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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2010
WCI retires $300M in debt

The company has reduced its debt by 68% in the past 15 months.

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  • March 9, 2011
WCI launches iPad app

The Bonita Springs-based firm is billing the application as the first of its kind.

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  • February 1, 2012
Real estate group elects board

Fort Myers' Real Estate Investment Society has new leaders for 2012.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • September 16, 2016
Engineering firm appoints leader

Snell Engineering works in the commercial, residential and municipal sectors.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 4, 2015
Lee multifamily permits jump

Builders in Lee County pulled significantly more multifamily building permits in January than they did the same month one year ago.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 24, 2025
National gym chain signs St. Petersburg, Fort Myers leases

EōS Fitness, which has seven locations along the Gulf Coast, is opening its first SWFL gym next year as part of its expansion statewide.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2013
Hall voted after guilty plea

Lee County Commissioner Tammy Hall voted on the county's crucial annual budget after she admitted stealing campaign funds, documents show.

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  • July 20, 2011
Broker gets light sentence

Bradenton mortgage broker aided prosecution of co-conspirator.

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  • November 17, 2015
Woman sentenced for role in investor scheme

Victoria Snow and Brian Newton both face prison terms.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • April 13, 2026
AI-based system elevates cardiac care at Manatee Memorial

A new platform helps cardiologists identify blockages and reduces the need for invasive techniques.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 17, 2023
Tampa school's former business manager sentenced in $1.1M tuition scam

The Largo man was charged by federal prosecutors for scheming to move tuition payments into personal accounts and giving false information to get more than $1 million in mortgages.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 1, 2023
Boiler room co-conspirator to pay $14 million and serve 11 years

A Georgia woman was sentenced in Tampa for using bank accounts to launder money from an international boiler room scam.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • September 24, 2010
Fraudsters multiply with unemployment

The Better Business Bureau of West Florida has issued a warning about various scam artists attempting to take advantage of jobless residents along the Gulf Coast.

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  • July 24, 2013
International fraud scheme netted more than $137M

Telemarketers in Spain boiler rooms sold fraudulent penny stocks.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 12, 2016
Pair charged in BP oil spill settlement scam

A federal grand jury indicted two Fort Myers Beach men for allegedly filing false claims to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement fund.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • June 2, 2016
Broker pleads guilty to mortgage scheme

He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • October 31, 2014
Former area money manager accused of $1.5M theft

Credit Suisse is suing Galbraith Capital Investment Management and its manager for money it says it accidentally sent the hedge fund.

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  • September 30, 2015
Woman filed 1,000 false tax returns; used dead people

A federal judge sentenced a Tampa woman who filed more than 1,000 false tax returns using stolen identities.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • December 16, 2005
Provisional Situation

Gulf Coast banks lowered their loss reserves during the real estate boom. Watch this bookkeeping entry going forward. It will say a lot about the economy - and quality of a bank's loans.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 21, 2007
Man of Steel

Mario Longi has helped build Tampa-based Gerdau AmeriSteel into the nation's No. 2 steel recycler. He's aiming higher.

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