FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of former Broward Teachers Union President Pat Santeramo. Santeramo, who was responsible for the union’s $6 million budget, is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the union. “Mr Santeramo was in on the scheme and, in fact, he came up […]
MIAMI LAKES (CBSMiami) – The attorney for Michael Pizzi, the suspended mayor of Miami Lakes, said he expects Pizzi to return to office. According to Benedict Kuehne, he expects Governor Rick Scott to revoke and rescind the suspension order immediately. This comes after the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Pizzi, Monday, and gave […]
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – On Wednesday, an ex-Miami cop continued his testimony in defense of a convicted British murderer who insists he was framed by police. Michael Flynn told jurors on Monday that Krishna Maharaj was wrongfully implicated for a 1986 double murder at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in downtown Miami. According to Flynn, the Colombian […]
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Opening statements began Monday in the trial of former Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman. Bateman has pleaded not guilty following his August 2013 arrest on corruption charges. “We are thrilled that the day is here,” is all Bateman’s attorney would allow his client to say to reporters Monday. “We’ve waited a year to […]
NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – Police raided the business of North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau Friday morning as part of an investigation into absentee ballot fraud. Investigators from Miami-Dade police, Miami Beach police, and the state attorney’s office took computers and boxes of documents from Tondreau & Associates, a private-consulting firm, at 12895 W. Dixie Highway […]
By Laura Isensee, Palm Beach Post The ousted principal of an Aventura charter school has won a $155 million award in a lawsuit claiming her firing was not only without cause, but ruined her health and career prospects. The verdict came late Friday after a month-long trial and years after Katherine Murphy lost her job […]
This morning Pat Santeramo was in a jail jumpsuit at the Broward County Courthouse, where his Miami attorney, Ben Kuehne, argued for a reduction in his bond. But Broward Circuit Judge Michael Orlando kept the bond at $480,000 and the former Broward Teachers Union president will likely spend at least one more night in jail. […]
By Peter Franceschina, Sun Sentinel The judge had wanted to give celebrated South Florida artist Jose Luis Alvarez two years in prison for stealing a New York man’s identity more than two decades ago to obtain a fraudulent passport, calling it a serious crime that deserved punishment. But by the end of a dramatic and […]
An Opa-locka official booted from office six years ago won’t be prosecuted for the crimes that got him thrown out in the first place. Banana Republican has learned that the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office has quietly dropped multiple grand theft and official misconduct felony charges brought against Terence Pinder, Opa-Locka’s then-vice-mayor, in 2006. But Pinder […]
By Kyle Teal, The Florida Bar The St. Thomas University School of Law invited the legal community to revisit one of the United States Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions in a hotly debated November symposium: “ Bush v. Gore: A Decade Later.” The symposium, held November 12-13, was well-attended by an audience of lawyers, students, and law […]
