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Miami gym owner arrested on charges of selling $10 million in steroids from China
Federal agents raided a popular Miami gym early Wednesday morning, leaving a U.S. Marshal-branded “no trespassing” sign on the door and arresting its co-owner on charges of heading a $10 million international steroid production and distribution ring. Early morning workout buffs at Iron Addicts Gym, on 31 NE 17th St., were herded against the… Read More »
FBI Director James Comey Screwed Up Big Time!
By BRUCE UDOLF Republicans immediately consumed with gusto Friday’s news that FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congressional leaders informing them that his agency was reviewing new information relating to the Hillary Clinton email case. They gleefully declared that the FBI had “reopened” the email investigation. While this is a misleading exaggeration… Read More »
Hundreds of So. Floridians arrested in Nationwide Medicare Fraud Crackdown
More than 300 people were arrested in raids on Wednesday, June 21st. The sheer number of suspects arrested and charged with stealing from Medicare — just over 300 nationwide, including 100 in South Florida — was one for the record books. But Wednesday’s massive take-down of doctors, nurses, pharmacy owners, clinic operators and patient… Read More »
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca Raided by Organized Crime Prosecutors
PANAMA CITY — Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients. Soon after news reports based on a trove of documents from the firm began… Read More »
Chairman of Broward Health Resigns, cites political interference
David Di Pietro resigned Thursday as chairman of Broward Health, just days after prevailing in court over Gov. Rick Scott‘s attempt to suspend him from office. Di Pietro, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer and Republican activist, said political interference by the governor had made it impossible for him to effectively serve the public hospital system. “During… Read More »
Secret Shell Game: A global investigation of offshore companies
The Miami Herald spent months investigating how people accused of wrongdoing abroad used offshore shell companies to buy South Florida real estate. “Secret Shell Game” was based on an analysis of 11.5 million secret files from inside Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm. For decades, the world’s wealthiest and most politically connected people have asked… Read More »
Panama Papers: Secret offshores trace back to Brickell condo featured on ‘Miami Vice’
To set up secret offshore companies, members of Latin America’s elite turn to a condo at a Brickell high-rise once featured on Miami Vice. Olga Santini, the Miami representative for Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, works out of a two-bedroom unit at the Palace, a waterfront tower on Brickell Avenue. Mossack Fonseca specializes in setting… Read More »
Panama Papers: Miami Beach fraudsters hid loot in offshore companies
Among the many questionable customers of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca were a Miami Beach father and son convicted of a $49 million tax fraud in 2011. Mauricio Cohen Assor, 82, and Leon Cohen-Levy, 51, hid a Miami Beach mansion, a Fisher Island condo, bank accounts, luxury cars and even a helicopter from the… Read More »
Miami Beach’s stoner gun-runner drama — now a Hollywood movie —
The tale of how three young guys from Miami Beach won hundreds of millions in weapons contracts from the Pentagon has been turned into a Rolling Stone article, a book and a soon-to-appear Hollywood movie called War Dogs. Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz and Alexander Podrizki sold aging weapons and ammunition originally from China and… Read More »
Italian fugitive used Miami firms to set up offshore
When two Miami firms set up an offshore company for Giuseppe Donaldo Nicosia in 2011, they didn’t know the Italian businessman would be accused of masterminding a $48 million tax fraud three years later. Or that one of his alleged partners in the scheme, an Italian senator and ally of former premier Silvio Berlusconi,… Read More »
