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Dusko Bruer pictured with one of his yachts and his Lake Worth property. (Facebook via Bruer, Southern District of Florida | United States District Court)
A Palm Beach County resident was sentenced to 24 months in prison for evading taxes and hiding funds in offshore accounts, bankrolling his lavish lifestyle that included buying a $1.6 million Lake Worth Beach mansion.
Dusko Bruer, who owned and ran the profitable farming equipment company American Made Equipment, did not report $7.7 million in income from 2007 to 2014 and secretly stashed nearly $6.3 million in Swiss, German, Serbian and Croatian banks, prosecutors said in court filings. He did not file tax returns and also filed false tax forms, evading payment of nearly $2.8 million to the Internal Revenue Service.
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The Women Who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein
From schedulers to socialites, they helped keep the late financier’s sex trafficking scheme operating, or helped rehabilitate him after he faced jail time. Now some say they’re victims.
Illustration by Valerie Chiang
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Tara Palmeri is a POLITICO reporter and co-author of Playbook. She was the host of the investigative podcasts Broken: Seeking Justice and Power: The Maxwells.
It was a crisp, gray day in January 2020 when I stepped out of my Uber onto what looked like industrial wasteland, a concrete-scape
dotted with smokestacks and graffitied shipping containers. I pushed through the glass door of an old brick factory and found myself inside the pristine white walls of the Mana Contemporary arts center. In the lobby, I waited until a petite woman with jet black hair walked in with her Yorkshire terrier, Mozie.
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CFPB s Next Stop Is Appeal As Ocwen Win Is Finalized In Fla.
Law360 (April 21, 2021, 8:19 PM EDT) A Florida federal judge on Wednesday entered final judgment for Ocwen Financial Corp. in a mortgage servicing misconduct suit brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting the stage for an appeal by the agency after its case was gutted last month.
The move by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra frees the CFPB to challenge his March ruling that concluded the agency s long-running lawsuit against Ocwen and its subsidiaries was largely precluded by a 2014 national settlement concerning the company s mortgage servicing practices.
Case over Jeffrey Epstein s sweetheart deal could be headed for Supreme Court
Former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell faces new federal charges UP NEXT On a Friday afternoon in July 2008, 20-year-old Courtney Wild appeared in federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, demanding answers from federal prosecutors about their investigation of multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who allegedly sexually abused Wild and dozens of other underage girls at his waterfront mansion on Palm Beach Island. Her legal action forced the government s admission that the U.S. Attorney s Office in Miami already had reached a confidential deal with Epstein several months earlier, without informing the alleged victims. Over 12 years of litigation, Wild s case ultimately exposed details of the secret negotiations between prosecutors and Epstein s high-priced legal team that led to the controversial agreement.