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News They gave $25 million to Jewish nonprofits. Was some of that money laundered from Ukraine?
The Lubavitch Educational Center, a set of schools in South Florida teaching toddlers and Talmud scholars alike, nearly went out of business in 2013. Past due on an $8 million loan, the center was facing foreclosure on three properties, including its main campus, an 84,020-square-foot behemoth on seven acres. A company made up of the…
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Breaking News Can A Jew From Miami Beach Be Florida’s Next Governor? Philip Levine Says Yes.
MIAMI (JTA) — One candidate for governor is a former congresswoman and the daughter of a former governor and U.S. senator. Another candidate is a mayor who grew up in a blue collar African-American family. A third political newcomer is a Harvard graduate who builds affordable housing. Florida has been known as a place where…
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Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine isn’t shy about his gubernatorial ambitions. Nor has he made a secret of his passion for animal rights, specifically those of the Orca whale Lolita from the city’s Seaquarium. But is Levine using his call to free Lolita to leverage a quick political boost? Politico reported that Levine intends to…
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Fast Forward Homeless Man Charged With Scratching Swastikas On Miami Beach Cars
(JTA) — A homeless man has been arrested for scratching swastikas into several cars in a Jewish neighborhood in Miami Beach. The swastikas were found keyed on the cars on Feb. 26, including on a car owned by a non-Jewish family. Timothy Merriam, 61, was arrested Tuesday and will be charged with criminal mischief. Police…
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News Plot Thickens in Miami Murder
And the Miami murder money plot thickens. Relatives of slain hotel scion Ben Novack Jr. plan to challenge the validity of a will that left his estimated $10 million fortune to his wife, Narcy Novack, on the grounds that she intimidated him into signing the document. Mark Hanson, a lawyer representing Ben Novack Jr.’s aunt…
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News Miami Murder Money Hunt Heats Up
The lurid Miami hotel heir murder tale keeps on producing headlines even after the courtoom doors have shut: Now that the convictions have been doled out, it is time to start follow the money. Within hours of ex-stripper Narcy Novack’s conviction for setting up the murders of her husband, Ben Novack Jr., and mother-in-law, Bernice…
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