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Florida Jail Workers Busted in Bribery Investigation
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1999, page 5
On Dec. 4, 1998, fourteen Miami-Dade County jail employees were indicted on state bribery charges and federal marijuana and cocaine trafficking conspiracy charges. Five other jail workers were suspended pending the outcome of internal investigations.The indictments followed a year-long probe by Miami-Dade police and the FBI that uncovered rampant …
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