The Icelandic hosting apparently didnt work out, and whoever controlled DC Leaks moved it to Malaysia five days later, on May 5th, where it stayed for the remainder of election season. Due to term limits, Kerner, a Democrat, and a former police officer would have to give up his seat on the county commission in 2024. Privacy Policy Sheriff Bradshaw, Lauro Diaz Face Off In The General Election, Judge Jaimie Goodman Faces A Challenge From Adam Myron, Minto Partners With Sheriffs Foundation On Off-Road Vehicle For Westlake, New PBSO Captain And PBCFR District Chief In Wellington, RPBs Tuttle Royale Project Continues To Take Shape, Fighting Northlake Annexation Tops ITIDs Agenda. While the district continues to recruit and fill vacancies within its own police force, the pending agreement with Sheriff Ric Bradshaw would provide 20 deputies and two sergeants at a cost of $100 per hour and $136 per hour . So to track down the home of someone with a confidential address in PAPA, you just had to make note of their parcel number, and then look it up in SITUS. On Feb. 13, 2016, Dougan posted the list on PBSOtalk as an Excel file named confidential addresses. Slipping into the skin of his Russian hacker persona, he explained that BadVolf was back on the hunt. We contract with an inmate health care provider and ensure that all possible CDC guidelines are followed. Were in charge of homeland security, weve fought the gangs, weve fought the opioids, were doing great with the coronavirus, helping the neighborhoods, helping the healthcare workers, feeding the people in their neighborhoods and getting them to the testing sites.. The name and address went right into BadVolfs next data dump. Sheriff Bradshaw has a successful track record of fifty (50) years in law enforcement. I am the most qualified law enforcement professional seeking office and have the proven track record to continue to lead the Sheriffs office. Bradshaw advanced to the general election after defeating retired Riviera Beach Police Major Alex Freeman in the Democratic primary. Shinjuro is an accredited domain registrar that does its own registrations). As Sheriff, I am chairman of Homeland Security for all of South Florida. In a majority-Democratic county, Bradshaw is a Democrat who enjoys support from key Republicans. Freeman knows how high a mountain hes attempting to climb. Whenever we have a bad contractor or person who attacks one of our judges or the sheriff or the state attorney, thats one of the things I do, Lewis told her. Now he has a business crafting and selling stylized computer tables with built-in high-performance computers. Bradshaw serves on regional task forces that deal with homeland security and emergency management. Raban was found in violation of 11 different department regulations and demoted. I am running for re-election to ensure the Sheriffs Office maintains this level of excellence and continues the critical safety programs needed in the fight against gangs, opioid overdose reduction, Homeland Security, mental health challenges, community policing, and advancement in technology. The couple even decided on a nickname for Dougan, Mr. That was based on the question, Who do you want to make the best decisions for your family, your neighborhood and your safety? Bradshaw told the Town-Crier. Memes And if so, what changes could be made to ensure that police are sent to where theyre truly needed? Sheriff Bradshaw has a successful track record of forty-nine (49) years in law enforcement. Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, who faced blistering criticism for granting Jeffrey Epstein liberal work-release privileges while the sex offender was serving time in the county stockade, has . In Palm Beach County there were about 4,000 homeowners availing themselves of Floridas address confidentiality laws. But now that the recordings were public by way of his BadVolf persona, he could use them freely. As a bonus, hed been treated to a full briefing on the departments quest to silence his website and throw him in jail. He was sentenced to 18 months. He has raised $680,000 compared to roughly $27,000 for his challenger, Alex Freeman. But they dont feature at all in Dougans story. The thumb drive was loaded with about 700 private emails taken from the DNC, the story goes. The mystery source handed Dougan a thumb drive, and Dougan jumped in his car and drove straight back home, racing to return to Palm Beach County before the FBI noticed he was gone. According to one report, he couldnt stand to look at PBSOtalk, so he had his people monitor the site and report daily on the latest outrage. Even as Lewis and Jessica exchanged endearments and drew plans to meet in real life, the conversation turned again and again to the topic of Lewis Great White Whale. The DC Leaks domain name was really registered two weeks after Dougans arrival in Moscow, just as in his story. A recent one took the form of a mock treatment for an imagined TV series about the West Palm Beach FBI. In 2004, Bradshaw worked hard as a sheriff to fix problems he inherited, but has now become an experienced politician and working the system to his benefit and the benefit of the democrat party, not the benefit of the community. DC Leaks published a completely different assembly of leaks, consisting primarily of a grab bag of emails and documents sourced from a GRU-linked phishing campaign earlier that year. Jack Furnari is a husband, father, entrepreneur, publisher, columnist, and former political consultant. With his shaved head and stolid build, he looked every inch a career police officer, but his eclectic job history also included stints in horse transportation and database design, and he was a licensed pilot. I said, you know what? More recently, news reports linked Freeman to the firing of a Riviera Beach city manager in an attempt to become chief. They can maybe try to say I encouraged it, but Im not worried about that. Dougan also claimed hed sold the PBSOtalk website to a Russian businessman (he changed his domain registration first, to make it look good) and that he no longer had control over what was posted there. In its broad strokes, Dougans story meshes with the superficial features of the 2016 election leaking. Four years later, Freeman was named Victims Rights Officer of the Year by Palm Beach County Victim Services. (A spokesman for the FBIs Miami office declined comment.). Staff writer Chris Persaud and researcher Melanie Mena contributed to this story. None of the DNC emails did. If so, please name them: Have you ever run for office before? I havent felt any effect from it, but just knowing it was breached its a mental thing, he says. Ric L. Bradshaw Biographical Profile and Positions on the Issues. A deputy shot Adams after a struggle outside the family business in Loxahatchee Groves in 2012. A New Decade, A New Era And A New Culture of Law Enforcement, his campaign website proclaims. As he puts it, I should not be the largest mental health provider in the county. Hes talking about the county jail, which the sheriffs office runs. He has near-universal name recognition, and he regularly raises gobs of campaign money.. I serve in this position because of my experience and the trust that I have earned from other national and regional law enforcement agencies. Lewis conferenced him in with Jessica, and Rodriguez began running through all the information hed able to get from a targets social media posts using tricks like creating fake Facebook accounts to worm into their circle of friends. Richs grieving parents have faced threats and smears for debunking the speculation, and struggle daily with what Richs mother has described as the pain and anguish that comes from seeing your murdered son's life and legacy treated as a mere political football.. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Ric Bradshaw is seeking a fifth term as sheriff of Palm Beach County. The Russian capital felt free and ungoverned, a place where you could get away with almost anything, as if the internet itself had suddenly transformed into a major metropolis. He rose through the ranks of the West Palm Beach Police Department and in 1996 was appointed Chief of Police. The Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office is comprised of 4,200 employees and approximately 5,000 volunteers. The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has come far under Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, who is seeking his fifth term. Reports of the treatment drew national scorn. Researchers see rise of 'Constitutional Sheriffs' as threat to democracy. Sheriff Bradshaw is the thirteenth sheriff to serve as the countys chief law enforcement officer since the agencys origin in 1909. Since then hed been many things to many people. The police believe it was a botched robbery, but the unsolved murder has fuelled waves of speculation that it was Rich who leaked the 44,000 DNC emails ultimately published by Wikileaks, and that he was murdered as a consequence. Russias not my fight, he explains. Another was scorched with accusations linking him to a white supremacist group, reported from a fake news site so convincing that the legitimate press picked up the false story. Our in-house medical unit all follows the same process with our correctional staff. He picked a cool hacker name inspired by his childhood love of wolves, and set up a page at a Russian web host. The election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 3 with mail-in voting getting underway in late September. Bradshaw said the PBSO staff is satisfied overall about where the department is headed. But he still did work for Sheriff Bradshaw. Weve taken significant steps to ensure that our policies are identified as best practice, but we dont stop there. Youre a big guy too!, In another call, Lewis wondered aloud why Dougan hadnt been killed yet. Bradshaw did not exaggerate during his interview with the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board that the department he took over 16 years ago was pretty much in shambles. The previous sheriff was an incompetent leader who favored buying expensive toys such as the law enforcement version of an armored personnel carrier over maintaining public safety. He panders to the leaders of the left and special interest groups. Lake Worth High School; BS degree, human resources management, with honors, Palm Beach Atlantic University; MS degree, administration, with honors, specialization in emergency management, Lynn University; Administrative Officers Course, Southern Police Institute, University of Louisville. As a police officer for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in Florida, Mark Dougan witnessed endemic corruption, misconduct, and brutality for six years. He claims the record shows otherwise only because Shinjuro outsources its domain registration service to the Romanian hosting company THCservers. What do you hear in the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, and what specifically needs to come from it? Its easy to envision Dougan bluffing his way into a meeting with an important Russian and then leaking it to a friendly gossip site, if only to make his enemies wonder. Dougan raised money to put a light aircraft in the skies over Palm Beach, a banner with an anti-Bradshaw slogan trailing behind it. This time hes claiming he had a hands-on role in the most notorious computer espionage incident in history: the 2016 leak of thousands of emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. Dougan was in Moscow in time to witness Putins landslide reelection victory this year, after his most viable opponent, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was hit with dubious fraud charges and barred from running. In May, according to Dougan, the Kremlins RT network shot video for a feature-length documentary on Dougan. Bradshaw is seeking his fifth term in the Aug. 18 Democratic. In October 2017 Dougan posted a story to one his fake news sites claiming that Ric Bradshaws second-in-command was a white supremacist nursing fantasies about killing a black man or a Jew. The post was widely circulated, and proved convincing enough that the genuine news outlet RawStory picked it up and ran with it. "I've stopped work release altogether until this whole thing has been reviewed and I may not even have work release again because my personal stance is if you get sentenced to a year in the county jail, you need to do a year in the county jailperiod.". During the last few weeks, demonstrations locally and nationwide have called attention to the issue of law enforcement reform. His biological father, Clarence Shahid Freeman, was a well-known Democratic Party political operative in the county. Internal Affairs is now investigating. I have been endorsed by each organization that has endorsed PBA, AFL CIO and local elected officials and community leaders. Chairman, Florida Sheriffs Emergency Task Force, Region 7; member, chairman, Regional Domestic Security Task Force, Region 7; FBIs Joint Terrorist Task Force Executive Board; Palm Beach County Chiefs of Police, Law Enforcement Planning Council, Police Executive Research Forum, Florida Sheriffs Association; Whos Who in Academic Excellence in America. Lewis promised to contact his technical guy, who he called probably one of the best hackers that was out there.. He could imagined how it could unfold, a sheriffs officer holding a hushed conversation with an inmate: Hey dude, well drop your charges if you kill this guy.. About the election: Early voting will be from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 3 through Aug. 16 at 18 locations; election day polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Aug. 18. It was just awful.. Ron DeSantis has ordered an investigation into Epsteins treatment, including whether the sheriff broke his own rules to give a convicted sex offender work-release. PBSOtalk.com vanished in the wake of the address leak, after a Broward County prosecutor pressured GoDaddy to take away the domain. I made it here to Russia on April 6 or 7, he says. This year, the Legislature ordered Bradshaws agency to pay $6 million of a $22.5 million verdict won by Dontrell Stephens, who was paralyzed in a 2013 shooting a federal jury deemed to be an excessive use of force. Dougans sojourns to Moscow started in February 2013. They all needed a taste of their own medicine, and he knew just how to deliver it. Jack has written for the Sun-Sentinel and the Boca Raton News. I never make decisions based on a political party to start with, and I won't going forward.". Barbera's statement said Bradshaw has. In other areas, however, Bradshaw has not embraced reform. On March 13 he sent Dougan a tranche of files over Tor, says Dougan, and Dougan agreed to put up an anonymous website to present them to the world. Since winning his first term in 2004, Bradshaw has not faced a credible opponent. It was like the Wild West meets New York City, he says. Now I see a sheriff leader in American government trying to be dictator like Stalin.. Im shocked how he is still alive., Jessica couldnt get enough of it. In 2012, Dougan revealed that Bradshaw had spent nearly $1,000 of taxpayer money taking campaign donors to lunch, a revelation that earned Bradshaw a rebuke from a state ethics commission. Once in Moscow he came to appreciate the city almost as much as the woman. The warrant sought evidence of communication between Dougan and Internet user BadVolfs Russian moniker. Still, Freeman has pounded Bradshaw for allowing Epstein to participate in it. Bradshaw is the most politically powerful persona in the county. Antisemitism has been on the minds of local authorities as the number of incidents being reported has been going up. Dougan says hes had no contact with government officials or former Kremin bigwigs since that lunch with Pavel Borodin in 2013, except for the bureaucrats who processed his political asylum request. Raban and Woodside were immediately put on administrative leave. She had a Linkedin profile and was on Facebook, but there was little else. He won temporary political asylum in February 2017, and last December the Russian government made his status permanentan honor not even granted to Edward Snowden. Southeast Regional Domestic Security Task Force, Chair, Florida Sheriffs Task Force for Region 7, Chair, FBIs Joint Terrorist Task Force, Executive Board Member, Law Enforcement Planning Council of Palm Beach County, Member, Have you ever been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime? Dougan and Bradshaw exchanged blows for years. The late sex trafficker served only 13 months of his ridiculously light, 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County Jail on work release. The Jack Report Freeman, who is Black, is making a direct play for voters questioning law enforcement these days. He could easily see being arrested now, and if he was thrown in Palm Beach County Jail he doubted hed ever make it to trial. Thats precisely what Dougan did, for every confidential address in the county. Obscure as those details are from the outside, theyd likely be well known to the person who set up DC Leaks and secured its hosting. They could find no trace of this BadVolf character in their networks. For several years in the 1980s Belle Glade was notorious for having the highest per-capita HIV infection rate in the country. All in all, a successful bit of trolling. He stepped out to investigate, and a dozen FBI agents jumped out of the car and the nearby bushes shouting at him to drop to the ground. I arrived, but the embassy was shuttered until Monday. So he came up with another plan. Weve positioned our agency on the leading edge of change and we continue to work proactively in identifying better ways of providing great service to our community. By the end of the 40-minute call Lewis and Rodriguez had agreed to do some paid freelance work on Jessicas behalf and obtain her gold-diggers private Facebook messages and web browsing history. Palm Beach County commissioners, who complain privately about the ever-increasing share of county tax money that goes to PBSO, would not deign to publicly criticize the sheriff or his spending priorities, lest they run the risk of being tarred by him as soft on crime, a brand no politician wants to sport. Thats not the kind of experience I have or ever want to have, or the kind of leader I am.. And the sheriffs office opened yet another investigation. He moved into an apartment in the western part of the city near the Moscow River and about eight miles from the Kremlin. We Cannot Allow the Left to Destroy Palm Beach County, Zero Evidence of Threats to Palm Beach County School Board, Four Florida State Reps Didnt Vote on Abortion Bill Dont Let Them Get Away With It, Even a Federal Judge Thinks Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer is a Liar, Palm Beach County Bob Weinroths Bid for School Board Seat off to Shaky Start, Jolt Media, Inc. | PO Box 810967, Boca Raton, FL 33481. In short, we have demonstrated our ability to make needed changes quickly and most of our policies/practices are established well before we encounter a crisis or have to navigate through challenging times. In October 2017 Dougan posted a story to one his fake news sites claiming that Ric Bradshaw's second-in-command was a white supremacist nursing fantasies about killing "a black man or a Jew . Jan 2005 - Present18 years 4 months. For someone who claims to dislike politics, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw has made himself into a political force. Education: Bachelor's in human resources management, Palm Beach Atlantic University; master's in administration, Lynn University, Political: Elected sheriff of Palm Beach County in 2004; reelected in 2008, 2012, 2016. "Let me make this cleareven though the court changed the way the elections system is, the court hasn't changed the way I will do business. A former Marine gunner, Dougan wanted to do real police work, make arrests, solve crimes and help people. His first job in law enforcement was on a small-town police force in Mangonia Park, Florida, where he distinguished himself by writing more traffic tickets than the other 11 officers combined. He told Jessica that Borodin was related to a shadowy figure called Flyman. For about a decade ending in 2007, Flyman had led the Russian Business Network, a notorious cybercrime group that operated its own server farm. There are calls that can be answered by civilians. DeSantis' move comes as Sheriff Ric Bradshaw has come under increasing scrutiny for his decision in 2008 to give Epstein, . Little was known about BadVolf. In the powerful position of state property manager he effectively reigned over billions of dollars in Russian assets, and paved the way for Vladimir Putins rise by appointing Putin as his deputy in 1996. Sheriff Bradshaw was first elected to office in the first year that the race was non-partisan, 2004. Some of the protesters who hit the streets this spring in the aftermath of the Floyd killing complained that Bradshaws deputies were less willing to work with them than were West Palm Beach police. The details are under seal, but an arrest warrant was issued, and Dougan is now officially a fugitive. Do PBSOs hiring practices need to be changed? Finally, on Dec. 29, 2008, Dougan resigned from the force, firing off a flurry of pseudonymous emails to department brass on his way out, with screenshots of the Facebook posts and a photo of Raban in his punishment cap. Former West Palm Beach police chief. The change came about this year, when the Florida Supreme Court ruled in a case involving Orange County that state election law prevents counties from deciding to hold nonpartisan elections. I am the only candidate who has the qualifications, experience and professionalism to lead the largest law enforcement agency in the county and continue to retain our countys position as the seat of Homeland Security for southeast Florida. State law already creates a process for this where deputies have a review board they go in front of. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office just issued the following statement: "On May 3, 2022, Sheriff Bradshaw, under advice from his doctors, elected to go forward with a heart procedure . The book offers a bold twist to the BadVolf mythos, one hes begun peddling on conspiracy-themed YouTube interview shows and podcasts, where he receives a warm and credulous welcome. Last year, Palm Beach County prosecutors charged Dougan with extortion and wiretapping, the latter presumably for recording the Jessica calls. Developers, police unions and even County Commissioner Hal Valeche and commission candidate Maria Sachs have given at least $1,000. Youd think they would give you some kind of warning so you could be more on alert., A retired cop says he knew about the incident from news reports, but did not know that his name and address were on the list until contacted by The Daily Beast. As an Accredited Excelsior Agency, we are deeply committed to providing the highest quality of service possible. He arrived at the inescapable conclusion that the entire American system was broken, from street cops like Raban to the FBI to the judges overseeing it all. JW Marriott Tampa Water Street There must be real news with real photos on the front of the site so the fake story blends in and becomes believable.. On January 4, 2005, Sheriff Bradshaw was sworn in as Sheriff of Palm Beach County. Bradshaw took 61 percent of the vote to Freemans 39 percent. Through July 25, Bradshaws reelection campaign had pulled in a massive haul of $692,658 about 23 times the amount Freemans campaign has raised. The best known victim of that attack was John Podesta, and a handful of documents from Podestas Gmail account appeared on the site four months before WikiLeaks published the whole inbox. All rights reserved. Further discussion is warranted on this issue. She broke into an elaborate story about a suspicious woman whod become involved with her wealthy father, and asked Lewis if he could help investigate the woman. Population: 1,492,191 Palm Beach County Sheriff candidates Ric Bradshaw and Alex Freeman. As far as Dougan was concerned, they were all culpable. He also wants to teach and raise awareness about scams and identity theft, ensure fiscal accountability by seeing that tax dollars are spent responsibly on programs that improve the safety of all citizens, and keep citizens informed and updated on all threats and emergencies. Seven months later, an Internal Affairs probe concluded there was no excessive use of force by the men. During a recent town hall event to tackle the subject, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw was asked how bad the situation is locally. If the contract makes it difficult for supervisors to discipline officers, what can and should the sheriff do? In an interview with detectives, Lewis said the recordings had been modified to put words in his mouth, though in the same interview he claimed not to have listened to them. He was also a tech-savvy trickster afflicting his enemies with a plague of social engineering attacks. Total of 49 years in law enforcement; West Palm Beach Police Department: road patrol officer; detective sergeant, lieutenant, captain, major; assistant chief of police, chief of police,1996; elected Sheriff of Palm Beach County, 2004; reelected 2008, 2012 and 2016, and 2020. But the independent Maine Human Rights Commission ruled that Dougan did indeed sexually harass Nelson, and in January 2013 Nelsons lawsuit against the town of Windham was settled out of court on undisclosed terms. If you looked up one of those people in the countys property tax database, called PAPA, you could see the appraised value of their home and the size of their lot, but the street address field would contain only the words Confidential Record and some asterisks for emphasis.
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