280:' holding company, Miami FC, LLC, over money loaned to the struggling club. Edwards claimed that the team had failed to pay him back $ 300,000 in loans. He sought damages and foreclosure on Fort Lauderdale's assets in the lawsuit. A signed promissory note showed that the collateral put up to secure the loans included the team's patents, copyrights, trademarks, rights to use of the name "Fort Lauderdale Strikers" along with other tangible assets.
222:, but the deal was never completed. After the failure of the deal, Mortgage Investors stopped making new home loans and laid off the majority of its staff. In 2015, two mortgage brokers that never did any business with MIC sued Edwards, alleging that Mortgage Investors had defrauded veteran home buyers and the
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for $ 5.35 million. This property was a guest home and had a footprint of over eight thousand square feet, with 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and 2 half bathrooms. Before the sale, the combination of this guest house and the other next-door property was valued at nearly $ 20 million.
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Edwards Foundation for the Arts" which hosts many events for school children throughout the year. In 2023 the Mahaffey would open up a fine dining restaurant, Sonata.
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program and the re-establishment of a music therapy student internship program. Additionally, the donation supported the expansion of programming and access to the
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patient education and information system via bedside televisions.
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