Michael Biesecker

November 29, 2017 | Daily Business Review

After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs.

By Tami Abdollah and Michael Biesecker

12 minute read

September 12, 2017 | Daily Business Review

State and federal environmental regulators issued a blanket waiver for Florida electricity companies to violate clean air and water standards without penalty for the next two weeks.

By Michael Biesecker

3 minute read

April 12, 2017 | Daily Business Review

As a top aide to Florida's attorney general, Carlos G. Muniz helped defend the office's decision to sit out legal action against Trump University. Now the president is naming him to be the top lawyer in the U.S. Education Department.

By Michael Biesecker and Gary Fineout

10 minute read

September 07, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Donald Trump spoke to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi before his charity cut a 2013 check to support her re-election effort, but his campaign said Tuesday the two never discussed whether her office would join a lawsuit against Trump University.

By Michael Biesecker

6 minute read

March 20, 2014 | Daily Report Online

An Army general who carried on a three-year affair with a captain and had two other inappropriate relationships with subordinates was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay Thursday, avoiding jail time in one of the military's most closely watched courts-martial.

By Jeffrey Collins and Michael Biesecker

6 minute read

March 07, 2014 | Daily Report Online

On the verge of tears, the captain whose sexual assault accusations triggered the prosecution of an Army general took to the witness stand Friday, testifying that the two had frequent trysts and that she thought her commander's wife knew about her.

By Michael Biesecker

5 minute read

March 06, 2014 | Daily Report Online

As his court-martial got underway, an Army general accused of sexual assault pleaded guilty to three lesser charges Thursday, hoping his admission will strengthen his case by limiting some of the salacious evidence against him.

By Allen G. Breed and Michael Biesecker

5 minute read

June 13, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Federal prosecutors have filed an order dismissing the remaining criminal charges against John Edwards.

By Michael Biesecker

1 minute read

May 31, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A mistrial has been declared in the campaign fraud trial against ex-presidential candidate John Edwards.

By Michael Biesecker

1 minute read

March 09, 2012 | Daily Report Online

RALEIGH, N.C. AP - A well-known Charlotte defense lawyer has plans to withdraw from the team representing John Edwards weeks before the scheduled start of his criminal trial.Jim Cooney filed the request in U.S. District Court on Thursday. He declined to comment Friday.Cooney has advised Edwards on the case since well before the former presidential was indicted last summer and has appeared in court during numerous pre-trial proceedings.

By Michael Biesecker

2 minute read