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April 06, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Krishna Maharaj, a 79-year-old British businessman who has maintained his innocence throughout his three decades in prison, may get one last shot at convincing a federal judge he is innocent.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

5 minute read

April 04, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A U.S. jury found a former president of Bolivia and his defense minister responsible for killings by security forces during the 2003 unrest in the South American nation, awarding $10 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by Bolivians whose relatives were among the slain.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

4 minute read

March 07, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A former president of Bolivia and his one-time defense minister went on trial in connection with a lawsuit filed by family members who say their relatives were indiscriminately shot by the military in a heavy-handed attempt to quell civil unrest in 2003.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

3 minute read

January 08, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The colorful past of a pilot who has long bragged about flying loads of drugs for Colombian cartels during Miami's “cocaine cowboys” era in the 1980s may come back to haunt him in an auto fraud case.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

3 minute read

January 09, 2017 | Daily Business Review

The FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein alone for months after the former Iraqi leader's capture is now leading the investigation into the Florida airport shooting rampage that killed five and is being blamed on an Iraq war veteran.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

8 minute read

January 09, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Just before he was set to become an official Haitian senator, a paramilitary leader who once led a violent rebellion was arrested on decade-old U.S. drug charges and brought before a federal judge in Miami who ordered him held without bail.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

7 minute read

October 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

For a quarter century, Shawnee Chasser has lived in a tree house not far from downtown Miami. The 65-year-old grandmother who once protested the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons says she hates the oppressive feeling of walls and air conditioning, loves the open breeze and relishes the connection to nature in lush, tropical surroundings.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

9 minute read

July 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida cannot use the vague threat of potential budget shortfalls to deny thousands of prisoners kosher meals they request for religious reasons, a federal appeals court ruled.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

5 minute read

July 13, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida asked a federal appeals court to allow it to discontinue a kosher meals program for thousands of religiously observant prison inmates in the event that chronic budget problems worsen and other costs take priority.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

5 minute read

July 06, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Despite two intense days of negotiations, a settlement remained elusive in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. government by two women who claim their rights as victims were violated in a case involving abuse of numerous teenage girls and a wealthy, well-connected South Florida sex offender.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

6 minute read