Jury Awards $4.6 Million to Man Wrongly Arrested for Bomb Threat
One minute, videographer Bill Rolland was filming a project for Cisco Systems in downtown Miami. The next minute, police had a gun to his head....
06 August, 2016
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Man, 83, in prison for dog’s fatal attack on cat must be freed, court rules
An 83-year-old man who has served 527 days in prison for animal cruelty after his dog fatally attacked a cat committed no crime and must be set free as soon as possible, an appeals court ruled this week....
23 December, 2013
Videographer acquitted in federal bomb threat trial
A jury took two hours to acquit a commercial videographer accused of threatening to blow up a downtown Miami office tower. Bill Rolland was charged with conveying a false threat to a public building based on the word of three employees at the New World...
18 December, 2011
2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (OVDI) – Act now to participate
The IRS created the 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (OVDI) to allow taxpayer applicants with previously undisclosed offshore accounts and assets to disclose these assets by August 31, 2011, and pay overdue taxes along with a set penalty. Through participation in the OVDI program, fully...
23 July, 2011
Florida Ponzi schemer’s aide gets 10-year sentence
An ex-aide of a Florida lawyer who ran a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday, the latest development in a high-profile case that drew attention to investment fraud in the state....
08 October, 2010
Ex-Rothstein exec pleads not guilty in Ponzi scam
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A former executive at disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein's law firm is pleading not guilty to charges that she played a key role in his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme....
27 April, 2010
Rothstein firm COO charged with money-laundering conspiracy
Scott Rothstein's right-hand woman at his Fort Lauderdale law firm -- chief operating officer Debra Villegas -- helped her boss fabricate legal settlements that he sold to wealthy investors, boosting his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme until its sudden collapse last October, prosecutors said Tuesday....
27 April, 2010
Scott Rothstein’s right-hand woman charged in Ponzi scheme
One of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein's closest associates — Debra Villegas, the woman he made his second-in-command at his law firm — is scheduled to face a federal judge Wednesday morning on a money-laundering charge that alleges she was instrumental to his massive investment fraud....
27 April, 2010
150 Americans targeted in UBS Swiss bank tax-evasion case
More than 150 wealthy American customers of Swiss banking giant UBS (UBS) are under investigation for suspected tax evasion, federal prosecutors disclosed Tuesday....
19 August, 2009
US Seeks Reduced Term for Star Swiss Bank Witness
A former Swiss banker should get a sharply reduced prison term for helping the U.S. government as a star witness in a wide-ranging tax evasion investigation of banking giant UBS AG, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The banker contends his cooperation warrants no jail time at...
18 August, 2009