“So, one of two things will happen:

Either Bondi’s office will aggressively stand up for consumers, making the bad guys pay — no matter whose feathers it ruffles.

Or it will resort to the pulled-punches approach to watchdogging that many Floridians have come to expect from attorneys general, present and past — the kind where inflammatory press releases bashing other politicians make more headlines than crusades against the powerful on behalf of the meek.”

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Attorney general’s ouster of 2 top investigators raises troubling questions

A few months ago, two of Florida’s assistant attorneys general were blowing the lid off foreclosure fraud in this state.

They were turning up evidence of bogus paperwork, exposing the law firms and lenders at fault — and making them pay.

If the world of investigatory accounting had rock stars, Theresa Edwards and June Clarkson were Beyonce and Lady Gaga.

Right up until they were ousted, anyway.

At the height of their popularity, when Edwards and Clarkson were generating national headlines — and making profiteers nervous — Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office asked them to leave.

So said Edwards, who recalled: “Our director called us in at 3:30 one Friday afternoon and said: ‘You can either resign today, or you’re going to be fired.'”

Check out the rest here…

You can listen to a podcast of part of the interview here…

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