Ex-Eagle chairman gets nine years in fraud case
By Palm Beach Post Staff Reports
Saturday, May 22, 2004
BOCA RATON -- Anthony D'Amato, former chairman of Eagle Building Technologies Inc. (OTC: EGBT.PK) in Boca Raton, was sentenced Friday to nine years for stock fraud.
D'Amato was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Miami by Judge Jose Martinez. The FBI arrested D'Amato in 2002 as part of a stock-fraud sting that netted 58 arrests in South Florida.
Louis Vuitton store opens at the Gardens
PALM BEACH GARDENS -- Louis Vuitton, a division of luxury goods seller LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (OTC: LVMUY, $13.55), opened a store Friday at The Gardens mall.
The store, located on the upper level, sells accessories, luggage and men's and women's shoes. The 3,000-square-foot store is next to Tiffany and Co., another luxury retailer, which opened May 6. Also coming to the mall is upscale retailer Nordstrom, which is replacing Burdines. Nordstrom is due to open in the spring of 2006.
Officials rededicate Glades General
BELLE GLADE -- Hospital and Health Care District of Palm Beach County officials rededicated Glades General Hospital on Friday, marking the health care district's repurchase of the beleaguered 73-bed hospital.
About 200 hospital employees and people from the community attended the ceremony outside the hospital. Three weeks ago, the district bought the hospital from Province Healthcare Corp. of Brentwood, Tenn., for $1.3 million.
In 1999, Province had bought the hospital from the district for $15 million. |
