August 04, 2016
Two Middle Eastern companies that lost a $12 million fraud suit against hotel developers fought a Florida federal judge's recommendation to pay $71,138 in fees, arguing Thursday the funds should not be meted out to individual defendants.
June 03, 2016
A Florida federal magistrate has recommended that sanctions against a pair of Middle Eastern companies behind a failed $12 million fraud suit include the full $71,138 in fees requested by the targeted hotel developers for their accusers' failure to produce a proper witness.
May 25, 2016
A Florida jury handed developers an almost complete defense win Wednesday, rejecting the $12 million fraud claims brought by two Middle Eastern companies that said they were fraudulently enticed to invest in a hotel project.
May 24, 2016
Closing arguments Tuesday in a trial regarding two Middle Eastern companies' $12 million fraud claims over investments in a Florida hotel project prompted as many mentions of smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand as a David Copperfield show, as the parties attacked each other's credibility.
February 08, 2016
A pair of Middle Eastern companies accusing a developer of deceiving them into investing $12 million in a purported hotel project told a Florida federal court on Monday that the developer delayed the scheduling of his disposition and then lied about the delay.
January 05, 2016
A Florida federal judge declined Tuesday to sanction a hotel developer for filing an allegedly fraudulent affidavit in a dispute with two Middle Eastern companies that claim he induced them into investing $12 million in a purported hotel project, but hinted that his inconsistent testimony may fare poorly before a jury.
September 12, 2014
Two Middle Eastern companies who claim they were induced into investing a combined $12 million in a purported hotel project on Thursday won the right to keep their attorneys from Florida law firm Tripp Scott when a Florida federal judge denied a bid to disqualify their counsel.
April 24, 2014
The defendants in a suit who allegedly induced two Middle Eastern companies into investing $6 million apiece in a purported hotel project told a Florida federal court Wednesday that the companies' bid to disqualify their counsel was nothing more than a retaliatory response.
April 15, 2014
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday pared some claims from two Middle Eastern companies' suit alleging they were fraudulently induced into investing $6 million apiece in a purported hotel project, but he allowed the case to proceed mostly intact against the father-son developer defendants.