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In this corner: Gregory Tony.

In that corner: Broward County commissioners.

The sheriff of Broward County usually likes being the center of attention, but he can’t be enjoying this — and it’s about time.

The county that approves Tony’s annual budget has assembled a richly detailed 71-page account of his fiscal mismanagement, to the detriment of Broward taxpayers.

The report documents years of excessive and arbitrary spending decisions by a twice-elected sheriff who now, as a reward for those mistakes, wants massively more money.

Most damning, the county shows how the Broward Sheriff’s Office, in recent years, has used budget trickery to move money approved for pay raises to building new projects, such as the infamous $74 million training c

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