A bitter showdown is brewing between two prominent Miami lawyers over several million dollars in Cuban funds frozen in U.S. bank accounts. The attorneys are fighting for the money on behalf of clients who have obtained multimillion dollar judgments against Cuba. The two are also grappling over whether the battle will play out in Miami or New York federal court. One of the bank accounts, with less than $8 million, belongs to AT&T, and court filings show that the company will also fight to keep that money.
October 03, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A bitter showdown is brewing between two prominent Miami lawyers over several million dollars in Cuban funds frozen in U.S. bank accounts.
Roberto Martinez of Colson Hicks Eidson in Coral Gables, Fla., is fighting for the money on behalf of his client, Jeannette Hausler, a former University of Miami law school dean whose brother was executed by a Cuban firing squad in 1960. Hausler and her family were awarded $400 million by a Miami state court judge in January.
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