Tag: Thomas Van Lent
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Top Everglades restoration scientist Van Lent ordered to jail for indirect criminal contempt
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
One of the nation’s preeminent scientists involved in Everglades restoration was ordered to jail Thursday by a Miami-Dade circuit judge who found him guilty of indirect criminal contempt of court in May. -
Everglades Foundation aggressively seeks to have Miami-Dade judge throw the book at its former top scientist
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Everglades Foundation aggressively seeks to have Miami-Dade judge throw the book at its former top scientist. -
Ex-Everglades Foundation chief scientist Van Lent guilty of contempt, faces up to 1 year in county jail
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge has found the Everglades Foundation’s former chief scientist Thomas Van Lent guilty of indirect criminal contempt for disobeying a court order and deleting from his computers “massive amounts of data” owned by the foundation. -
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Everglades Foundation prosecutes former top scientist for criminal contempt in case that’s roiling Florida environmentalists
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
If Marjory Stoneman Douglas had a grave, she’d be rolling in it. The pioneering environmentalist and famed “Mother of the Everglades,” whose ashes were famously scattered across Everglades National Park wilderness upon her death in 1998 at age 108, could hardly have imagined two of the Everglades’ leading champions on opposite sides in a Miami court of law. -
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Everglades Foundation seeks criminal contempt finding against its former top scientist after settlement deal implodes
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Everglades Foundation is once again going after its former top scientist and has asked a Miami-Dade judge to hold him in criminal contempt of court – a finding that could hit Thomas Van Lent in the wallet and put him behind bars for up to a year. -
Everglades Foundation settles suit against scientist who said group has ‘lost its way,’ shown ‘fealty’ to DeSantis, Republicans
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
UPDATE: Sept 1 – The Everglades Foundation has settled its lawsuit accusing its former lead scientist Thomas Van Lent of stealing or destroying numerous undisclosed trade secrets when he quit in February, according to court documents filed Thursday.
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