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 […]
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