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Scott voices displeasure after FDLE clears three justices

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Friends of Florida Courts

TALLAHASSEE — Florida investigators have cleared three state Supreme Court judges of violating any state law when they used court employees to help prepare election documents needed to qualify for their merit retention votes this fall.

And that result apparently doesn’t sit well with Gov. Rick Scott, who sought the Florida Department of Law Enforcement inquiry, and on Thursday released a sardonic response to its findings.

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