Company falls short of jobs promise, repays county $100,000

Sarasota Medical Products has survived a turbulent period and is back in growth mode, its founder says.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. October 12, 2018
File. Walt Leise III founded Sarasota Medical Products in 2010.
File. Walt Leise III founded Sarasota Medical Products in 2010.
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Manufacturing executive Walt Leise III, in one way, is a poster child for the failings of doling out public funds to a private company to hire people in the name of economic development.

 

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