Category: Palm Beach
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GOP bigshot Adam Kidan: A life of luxury despite owing millions in restitution from SunCruz fraud
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Ex-con Adam Kidan has owed the U.S. government $21.7 million, plus interest, in restitution since he and ex-super lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty in 2006 to fraud and conspiracy charges in the $147.5-mllion SunCruz Casinos swindle. So how, since his release from prison in 2009, has Kidan been able to live a life of luxury? -
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Adam Kidan’s long strange trip from SunCruz scandal to big time Republican donor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
It was the first epic South Florida scandal of the 21st Century and Adam Kidan was smack in the middle of it – a $14.5-million fraud wrapped in a congressional influence-peddling scandal inside a Mafia hit. -
Palm Beach County judge’s nude photos case ends quietly after 5 ½ years with a right-before-trial settlement
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A settlement has ended South Florida telenovela-worthy litigation involving explicit photos of a female Palm Beach County judge, a well-known pair of male trial lawyers and a spiteful post-divorce row. -
Donald Trump broke Florida criminal law, didn’t register NY fraud convictions with Palm Beach sheriff
By Noreen Marcus and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Presidential candidate Donald Trump violated the law in his home state of Florida by failing to report to his local sheriff after a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records. -
Justice Renatha Francis’s former trial court colleagues still punishing litigant who called her out for trampling women’s rights
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A Loxahatchee woman remains trapped in Palm Beach County family court years after she defied Renatha Francis, who abruptly dropped the woman’s case before her promotion to the Florida Supreme Court. -
South Florida prosecutors aren’t saying if they’ll enforce state’s strict new abortion ban
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Going by the book, anyone who violates Florida’s new six-week abortion ban commits a felony and faces up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine. A repeat, three-time offender is looking at 10 years in prison.
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