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Miami Beach’s stoner gun-runner drama — now a Hollywood movie —

By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. |

The tale of how three young guys from Miami Beach won hundreds of millions in weapons contracts from the Pentagon has been turned into a Rolling Stone article, a book and a soon-to-appear Hollywood movie called War Dogs. Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz and Alexander Podrizki sold aging weapons and ammunition originally from China and… Read More »

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Panama Papers: Miami Beach fraudsters hid loot in offshore companies

By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. |

Among the many questionable customers of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca were a Miami Beach father and son convicted of a $49 million tax fraud in 2011.  Mauricio Cohen Assor, 82, and Leon Cohen-Levy, 51, hid a Miami Beach mansion, a Fisher Island condo, bank accounts, luxury cars and even a helicopter from the… Read More »

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Panama Papers: Secret offshores trace back to Brickell condo featured on ‘Miami Vice’

By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. |

To set up secret offshore companies, members of Latin America’s elite turn to a condo at a Brickell high-rise once featured on Miami Vice. Olga Santini, the Miami representative for Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, works out of a two-bedroom unit at the Palace, a waterfront tower on Brickell Avenue. Mossack Fonseca specializes in setting… Read More »

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Secret Shell Game: A global investigation of offshore companies

By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. |

The Miami Herald spent months investigating how people accused of wrongdoing abroad used offshore shell companies to buy South Florida real estate.  “Secret Shell Game” was based on an analysis of 11.5 million secret files from inside Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm. For decades, the world’s wealthiest and most politically connected people have asked… Read More »

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Brazil’s former top judge hid price he paid for Miami condo

By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. |

When Brazilian news outlets found out then-Supreme Court chief justice Joaquim Barbosa had bought a Brickell condo in 2012, they asked the well-respected jurist how much he paid. Barbosa refused to say.  The problem? In Florida, real-estate sales are public.  But not Barbosa’s. Miami-Dade County property records seemed to suggest the 61-year-old paid a big,… Read More »

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How secret offshore money helps fuel Miami’s luxury real-estate boom

By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. |

At the end of 2011, a company called Isaias 21 Property paid nearly $3 million — in cash — for an oceanfront Bal Harbour condo.  But it wasn’t clear who really owned the three-bedroom unit at the newly built St. Regis, an ultra-luxury high-rise that pampers residents with 24-hour room service and a private… Read More »

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Investigation Unveils Corrupt Buyers in Miami’s ‘Secret Shell Game’

By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. |

A look at the eye-opening report from the Miami Herald The Miami Herald, in conjunction with 100 global news partners, published a new series based on 11.5 million secret files leaked from inside Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, exposing the “Secret Shell Game” in South Florida’s luxury real-estate world.The year-long investigation exposed many of… Read More »

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President Obama commutes 61 prison sentences, including six from South Florida

By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. |

President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 61 people on Wednesday, all of them convicted on drug-related charges. More than a third of the 61 individuals were serving life sentences, and six were from South Florida.  In total, during his administration, Obama has commuted the sentences of 248 people, which according to the… Read More »

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