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September 27, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Judge in 'kids for cash' scandal sentenced to 17 1/2 years

Judge Michael T. Conahan surprisingly agreed to enter an open-ended plea agreement, in which he pled guilty to accepting more than $2.8 million in kickbacks.
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December 13, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Morrison freed of indecent Act against him

Gov. Charlie Crist reserved as one of his last official acts a posthumous pardon for 1960s music legend Jim Morrison.
5 minute read
March 24, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Baristas' suit against Starbucks may proceed

A federal judge certified a class action against Starbucks over its tip policy on the same day plaintiffs appealed another federal court's judgment on the same policy.
4 minute read
October 18, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Stern makes rare appearance in court on judge's orders

Attorney David Stern attended a show cause hearing before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Maxine Cohen Lando. The proceeding potentially could have led to serious sanctions against Stern and a long list of others. But Judge Lando acknowledged that her ruling that called the hearing in the first place, contained a legal error. She now plans to revisit her order.
4 minute read
August 08, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Employers ready to hire can't find workers among 9.1% unemployed

Bill Begal says he has spent almost $2,000 since March on help-wanted ads in newspapers, websites, and state employment services up and down the East Coast to find sales and administrative staff for his Rockville, Maryland-based disaster-cleanup company.
8 minute read
October 11, 2012 | Daily Business Review

FedEx sets $1.7 billion profit growth plan in shipping shift

FedEx Corp. set a goal to boost profit by $1.7 billion within three years, primarily by cutting costs, as customers shift to slower and cheaper deliveries from overnight shipments.
4 minute read
July 18, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Honda-Toyota record output helps U.S. cities rebound

Honda Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp.'s North American plants are leading an industrywide assembly surge buoying cities from the Midwest to the deep South amid a languid U.S. economy.
7 minute read
March 17, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Agreement reached during trial in golf cart passenger's death

William Edgar was riding on the back of an overloaded golf cart at Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo when he fell off the back, hit his head and died soon after.
4 minute read
May 07, 2012 | Daily Business Review

UBS bets on toxic debt demand after Fed's record sale

UBS AG is seeking buyers this week for collateralized debt obligations assembled in 2007 with a face value of $1.5 billion that contain securities tied to skyscrapers, malls and hotel loans.
6 minute read
May 26, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Government regulators hired by companies

At a 2005 workshop, a senior official in the U.S. government's Minerals Management Service raised concerns about ultra-deepwater drilling and included the bullet point, "Few or no regulations or standards." Within two years, Jim Grant left his post as chief of staff of the government's Gulf of Mexico region to take a job with BP PLC - one of the companies his former agency regulated in its oversight of offshore drilling.
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