GEO Group gave Byron Donalds money in early October

James Uthmeier didn’t sign as 39 states and DC asked the Supreme Court to take on Kalshi

Besides petitioner New Jersey, Florida was one of ten states off the Oct. 7 brief on whether states can police sports bets on prediction markets, and his office declined to explain, Politico reported (amici brief; Supreme Court docket; Next Event Horizon; Politico via Sunburn). The state’s sports betting runs through the Seminole compact, under which Florida received $1.04 billion last budget year; Kalshi’s reply is due Nov. 9 (News Service of Florida; Supreme Court docket).

Larry Page’s reported Coconut Grove estates changed hands by deeds dated days before California’s billionaire tax line

Miami-Dade records show four deeds dated Dec. 26 to 29, 2025, moving five waterfront parcels to two revocable trusts for $127.9 million, by our sum; Page’s name is on none, and The Wall Street Journal and Business Insider report he is the buyer (Miami-Dade Property Appraiser; Fortune; Business Insider). California’s Prop 40, on its Nov. 3 ballot, would tax billionaires living there on Jan. 1, 2026 at 5% once and leaves out real estate held directly or in a revocable trust (Prop 40 text).

Nearly all of a 1964 South Beach condo’s 238 homes sold deed by deed; the Vacchi-backed tower planned there borrowed $507M

County records show 146 deeds moved 216 of Bay Garden Manor’s units to the developers at listed prices averaging about $442,000, by our arithmetic, and Tyko Capital, backed by Paul Singer’s Elliott, made the construction loan before a single new condo sold (Miami-Dade Property Appraiser; Commercial Observer; Bisnow; The Real Deal). Sales of the 106 new condos start in 2027 (REBusinessOnline).

Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center won $350M of hotel tax, 6-1, two weeks before voters reshape the board that voted it

Orange commissioners cut the mayor’s proposed $400 million to $350 million on Oct. 19 and left out the convention center, over pleas to slow down from the hotel association and the union Unite Here Local 737 (Orlando Sentinel; Florida Politics; Central Florida Public Media). Voters choose up to six new members Nov. 3 as the board grows to nine (Orlando Sentinel).

Two Florida power regulators took a hosts-paid West Palm Beach retreat; their commission takes up Duke’s data center rate Nov. 3

The Tampa Bay Times reports Commissioners Mike La Rosa and Bobby Payne blocked three July weekdays for the retreat, hosted by a GOPAC-tied group that won’t give a full donor list; the commission says no utility it regulates paid (Tampa Bay Times; The Washington Post). Duke’s docket, revised Oct. 20, sets its decision conference for Nov. 3, and no record ties any vote to the retreat (Florida Public Service Commission; WFTV).

Brookfield’s Pembroke Lakes Mall fell to a $112M appraisal from $427M, and its lender sued to foreclose

KBRA says the $260 million loan went unpaid at its March 2025 maturity and estimates a $149 million loss to the bond trust; Deutsche Bank, as trustee, asked the Broward court for a receiver (KBRA; The Real Deal; Bisnow). Brookfield’s BGRE was not named in the suit and did not respond to Bisnow (The Real Deal; Bisnow).