Watchdog Report Vol.21 No.44 August 1, 2021 EST:05.05.00 – I go virtual when you cannot – Celebrating 21-years of weekly free publishing
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Vol. 21. No. 52 August 1, 2021
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CONTENTS
Argus Report: Could undersea internet cables become a strategic threat to nation’s security? China laying them throughout the world, says Cyber Command Dr. Gen. Paul Nakasone, at congressional hearing Monday.
Florida: Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman presiding over the litigation of the Champlain towers collapse is in the spotlight this week., jurist net worth for last year was $29 million, up from year before $28 million net state ethics commission documents and IRS 1040
Miami-Dade County: JHS CEO Migoya at a PHT board meeting Tuesday notes there are still “500,000,” residents still unvaccinated in Miami-Dade, Doral West new hospital is “one year away from completion,” “he tells board and completes the Making Miracles bond projects under budget.
Public Health Trust: JHS CEO Migoya at a PHT board meeting Tuesday notes there are still “500,000,” residents still unvaccinated in Miami-Dade, Doral West new hospital is “one year away from completion.” “He tells board and completes the Making Miracles bond projects under budget.
City of Miami: Will Miami crypto coin move go the way of the 1970s Pyramid scheme parties?
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ARGUS REPORT – Heard, Seen on the Street
>>> Could undersea internet cables become a new strategic threat to nation’s security? China laying them throughout the world, says Cyber Command Dr. Gen. Paul Nakasone, at congressional hearing Monday.
With all the cyber-attacks hitting abroad swath of industries and public infrastructure the U.S. is beefing up its capabilities, but at a congressional hearing Monday the Dir. Gen. Paul Nakasone said the command regarding IT relies on contractors and the federal government must compete for this talent with private industry and the house committee hearing even suggested is their n need for a new service academy focused on IT?
Nakasone said, “Cyber Command,” has “6,000, linguists,” and languages include “Chinese, Russian, and Arabic,’ he testified.
However, a new challenge facing the nation is undersea internet cables that could be used by an adversary for the internet if the nations satellites were disabled potentially by the Chinese. For more go to: https://jsis.washington.edu/eacenter/2017/02/06/cybersecurity-implications-chinese-undersea-cable-investment/
>>>PAST WDR: ID theft trajectory off the charts, community exports some of these scams around the nation, says U.S. Atty. Ferrer, in the past
U.S. Atty Wilfredo Ferrer and his agents have busted again a large identity theft network stealing people’s social security numbers and it is a booming fraud industry in South Florida and people even have Tupper wear recruitment like parties where people from doctors’ offices and other health care providers pay the people up to $500. For each patient file and these thieves once they get this information are stealing at average from 193 people or 1000,000 residents state’s The Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article10909865.html and here is another story on the widespread scam http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article17932964.html that has other U.S.U.S. ATTY’s from around the nation contacting Ferrer’s office after people from Miami pop up around the United States and we actually “export this fraud,” around the nation,: and the issue has been extensively reported in past Watchdog Reports since around 2003 and over those years only Medicare Fraud has eclipsed most of the other scams that included mortgage fraud, another high volume local fraud and Miami persistently ranks number one around the nation in these destructive scams that morph so quickly that federal authorities can barely keep up with the scams and is why South Florida has such a high number of the nation’s FBI Special Agents and two details of the federal agents are assigned to the Medicaid Fraud Task Force that was started back in 2003.
FLORIDA
>>> Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman presiding over the litigation of the Champlain towers collapse is in the spotlight this week., jurist net worth for last year was $29 million, up from year before $28 million net state ethics commission documents and IRS 1040
What do we know about his finances?
Hanzman’s disclosures were benign, and he includes his IRS 1040 which is the gold standard re transparency, and he wants to give those affected by the Champlain Tower disaster what the property owners and deceased deserve financially since the property has some $150 million in value but there are conflicting opinions on what should be on the site. Hanzman is also a University of Florida law grad. And has worked at various law firms before his election to the bench.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
>>> JHS CEO Migoya at a PHT board meeting Tuesday notes there are still “500,000,” residents still unvaccinated in Miami-Dade, Doral West new hospital is “one year away from completion,” “he tells board and completes the Making Miracles bond projects under budget.
The county is still reeling from the uptick in Delta COVID -19 patients and has JHS CEO Carlos Migoya at Tuesday’s PHT board meeting that the virus patient population is “quadruple.’ though they are seeing a slowdown and increase the last few days, Migoya told the board. He also noted with COVID some “500,000,” people are still unvaccinated he said. JHS is also not seeing the “500 patient level yet.” He also continues to ask the public and health trust employees to get vaccinated since they have, the same challenges before with exhausted staff.
>>>Last week’s WDR: Velocity of Covid-19 Delta variant is visible by rise in cases at JHS from “60 to 70 a day,” to “50 to 198,” patients in only Three weeks. “says, CEO Migoya, as new Columbian variant accounts for “two percent,” of new cases.
The Watchdog Report was shocked after JHS VP Don Steigman at a recent trust board meeting said that the public health system was seeing “60 to 70,” Covid patients a day but that number soared only days later and the system went from “yellow,” to now red. JHS CEO Carlos Migoya in the media said thy went to “50 to 108 patients in only three weeks,” said Migoya on “This Week In South Florida.”
The velocity of the Delta variant is sweeping through south Florida and the former banker noted, the health system is seeing “49 percent are Delta variant patients, “unvaccinated and a new Columbian variant has come to Jackson Health System with “2 percent,” having such a variant and is a new challenge local health system will be facing. Migoya also noted “89 percent of the hospital’s physicians are vaccinated.” And Migoya called the situation as a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” He also noted Covid at its peak at Jackson. There were “500 covid patients,” and they never want to have to deal with such volume ever again.
The nation and world is still gripped with the collapse of the Champlain Tower condo that has killed 94 residents and 97 are missing, and the tragic event highlighted the professionalism of Miami-Dade County’s fire fighters and police and having a regional size force versus just municipalities. However, everyone knows someone that lives in a condo, and many are looking at their own condo’s infrastructure, that had a building siding collapse in Kendall, recently and that anxiety is adding a new wrinkle when someone is buying a condo in an ocean front building.
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