A new low point in the Airways Auto Tag Agency case and a major victory in a high profile federal mortgage fraud case...

Just when I though I had seen everything in the Airways Auto Tag Agency case, yesterday we arrived at an all time new low.  The other night while cruising the court docket for the defendants charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the tag agency, I came across a troubling item, a motion to revoke the defendants bond.  I couldn't figure out what the hell this was all about as all three defendants had no criminal histories and as far as I knew were abiding by the terms of their bond.  I ran over to the courthouse to get a copy of the states motion to revoke these poor girls bond, here it is...

Motion to Revoke Bond for Lizbeth Mojica and Yamela Romero

Fucking disgusting.  What was the most troubling, at least for me, about this motion was item # 16...

So according to Prosecutor Warren Eth, the defendants are using this blog to harass and intimidate the victims by what they perceive to exposure?  Exposure to what, the TRUTH?  Trust me, the women charged in this case have absolutely nothing to do with this blog or anything that we've done over the last three years.  This motion and the hearing yesterday really have gotten under my skin.  I've remained neutral throughout the telling of this tag agency story, all we've done to date is show that there is no way anyone with a modicum of common sense could have charged these three girls.  This latest move, surely driven by the owners of the tag agency, to throw these girls in jail while they await trial is just indicative of how badly they need to have these girls locked up in order to absolve themselves of any wrong doing.  We're going to talk about this in more detail on Monday, rest assured, Judge Bloom saw through all this bullshit the state was trying to sell and Prosecutor Eth subsequently withdrew his motion.

Robin Kaplan

Now, back to mortgage fraud for a moment, one of the cases we've been following came to an end this week, the Versailles mortgage fraud case that involved several City of Miami firefighters and also included some of the defendants from the Veldora Arthur mortgage fraud case.  All of the defendants in that case, including City of Miami firefighter Thomas Thelusma cut deals from the get go while one defendant, Attorney Michael Samuda, went to trial.  Yesterday, Mr Samuda was found not guilty on four counts and the jury came back hung on the remaining three counts before federal Judge Marra.  Congrats to attorney Robin Kaplan and second chair Jeffrey Neiman, well done!