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  Feds Charge Boca Raton Salesman Involved in $3.8 Million Investment Scam

  August 20 at 9:50 a.m.

  There won't be any movies made about the multimillion-dollar scam sold by Boca Raton resident Scott Strochak. No Leonardo DiCaprio depictions, no adaptions by Martin Scorsese, and no big-money Netflix deal. In truth, Strochak's alleged scheme amounts to small potatoes when it comes to ill-gotten riches in South Florida, and even smaller in the larger world of financial chicanery. Still, $3.8 million is nothing to balk at.

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  Sentencing Set for Pompano Man Convicted in Fake Lawyer Case

  August 16 at 8:20 a.m.

  A jury in Broward Circuit Court found Kenneth Frank, of Pompano Beach, guilty of 16 charges related to practicing law without a license.

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  Jewish Group Plans #NeverAgain Protest Outside GEO Group Headquarters in Boca Raton

  August 12 at 9:47 a.m.

  Every summer, people of the Jewish faith commemorate the day of Tisha B'Av by fasting and mourning. The date memorializes the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem centuries ago. In modern times, Tisha B'Av has become an annual opportunity for activism or charitable acts — a time to practice tikkun olam, the Jewish teaching of "repairing the world."

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  Pembroke Pines Says Gun Show Must Go on Despite Protests

  August 8 at 10:54 a.m.

  Pembroke Pines officials said the city will not promote this weekend's gun show amid cries from protesters for the city to cancel its contract with Florida Gun Shows.

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  Broward Public Defenders Accuse Head Prosecutor of "Institutional Failures" of Justice

  August 8 at 9:58 a.m.

  State Attorney Mike Satz has been the top prosecutor in Broward County since 1976. He's somehow won every single reelection bid, every four years, for the past 43 years. In that time, the criminal-justice world has changed around him.

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  Feds Auction Off Homes Bought With Dirty Money From $3 Billion Pyramid Scheme

  July 25 at 10:20 a.m.

  In 2017, James Merrill of Massachusetts was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a massive pyramid scheme that fleeced roughly 1.8 million people out of more than $3 billion. Merrill and his partner, Carlos Wanzeler, made off like bandits with millions in illegitimate gains they dumped into 21 South Florida properties.