FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) — Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed, according to court documents filed today. ...more

November 9, 2009

An Indiana money manager charged with trying to fake his death in a plane crash began to change over the past year - ultimately revealing a double life - after he started an affair, his estranged wife said Friday. ...more

February 13, 2009

A Florida hedge fund manager accused of bilking investors of up to $350 million told family members he expected to be labeled a "mini-Madoff" after disappearing on a two-week jaunt across the country before turning himself in, court documents filed Thursday show. ...more

February 12, 2009

Things may look bleak for Florida's public university system, where schools are slashing budgets and laying off workers because of a tight state budget. ...more

February 12, 2008