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Diruzzo & Company Joins Forces With Margulis Gelfand
Fort Lauderdale, Florida —DiRuzzo & Company is proud to announce that it has joined forces with Margulis Gelfand, LLC. The firm, MARGULIS GELFAND DIRUZZO & LAMBSON, LLC, now has offices in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, MO, and Fort Lauderdale, F...
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DiRuzzo & Company, once again vindicates a pro bono client’s constitutional rights
DiRuzzo & Company, once again vindicates a pro bono client’s constitutional rights by successfully appealing to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Court of Appeals remanded to the District Court of the Virgin Islands to ...
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DiRuzzo & Company, once again vindicates a pro bono
DiRuzzo & Company, once again vindicates a pro bono client’s constitutional rights by successfully appealing to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The Court of Appeals remanded to the U.S. District Court for the Southern ...
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DiRuzzo & Company, vindicates a pro bono client’s
DiRuzzo & Company, vindicates a pro bono client’s constitutional rights by obtaining an order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The order remanded the client’s case for a new trial before a U.S. Social Security A...
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DiRuzzo & Company, representing a client pro bono
DiRuzzo & Company, representing a client pro bono, obtains a $20,513.37 attorney’s fees award against the U.S. Social Security Administration from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida....
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DiRuzzo & Company obtains a $20,060,000 final judgment in favor of a client/plaintiff
DiRuzzo & Company obtains a $20,060,000 final judgment in favor of a client/plaintiff in the 9th Circuit (Orlando, Florida) complex business litigation division....
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DiRuzzo & Company obtains an order in favor of a client/plaintiff
DiRuzzo & Company obtains an order in favor of a client/plaintiff granting sanctions against a defendant for numerous discovery violations. The order struck the defendant’s answer, affirmative defenses, and counter-claims....
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DiRuzzo & Company Obtains Summary Judgment
DiRuzzo & Company obtains summary judgment wiping out the penalties the IRS asserted for failure to comply with the Internal Revenue Code’s requirement that penalties be approved by a supervisor....
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The Jeffrey Epstein Guide to Cutting Your Tax Bill by 90%
There are a lot of theories about the sources of Jeffrey Epstein’s wealth and how he earned his one-time reputation as a brilliant money manager. One thing isn’t disputed is that he knew how to cut his......
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DiRuzzo & Company moves to dismiss all charges brought in the case of State v. Peterson
COMES NOW, the Defendant, SCOT RALPH PETERSON, by and through the undersigned counsel, pursuant to Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.190, U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Fla. Const. art. I, § 9, U.S. Const. art. I, §§ 9......
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BlueHippo Contempt Ruling Violated Automatic Stay: 2nd Circ.
Rulings by summary order do not have precedential effect. Citation to a summary order filed on or after January 1, 2007, is permitted and is governed by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 and this Court’s Local Rule 32.1.1. When citing a s...
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IRS Whistleblower Reward Suit Revived By DC Circ.
Joseph A. DiRuzzo III argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant. Carlton M. Smith was on the brief for amicus curiae The Federal Tax Clinic of the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School in support of the appellant. Janet A. Bradley...
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Former Parkland security officer Scot Peterson charged with neglect for not entering school
A former Parkland, Florida, school safety officer who failed to confront the gunman when 17 people were fatally shot at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year, was arrested Tuesday on multiple charges...
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Parkland deputy who failed to confront school shooter arrested on 11 criminal charges
Scot Peterson, the former Broward Sheriff’s deputy responsible for protecting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, has been criminally charged for failing to confront a gunman who metho...
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Families of Parkland school shooting victims file lawsuits charging negligence
More than 20 lawsuits filed by the families of Parkland school shooting victims accuse the Broward County school board, sheriff's office and others with negligence for failing to prevent the massacre that left 17 people dead and 17 injured....
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Taking away Scot Peterson's pension unconstitutional, attorney says; mayor seeks Broward's support for effort
Attorneys representing former Broward Sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson put state officials on notice Tuesday that proposed legislation to strip him of his state pension is unconstitutional and will be challeng...
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ANTHONY MEGGS AND BETH MEGGS, Petitioners v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
T.C. Memo. 2019-5 UNITED STATES TAX COURT ANTHONY MEGGS AND BETH MEGGS, Petitioners v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent Docket No.14604-12. Filed February 4, 2019. Christopher J. Rajotte, Joseph A. DiRuzzo III, Jeffrey J. ...
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V.I.-based corrugated roofing manufacturer joins excise tax lawsuit
A St. Thomas-based manufacturer with a plant on St. Croix is seeking to join the federal lawsuit that has temporarily halted the excise tax, and asked that the territorial government be found in contempt, court documents show....
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New legal challenge to Trump’s pick at Justice Department
A convicted drug trafficker from the Dominican Republic has joined the ranks of those challenging President Donald Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general. Due to a technical issue raised by a fede...
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Officer in Parkland shooting fights subpoena and refuses to testify
(CNN)The school resource officer, criticized for not entering the building to confront the Parkland shooter, will not testify in an investigation of the shooting. Scot Peterson's lawyer, Joseph DiRuzzo III, told CNN that the former resource office...
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Former deputy Peterson a no-show at Parkland shooting hearing
Scot Peterson, the disgraced Broward sheriff’s deputy who hid in a stairwell during the Parkland school shooting, refused to appear Thursday before the state commission investigating the massacre....
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Court documents: V.I. owed taxpayers $97 million
ST. THOMAS — Documents filed in a potential class action lawsuit against the government show the government owes far more in unpaid tax returns than has been publicly stated. The latest lawsuit, filed in late August in U.S. District Cou...
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I’m no coward, says deputy who didn’t go inside Parkland school during massacre
Broward Deputy Scot Peterson says he is no coward. The longtime campus cop at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has been nationally ridiculed over the last week for his response to a mass shooter on camp...
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Florida officer Scot Peterson defends response to Parkland shooting
The sheriff's deputy blamed for failing to enter a Florida high school while 17 people were killed said Monday that he's been unfairly labeled a coward and that he did nothing wrong. A lawyer representing Scot Peterson said...
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Manafort Faces Charges That Are Tough to Beat
One of the more serious crimes alleged against former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates is money laundering conspiracy. For that one count alone, they face a maximum of 20 years in prison....
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High Risk, and Drama, if Sen. Menendez Testifies at His Bribery Trial
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is on trial in U.S. District Court in Newark, charged in a bribery scheme in which he allegedly accepted gifts from a Florida eye doctor in exchange for using his Senate office to benefit the doctor's financial and perso...
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The IRS Declares War on Offshore Tax Evasion
From election-cycle news reports of Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts in Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands to the recent revelations that Apple has stashed its pot of gold beneath Ireland’s tax-favorable rainbow, offshore tax avoidance has been fro...
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