November 22, 2016
Federal prosecutors asked a Florida district court Tuesday to allow evidence that purportedly shows two sports agents charged with conspiring to smuggle baseball players from Cuba relied on violence and the involvement of a Mexico-based kidnapping operation.
November 15, 2016
Major League Baseball All-Stars Jose Abreu and Yoenis Cespedes are among more than a dozen major league players the U.S. government listed as witnesses Monday for the upcoming trial of a sports agent accused of smuggling ballplayers from Cuba.
September 06, 2016
The U.S. government on Friday asked a Florida federal court to order the Internal Revenue Service to disclose the tax returns of a sports agent accused of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the United States.
August 02, 2016
A sports agent accused of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. has urged a Florida federal court to exclude evidence from an FBI search of his residence, arguing that the search warrant was overbroad and contained "material misrepresentations and omissions of fact."
July 26, 2016
A Florida sports trainer accused of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the United States asked a Florida federal judge Monday to dismiss some of the accusations against him that reference his finances and allegedly disparage him in other ways, saying the allegations are prejudicial and will prevent a fair trial.
July 06, 2016
A Florida sports trainer accused of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the United States has hit back at federal prosecutors' bid to disqualify one of his attorneys, arguing there is no conflict in the lawyer's limited representation of a woman in a similar case. Correction: A previous story misidentified Julio Estrada's occupation. He is a sports trainer, not an agent.
June 10, 2016
A sports agent accused of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the United States told a Florida federal court Thursday that federal prosecutors wrongly cited an Eleventh Circuit ruling in order to deny him FBI interview notes, saying the ruling does not apply to his own interview with the bureau.
June 07, 2016
The government on Monday told a Florida federal court that investigation notes being requested by a sports agent accused of helping smuggle Cuban-born baseball players into the U.S. are not discoverable, citing a 2003 Eleventh Circuit ruling.
May 26, 2016
An immigrant sports agent accused of helping smuggle Cuban-born baseball players into the U.S. asked a Florida federal judge to force prosecutors to hand over investigation notes, arguing there is no way he made some of the statements attributed to him because they sound like they were uttered by law enforcement.
May 10, 2016
The government is pushing back against a professional sports agent accused of helping smuggle Cuban-born baseball players into the U.S. as he tries to get a list of the players involved, telling a Florida federal court Tuesday that he actually wants an early list of witnesses.