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Real estate developer Glenn Straub was arrested and charged with larceny and filing fake liens against a former girlfriend. Straub was the former owner of Broward Yachts. Story from the Palm Beach Post is below... https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200117/wellington-developer-glenn-straub-charged-with-crime Wellington developer Glenn Straub is being booked this morning into the Palm Beach County jail. Glenn Straub, the powerful Palm Beach Polo developer, is in the Palm Beach County jail this morning after being charged with larceny involving the filing of a fake lien, authorities said. Straub, 73, posted $11,000 bail late this morning, a PBSO booking clerk said. Charging documents were not immediately available. But the charge is related to a civil lawsuit filed in 2018 by a former girlfriend who accused Straub of directing Palm Beach Polo to file fraudulent liens against properties she owned. The woman, Jessica Nicodemo, claimed Straub filed the false liens because he was angry that she broke up with him, as reported by The Palm Beach Post in November 2018. Her civil suit also accused Straub of physically threatening her. A call to Straub’s long-time lawyer, Craig Galle, was not immediately returned. A spokesman for Straub, Jose Lambiet, released a statement saying: “Here we have a vindictive ex-girlfriend who has turned a simple civil dispute over her unpaid construction bills into a criminal complaint by spinning false tales to law enforcement. “The construction liens that are at (the) heart of this dispute were filed not by Mr. Straub, but by a company of which Mr. Straub is a stockholder. “The complainant/ex-girlfriend is clearly seeking to embarrass Mr. Straub, a high-profile Palm Beach businessman, by publicly airing her false accusations. “Mr. Straub will fight these charges vigorously and expects to be exonerated.” Elizabeth Parker, Nicodemo’s attorney, said the evidence that led to the charges proves that Straub and his company filed fraudulent liens. “Glenn Straub told Jessica in a phone call recorded by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office that he filed the liens to control her, he didn’t want her to move away and most importantly, that she didn’t owe him any money,″ Parker said. “Despite his admissions, and the overwhelming evidence showing the liens and claims were fraudulent, Mr. Straub has used his money and power to try to destroy Jessica. Jessica has bravely fought these false claims in the face of being put into financial ruin and the emotional toll this has taken on her life. “The criminal charges send a strong message that Glenn Straub is not above the law.″ Click to expand...

olderboater Senior Member

Go Jessica. That will teach him. Obviously, the DA believes her or they would simply say "It's a civil matter." Sad that any relationship ends up like theirs.

Capt Ralph Senior Member

Another battle of who is more stupid. She had a sugar daddy and he had another show piece. Nothing like this is ever free or without induced pain. SFBs. Except for a past owner of a boat yard, the story is not worth Carl's ink. It would be cheaper and quicker for them both locked up a while based on just being stupid fools.

Capt Ralph said: ↑ Except for a past owner of a boat yard, the story is not work Carl's ink. . Click to expand...

Ralph Holiman New Member

Women, they make you crazy!

Pascal Senior Member

As usual... the only winners is this pathetic stories will be the lawyers.

Pascal said: ↑ As usual... the only winners is this pathetic stories will be the lawyers. Click to expand...

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Women is wrapping up annual GYN visit. Sheepishly, she asks doctor if she can ask a “personal” question that may be a bit embarrassing. Good doctor assures her that there is no reason for shyness, over the years, he’s heard everything. She proceeds to tell the Dr. that her husband was interested in back door sex, and she was wondering, from a medical perspective, if this would be OK? Dr. Does a quick exam, then assures her that there shouldn’t be any problems, just use protection. Confused, the woman questions “what do you mean by protection”? Dr. answers “Birth Control” now, thoroughly confused, the woman says “I didn’t know a woman could get pregnant via back door sex” Dr. Responds “of course they can, where do you think Lawyers come from”... i apologize in advance... wanted to use a more anatomically correct term than “back door” butt got blocked.

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Revel Owner Glenn Straub Super Yacht Available for Sale – #YachtLife

Ever wonder what the inside of Glenn Straub’s yacht dubbed “Triumphant Lady” looks like? Popfeeder has uncovered pictures of the yacht that Glenn Straub calls home in Atlantic City. This 154’ foot yacht is currently docked at Farley’s Marina across from the Golden Nugget Casino. Mr. Straub was recently shacked up in the empty Revel until ACR cut the lights and water. Seeking a hot shower, Straub chartered the Triumphant Lady on a journey up the Atlantic from his digs in Florida.

Straub Spends $32,000 to Fill up the Gas Tank

The yacht has a whopping 13,700 gallon fuel tank. At the average price of $2.35 a gallon for diesel fuel, Straub will spend more than $32,000 to fill up the gas tank. Between the diesel generators and Straub’s Triumphant Lady, Polo North’s Atlantic City assets are sucking up more diesel fuel than the Gulf of Mexico!

Is the Triumphant Lady for Sale?

You betcha. The shrewd capitalist has the Triumphant Lady up for sale for cool $8.9 million. The Boat was built by Sterling Yachts in 1985 and since been updated with an extensive hull extension and renovation of the interior in 2009. The mechanical equipment has been updated with the latest state-of-the-art sailing equipment allowing the vessel to reach 14.5 knots.

Mr. Straub if you are reading this article, from the comfort of the Triumphant Lady, please let us know when you want to host a sick party on your yacht. We can book you a world class DJ and make it one for the books! After all, we did pack out that place that you now own called HQ 😉

Triumphant Lady Stats

• Built in 1985
• Renovated in 2009
• Length: 154’11”
• Accommodates up to 10 people
• Sailing Speed: 14.5 Knots
• Fuel Capacity: 13,700 Gallons
• Amenities: Gym, Jacuzzi
• Price: $8,900,000

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Romantic revenge? Polo club developer dates women, then sues them

WELLINGTON, Fla. — Mega-developer Glenn Straub is a proud, hard-nosed businessman with a reputation as a litigious bulldog quick to pounce with lawsuits over broken deals and delinquent debts.

But two former girlfriends say he’s dragging them into court over a more personal breach — a broken heart.

Former Wellington, Fla., resident Jessica Nicodemo, 34, and Lacy K. Bridges, 24, of Charleston, S.C., accuse Straub, 72, of filing frivolous lawsuits against them as revenge for breaking off romantic relationships with him, court documents show.

Nicodemo’s accusations are also part of a criminal investigation into whether Straub, spurned by her efforts to break up with him, physically threatened her and directed Palm Beach Polo to file fraudulent liens against properties she owned in Loxahatchee Groves and Wellington.

Gov. Rick Scott  transferred the criminal case to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office last year because Nicodemo and Straub are friends with Palm Beach County State Attorney  Dave Aronberg  and his ex-wife, Lynn Aronberg — both of whom are witnesses in the civil case.

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Nicodemo, whose civil counterclaim includes copies of revealing text messages, said she and Bridges are not the only women Straub has dated and then targeted with lawsuits.

Three other younger women, including a former Mrs. Florida, have been sued by Straub companies since 2013 over alleged debts or eviction from his yacht. In those cases, the women did not raise a spurned-lover defense.

Straub, owner of Palm Beach Polo and Country Club in Wellington, said he dated the women and had intimate relationships with some of them, according to a deposition. But he said his company, Palm Beach Polo Inc., sued because they failed to either repay loans, pay for work done by Palm Beach Polo or return company-owned jewelry, clothes and credit cards.

“I’m not a romanticist. I’m a business person. You do something, I charge you for it. You do not pay your bills, I send you a bill and my people know how to put liens on things because we do it all the time,” said Straub, who has been divorced since 2007 and has two adult daughters.

“This ‘me too’ thing, that’s pretty much what this case is around, and it’s not right,” he said, referring to the #MeToo movement of accusations of unwanted sexual contact against powerful men over the past two years.

But Nicodemo and Bridges are not accusing him of unwanted sexual contact. They’re accusing him of retaliation.

“He will loan money to vulnerable women. And if they cross him, if they won’t date him or won’t have sex with him, if they break up with him, that’s when he takes legal action,” said Palm Beach Gardens attorney  Elizabeth Parker , who represents Nicodemo.

“It’s stalking through the courts.”

Glenn Straub: Once called himself ‘a dictator’

No stranger to controversy, Straub is one of the most successful real estate developers in Palm Beach County, a builder, investor and a lender with a talent for mining gold from distressed properties and a penchant for butting heads with opponents big and small.

“We turn around sick companies, like a doctor does for a patient,” said Straub, a West Virginia native who built his fortune from asphalt and concrete companies he acquired in the Ohio Valley steel region after inheriting, at the age of 17, his late father’s transportation businesses.

In one of his biggest local coups, he bought the 2,250-acre  Palm Beach Polo Club  in  Wellington  at a government auction for $27 million in 1993, rescuing the then-backwater development from financial ruin and making millions by flipping more than 600 acres.

Today, Palm Beach Polo a world-class community that has attracted visits from the British royal family and boasts celebrity homeowners such as Bruce Springsteen, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg.

“I’m a hands-on operations person who kind of gives inspiration to the company,” said Straub, who once owned the now-demolished  Miami Arena  and recently made millions flipping the  Revel Casino (now called Ocean Resort Casino) in Atlantic City.

Along the way, he has forged connections to powerful people, including  Aronberg , Palm Beach County Circuit Judge  Jeffrey Colbath  and President  Donald Trump .

But he can be pugnacious and polarizing, too. “I’m a dictator,” he said at a property owners association meeting 20 years ago after a homeowner questioned his development plans.

One day last summer, he caused a stir when he arrived at Palm Beach Polo’s gated entrance. “Straub refused to show his ID and drove his brown Bentley convertible coupe through the gate, causing the gate arm to fall off,” a deputy said in a July  Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office report , which noted “this is not the first incident they had with Straub.”

He reminisces about alleged scrapes with the Ohio Mafia in the 1970s, and he  once described  going to court against the government as “a little hobby of mine.”

Nothing is off limits when Straub picks a court fight, whether it’s against equestrian developer  Mark Bellissimo  for failing to provide Straub with the best tables at horse events, the village of  Wellington for flooding his land, or the New Jersey gaming commission over a  casino license .

“I will not run from anybody,” he replied when asked in a deposition this summer about his penchant for litigation. “Do I enjoy it? I just won’t run from it. I’m not going to give in.”

He tries to downplay perceptions of his influence. “I’m just a little guy from Wheeling, West Virginia,” he told The Palm Beach Post.

Although he and his companies own luxury cars, a 160-foot yacht and property around the world, he said he loves to fly the no-frill Spirit Airlines — and not just because of its nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale to Atlantic City. “I can save a lot,” he said in a deposition. “That’s how stingy I am.”

As for his social life, Straub, who  plays polo  and tennis, said he goes out almost every night because he doesn’t like to cook.

If he’s not hanging out with friends at favorite haunts like  Twin Peaks  in West Palm Beach or  Meat Market  in Palm Beach, he said he goes out on dinner dates.

“I’ve dated in 10 years over 15 young ladies,” Straub said in a deposition, adding that he often offers life advice to his friends’ adult children.

“I probably see myself as a senior trying to help the juniors around to get up through life and do certain things,” he said, “but when they are contaminated with drinking, it’s a lot harder.”

Straub says he has remained friendly with many of the women he has dated.

Five of them might feel differently.

Jessica Nicodemo: Chance meeting on a flight

Nicodemo said she met Straub more than 10 years ago when she started dating Kevin Swerdlin, the son of prominent Wellington veterinarian Scott Swerdlin.

When she married Kevin Swerdlin in 2011, Straub — a longtime friend of Scott Swerdlin — attended the wedding. She said she often took trips to the Florida Keys with the Swerdlin family on Straub’s yacht.

After her marriage fell apart, she said she ran into Straub on a flight from New York in 2015. She said she was an emotional wreck at the time because of her divorce and Straub lent her a sympathetic ear.

Straub said she mentioned financial difficulties from her divorce. They started talking to each other regularly and eventually started seeing each other.

“He was there for me during a time that I would consider the lowest in my life,” Nicodemo wrote on her Facebook page in August.

She said Straub took her to Atlantic City, and to  Casa Campo , a seaside resort in the Dominican Republic owned by the  Fanjul sugar growers  of Palm Beach. She also said she dined with Straub and then-candidate Donald Trump at least twice at Mar-a-Lago.

She said she loved Straub and claimed they talked about marriage, which Straub denies.

They had gotten so close, she said, that Straub offered to do free work on her properties. Between Sept. 1 and Nov. 15, 2016, Palm Beach Polo performed $77,000 of construction and yard work at her Loxahatchee Groves house and remodeling, landscaping and pool and patio repair at her Wellington townhouse, according to the  company’s lawsuit .

At no time did Straub ever ask for money for the work, which he “gratuitously offered” because they were dating, she said in court records.

‘Assault’ at a Wellington home

By late 2016, Nicodemo said she was trying to spend less time with Straub so she could focus on her professional life. She owns Pet Dental Services in Lake Worth. She also heads up two  animal charities , as president of Pet Haven Rescue and co-founder of the Coalition for Animal Rescue.

Straub got jealous, she said, and the relationship soured.

When she tried to break up, she said Straub threatened to harm her physically and financially by placing liens on her property. She said she was too afraid at the time to report her allegations to law enforcement.

In January 2017, Palm Beach Polo filed  liens  against her  properties . The company  sued her  two months later. The lawsuit included  copies  of work  invoices  from November 2016 that Nicodemo said she’d never seen before.

Nine days after Polo sued her, she called PBSO to complain that Straub had threatened her five months earlier.

A heavily redacted  police report  says deputies responded to an accusation by Nicodemo of an “assault” that took place on Nov. 3, 2016, at a Wellington home. Property records list the home’s owner as Tara Lordi, who works for Straub. The report does not identify an assailant. Under weapon, the report listed “threat/intimidation.”

The complaint is part of the criminal investigation of Straub that was  transferred to Broward County State Attorney Michael Satz  in May 2017 by Gov. Scott. Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg, who requested the transfer, would not comment.

Dave and Lynn Aronberg  divorced  on Aug. 14, 2017, after less than two years of marriage. During their separation, Lynn Aronberg, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, lived part of the time with Nicodemo.

Satz’s office  would not comment, citing an ongoing investigation.

Straub denied threatening Nicodemo and said he expects to be vindicated. But he has raised questions about PBSO’s handling of the case.

‘Rogue deputies’ cleared after IA probe

After PBSO started investigating Nicodemo’s accusations last year, Straub filed  complaints with PBSO  in December about the lead detective and two other deputies who are friends with Nicodemo.

Straub accused the three  “rogue” deputies  of orchestrating “illegal” wiretap recordings of two phone calls between Nicodemo and Straub “to put pressure on Palm Beach Polo to settle the lawsuit,” PBSO records show.

Lead detective Vance Harper recorded the calls with Nicodemo’s consent, records say, a common tactic in criminal investigations and permissible under state law. Straub learned that the calls had been recorded when Nicodemo mentioned it during a civil deposition in November 2017.

All three deputies were cleared of wrongdoing this year after an internal affairs investigation, which  noted  that Straub’s complaint “omitted” the fact that Nicodemo is his former girlfriend.

On Aug. 3, Nicodemo filed a  counterclaim  accusing Straub and Palm Beach Polo treasurer Sal Spano of conspiring to file false liens to prevent her from selling her properties and “moving away” after she “made attempts to end the personal relationship and Straub’s advances.”

The counterclaim includes copies of  nearly 50 text messages  allegedly sent by Straub to Nicodemo between January and April 2017. Among them:

• “The first day you don’t check in is the first day I put a leon (lien) on your house. Then try to sell it.”
• “Can’t understand why you would want to test me. When only a call would have saved you from a boatload of trouble. I have no guilt now you deserve everything you get. Wrong move but you’re Italian and deserve what you get. One chance. Call.”
• “You know me that I have to win to teach people and I cant Waite (sic) so let talk on how I can bend without both us killing each other. Please.”

Straub, who said Nicodemo shared only a portion of their texts, asked why she didn’t simply block him on her phone if she was so afraid of him.

Nicodemo told The Post, “It should be irrelevant whether or not I blocked him. He should just leave me alone.”

Straub denied ever threatening Nicodemo with physical violence and, in his deposition, he offered a different take on their relationship, describing it as “on and off depending on the alcohol content.”

Nicodemo was the “greatest girl to go out to dinner with and all of a sudden once she gets two or three drinks in her, the person changes. She gets four drinks in her, I’m a no-good SOB and I done all these things to her life to make her miserable,” he said.

He also made references to problems Nicodemo had with her own family.

PBSO records show Nicodemo was arrested on domestic violence charges in July 2017 after allegedly hitting her sister. The State Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute. Records show two other domestic calls that year involving the Nicodemo sisters; no arrests were made in those cases.

Referring to her allegations, Straub said in a deposition, “This is an old man being semi-hustled by a much younger girl, and I think the world knows what that means.”

Nicodemo told The Post: “Glenn Straub is a billionaire who buys and sells companies, holds himself out to be a cut-throat businessman, and he is letting a girl that he dates hustle him? Does that even make sense?”

Ashley Maguire: Former Mrs. Florida ‘manipulated’ Polo

Five months after Palm Beach Polo sued Nicodemo,  the company sued Ashley Maguire  of Wellington.

The $250,000 lawsuit, filed in August 2017, accuses Maguire, 33, of failing to follow through on an arrangement to “use her beauty and charm in assisting with selling expensive country club memberships, sponsorships and promotions.”

Maguire, Mrs. Florida 2008, told Palm Beach Polo she was having financial problems “because she was going through a divorce and her husband had cut off her finances and eliminated her luxurious lifestyle,” the suit says.

Maguire “manipulated” Polo to advance her more than $41,000 in cash, clothes and accessories, and also paid her more than $100,000 to help her lease a home at Palm Beach Polo and drive a luxury car, Straub’s company said in the suit. But Maguire “never commenced a single day of work.”

She later repaid $6,200 in cash and $35,000 given to her for clothes and accessories, but not the rest of the money the company “advanced” to her, according to the suit.

The suit also alleges that Polo “later discovered” that Maguire “had a history of ‘socializing’ with and manipulating older, wealthy men,” allegations that were not detailed further in the suit.

Maguire has not filed a response to the charges, and court records do not mention a romantic relationship with Straub.

Straub, in the deposition, said he couldn’t remember whether he dated Maguire. “Whatever it was, it was very short,” he said.

In an interview with The Post, Straub said he thinks he took Maguire on a trip to Napa, Calif., while she was separated.

Maguire’s attorney, Michael Pike, declined to comment.

Although Maguire’s husband filed for divorce in March 2017, he later withdrew the petition.

Lacy K. Bridges: Straub tried to ‘woo her with gift’

On April 10, 13 months after suing Nicodemo and eight months after suing Maguire,  Palm Beach Polo sued Bridges , a South Carolina woman who had spent time in South Florida.

Straub said he met Bridges at a Palm Beach sushi bar early this year. “She’s pretty young. I didn’t date her that long, that’s for sure,” he told The Post.

Polo’s lawsuit accuses Bridges of taking $7,000 worth of jewelry and clothes owned by the company and of using a company credit card without permission.

Bridges denied the charges. In  court documents  in August, her attorney said she was  “briefly involved in a romantic relationship”  this year with Straub, who “being significantly older than Bridges” attempted “to woo her with gifts” and then “vindictively” filed the false claims after she broke up with him.

Straub said in a deposition that he took Bridges shopping in Miami Beach for clothes that were to be kept on his yacht. The clothes, he said, were “for events we have for a lot of people because she’s about the same size as all those girls.”

In a court document, Bridges’ attorney Jonathan Milling said: “Straub and Polo have demonstrated a history of vindictive, baseless and frivolous litigation directed at former lovers which serves as an abuse of the legal process.”

The document mentions two other women in that “history,”  Nicodemo and Maguire .

It’s not clear why Bridges, in her court filing, describes Maguire as a former lover of Straub’s when court records in Maguire’s case don’t mention a romantic relationship. Bridges and Milling would not comment.

Parker, Nicodemo’s attorney, told The Post that former Straub girlfriends have reached out to her after reading news reports of Palm Beach Polo’s lawsuit against her client. Parker would not identify those women.

But Parker questioned Straub in a deposition in August about his relationships with other women, including Bridges, Maguire, Sarah Scheffer and Tiffany Richtmyer.

Sarah Scheffer: Sued over $17,500 loan

Scheffer, a Stuart woman who attends Palm Beach and Wellington society events, was  sued by Palm Beach Polo  in 2013 for not paying back $17,500 the company loaned her to help her launch a business.

The loan was part of an arrangement in which Scheffer was supposed to perform “certain professional services for Polo,” including membership matters at Polo’s affiliated Tesoro golf complex in Port St. Lucie, according to the lawsuit, which names Scheffer’s company, Identity Designs LLC, as a co-defendant.

Scheffer, 41, told Polo “she needed the loan because it would prove to her significant other that she was capable of operating a legitimate business without his help, that her significant other would be able to focus on certain personal dependency matters if he knew she was capable of making a living on her own, and the business would give some legitimacy to her status as a single mother with two children,” according to the lawsuit.

The “significant other” is not identified in court records.

“Scheffer communicated to Polo that she was sure that this loan would cause her significant other to ask her to marry before the end of the year and she would be able to repay the loan,” the suit says.

The court records do not mention a romantic relationship between Straub and Scheffer, who works with Lynn Aronberg at life coach Roy Assad’s  Human Capital Group . She also has done marketing work for Lynora’s Italian restaurants.

A judge ruled in favor of Polo in August 2014.

When Straub was asked in a deposition if he was ever in a relationship with Scheffer, he replied: “I probably went out to dinner with her or something. Romantic? I don’t think. If it was, it was a very short period of time.”

Scheffer said in a brief interview, “It’s definitely in the past. It’s not something I want to open up again.”

Tiffany Richtmyer: Evicted from Straub’s yacht

Richtmyer, 46, owns Apollo 14 Sport Horses LLC in Montana. At one time, the company operated from a farm in the gated Equus Equestrian Center at Straub’s Polo West Golf Club in suburban Boynton Beach.

Straub, who said he once dated Richtmyer, said he loaned her about $300,000 for horses and a stall but foreclosed on her in 2017 after she failed to pay it back. In February, he evicted her from Equus and from living on his yacht, MV Huntress, at Palm Harbor Marina in West Palm Beach.

Richtmyer never paid rent and was evicted because her “behavior, especially when she drinks alcohol and becomes drunk, is disruptive, abusive and causes disturbances,” according to a  lawsuit  filed by Polo West and Trinity 161 Ltd.

Richtmyer, who declined to comment, never offered a defense. A judge ordered her eviction on April 2.

Four months later, though, she was living in a Wellington home owned by Straub. On Aug. 4,  Richtmyer called PBSO  to complain that Straub had walked into the Pebblewood Drive residence “unannounced” and without permission.

Straub, who was there when PBSO arrived, told a deputy to evict her. But after Richtmyer produced a rental agreement, the deputy told Straub it was a civil matter to be handled in court.

“Straub did not like that answer and made reference to knowing the mayor of Wellington,”  the deputy wrote .

“I explained to Straub that this matter was not an issue for the mayor to be involved with. Straub then made reference to having numerous IA (internal affairs) cases done against deputies. I asked Straub if he was trying to threaten or intimidate me to sway my decision. He did not answer.”

The report says Straub drove off without retrieving his driver’s license from the deputy.

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Here Is Glenn Straub’s $500 Million Plan to Transform Atlantic City

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Yes, it finally happened. Yesterday, a judge approved the sale of Revel to Florida developer Glenn Straub for $82 million. The failed casino cost $2.4 billion to construct. As multiple reports pointed out, that’s four cents on the dollar.

Per the Inquirer , Straub is staying in Revel’s room 327 until his yacht arrives at the Frank S. Farley Marina. But Straub has plans for Atlantic City that go past Revel. Here is a sampling of what he plans to do. He’s calling it The Phoenix Project .

“If he builds the Phoenix Project — and I think he will — you’re going see people coming to Atlantic City for the reasons they were supposed to come to Atlantic City 30 years ago,” Straub attorney Stuart Moskovitz told NJTV .

• Straub has entered into an agreement with Stockton University to purchase the former Showboat casino for $26 million. Stockton bought the casino late last year, but it’s being held up due to legal wrangling with Trump Taj Mahal. The Trump Taj says a 1988 covenant says the Showboat must be used for a casino; under the agreement with Straub, Stockton can buy or lease all or part of the casino to use for educational facilities.
• Straub says he will build the never-completed second Revel tower. “The seven floors are already in. We’re just running 40 more floors,” he told The Press of Atlantic City . Straub says he needs another $300 million to build that tower.
• The plans extend past the North end of the boardwalk. Straub intends to submit a proposal for Bader Field, the former Atlantic City airfield that was the first in the country to be called an “airport.” He wants to re-open it as an airport that will cater to regional travel, perhaps flying in high-rollers. Previous concept proposals, such as those unveiled last month , do not call for an airport at the site.
• But, wait, there’s more. Per a release from Stockton , Straub’s $500 million plans include an “extreme sports complex … two marinas with capacity to host super yachts, a world-class multipurpose equestrian complex, indoor and outdoor waterparks, two universities, a pier project with laser light shows, as well as high-speed ferries and helicopter service connecting Manhattan and Atlantic City.”

“As the name of the project signals,” Straub said in a statement, “the Phoenix rises out of the ashes to be reborn and will evolve to include diversified collection of projects including eight parts designed to show that the American dream is still alive and well.”

Straub hasn’t revealed any more details, but requests for proposal for Bader Field are due next week. Straub says he will submit one by the deadline.

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Meet The Mogul Who Thinks He Can Turn Around Atlantic City's Biggest Casino Fail

A Florida real-estate mogul has set his sights on reviving Atlantic City, starting with Revel Casino, the $2.4 billion failure.

Developer Glenn Straub bought Revel Casino for $95.4 million last week after another buyer, Brookfield Asset Management, backed out of the deal. According to Reuters, Straub wanted to lower the price even further to $87 million.

Revel first opened its doors in April 2012 after a couple of tumultuous and hopeful years of construction. The casino filed for bankruptcy after one year and shut down in September, amid a host of other high-profile casino closings including Trump Plaza  and Showboat .

Some interesting ideas have been thrown around for what Straub plans to do with the property, including opening a prestigious university and a family-friendly attraction with skiing, snowboarding, and a water park. But it hasn't been determined how much of Revel will still be involved in the casino business.

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According to a Wall Street Journal article , Straub traces his interest in Atlantic City back to his first visit to the place at 8 years old. Straub is from Wheeling, West Virginia, and studied at West Liberty University, but he didn't graduate. He started his career with an inherited transportation business from his father. After building his fortune on highways and airports, he started buying up properties in Florida. Now he owns more than 600 properties, The Journal reports, with half in residential and half in assorted operations ranging from golf courses to mining sites. 

Known for buying failing properties cheap and turning them around, Straub counts among his purchases the Tesoro Club, the Palm Beach Polo Golf and Country Club, the Heart of Palm Beach Hotel, and a 155-foot yacht named the Triumphant Lady. 

Now Straub is planning to do the same for Atlantic City. He told The Journal he planned to invest $500 million in Atlantic City, and he  told Reuters  he had already scoped out two other properties and seven blocks of land that he wanted to buy in addition to Revel Casino.

Maybe he's the man for the job.

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Judge orders developer Glenn Straub’s Polo Club to pay $86K. “Big deal,” Straub responds

Straub alleged civil rights violations in suit against village over code fines

Developer Glenn Straub lost another round in a yearslong dispute with Wellington tied to his Palm Beach Polo and Country Club and the Big Blue Preserve ecological site embedded within the club.

Straub, who owns the 2,250-acre Palm Beach Polo with golf and tennis courses as well as a clubhouse, and Wellington have been locked in litigation, in part over the village having sought $6.2 million in fines from the club over alleged code violations, including at Big Blue. The 92-acre preserve, which includes wetlands, is considered one of the last remaining Cypress hammock sites in South Florida.

In one of the skirmishes, Straub’s Palm Beach Polo, which owns the club, sued Wellington in 2019 for $50 million, claiming a pattern of “discrimination” and civil rights violation over the village’s code fines, according to the complaint.

Now, a federal judge in West Palm Beach upheld a magistrate’s report that called Palm Beach Polo’s suit “frivolous, unreasonable and without foundation” and recommended the club pay $85,903 in attorney fees to the village, court records show.

Judge William Dimitrouleas adopted in late October federal Magistrate Judge William Matthewman’s recommendation.

“A little district judge makes a ruling on a little issue on attorney fees,” Straub responded when reached by phone on Tuesday. “It’s $80-some thousand dollars. Big deal. We spent over $10 million with just one law firm in Miami,” he added, illustrating the significance of the ruling when compared with his multiple companies’ legal fees. “If we lost, it wouldn’t be one day’s earnings for us,” he said.

Matthewman’s report was on the attorney fees, as Palm Beach Polo lost on both its civil rights and trespassing claims against the village in May, when Dimitrouleas had granted Wellington’s motion for summary judgment.

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Palm Beach Polo’s appeal on the judge’s ruling on the civil rights claim is pending.

The code violations in which Straub took issue in his suit go back to at least 2015, when the village deemed there was unlawful paving at the preserve, and that Palm Beach Polo transferred roughly an acre of the preserve to the property owners association for a dog park, according to Dimitrouleas’ May order.

Palm Beach Polo purchased the polo club, including the preserve, at a government auction in 1993. In 2013, it transferred operation of the property owners association to Palm Beach Polo residents.

In part of its suit, Palm Beach Polo claimed “selective enforcement” against it, alleging the property owners association for residences at the club also made code violations, but the village would let the association off the hook.

Straub’s attorney, Alexander Domb, declined comment on the attorney fees issue, citing the pending appeal.

Attorneys representing Wellington in this case did not immediately return a request for comment.

This hardly is the only legal issue for Straub , who was arrested last year on criminal felony charges tied to allegations he filed fraudulent liens against his ex-girlfriend Jessica Nicodemo for ending their relationship. The charges are pending.

In other disputes, he tried to credit-bid on the storied Palm House Hotel property that was sold at auction in 2019, following litigation alleging EB-5 visa fraud. A judge had shot down Straub’s no-cash bid several times.

State's top court orders Palm Beach Polo to pay Wellington $8M in Big Blue Preserve case

The money stems from liens wellington placed on palm beach polo properties over years of unpaid fines for damage it did to the big blue preserve..

WELLINGTON — The state Supreme Court has ordered developer Glenn Straub's Palm Beach Polo Inc. to pay over $8 million to the Village of Wellington in fines and attorneys fees related to the harm done to the Big Blue Preserve.

The court's June 11 ruling rejected Straub's final appeal of a 2019 lawsuit, one that allowed Wellington to request that Palm Beach Polo post a $8.4 million bond to cover the fines or risk foreclosure on its properties.

"There is no further avenue for appellate relief," Assistant Village Attorney Rachel Bausch said during the June 12 Village Council meeting. "So now, we can pursue the release of the cash bond."

Bausch said during the meeting that a hearing is scheduled for Aug. 2, where the village will ask the courts to increase the amount Palm Beach Polo must pay to include both post-judgment fees and attorneys fees.

The preserve is Florida's largest remaining cypress hammock and is contained within the Palm Beach Polo property off South Shore Boulevard. Its restoration is stalled by two lawsuits that remain before the courts .

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Wellington's dispute with Glenn Straub over Big Blue Preserve is nearly 25 years old

Straub's Palm Beach Polo and the village have been entangled in legal battles over the preserve since before 2001, when a judge found the company was responsible for preserving and enhancing the 92-acre wetland.

Crews working in the preserve for Palm Beach Polo have twice damaged it , in 2014 and 2022, with a judge ruling their construction machines had "destroyed native vegetation" and that it was the company's job to rehabilitate it.

The village says Palm Beach Polo missed a June 1 deadline to complete a habitat restoration plan and asked a Palm Beach County Circuit Court judge to intervene during a hearing on Monday, June 17.

The 2019 case decided by the state Supreme Court involved liens that Wellington had imposed on Palm Beach Polo properties for 130 code violations issued for failing to address the harm in the preserve. The liens originally totaled $1.6 million but, instead of paying the fines, Straub appealed them to the village and challenged them in court.

Wellington issued 130 code violations to Palm Beach Polo in 2015 for damage done in 2014. The violations continued for 867 days with a daily fine of $50 per violation.

By 2017, the Palm Beach Polo liens had stacked up to $6.8 million for the 130 violations and another $400,000 for a similar case regarding a dog park on its property — and the subdivision of land within it — that Wellington says also violated the village code.

In 2019, Wellington filed a foreclosure lawsuit to collect the unpaid liens. In 2022, Circuit Judge Joseph Curley ruled that either the village could sell Palm Beach Polo's land at a public auction or the company would have to deposit over $8 million in an account to cover both the liens and attorneys fees.

Interest incurred on the liens since 2018 alone totals $1.7 million, court documents show. Palm Beach Polo posted the $8.4 million bond for the liens in 2023 and appealed the fines again, this time to the Florida Supreme Court.

That court upheld Curley's order and a ruling by the Fourth District Court of Appeals that stated the village was entitled to the cash bond for the liens and attorney fees. A judge will determine on Aug. 2 the final amount Palm Beach Polo must pay.

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Judge: Palm Beach Polo delays Big Blue Preserve's restoration, again

Nothing has happened in the Big Blue Preserve since crews destroyed the native vegetation in 2014.

Claudio Riedi, an attorney representing Wellington, told Nutt on June 17 that Palm Beach Polo had submitted a restoration plan to the village but had stopped communicating and failed to complete it by June 1, as ordered by the court. Riedi asked Nutt to order Palm Beach Polo to finish the plan and commit to a completion date.

"This can't keep dragging on and on," Reidi said.

Alec Domb, an attorney who represents Straub and Palm Beach Polo, said the village had asked for extraordinary demands as part of the plan, such as coming onto Palm Beach Polo's property to assess the damage and current condition of Big Blue.

"The village has a propensity to blow things out of proportion," Domb said. "What else do they want?"

Nutt said Wellington needs answers. He said Palm Beach Polo's failure to respond to the village's request had delayed the preserve's rehabilitation once again. The judge said he would issue an order shortly to define the next steps to restore Big Blue.

Last year, Straub's company leased Big Blue to the Palm Beach Polo and Golf & Country Club's property owners association and months later filed suit to have it cover the cost of the damages. That case also is in the courts pending a hearing.

Valentina Palm covers Royal Palm Beach, Wellington, Greenacres, Palm Springs and other western communities in Palm Beach County for The Palm Beach Post. Email her at [email protected] and follow her on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, at @ValenPalmB. Support local journalism: Subscribe today .