
Steffani Russo


PNC, Fla. Hotel Developers Seek Exit From EB-5 Fraud Suit
PNC Bank and developers of a now-shuttered Miami Beach hotel asked a judge on Wednesday to let them out of a fraud suit by Chinese investors, arguing the investors had failed to tie the bank and the hotel to an alleged scheme to embezzle their EB-5 visa investment money. In a telephone hearing before U.S.

Investors Say Hotel Developers Can’t Shake EB-5 Fraud Suit
Chinese investors claiming they were duped into sinking $500,000 apiece into a Florida hotel development project through the EB-5 visa program said the companies behind the project can’t shake their fraud suit. The group of investors told a Florida federal judge Thursday that their allegations against the developers, referred to as the Greystone entities after

Investors Say PNC Was ‘Intimately Involved’ In EB-5 Fraud
A group of Chinese investors asked a Florida federal judge on Wednesday not to let PNC Bank walk away from a lawsuit accusing it of being “intimately involved” in a fraud scheme that misappropriated the investors’ funds by hijacking the EB-5 visa program. PNC said in December that the suit is “woefully insufficient” in alleging

Developers Want Out Of EB-5 Fraud Claims Over Fla. Hotel
A group of companies behind a Miami hotel project urged a Florida federal judge Thursday to shield them from allegations that they helped scam Chinese investors and dashed their chances of winning a green card through the EB-5 visa program. The companies, referred to as the Greystone entities after the hotel project, claimed the investors’

‘What Happened Was So Wrong’: Broward Lawyers Win $5M For Family of Woman Killed by Police Patrol Car
If speeding Okeechobee Deputy Sheriff Joseph Gracie would have used his lights and sirens in response to an emergency call, 21-year-old Hilda Medrano would not have been “needlessly killed,” argued Edward H. Zebersky and Steffani M. Russo of Zebersky Payne in Fort Lauderdale. Edward H. Zebersky and Steffani M. Russo of Zebersky Payne in Fort Lauderdale landed a