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Ron Hurtibise

Embezzled by casino employees, laundered by spouses: Florida tribe sues to recover stolen $5.3 million

The true-crime saga began, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit, in May 2015 with an anonymous tip to the Miccosukee Tribe.

Following convictions of four employees, three wives and a girlfriend, the story still isn’t over. Now the tribe is suing its insurance company to recover $5.3 million swindled in an elaborate scheme that went undetected for more than four years at the Miccosukee Casino & Resort in western Miami-Dade County.

It was a caper worthy of the film “Goodfellas,” minus the violence.

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