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A priest from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Rockledge was arrested in September for allegedly stealing nearly $90,000 from an elderly widowed parishioner. The case exemplifies a growing problem in Florida and nationwide: financial exploitation of elders by those in relationships of trust. Father Nicholas King, pastor to St. Mary’s Parish since 1993, “intentionally deprived [...]

Morgan & Morgan’s Business Trial Group obtained a $137,564 jury verdict on behalf of a sales representative who was owed commissions, continuing the Group’s perfect trial record in 2016. The case— Siscon Inc. v. C&P Trading and Sales, Inc.—involved a Colorado corporation that provides consulting services to the meat industry and a Florida corporation that [...]

Louis J. Pearlman—Ponzi scheme mastermind, disgraced boy band manager, and all around con-man—passed away in August while serving a federal prison sentence in Miami, Florida. The Orlando resident was a Svengali-like businessman who launched, and fraudulently cashed in on, the careers of the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and a host of lesser-known pop acts. Pearlman was [...]

Three years ago, physician’s group Omni Healthcare and over a dozen individual doctors filed an antitrust lawsuit against Health First, a major health system in central Florida. What ensued was a long and complex legal battle over allegations that Health First was attempting to monopolize regional healthcare in Brevard County, Florida. Along with the Whatley [...]