Category: Federal Court
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Carvel ice cream heiress’s trip to bankruptcy court ends in sticky mess; judge seeks her arrest
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Carvel Ice Cream heiress Pamela Carvel filed for bankruptcy last year amid a bitter, 17-year legal struggle for control over the assets from an estate once valued at $67 million. She got more than she bargained for. -
U.S. ordered to pay $4.4 million for Weston air traffic controller’s negligence in fatal crash
By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
A deadly mix of pilot error and an air traffic controller’s negligence has led a federal judge to order the United States to pay $4.4 million to the family of a wealthy Boca Raton businessman who crashed his private plane in bad weather six years ago. -
Justice hard to find for South Florida investment victims, but swindler will be home for holidays
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
There is no justice for Marion Green and others victimized by stock broker and swindler Gary J. Gross. He fleeced dozens of his clients from across South Florida, many he worshiped with at a Boca Raton synagogue. Their total losses were as much as $20 million. Federal arbitrators ruled Gross should pay three-dozen of his victims $7.5 million. Other big awards were imposed, too, but so far no one has seen a dime. -
BSO’s boner: Inmate says five-day erection, impotence followed medication mistake
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
A former Broward County Jail inmate says he became impotent after he was forced to swallow a powerful anti-psychotic drug he wasn’t prescribed, then suffered a painful erection for five days before nurses and jailers finally responded to his pleas for help. -
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Wexler congressional aide got kickback in campaign deal; pleads guilty to federal tax charge
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
An aide and fundraiser to former Congressman Robert Wexler has pleaded guilty in federal court to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service about a $15,000 kickback she received during a controversial real estate transaction by the South Florida Democrat’s campaign.
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