{"id":252747,"date":"2026-04-30T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252747\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:48:08","slug":"broward-county-tax-collector-settles-inspector-general-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252747\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward County tax collector settles inspector general case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Abbey Ajayi.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Broward County Tax Collector Abiodun \u201cAbbey\u201c Ajayi\u2019s podcast appearances led to a complaint from Broward\u2019s inspector general.\" alt=\"Broward County Tax Collector Abiodun \u201cAbbey\u201c Ajayi\u2019s podcast appearances led to a complaint from Broward\u2019s inspector general.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Broward County Tax Collector Abiodun \u201cAbbey\u201c Ajayi\u2019s podcast appearances led to a complaint from Broward\u2019s inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>            Time Out 360 podcast via YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Broward County Tax Collector Abiodun \u201cAbbey\u201d Ajayi has agreed to pay a $4,000 fine to settle an Inspector General\u2019s complaint that she misused the resources of her previous county job while campaigning two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the alleged misconduct, Ajayi was operations manager of the County\u2019s Records, Taxes and Treasury Division, forbidden from using her office or promoting her campaign during working hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Inspector General\u2019s report last year, Ajayi violated policy by appearing in a podcast as a candidate from her office during a weekday afternoon when she should have been on the job. She also admitted using her county email address on campaign business.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/04\/28\/broward-tax-collector-agrees-to-4000-fine-over-campaign-misconduct\/\">Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broward County Tax Collector Abiodun \u201cAbbey\u201c Ajayi\u2019s podcast appearances led to a complaint from Broward\u2019s inspector general. Time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-252747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}