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What you need to know about Florida today
› Andy Garcia might shoot his next movie in Tampa
He battled Danny Ocean in Las Vegas and Al Capone in Chicago. Next up for actor Andy Garcia, whose more than 100 credits include Ocean’s Eleven and The Untouchables, might be a movie role that has him playing a detective who seeks to prove his innocence in Tampa.
› 3 South Florida ‘brokers’ charged in $4.9 million scam that SEC says targeted seniors
Three felons who played stockbrokers are the latest charged in a $4.9 million penny stock scam swirling around Palm Beach Gardens-based NIT Enterprises. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Hollywood’s Mason Newman, Boca Raton’s Christian Baquerizo and Fort Lauderdale’s Kevin Cardenas with fraudulently selling $1.4 million of NIT stock to primarily senior citizens, from 2015 through November 2019.
› Lakeland man goes from COVID-19 unemployment to Auntie Anne's food truck franchisee
For Adrienne and Jerry Garvey, everything went wrong in the middle of May. Things started to go downhill two months earlier, in March. Jerry Garvey, 48, joined millions of Americans who were sleep walking through their worst nightmare: unemployment in the middle of a pandemic. After nearly 18 years of service with soft pretzel giant Auntie Anne's, he was laid off as the company experienced financial strain stemming from COVID-19 business closures.
› City of Jacksonville expects reimbursement for $153,000 in GOP convention planning costs
The city of Jacksonville expects the 2020 Jacksonville Host Committee will cover about $153,000 the city spent to prepare for the Republican National Convention that was slated for Jacksonville before coronavirus concerns forced its cancellation.
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