Jacksonville Daily Record 3/7/19

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New executive director at the Jacksonville Bar Association

March 7, 2019

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Attorney for Allied Veterans files $50M lawsuit

Daily VyStar now owns the SunTrust Tower, left, and the building at 100 W. Bay St.

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Kelly Mathis was arrested, convicted and later had charges dropped in internet sweepstakes case. BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR

VyStar buys Record more space Downtown COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE JACKSONVILLE

Jacksonville attorney Kelly Mathis filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court against officials of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Department, former state Attorney General Pam Bondi and a member of her staff. The complaint alleges that the defendants violated Mathis’s constitutional rights when he was arrested in 2013 and prosecuted as part of the state’s legal actions against one of his clients at the time, Allied Veterans of the World, a nonprofit that operated internet cafes. The lawsuit also alleges abuse of process and conspiracy to commit malicious prosecution. Mathis said the lawsuit is something he has considered since the state dropped the charges against him in 2017. “I’m convinced it’s what I need to do. It needs to be exposed for what really happened and the grimy details need to come out,” Mathis said. Named in the lawsuit are former Seminole County Sheriff Donald Eslinger, sheriff’s department Capt. James Gibson, sheriff’s department General Counsel April Kersheman, Bondi and Nicholas Cox, Bondi’s statewide prosecutor.

BY DAVID CAWTON ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Credit union that is moving its headquarters to what is now the SunTrust Tower pays $5 million for the building next door.

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yStar Credit Union expanded its Downtown Jacksonville footprint this week by purchasing the former Life of the South Building at 100 W. Bay St. from developer Eugene Profit. Jacksonville-based VyStar executed a sale with Profit’s 100 West Bay Street 1 LLC on Feb. 28 for $5 million. The deed was recorded Wednesday with the Duval County Clerk of Courts. VyStar President Brian Wolfburg said Wednesday a third party presented the opportunity to purchase the 73,000-squarefoot-building, which will allow the company to create a larger campus in the urban core. The building is next to 76 S. Laura St., the 23-story tower VyStar bought last summer for its relocated headquarters. “When we started to do our space planning and design work within what is available in the tower, we saw that we were not SEE VYSTAR, PAGE 8

SEE LAWSUIT, PAGE 8

THE CAWTON REPORT

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