A new twist in the federal case against a once-prominent Fort Lauderdale attorney has deprived him of his former counsel.

Michael R. Casey was once at the top of South Florida’s legal profession, having worked from 2001 to 2007 for Greenberg Traurig, one of the largest law firms in the world, and for Berger Singerman and Adorno & Yoss. He was also chairman of the Broward County Bar Association’s Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section. But when he made his initial appearance Monday in a federal courtroom before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren L. Louis in Miami, it was as a man on the wrong side of the law.

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