to help release two murderers who were serving life sentences involved more than just
the prisoners, and we have partnered with the Big Bend Crime Stoppers to provide up to $10,000 to those
who come forward with information that leads to the arrest of those who helped the inmates. This money is in
addition to the up to $10,000 that FDLE is offering, stated Attorney General Pam Bondi.
This investigation is a top priority for FDLE and leads continue to come in, said FDLE Commissioner
Gerald Bailey. This reward money should entice someone to help us find answers sooner rather than later.
I am proud to collaborate with Attorney General Pam Bondi to offer up to $10,000 to those who provide tips
that lead to the arrest of those who helped the two inmates by forging documents or otherwise assisting
them, stated Sharon Ofuani, Executive Director of Big Bend Crime Stoppers.

Tallahassee, FL - Saturday night, Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins were waiting on a vehicle from Atlanta
to pick them up from a Panama City motel and take them out of state.
Instead the two convicted murderers, who were released from the Franklin Correctional Institute on forged
documents, were arrested.
"Jenkins and Walker are already serving life sentences," noted Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Commissioner Gerald Bailey. "They have very little to lose," he said. "But those who helped them have very
much to lose," Bailey added.
Bailey also revealed Jenkins tried a similar scheme in 2011 but failed.
Altogether Bailey says in the last few years, including the Jenkins and Walker case, there have been five
forged document escape atttempts from Franklin Correctional Institute, one from Gulf Correctional Institute
and one from the Pinellas County Jail.
Additionally Bailey says they found two other Franklin C.I. inmates were in the process of getting fake
release documents.
The commissioner also says it's possible there may be prisoners released on fraudulent papers they don't
know about.
"We are worried about that and we will do everything we can to confirm whether there is or is not more out
there," he said.
FDLE has seized computers and printers from Franklin C.I. and an I-Pad and cell phone from the motel
where Jenkins and Walker were captured.
The investigation is focusing on who created the forged documents and tracking those documents through the
system with a focus on one stop on their journey where the documents were mailed, the Orange County Clerk
of Court's Office.
Bailey: "There are no arrests anticipated for today."

Reporter: "There will be in the future?"
Bailey: "Yes there definitely will be in the future."
Bailey says Jenkins and Walker aren't cooperating.
FDLE, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Big Bend Crime Stoppers are offering up to $20,000 in rewards for
information leading to additional arrests.
TALLAHASSEE (The News Service of Florida) The head of the statewide law-enforcement agency said
Tuesday several suspects have been "targeted" for helping two murderers escape from prison by using forged
documents. But he added, "there is a way to go" in the investigation.
"There is still a lot we do not know and a lot we have yet to prove," Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Commissioner Gerald Bailey told reporters during a mid-day news conference.
After the news conference, Bailey said he hopes to have new information to share before he goes in front of
the Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Subcommittee in two weeks to address the escapes.
Bailey said the state is widening the scope of its investigation into how Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins,
both sentenced to life sentences for murder, were able to get out of the Franklin Correctional Institution.
The FDLE and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in conjunction with Big Bend Crime Stoppers, have each
offered rewards of up to $10,000 for information about people who helped create and submit the bogus court
paperwork for Jenkins and Walker, both 34 and from the Orlando area.
The paperwork, received in the mail by the Orange County clerk of courts, indicated Walker and Jenkins had
their life sentences reduced, earning releases.
Bondi, in a release, said an "illegal operation" aided in the escapes.
Walker and Jenkins, who were caught Saturday at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in Panama City as they
awaited someone from the Atlanta area to transport them out of state, are not cooperating with authorities.
Interviews continue with family members and friends of the inmates, Bailey said.
What the FDLE and others knew about the use of forged documents in attempted escapes is expected to be
discussed by the Senate subcommittee.
Sen. Rob Bradley, a Fleming Island Republican who is chairman of the Senate subcommittee, announced late
Sunday that he will hold a hearing on how the escapes occurred and whether there exist any other, as yet
undetected, erroneous inmate releases.
Bailey said the use of such fake documents was discussed this summer during talks between the FDLE and
state's 20 state attorneys.
"At that time it had not rose to the level that obviously this case has risen too," Bailey noted.
It remains unknown who submitted the paperwork, how Walker and Jenkins were able to travel from Franklin
County after their releases and how widespread the use of false documents has been by inmates.
"We are worried about that and we are doing everything to confirm there is not more out there," Bailey said.
Bailey said authorities know of at least five other attempted escapes using the same method of faked
documents, including two that were in process when discovered. One of the prior attempts was by Jenkins.
The attempts have occurred at the Franklin Correctional and Gulf Correctional institutions and the Pinellas
County Jail.
The first known attempt using similar faked court papers was in October 2009 in a case involving Nydeed
Nashaddai. The papers indicated charges of cashing stolen checks against Nashaddai had been dismissed.
Nashaddai was out of jail for about 16 hours before the papers were deemed false and he was apprehended.
Nashaddai was sentenced to 20 years for escape and housed at the Franklin facility.
Meanwhile, FDLE and the Department of Corrections are also combing through several years of inmate
records statewide to determine if others used fraudulent orders to con their way from behind bars.
Bailey said forensic and digital experts are reviewing the forged papers, computer equipment from the
Franklin Correctional Institution library and an iPad and mobile phone that were located in the motel room
where Jenkins and Walker were picked up.
On Monday, Ninth Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr., issued an order that changes procedures for
dealing with criminal-court documents to try to prevent any other inmates from making similar escapes.
Perry advised the Orange County and Osceola County clerks of court that "effective immediately" they must
verify with a judge or judicial assistant that an order was issued before the clerk processes and transmits the
order to the appropriate Department of Corrections facility.
Perry's directive follows letters sent Friday from the Department of Corrections to chief judges and judges in
each circuit that when an inmate's sentence is modified, the FDLE will require the judge whose name is on
the document to attest in a follow-up check to verify the change in sentencing.
Jenkins, serving a life sentence on a first-degree murder conviction from Orange County, received his release
from Franklin Correctional Institution on Sept. 27 by using fake documents that indicated his sentence had
been reduced.
Walker, serving a life sentence on a second-degree murder conviction also from Orange County, used the
same means to get out of the Franklin prison Oct. 8.
The forged documents used by Walker and Jenkins included the seal of the Orange County clerk of court's
office and signatures of numerous officials from the circuit, including Perry and Orange County State
Attorney Jeffrey Ashton.
Perry and Ashton both gained national fame through the 2011 Casey Anthony murder trial, which has made
their signatures easy to locate online due to the high-profile case.
"Absent the measure of redacting signatures and seals, cooperation between the Court and agencies to
diligently follow uniform internal policies will help to ensure verification of an entire court document as
legitimate before any action is taken," Perry wrote in his order.
Perry also ordered the clerks of court in both counties to no longer accept criminal-case orders that have been
placed in public drop-off boxes. Also, he ordered clerks and prosecutors to establish procedures to ensure the
validity of filings indicating the state is no longer pursuing or prosecuting cases.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.Attorney General Pam Bondi, Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Commissioner Gerald Bailey, and the Crime Stoppers of the Big Bend today announced that they are offering
up to $20,000 in total for those who provide tips on the release of the two North Florida inmates. Attorney
General Pam Bondi partnered with Crime Stoppers of the Big Bend Executive Director Sharon Ofuani to
offer up to $10,000 for information provided to FDLE that leads to the arrest and conviction of the party or
parties that constructed the forged documents or harbored and assisted Jenkins and Walker after the escape.
This amount is in addition to the up to $10,000 that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is offering
for the same information, bringing the total up to $20,000.
The illegal operation to help release two murderers who were serving life sentences involved more than just
the prisoners, and we have partnered with the Big Bend Crime Stoppers to provide up to $10,000 to those
who come forward with information that leads to the arrest of those who helped the inmates. This money is in
addition to the up to $10,000 that FDLE is offering, stated Attorney General Pam Bondi.
This investigation is a top priority for FDLE and leads continue to come in, said FDLE Commissioner
Gerald Bailey. This reward money should entice someone to help us find answers sooner rather than later.
"I am proud to collaborate with Attorney General Pam Bondi to offer up to $10,000 to those who provide tips
that lead to the arrest of those who helped the two inmates by forging documents or otherwise assisting
them," stated Sharon Ofuani, Executive Director of Big Bend Crime Stoppers.
Opinions
Editorial: Bondi should demand return of $25,000 check from Trump, Palm Beach Post
New York authorities dont think too highly of the financial advice doled out for years at get-rich seminars
affiliated with part-time Palm Beacher Donald Trump. Many customers who spent thousands to attend say
they were ripped off. But it seems as if The Donald himself can still spot a good investment from time to
time.
Take his foundations sudden interest in the reelection campaign of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Just
days after Ms. Bondis office announced that it might to join a lawsuit against Mr. Trump and his school, Mr.
Trumps foundation cut a $25,000 check to a Pam Bondi reelection committee.
Donald Trump Announces Major Hotel Project in Washington, D.C..

Despite the timing, the political committee found nothing amiss. It kept the money, and Ms. Bondi decided
not to participate in the lawsuit. The committees treasurer told the Tampa Bay Times that we are
comfortable with the propriety of the contribution.
Ms. Bondi does not have direct control over the committee that took the cash. But she could ask that the
money be returned to Mr. Trumps foundation, and she should. Even if the donation had no effect on her
decision regarding the lawsuit only one disgruntled Trump University customer in Florida, Charles
Jacobson, 62, of Delray Beach, reportedly has registered a complaint since Ms. Bondi took office it creates
a significant appearance of impropriety.
The lawsuit was filed in August by New Yorks attorney general against Mr. Trump and the Trump
Entrepreneur Initiative (formerly Trump University), which New York accuses of being a sham. Many
customers criticize the company and its affiliates for promising to reveal Mr. Trumps deal-making secrets but
teaching little of use. New York seeks $40 million in restitution on behalf of 5,000 customers.
Complaints about Boca Raton real estate institute draw attention to Donald Trump
Cerabino: Donald Trump has a new target for his anger
But not all Trump seminar attendees are affected. As The Posts Jeff Ostrowski reported last month, several
Palm Beach County residents who felt jilted by such seminars had paid their money to a company now out of
business called the Trump Institute of Boca Raton, which paid to license Trump Universitys name. That
shuttered company is not named in the lawsuit.
Whatever the outcome of the litigation, Floridas decision not to participate is tainted by Mr. Trumps
donation. It ought to go without saying that law enforcement officials shouldnt accept money, directly or
indirectly, from people they are investigating. Yet Ms. Bondi seems to have concluded that such lofty
principles are a bad investment .

This is a tale of two Republican governors who oppose the Affordable Care Act. One looks out for the best
interests of his state's residents, and one does not. One is pragmatic about accepting federal money to cover
the uninsured, and one is hypocritical. Guess which one is Ohio Gov. John Kasich and which one is Florida
Gov. Rick Scott.
Hint: Both governors live in states with highly ranked college football teams, but the pragmatic one lives
where it snows.
Kasich took extraordinary measures this week to win legislative approval to accept more than $2.5 billion in
federal dollars in the next fiscal year to expand Medicaid and cover 275,000 uninsured Ohioans. That makes
Ohio the 25th state to move toward accepting Medicaid expansion money, including a number of states with
Republican governors. Yet Florida sits on the sidelines because of a weak governor and a stubborn state
House speaker who places ideology above the health of the state's residents.
Florida would receive $51 billion in federal money over 10 years to cover 1 million uninsured residents if the
Legislature would vote to accept the Medicaid expansion money under the Affordable Care Act. Federal
money would cover the entire cost of the expansion for the first three years, and then the state would
gradually pick up part of the cost until it paid 10 percent. Now low-income Floridians who would be covered
by the expansion fall into a gap: They don't qualify for Medicaid, and they make too little money to qualify
for subsidies to buy insurance in the new federal marketplace. So they will continue to show up in hospital
emergency rooms for expensive charity care, and the costs are paid by taxpayers at public hospitals and by
paying patients through higher insurance premiums. Scott said Florida should take the Medicaid expansion
money, but unlike Kasich, he hasn't lifted a finger to force the issue.
One of House Speaker Will Weatherford's specious arguments against accepting the Medicaid expansion
money is that the federal government can't be trusted to pay its share and could force the state to pay more.
Yet the Scott administration wants the federal government to contribute another $2 billion a year to a
different program that helps cover health care costs for the poor and uninsured. So it's fine to seek federal
money and use it to pay for health care costs for poor Floridians as long as the money is not tied to
President Barack Obama's signature health care reform. That's the kind of pretzel logic that only makes sense
in Tallahassee.
In Ohio, the governor's office says on its website that if the state did not accept the Medicaid expansion
money, the federal money and the jobs it will create would go to other states. That is exactly what Florida is
doing by giving up billions in federal dollars and the thousands of jobs it would help create to provide health
care to residents who need it.
There is a smarter approach. Scott should prod the Legislature to accept the federal Medicaid expansion
money, and Florida does not even have to spend it on Medicaid. It could use the Arkansas model, which uses
the money to subsidize the cost of private insurance for the uninsured. Until then, uninsured Floridians who
don't qualify for Medicaid but earn too little income to qualify for insurance subsidies have a last resort:
Buy a snow shovel and move to Ohio, where the Republican governor and legislative leaders are more
compassionate and economically pragmatic than their Florida counterparts.
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DAYTONA BEACH State Attorney General Pam Bondi will be the guest speaker at a lunch forum hosted
by the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 6.
The event, which begins at noon, will be at the Ocean Center, the Volusia County-run beachside convention
center at 101 N. Atlantic Ave. in Daytona Beach.
Pam Bondi will update our community on a number of issues affecting the business community including
Affordable Care Act, efforts to halt synthetic drugs, deceptive trade practices, addressing human trafficking
as well as other topics, said Jim Cameron, the chambers senior vice president of government relations, in a
news release. It will be enlightening to hear more about her plan to create jobs and promote economic
development, he added.
The luncheon is open to the public with advance reservation. The cost to attend is $25 per person for chamber
members and $30 for non-members. Admission includes parkin and lunch catered by Ovations Food
Services. Pre-payment should be made to the Daytona Regional Chamber via check or credit card. For
reservations, call Josie Bull of the chamber at 386-523-3675 or email her at Josie@daytonachamber.com.
In a sweeping judgment in favor of Wakulla County commercial mullet fishermen, Leon County Circuit
Judge Jackie Fulford on Tuesday ordered a halt to enforcement of Floridas constitutional amendment
limiting net fishing in state coastal waters.
Fulford sided with the Wakulla Commercial Fisherman's Association, Panacea bait-and-tackle shop owner
Ronald Fred Crum and county mullet fishermen Jonas Porter and Keith Ward, who sued FWC in 2011. They
argued during a two-day hearing last year the mesh size of nets the agency forces them to use kills too many
baby fish and violates the very constitutional amendment its rules are meant to protect. Fulford, who spent a
year considering her decision, went out on the water off St. Marks last September to see for herself how the
nets worked.
Calling contradictions between the so-called net ban approved by voters in 1994 and rules adopted by the
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in 1997 to implement it a legal absurdity, Fulfords
decision is the latest turn in a 20-year legal battle that she said may only be resolved by further amending of
the constitution.
The court is not saying that preserving our marine life is absurd. Instead the absurdity is created in the law
and how it is being applied. It is abundantly unfair for the courts to continue to attempt enforcement of laws
that contradict each other, Fulford wrote in her 11-page ruling. An absolute mess has been created.
I think her order is entirely correct, not just because we prevailed, but because she has for the first time
conducted an evidentiary hearing, said Tallahassee attorney Ronald Mowrey, who represented the fishermen
and has litigated the issue for decades. The evidence was very, very clear You cant reconcile the rules
they have enacted with their legislative authority with the constitution. They are discriminating against the
mullet fishermen.
Within hours of Fulfords order, Attorney General Pam Bondis office filed on behalf of FWC a notice of
appeal of the judges decision to the 1st District Court of Appeal.
We are disappointed with the courts ruling, said FWC spokeswoman Amanda Nalley. We are appealing
because we dont think it is valid.
The appeal puts Fulfords order to not enforce the law on hold, Nalley said.
We are going to continue to enforce the law, she added.
Crum expected FWC to appeal, but he wishes the two sides could settle and work together to fix the
inconsistencies between the agencys rules and the constitutional amendment.
Weve been at this for 20 years, Crum said. I wish we could get it over with.
Mowrey said he and his clients would be happy to set aside the appeals process and try to mediate an
agreement with state officials. Alternatively, he said, the matter should immediately go to the states highest
court.
This is a major public-policy matter that needs to be addressed by the Supreme Court, Mowrey said.
At issue is an FWC rule that defines any net with a stretched mess size greater than 2 inches a gill net and
thereby illegal under Florida law. But Fulford pointed out in her forcefully worded order that under the net
ban amendment, all nets except a cast net are illegal and in fact gill, or entangle, fish.
We cannot have a provision in our Constitution which outlaws the use of all nets in fishing, except use of a
hand thrown cast net, and at the same time have rules adopted by the FWC that make exceptions to this
constitutional provision, Fulford wrote. It is also absurd that a net as defined by FWC as lawful for the
mullet fishermen to use, cannot even be used in the manner prescribed by FWC to catch fish.
-Molly McFarland
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Subject: Scott Maxwell, Trump

From:
Jenn Meale (jenn.meale@gmail.com)
To:
pambondi@yahoo.com;
Date:
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:56 PM
Request from Scott Maxwell (answer due today):

Hi Jennifer,
I was wondering if the attorney general had reached any determination about whether to join other AGs in
pursuing any action against Donald Trump and/or Trump Institute.
Additionally, I was wondering whether the Attorney General had any thoughts on the propriety of the
political committee set up on her behalf And Justice for All accepting $25,000 from the Trump
Foundation.
Elections records show Trumps foundation cut the check three days after the Sentinel quoted you saying
General Bondi was trying to decide whether to join the multi-state case.
Thanks, Scott
Scott Maxwell
407-420-6141
What we had provided to the PB Post:
Under this Administration, our office has not received any complaints.
While we have received no complaints during in this Administration, we are reviewing the
allegations of the New York complaint to see if they have any relevance in Florida.

From:
Whitney Ray (gerald.whitney.ray@gmail.com)
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Contact: Richard Burnett

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Kring/OAG@OAG, Laurie Wright/OAG@OAG, Anna Prince-Palmer/OAG@OAG

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Contact: Richard Burnett

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From: Jennifer Meale/OAG

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From: Jennifer Meale/OAG

Contact: Richard Burnett

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We have four complaints in Correspondence db on the other names, and one on a

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What years to they span, Becky?

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From: Jennifer Meale/OAG

Contact: Richard Burnett

Trump Entrepreneur Institute.

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from people who paid up to

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