MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say the ex-husband of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Cynthia Bailey spent the night in a Miami jail after being arrested on fraud charges.
Peter Thomas was arrested Friday at Miami International Airport on a fugitive warrant.
Miami-Dade police told news outlets the warrant for 58-year-old Thomas is from Louisiana where he is accused of writing fraudulent checks.
No bond has been set.
In an official... [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The president and vice president of a South Florida construction company have been convicted of defrauding a low-income housing development program.
Court records show that 38-year-old Javier Estepa and 37-year-old Diego Alejandro Estepa Vasquez were each convicted in Miami federal court Wednesday of charges including wire fraud. Sentencing is scheduled for May 10.
Prosecutors say Estepa and Estepa Vasquez, as president... [...]
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - A police report has been filed against a pastor who apparently wrote $27,500 worth of bad checks.
According to a police report obtained by Local 10 News, pastor Eric D. Readon wrote several checks to roofer Jose Macedo.
Readon is the pastor of the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church on Northwest 155th Street in Miami Gardens.
As Local 10 News reported last week, the church was... [...]
Alejandro Andrade, the former Venezuelan national treasurer and close friend of the late President Hugo Chávez, surrendered to U.S. prison authorities Monday to start a 10-year sentence for his key role in a $1 billion money-laundering racket extending from Venezuela to South Florida.
In exchange for staggering bribes, Andrade provided access to the Venezuelan government’s lucrative foreign-currency exchanges both before and after... [...]
A Lake Worth man managed a $1.3 million pawn fraud that connected Arizona with New York and South Florida.
Now, 61-year-old Scott Meyrowitz will pay for his scheme with a little time, three years in prison, after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and was sentenced in Fort Lauderdale federal court Wednesday. Meyrowitz also owes $1.8 million in restitution — $1.25 million to the Scottsdale pawn shop owner and $567,400 to a New York diamond... [...]
