News Source: Miami Herald
| 22 days ago
State Sen. Dan Gelber says the proposed anticorruption package he unveiled earlier this week is more vital than ever in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of possible fraud by the board that oversees the state pension...
News Source: Palm Beach Post
| 23 days ago
Fla. — Two top Florida Democrats want changes to the makeup of the board that oversees Florida's $130 billion investment portfolio now under scrutiny from the U.S...State Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, said Friday he wants Florida's agriculture...
News Source: Sun Sentinel
| 23 days ago
The news release from April 2008 issued a steely warning to rogue and abusive debt collectors. The state, it announced, had just won a $1.3 million verdict against a Jacksonville company that harassed people and lied to them while trying to collect. "...
News Source: Reuters
| 23 days ago
U.S. federal regulators have launched a fraud investigation into the state agency that runs Florida's $110 billion pension system and another fund hit by a 2007 depositors run, according to government documents. Documents from the U.S. Securities...
News Source: The Florida Times-Union
| 23 days ago
The federal investigation centers on whether the state and three Wall Street giants misled the public about the risk and liquidity of some of the SBA's investments. The three firms that sold the troubled securities to the state are JPMorgan Chase,...
News Source: The Orange County Register
| 23 days ago
The Florida agency that manages $132 billion in pension and local government investments is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission...Petersburg Times reported Friday that the Florida State Board of Administration has been...