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#Florida

22 entries

People (10)

  • Alexander Lightner Alexander Lightner is a Venice, Florida Terrorgram Collective member who threatened a mass casualty event in a private Terrorgram chat in December 2023, was arrested by the FBI in January 2024, and was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a self-made firearm silencer.
  • Cindy Hanin Bentov Florida-born Mossad agent Cheryl Hanin Bentov, who under the name Cindy lured Mordechai Vanunu from London to Rome in September 1986, identified by the Sunday Times through a London hotel register.
  • Claude Kirk Governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971 who put George Wackenhut and his company's detectives in charge of a war on crime paid for by private donors, which the FBI refused to recognize.
  • George R. Wackenhut FBI agent from 1951 to 1954 who founded the Wackenhut Corporation, kept files on 2.5 million people, held a CIA covert security approval, and ran Florida's privately financed war on crime in 1967.
  • Gerard John Schaefer Martin County, Florida, deputy sheriff convicted in 1973 of two murders and linked by recovered possessions to at least six missing women, and by one account a Wackenhut security guard in 1970.
  • Hank Messick Miami Herald crime reporter fed leads by the FBI, who joined Wackenhut's Florida crime war in December 1966 and quit after six weeks calling it a cruel hoax upon the people of Florida.
  • Henry Skip Clements Henry T. 'Skip' Clements was a private consultant in Stuart, Florida who obtained copies of U.S. Customs Agent Ramon Martinez's 1987 reports on The Finders and brought them to Congress in October 1993, helping trigger the DOJ reinvestigation of the case.
  • Ron DeSantis Governor of Florida since 2019, formerly a congressman, who in August 2019 reassigned the state's Jeffrey Epstein matter and ordered a state police inquiry that in 2021 found differential treatment but no crime.
  • Tom Lewis Thomas F. Lewis (1924-1998) was a Republican congressman from Florida who, along with Rep. Charlie Rose, received documents from private consultant Henry 'Skip' Clements in October 1993 and applied pressure to the DOJ that helped trigger the reinvestigation of The Finders case.
  • Walter Kreitlow Walter Kreitlow was the U.S. Customs Special Agent in Tallahassee who filed the first Customs Service report on the Finders investigation on February 12, 1987, documenting his agency's entry into the case following the February 4 child welfare arrests.

Organizations (3)

  • Adelphi Academies Adelphi Academies was a private children's school in Florida owned by a wealthy individual named Peter Bradford.
  • Florida Department of Law Enforcement Florida's statewide law enforcement agency, which Governor Ron DeSantis directed in 2019 to investigate the state's handling of Jeffrey Epstein, and which reported in 2021 differential treatment but no crimes.
  • Regeneration Technologies Florida tissue processor that bought tissue from Biomedical Tissue Services, including bones taken from Alistair Cooke, and merged with Tutogen Medical in 2008 to form RTI Biologics.

Events (2)

  • 2017 Tampa Atomwaffen Murders On May 19, 2017, AWD member Devon Arthurs killed two fellow members at a shared Tampa apartment, triggering the first national exposure of Atomwaffen Division and leading directly to founder Brandon Russell's first federal arrest.
  • Bollea v. Gawker Bollea v. Gawker Media was the 2016 Florida invasion-of-privacy trial in which Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) won a 140 million dollar verdict against Gawker Media over its 2012 publication of a sex tape, a judgment secretly funded by Peter Thiel that drove Gawker into bankruptcy and ended the outlet.

Places (7)

  • 358 El Brillo Way Waterfront Palm Beach mansion owned by Jeffrey Epstein where the 2005 Palm Beach Police Department investigation began after a parent reported that her teenage stepdaughter had been molested there.
  • Coral Gables, Florida City adjoining Miami that was the headquarters of the Wackenhut Corporation and the site of an ITT public relations office about which the Watergate special prosecutor questioned the CIA in 1973.
  • Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach estate built for Marjorie Merriweather Post, briefly federal property, bought by Donald Trump in 1985, where Virginia Giuffre worked when recruited for Jeffrey Epstein and the FBI searched in 2022.
  • Miami Major South Florida city that became the center of the Nicaraguan exile community, a hub for Contra fundraising and cocaine trafficking, and Danilo Blandón's base after leaving Los Angeles.
  • Opa Locka Opa Locka was a location in the Miami area connected to Contra operations and aircraft used in the drug trafficking and weapons supply network.
  • Palm Beach, Florida Barrier-island town in Palm Beach County, Florida, incorporated in 1911, home of Mar-a-Lago and of Jeffrey Epstein's house at 358 El Brillo Way, where the 2005 police investigation of Epstein began.
  • Tampa, Florida Gulf coast city in Florida where the 1988 Operation C-Chase indictment of BCCI was brought, and whose federal prosecutors the Senate found had missed the bank's wider crimes.