Five Florida judges were recently reprimanded for favoring one child welfare agency over another in a $500 million state contract, which is now before the Supreme Court. Our Kids Miami-Dade Monroe Inc. was the agency of choice, who has held the contract with the state since former Governor Jeb Bush doubled funding for privatized foster care. This tight knit group of “child advocates” spearheaded the efforts to airlift hundreds of Haitian children to Florida in the immediate aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
• The judge who penned the letter to DCF favoring Our Kids in a bid for a $500 million contract, also went to bat for them back in 2004.
• Foster children in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties have been moved as many as 10-20 times, and 25 children were moved to more than 80 foster homes.
• Just one week after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, then Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Family Services George Sheldon, initiated the plan to airlift nearly hundreds of Haitian children over to Florida, ‘Our Kids’ and the Miami Archdiocese simultaneously got on board, Janet Napolitano lifted visas, Joe Biden visited the Miami Archdiocese, and Sheldon landed himself the position of Acting Assistant Secretary for Children & Families with HHS.
In May 2019, five South Florida judges of the 11th Circuit Unified Children’s Court faced charges for favoring a company in a competitive bidding process for the Florida Department of Children and Families. The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission determined that they had violated Florida’s Code of Judicial Conduct and recommended a public reprimand by publication, but Florida Supreme Court has the final word of judicial discipline, which is still pending. They were favoring child welfare agency Our Kids Miami-Dade Monroe, Inc. over Citrus Health Network, Inc. in a 5-year $500 million contract with the Department of Child Services for foster care and adoption services. Our Kids had held the contract for over a decade.
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5 Florida Judges Reprimanded in $500 Million Child Welfare Agency Conflict
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This is what Florida has degenerated to. I lived there in the 60s-70s when it had two big booms and even then it was a haven for the wealthy…very low wages, cheap housing and plentiful work force. There was corruption as in any state, but it was centered in the Miami Cuban section and at least then they tried to keep it on the QT. Now? In the last 30 years it has become ‘in your face’, state-wide, we don’t give a shit if you know, corruption as a business and government model entity. One can see the changes if one visits every 5/10 years…they are quite visible and unapologetically in your face bold. The police are incredibly corrupt and only in the last few years have there been any response to their criminality…which only happened after some wealthy voters were victimized. The biggest trend in Florida?…gated communities. What does that tell you?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have recordings of all the judges laughing at American fools who gave them legal immunity for their corrupt decisions behind closed doors? Well Engineer Earl Carey effectively did that with his great book “IBM and the Corruption of Justice in America”, 1992. He lists 42 federal judges by name and location who blatantly violated the rules and law they took a meaningless oath to follow. Judges and lawyers are less than human monsters who would sell out their own grandmothers if the opportunity came. Every day these expletives deleted have a good laugh at American idiots. One can be sure nothing wil come of these in Florida either.
Stupid Americans love to be fleeced and had every day by the whorehouse of lying lawyers.
bla bla bla nothing will happen !
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