Terry Spencer

March 06, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Many of the Medicare fraud charges against prominent Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen are complicated, but one is simple: federal prosecutors say he claimed reimbursement for treating both eyes of patients who have one prosthetic.

By Terry Spencer

8 minute read

February 15, 2017 | Daily Business Review

An attorney representing the parents of an unarmed man killed by a sheriff's sergeant told a federal jury that the blood, ballistic and photographic evidence will show the sergeant lied about what caused the shooting.

By Terry Spencer

9 minute read

February 13, 2017 | Daily Business Review

The parents of Seth Adams are sure Sgt. Michael Custer is lying about why he fatally shot their unarmed son in the parking lot of the family's nursery business nearly five years ago, even though the sheriff's deputy was cleared by investigators.

By Terry Spencer

9 minute read

January 23, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A Margate smoke shop owner is one of many being sued by a German pipe maker and its U.S. licensee for selling alleged counterfeits.

By Terry Spencer, Associated Press

10 minute read

December 08, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The 34-year-old Dalia Dippolito has testified at her previous trial and in court hearings that she was only acting the part of a murderous wife in hopes of getting her own reality TV show.

By Terry Spencer

8 minute read

November 30, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A retrial is ready to start in a murder-for-hire plot featured on the television show "Cops."

By Terry Spencer

7 minute read

September 13, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Islamic community says it will repair and reopen the arson-damaged Florida mosque that was occasionally attended by Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen.

By Terry Spencer, Associated Press

7 minute read

August 10, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Senate's incoming president announced a $2.4 billion plan to purchase 60,000 acres of mostly farmland south of Lake Okeechobee and convert it into reservoirs and water treatment plants aimed at reducing toxic algae outbreaks in nearby rivers and lagoons.

By Terry Spencer, Associated Press

7 minute read

July 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida's decision to fight a massive algae bloom by temporarily holding more water north of Lake Okeechobee is drawing criticism from federal wildlife officials who say the rising water is threatening 10 nests of an endangered bird.

By Terry Spencer, Associated Press

6 minute read

June 03, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Convicting a police officer for an on-duty killing hasn't happened in Florida in nearly three decades, in part because officers are given wide latitude to protect themselves from perceived danger.

By Terry Spencer and Curt Anderson Associated Press

4 minute read