Stet News🔌 FPL’s request for a rate increase was put on hold Monday while stakeholders explore a possible settlement. (News Service of Florida)
🧑🏽⚖️ A Broward County judge dismissed a criminal case against Palm Beach County mega-developer Glenn Straub last week, concluding that prosecutors had not tied the businessman to fraudulent liens his company filed against his ex-girlfriend to keep her from leaving him. (Sun-Sentinel $$$)
💊 How did a doctor, pharmacists and recruiters sell millions of oxycodone pills illegally for three years without two marquee Florida pill mill laws flagging their sales? In June, federal prosecutors accused Dr. Sergei Margulian, 58, of Hallandale Beach, of doling out oxycodone to clients he never examined, prescribing roughly 2.9 million pills out of clinics in Broward and Miami-Dade counties between 2021 and 2024. (WLRN)
🐴 An Anheuser-Busch family member pays $25 million for 42-acre equestrian training facility in Wellington. Palm Beach Equine Sports Complex LLC, managed by Scott Swerdlin, sold the equestrian training grounds at 13056 and 13026 Pierson Road to PBESC LLC, managed by Stephen Orthwein Jr. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
🚜 Jupiter Christian School plans to build a $68 million campus at the southeast corner of I-95 and Indiantown Road. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
📡 “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast hosted by Brian Crowley and Michael Williams, welcomes Eve Samples, director of Friends of the Everglades. (Listen here. Watch here)
