Jan 12, 2010
Several property owners from Miami and South Florida have moved on to greener pastures in states like Colorado and North Carolina. One thing they have in common is that they leave their family home...
Jan 11, 2010
In Tampa, Florida, ex-FOREX trader, Beau Diamond, now armed with a new legal team entered a not guilty plea to charges surrounding a $38 million "Ponzi" scheme. Diamond had been previously represen...
Jan 08, 2010
Rather than appearing at the Grammy Awards later this month, reggae singer, Buju Banton, will be spending his time in the Tampa federal detention center, at least for the time being. Banton appeare...
Jan 07, 2010
Disbarred Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein is allegedly going enter a guilty plea into charges including wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. Prior to entering a plea, his Miami crimi...
Jan 05, 2010
A Monroe County man was cleared of cocaine trafficking charges in federal court. The defendant, Richard Wolfferts became infamous years ago for his involvement in the car bombing of a local Miami d...
Jan 04, 2010
A federal magistrate judge held a man without bond on a massive Miami Medicare fraud case. Ihosvany Marquez appeared at his bond hearing this morning for charges stemming from a $55 million Medicar...
Jan 01, 2010
In Miami and across the country senior citizens are assisting federal agents in investigating Medicare fraud. The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) is another pitfall beset on those involved in Miami Me...
Dec 31, 2009
Last week, a Miami psychologist entered a guilty plea to the charges of manslaughter and trafficking in oxycodone. The criminal information alleges that Adam Feder failed to call 911 after his girl...
Dec 30, 2009
The federal government is yet again on the crusade to put an end to Miami Medicare fraud. Medicare has ceased paying a Miami doctor who purportedly wrote 97,000 prescriptions to Medicaid patients o...
Dec 29, 2009
Miami and South Florida lead the country in the number of "Ponzi" schemes uncovered in 2009. However, reports of organized schemes to defraud have popped up from coast to coast. In 2009, about 150 ...
Dec 28, 2009
Miami judges have been put on notice by Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee that listing lawyers on their list of friends via social networks on the internet is now deemed to be inappropri...
Dec 24, 2009
A Miami man is set to appear for sentencing in federal court for one of the largest credit card fraud and identity theft cases in the country's history. Albert Gonzalez is charged with stealing in ...
Dec 23, 2009
The Miami criminal lawyers representing two former employees of alleged "Ponzi" artist Allen Stanford requested dismissals from a judge in federal court. Tom Raffanello and Bruce Perraud are curren...
Dec 22, 2009
Federal authorities have fulfilled their promise and have now arrested 30 individuals as part of a Medicare fraud investigation. As of December 15, 2009, only a handful of arrests had been effectua...
