- Pam Bondi
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children = Pam Bondi is aprosecutor in Hillsborough County,Florida where she works as an Assistant State Attorney. She also makes guest appearances onScarborough Country withJoe Scarborough and various other cable news programming onMSNBC and Fox News as a legal analyst.In 2001, Bondi was offered a role as the lead in a reality-based television show that would have followed her adventures as a prosecutor. However, she declined the offer. She prosecuted former
Major League Baseball playerDwight Gooden for violating the terms of his probation and for substance abuse.Trivia
*Bondi was honored in 2005 as "Italian-American Women of Excellence" in the "Government" category by "The Italian Club Ladies Auxiliary, Inc.", Tampa. [http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/news/pressreleases/WomenofExcellence.html]
*She adopted a St. Bernard dog, Noah [http://www.flickr.com/photos/32475211@N00/46822809/] , after he was rescued from St. Bernard's Parish in Louisiana afterHurricane Katrina . [http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/17/Columns/Make_stadium_fan_sear.shtml] When the original owners located the dog and attempted to reclaim it, Bondi refused to return the dog. [http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/28/Tampabay/Family_pleads_to_recl.shtml] In July 2006, a lawsuit was filed by the dog's original owners against Bondi seeking a transfer of custody of the dog. Ironically, Bondi hired prominent criminal defense attorney Barry Cohen (a frequent adversary to Tampa prosecutors) to defend her interests in this lawsuit. However, in May 2007, Bondi agreed to return the dog to its original owners [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070522/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_dogs_1] .Education
* Bondi graduated from King High School In Tampa, FloridaFact|date=March 2008
* Bondi graduated from theUniversity of Florida in 1987 with a degree in Criminal Justice.External links
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* [http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/pam_bondi/ Pam Bondi quotes]
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