Category: Federal Court
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Bribery charges? What bribery charges? Billionaire banker, ex-FBI agent, former Puerto Rico governor get sweet deal from Bondi’s DOJ
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
One of the Justice Department’s biggest political bribery cases, set to go to trial in August, is being short-circuited by prosecutors who gave an exceedingly sweet deal to the three defendants they once declared had struck “a blow to the heart of our democracy.” -
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Tate brothers’ West Palm Beach lawsuits go to heart of Romanian criminal case
By Jane Musgrave
stetnews.org
A 23-year-old former Delray Beach woman is at the center of a growing international drama that began three years ago when she helped persuade Romanian officials to file human trafficking charges against kickboxing stars turned social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate. -
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Pension fund accuses Panthers owner Viola, partner Cifu of stealing $400 million owed to investors in Virtu Financial
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Vincent Viola, the multi-billionaire owner of the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, is the principal defendant in a class action lawsuit alleging he used his control of Virtu Financial Inc. to divert more than $400 million in cash away from Virtu’s stockholders to “himself and his confederates.” -
LNG ‘Bomb trains’ should stop rolling on FEC tracks after appellate court’s order
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Federal judges have struck down President Trump’s first-term decision that led to rules allowing so-called “bomb trains” transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to roll through densely populated cities along the Florida East Coast Railway. -
Presidential campaign will end, but Trump v. Clinton goes on and on
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
While his opponents deflect Donald Trump’s lie that he won in 2020 and brace for his cries of “Fraud!” if he loses next month, Trump’s lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that Democratic conspirators tried to rig the 2016 presidential election against him. -
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Adam Kidan’s long strange trip from SunCruz scandal to big time Republican donor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
It was the first epic South Florida scandal of the 21st Century and Adam Kidan was smack in the middle of it – a $14.5-million fraud wrapped in a congressional influence-peddling scandal inside a Mafia hit.
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