LETTER from the Florida President, Susan Marie Smith
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South Florida ACG Awards Ceremony
6/7/2012 - (Westin Fort Lauderdale) -Fort Lauderdale, FL
6/14 Bankruptcy Networking Happy Hour
6/14/2012 - (ER Bradley' Saloon) -West Palm Beach, FL
Annual TMA/CFA Tampa Baseball Outing
6/28/2012 - (Tropicana Field) -Saint Petersburg, FL
Annual TMA/CFA South Florida Baseball Outing
7/23/2012 - (Sun Life Stadium) -FL
9/25 Tampa Luncheon
9/25/2012 - (Centre Club) -Tampa, FL
Business News from around Florida TMA News releases
Sentences handed down in Memorial Healthcare bribery case
5/18/2012 - Four people who were convicted of defrauding the Memorial Healthcare System in a bribery scheme were sentenced to prison by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra on Friday. Thomas Kennedy, of Davie, was sentenced to 42 months in prison. Richard Cohen, of Wellington, and Paul Chaiet, a CPA, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison. Thomas Pacchioli was sentenced to three years of probation and 180 days of home confinement. All must pay restitution for the $15 million scheme, in which vendors paid kickbacks...
Google to host RNC party at Tampa Museum of Art
5/18/2012 - 
Google will host a party for the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Museum of Art on Aug. 30.
The Internet company (Nasdaq: GOOG) is the convention’s official social platform and live stream provider.
Google will rent the museum for the bash.
TMA’s 66,000-square-foot facility is located in Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. It features seven interior galleries, an exterior sculpture gallery and the Sono Café.
The RNC is scheduled the week of Aug. 27.
Slideshow: 52% increase in Florida docs losing licenses
5/18/2012 - 
The number of doctors who lost their license in Florida jumped 52 percent from 2010 to 2011, from 95 to 144, according to data released May 17 by the Federation of State Medical Boards.
Nationwide, the number of doctors who lost their license to revocation, suspensions, surrender or mandatory retirement jumped 5 percent, from 1,815 in 2010 to 1,905 in 2011. The total number of actions — including revocations, restrictions, other prejudicial actions and non-prejudicial actions — jumped about...
Five minutes with Trevor Hall Jr.
5/18/2012 - 
Sometimes a piece of property just needs a new lease on life — no pun intended.
According to Orlando land broker Trevor Hall Jr., that’s exactly what we need to see to help improve Central Florida’s commercial real estate market. In fact, Hall said we built many of the properties we needed in our area in the 1980s and ’90s, so now it’s just a matter of updating the uses of those buildings or vacant parcels — a concept known as adaptive reuse or repurposing.
Several buildings and properties...
