Jussie has hired Michael Monico as his defense attorney.

Monico also represents Michael Cohen.

Yes, Michael Cohen, and yes, Monico's a defense attorney.

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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/g00/news/politics/fl-ne-desantis-school-board-options-20190213-story.html?i10c.ua=1&i10c.encReferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL0ZlZTJ1Uk1HbGY%3d&i10c.dv=5

The last time a statewide grand jury poked around into the Broward County school system, it issued a scathing report detailing corruption and mismanagement and lamented it couldn’t abolish the entire school board.

Former Gov. Charlie Crist requested a statewide grand jury investigation in 2010 in response to high-profile corruption arrests in South Florida, a far different situation from the grand jury proposed Wednesday.

The report blasted the Broward district for mismanagement and corruption, detailing how some board members directed contracts to friends, pushed unnecessary building projects and schemed to get the children of friends and family into specific schools.

A Florida Department of Law Enforcement report provided to the grand jury even exposed the steamy secrets of the board chairwoman’s private life, revealing how she engaged in romantic affairs with two men working for a company seeking business with the district.

The grand jury found “malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance” by the board members and senior managers, concluding it would abolish the board if it had the power.

Superintendent Robert Runcie, who took over after the investigation ended, vowed to eradicate the mismanagement, corruption and fraud.

“The game’s over,” he said at the time. “There’s a new sheriff in town.”

Now, Runcie’s district could be the center of a new statewide probe into the handling of school safety funds. Gov. Ron DeSantis has petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to appoint a statewide grand jury to investigate school district operations.

Florida law gives the grand jury a variety of tools to root out corruption and mismanagement. It can subpoena documents and witnesses and return indictments. It also can make recommendations that could sway lawmakers to act.

During the last probe of the Broward district, the panel met in secret for a year, reviewed hundreds of documents and took widespread testimony reaching from School Board members to school principals and secretaries.

While the grand jury released a scathing report, it did not indict anyone. The grand jury was set up to indict people only for actions stretching across more than one county.

However, in September 2009, the FBI nabbed former board member Beverly Gallagher in an undercover operation, and she was sentenced to three years in prison. Another former board member, Stephanie Kraft, was sentenced to five years of probation in 2014.

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