FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony hadn’t withheld vital information from state law enforcement forms that would have revealed he was involved in a fatal shooting when he was a teenager, his attorney argued to a state ethics commission.
The commission found probable cause to pursue an ethics case against the sheriff anyway, for the second time in recent months.
“Could things have been done differently, could things have been done better? Probably. Most likely. But that’s not what’s before this commission,” Tony’s attorney Louis Jean-Baptiste argued, saying the sheriff hadn’t used his office for personal benefit.
