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In the United States, a special counsel (formerly called special prosecutor or independent counsel) is a lawyer appointed to investigate, and potentially prosecute, a particular case of suspected wrongdoing for which a conflict of interest exists for the usual prosecuting authority.
Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, 512 U.S. 136 (1994). In the Ibanez case, the Florida State Board of Accountancy held that a CPA who was also a lawyer was prohibited from disclosing on her law firm letterhead that she was also a CPA, and the First District Court of Appeal "per curiam affirmed" the decision.
In federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida, Trump's lawyers argued that an officer like the special counsel must be appointed “by law” and that the special counsel should be categorized as a ...
The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority comes from four federal statutes: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
In August 2022, DeSantis removed Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, and a year later, he fired Monique Worrell, who was state attorney of Florida’s Ninth District, which includes ...
In January 2025, Jack Smith provided the report to the attorney general (as he is required to do by law) [51] and resigned his role of special counsel before Donald Trump took office. [52] A 137-page part of the report about the election subversion case was publicly released. [ 53 ]
Florida's highest court on Thursday rejected an effort by a suspended state attorney to get reinstated after she was removed from office last year by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in his second ...
Andrew Howard Warren (born 1977) is an American prosecutor and politician who served as the state attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, covering Hillsborough County, from 2017 through 2025. In August 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended Warren. On June 22, 2023, the Florida State Supreme Court dismissed a suit filed ...