Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s general counsel is emphatically denying allegations from the county public defender that jail inmates are being mistreated and concerns about the coronavirus are being ignored.
In a blistering letter, Broward Sheriff’s Office general counsel Terrence Lynch told Public Defender Harold Finkelstein and his chief assistant, Gordon Weekes, that their claims amounted to no more than “unsubstantiated, misleading, or outright false allegations which you apparently made no effort to investigate.”
Lynch’s response, dated Wednesday and released by the agency on Thursday, was a reply to what Finkelstein and Weekes said was “very disturbing information regarding the treatment of persons in the Broward County Jail who have been diagnosed with COVID-19.