#Florida
10 entries tagged Florida.
People (4)
- Alexander Lightner Alexander Lightner is a Venice, Florida Terrorgram Collective member who threatened a mass casualty event in a private Terrorgram chat in December 2023, was arrested by the FBI in January 2024, and was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a self-made firearm silencer.
- Henry Skip Clements Henry T. 'Skip' Clements was a private consultant in Stuart, Florida who obtained copies of U.S. Customs Agent Ramon Martinez's 1987 reports on The Finders and brought them to Congress in October 1993, helping trigger the DOJ reinvestigation of the case.
- Tom Lewis Thomas F. Lewis (1924-1998) was a Republican congressman from Florida who, along with Rep. Charlie Rose, received documents from private consultant Henry 'Skip' Clements in October 1993 and applied pressure to the DOJ that helped trigger the reinvestigation of The Finders case.
- Walter Kreitlow Walter Kreitlow was the U.S. Customs Special Agent in Tallahassee who filed the first Customs Service report on the Finders investigation on February 12, 1987, documenting his agency's entry into the case following the February 4 child welfare arrests.
Organizations (1)
- Adelphi Academies Adelphi Academies was a private children's school in Florida owned by a wealthy individual named Peter Bradford.
Events (2)
- 2017 Tampa Atomwaffen Murders On May 19, 2017, AWD member Devon Arthurs killed two fellow members at a shared Tampa apartment, triggering the first national exposure of Atomwaffen Division and leading directly to founder Brandon Russell's first federal arrest.
- Bollea v. Gawker Bollea v. Gawker Media was the 2016 Florida invasion-of-privacy trial in which Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) won a 140 million dollar verdict against Gawker Media over its 2012 publication of a sex tape, a judgment secretly funded by Peter Thiel that drove Gawker into bankruptcy and ended the outlet.
Places (3)
- 358 El Brillo Way Waterfront Palm Beach mansion owned by Jeffrey Epstein where the 2005 Palm Beach Police Department investigation began after a parent reported that her teenage stepdaughter had been molested there.
- Miami Major South Florida city that became the center of the Nicaraguan exile community, a hub for Contra fundraising and cocaine trafficking, and Danilo Blandón's base after leaving Los Angeles.
- Opa Locka Opa Locka was a location in the Miami area connected to Contra operations and aircraft used in the drug trafficking and weapons supply network.