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Federal prosecutor found dead along the beach (Hollywood, FL)
Miami Herald ^ | May 25, 2017 | JAY WEAVER

Posted on 05/25/2017 4:46:22 PM PDT by maggief

A federal prosecutor who worked at the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami has been identified as the man found dead along Hollywood beach this week in a case being investigated as a crime.

Hollywood police confirmed that the deceased man is Beranton J. Whisenant Jr., 37, and that he may have suffered a head wound caused by a possible gunshot or other type of trauma.

“The investigation is still very preliminary,” Hollywood Police Department spokeswoman Miranda Grossman said, adding that detectives and the Broward medical examiner are “still looking at it.”

The FBI’s Miami office said it was aware of Whisenant’s death but referred questions to Hollywood police.

Normally, if the death of a federal prosecutor or agent were retaliatory in nature or related to a criminal case, both the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office would be sounding the alarm and pursuing an aggressive investigation.

Whisenant, who was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2004 after graduating from the University of Florida law school, joined the U.S. attorney’s office earlier this year and worked in the major crimes section.

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Whisenant worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami in its major crimes unit. He had joined the office in January. Court records show he had been handling several visa and passport fraud cases.

1 posted on 05/25/2017 4:46:22 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief; null and void

In before the Demoncrats scream “Stop politicizing this murder!”

Well, IF he was murdered....Nully, I need fresh foil.....there’s too much happening....


2 posted on 05/25/2017 4:50:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: SaveFerris

Where were Podesta and Donna Brazile?


3 posted on 05/25/2017 4:51:42 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: maggief
“When the tide came in he obviously was caught in the surf and tumbling, about a 35-year-old African-American man, very well dressed wearing a sort of a casual business shirt, black pants, and all of his personal effects were on him and that's what we found unusual,” resident Bill Renick said.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Body-Believed-to-Be-Federal-Prosecutor-Found-on-Hollywood-Beach-424403304.html#ixzz4i8am0rH0


4 posted on 05/25/2017 4:52:04 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Not dressed for the beach. A serious whodunit. Hope they find the killer. Hollywood Beach is a great place.


5 posted on 05/25/2017 4:54:54 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: maggief

It’s unclear where Whisenant actually died. His body was found in the water just south of Magnolia Terrace on Hollywood beach early Wednesday by a passerby.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article152629589.html#navlink=SecList


6 posted on 05/25/2017 4:57:21 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Hollywood has a notoriously piss poor police dept.


7 posted on 05/25/2017 4:59:20 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: maggief

https://www.linkedin.com/in/whisenant


8 posted on 05/25/2017 4:59:43 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Diogenesis

A good question. If he was on the trail of the Democrats.

Time for the MSM to jump in with “The Russians” now.....


9 posted on 05/25/2017 5:00:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: maggief

“very well dressed wearing a sort of a casual business shirt, black pants, and all of his personal effects were on him”

Well, obviously, he just went for a swim. /DNC Press Release


10 posted on 05/25/2017 5:01:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: rrrod

They’re just crooked, that’s all. I imagine the feds will take an interest in this.


11 posted on 05/25/2017 5:01:13 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: maggief

Like Khzir Kahn-type passport fraud cases?


12 posted on 05/25/2017 5:02:05 PM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: maggief

Isn’t this the second person involved in the courts murdered? Both of them being of high positions one judge and this federal prosecutor ..it smells like the cartel/ MS-16 this is how the cartels deal Mexican officials in Mexico!! The cartel has taken over all the government departments....Mexico is super corrupt and the officials scared shitless of the gangs...they literally will murder a complete family of the person who crossed them or didn’t pay protection money called la mortida in Spanish!! We folks are living in a very very dangerous lawless times! When the mediapukes can literally report FAKE NEWS without accountability...the evil doers are watching and learning. ...expect it to get worse!


13 posted on 05/25/2017 5:03:02 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: maggief

What did he have on Hillary?


14 posted on 05/25/2017 5:06:57 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: maggief

15 posted on 05/25/2017 5:13:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: maggief

Meh!

EVERYONE bodysurfs in a three-piece suit..!


16 posted on 05/25/2017 5:14:42 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

another robbery gone bad
#SethRich


17 posted on 05/25/2017 5:17:06 PM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: maggief

Since he was Florida, was he investigating Debbie Vasserman Schultz?


18 posted on 05/25/2017 5:17:26 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: gaijin; All

Is this in Debbie Washerwoman’s district???????


19 posted on 05/25/2017 5:19:25 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: dontreadthis

“another BOTCHED robbery - gone bad”

(the official Seth Rich narrative)


20 posted on 05/25/2017 5:20:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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