Whistleblower accuses Port Everglades's Cliff Berry Inc., two other clean-up companies of fraud, illegally dumping oily sludge
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
A Broward whistleblower’s lawsuit kept secret for nearly five years alleges a trio of companies illegally dumped oily waste and sludge containing heavy metals and other pollutants at Port Everglades, then falsely billed the federal government for proper disposal services that were never provided.
The defendant companies – longtime Port Everglades tenant Cliff Berry Inc. (CBI), the Berry family’s Everglades Waste Removal Services LLC and Davie’s World Petroleum Corp., operated by the husband-and-wife team of Eric and Vickie Miranda – are also accused in the complaint of “misrepresenting” to Broward County that the sludge and oil they discharged into the port’s sewer system at “dramatically reduced cost” was “ordinary wastewater.” The lawsuit says the Mirandas previously worked for Cliff Berry Inc.
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