Break the Chain

There aren't too many internal business disputes that stump Daniel Judge III, who represents the third generation of his family to run a Manatee County aerospace manufacturing business.

It's somewhat genetic, considering Judge's grandfather was an accomplished Sarasota attorney whose clients included the heirs of circus maven John Ringling. The third-generation Judge now runs Honeycomb Company of America, a firm with more than $5 million in annual sales that makes spare airplane parts for the U.S. military.

But when Judge walked into the men's room at Honeycomb one day last year, he encountered a dispute he had never seen before: Gang graffiti spray-painted on the stall doors.