Jun 09 2010
Rothstein Gets 50-Year Sentence for $1.2 Billion Ponzi Scheme
John Pacenti – Daily Business Review
June 09, 2010
Scott Rothstein, a one-time run-of-the-mill labor and employment attorney turned larger-than-life power broker, was sentenced today to 50 years in federal prison for engineering one of Florida’s biggest investment scams.
May 21 2010
Tiffany Kaiser – DailyTech – May 19, 2010 4:44 PM
With over 5,000 barrels of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every day after the oil well leak on April 20, eight senators are contemplating pressing criminal and civil charges against BP. In the mean time, BP is scrambling to find solutions to what could be considered one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history.
Read More… Democratic Senators Call for Criminal, Civil Charges Over Gulf Oil Spill.
May 07 2010
Ex-Giant admits paying teen hooker $300, but didn’t know her age
By Alison Gendar, Joe Jackson and Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
May 05 2010
Dirty Mouth-Slapping Granny Spends Night in Jail
By JEANETTE LOPEZ
A Tampa grandmother spent a night behind bars after she used some old-school discipline on her dirty-mouthed granddaughter.
Mar 25 2010
The Associated Press
9:08 a.m. EDT, March 25, 2010
A Florida jury has awarded $20 million in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.
Feb 14 2010
Stand Your Ground’ civil suit is a surprise
By TOM BRENNAN
Published: February 14, 2010
TAMPA – Casey Landes attacked Charles Podany in an alcohol-fueled rage, authorities say, chasing Podany as he tried to bicycle away, knocking him to the ground and beating him as he sought to crawl away.
A judge ruled in September that Podany, 49, was justified in shooting and killing the 24-year-old Landes. Prosecutors did not appeal the decision.
But Landes’ family is now suing Podany, claiming Landes was a victim of “wrongful death” and that Podany was a danger to the Bay Hills Village Mobile Home Park where Podany lives and where Landes was shot.
Feb 08 2010
Updated: Monday, 08 Feb 2010, 12:51 PM EST
Published : Monday, 08 Feb 2010, 12:49 PM EST
(MYFOX NATIONAL) – Former Dallas Cowboys star Michael Irvin has fired back at a claim of sexual assault with a $100 million countersuit that claims the civil suit filed by a woman last week caused him to be fired from his job as an ESPN radio host in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
Jan 27 2010
Rothstein pleads guilty to five charges, massive Ponzi
By Jon Burstein, Paula McMahon and Peter Franceschina, Sun Sentinel
January 27, 2010
Scott Rothstein admitted Wednesday morning that his empire was built on a lie — the biggest financial fraud in South Florida history.
He pleaded guilty to five federal charges, accepting responsibility for a massive Ponzi scheme, and faces a lengthy prison term at his sentencing in May.
Sun Sentinel has a great compilation of videos about the recent events involving Scott Rothstein.
Jan 26 2010
From Beth Karas, In Session
January 25, 2010 3:59 p.m. EST
Orlando, Florida (CNN/In Session) — Casey Anthony, the young Florida mother awaiting trial in the death of her daughter, Caylee, pleaded guilty Monday to check fraud and was sentenced to time served.
Jan 14 2010
Dish Network wins $51M judgment against alleged satellite-TV pirate
Denver Business Journal – by Greg Avery
Colorado’s Dish Network Corp. and its sister companies have won a $51 million court judgment against a man they accused of being a satellite TV pirate who helped people steal the companies’ transmissions.
A federal court in Florida issued the ruling Monday in a case against Robert Ward. The case arose out of a civil suit filed against Ward by Douglas County-based satellite broadcaster Dish Network, EchoStar Technologies and NagraStar. EchoStar and NagraStar produce set-top box and encryption gear designed to make Dish Network’s signals viewable only by paying subscribers.
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