Even as his son was to be sentenced to 17 years in prison for orchestrating a real estate scam that defrauded investors of $34 million, Joseph Menaged told a judge he remained a “proud” father.
“Scott is a son that I’m very proud of,” he said during the 2017 sentencing of his son, Yomtov Scott Menaged. “As a matter of fact, I had a lot of fathers that would envy me of having a son like Scott.”
But prosecutors say... [...]
The Florida Department of Corrections is being sued over its use of solitary confinement in a complaint filed Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which alleges the state's isolation techniques are cruel and can cause permanent damage.
The suit claims Florida uses solitary confinement at more than twice the national average rate and sometimes isolates prisoners from human contact for years, causing them to become... [...]
A man who claimed he was sleepwalking when he stabbed his roommate to death has been sentenced to life in prison.
The Palm Beach Post reports 26-year-old Randy Herman Jr. was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder and sentenced. Herman argued that he was sleepwalking when he stabbed 21-year-old Brooke Preston more than 20 times at an area home in March 2017.
He testified he had no memory of the attack, just being covered in... [...]
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he will sign a controversial measure that would require repayment of financial obligations before felons’ voting rights are restored.
“I’ll sign it,” DeSantis said while at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science to discuss environmental issues from the legislative session that ended Saturday.
“The (constitutional) amendment says, if you read it, you have... [...]
Yisroel Sternberg and Chana Beck, who are Orthodox Jews, were flying with their three children from New York to Fort Lauderdale. It was supposed to be a fun family vacation, but they claim Spirit Airlines employees' anti-Semitism turned it into a nightmare.
In a civil rights and defamation federal lawsuit filed Thursday in the Southern District of Florida against the airline, a passenger... [...]
