Jim Mustian

August 22, 2024 | Daily Business Review

"You realize when they pull my body-worn camera footage and they see this, this is going to go really bad," a Tampa police officer told Joseph Ruddy.

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian | Associated Press

5 minute read

January 24, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Federal prosecutors have turned their attention to two Miami defense attorneys suspected of profiting from repeated leaks of confidential DEA information.

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian | Associated Press

4 minute read

May 23, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The case has also sent a chill through South Florida's close-knit, fiercely competitive narco-defense circles because of Recio's strong ties to federal law enforcement and the high-paid, private-sector lawyers.

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian

5 minute read

December 10, 2021 | Daily Business Review

José Irizarry, once a standout U.S. narcotics agent, used his badge to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive cars, parties on yachts and Tiffany jewels.

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian

5 minute read

June 24, 2021 | Daily Business Review

A federal judge Wednesday threatened to throw out the guilty plea of a veteran U.S. narcotics agent who conspired with a Colombian cartel money launderer…

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian

5 minute read

June 26, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The fund's administrator says late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's estate appears to have "sufficient liquidity to pay the claims" even though well over 70 women may apply.

By Jim Mustian and Larry Neumeister

4 minute read

March 12, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The FBI wiretapped a retired supervisor in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office for at least three months last year while he worked in his post-retirement job as a private investigator for defense lawyers.

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian

5 minute read

February 24, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Jose Irizarry and his wife were arrested at their home near San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of a 19-count federal indictment that accused the 46-year-old Irizarry of "secretly using his position and his special access to information" to divert millions in drug proceeds from control of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian

6 minute read

January 10, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York believed they had preserved footage of guards finding Jeffrey Epstein after he appeared to have attempted suicide, but actually saved a video from a different part of the jail, prosecutors said.

By Jim Mustian and Michael Balsamo

5 minute read

May 02, 2019 | New York Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie described Najibullah Zazi's cooperation as "unprecedented," referring in part to federal investigations that remain ongoing.

By The Associated Press/Jim Mustian

4 minute read