Florida Bulldog

Florida Bulldog is an independent, nonpartisan online news site staffed by veteran professional journalists. We exist thanks to the public's financial support. We are a federally tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization and contributions to us are tax deductible. We hope to use your donation to hire more reporters to generate more watchdog stories.

All of our stories since we began in 2009 are online, searchable and free to the public.

Florida Bulldog began as Broward Bulldog. We changed our name to Florida Bulldog in January 2015 to better reflect the scope of our coverage. Florida Bulldog's focus is on Miami-Dade and Broward counties, although we do report news from Tallahassee and elsewhere that impacts South Florida and its residents. We are also an outlier, providing coverage of 9/11 you will find nowhere else.

Some highlights of our 2025 coverage by our small but highly experienced staff: 

• Reporter Noreen Marcus's superb and exclusive coverage of apparent corruption at The Florida Bar, including how it has protected U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials from misconduct scrutiny and, its persecution of attorney Daniel Uhlfelder for criticizing Gov. Ron Desantis's COVID policies. Noreen also documented how President Trump broke state law by not registering as a convicted feldon.
• Reporter Daniel Ducassi’s October story detailing how more than $6 billion in “emergency contracts” awarded by DeSantis are missing legally required public documentation on a state tracking website.
• Reporter Francisco Alvarado’s running coverage of the sensational Miami paternity case of Trump advisor Jason Miller, and the judicial favoritism that’s benefited Miller.
• Reporter Will Bredderman’s exclusive, penetrating reporting on Florida gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Naples, and his wife, Erika. Will’s stories were about the millions in taxpayer-financed charter school contracts that Erika Donalds collected around the state and the congressman's failure to fully disclose his wife's substantial stakes in companies that provide services to a charter school she co-founded.
• Editor/Reporter Dan Christensen's continuing coverage of the bizarre administration and preternatural good fortune of Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony to dodge accountability for ethical violations; how shortly after Trump’s inauguration Boca Raton's The GEO Group was planning for industrial scale migrant incarceration and evacuation.
• Through the efforts of Christensen and author Robbyn Swan Florida Bulldog continues to be the only U.S. publication that regularly covers developments in both the massive New York civil case against Saudi Arabia and in the field by tracking down and interviewing former federal investigators and witnesses. 60 Minutes has followed some of our reporting, including airing Saudi spy Omar Bayoumi’s so-called “casing video” of the U.S. Capitol a couple of years before the 2001 attacks. The huge story this year arrived in August when the federal judge denied the Kingdom’s motion to dismiss the multi-billion lawsuit. That is expected to open many new paths of discovery, including about what happened in Sarasota. The case is once again mired at least temporarily in appeals of the judge’s ruling.

Our 9/11 coverage began in 2011 with the disclosure of another secret FBI investigation of Saudis in Sarasota with ties to both the hijackers and the kingdom's royal family. The family fled their home two weeks before the terrorist attacks - leaving behind their cars, clothes, furniture and personal belongings. The FBI had information in its files stating that the family had "many connections" to the hijackers, yet never disclosed that to Congress or the 9/11 Commission, according to ex-Florida U.S. Sen. Bob Graham. 

Twice, we used the Freedom of Information Act to sue the Department of Justice for 9/11 records. We obtained hundreds of pages of reports, most notably a 2012 FBI summary report that disclosed the existence in 2016 of  Operation Encore, another secret FBI probe of Saudi government complicity in 9/11. Today, Operation Encore is at the center of the multi-billion dollar civil litigation in New York. In September 2021, President Biden issued an executive order requiring the FBI to conduct a declassification review of its Encore records, resulting in the release of thousands of pages previously said to be "state secrets." Those records led to numerous stories that have greatly expanded public understanding of what led up to the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.