Miami Herald • 28th February 2020

Being well connected meant a $7.5 million payday for the head of this Florida nonprofit

Few government contractors could orchestrate getting the $7.5 million compensation package the head of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence managed to obtain for three years of work, but Tiffany Carr did it by leveraging connections.

Miami Herald • 24th September 2019

Cashing in on state contracts becomes growth industry

The largest share of Florida's budget is outsourced to contractors who also write checks to lawmakers. It's a trend that has grown exponentially in the past two decades as governors and legislators have steered a greater share of the state’s budget to outside vendors.

miamiherald • 31st July 2019

DeSantis signs bill eliminating law that shielded Rick Scott’s investments

The law that allowed millionaire former Gov. Rick Scott to create a blind trust to shield his investments from public disclosure was quietly wiped from the books in June by his successor, Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Miami Herald • 29th September 2017

Florida’s new utility regulator routinely listed meals as 'fundraisers' as industry paid

The former state legislator and Uber driver Gov. Rick Scott named to regulate the state’s utilities used his clout to block efforts to put a measure on the 2014 ballot to make it easier for businesses to install solar panels — the same month he partied with a Duke Energy lobbyist — and routinely used his political committee to finance daily meals and expenses.

Miami Herald • 24th March 2017

Adam Putnam and the $75,000 a month consulting firm

Before he ran for governor, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam steered $1.8 million to his political consultant, raising legal issues about whether the report is in compliance with state campaign finance law that requires all major expenditures to be reported, and federal tax law, which requires that political committees disclose the campaigns for which they are operating.

miamiherald • 27th January 2018

How a little-known 1997 sexual harassment case served as a warning to the Senate

We found the only recorded payment against the Florida Legislature for a sexual harassment claim and it became the precedent for a settlement signed in December 2018.

miamiherald • 28th January 2018

Do private prisons save money as promised? Maybe not, but Legislature keeps approving

Gov. Rick Scott's promise that private prisons would save money have never materialized, according to audits done by state legislator and offered exclusively to the Miami Herald. We use the story as a way to give readers another window into the political influence of Florida's private prison industry.

miamiherald • 27th January 2018

New DEP secretary says there’s no conflict in political side businesses

The head of the state's environmental regulatory agency and his wife run a political consulting business on the side, making money off many of the same people who need Gov. Rick Scott's help.

miamiherald • 27th January 2018

Investigation concludes Florida Sen. Jack Latvala’s conduct may be criminal

On deadline reporting of the release of the Senate investigation into sexual harassment allegations against one of Florida's most powerful politicians.

miamiherald • 27th January 2018

Documents reveal secret Florida Senate process to draw district maps

In an exclusive report, we were the first to reveal documents that detailed the Republican effort to circumvent Florida's new redistricting laws and create Republican-leaning maps.

miamiherald • 27th January 2018

Code of silence is breaking on Tallahassee’s sex secrets

I anchored a deep look into how sex has been used as a tool and a weapon for the politically powerful in Florida’s capital city.

miamiherald • 27th January 2018

Sugar’s decades-long hold over Everglades came with a price

After plotting the key decision points related to the struggle to clean polluted water from the Florida Everglades, a pattern emerged. It became this story.

miamiherald • 27th January 2018

How sleuths decoded redistricting conspiracy

After a landmark court ruling that threw out Florida's congressional redistricting map, we peeled back the evidence in an exclusive report to show how the plaintiffs figured out that Republican operatives had fixed the maps to favor their candidates.