The Carl Hiaasen/Elmore Leonard Rip 'n' Write Section
In August, an appeals court heard arguments on a third contempt of court order by judges against a Palm Beach lawn-care company owned by a cast of characters including superstar New York lawyer David Boies, who has been supplying legal firepower, unsuccessfully, against a rival firm (whose owner is representing himself in court). Boies' company, Nical, alleged that rival Scott Lewis broke a 1996 contract, and the sides have struggled since then, with another Nical owner apparently violating multiple court orders. Boies' co-owners are a convicted top-drawer Miami marijuana smuggler and the frisky ex-wife of a Guatemalan textile manufacturer (a woman described by one California clothing buyer as a "sex nazi" because she used him sexually in exchange for overlooking various invoices).
These are people who would get along fine with Maid Cline. Is she from Guatamala maybe? Where's Rush's maid from?
"Meet Louis Beshara and his wife, Gloria Rodriguez. The Florida couple are at the heart of the drug scandal now enveloping radio superstar Rush Limbaugh. Investigators allege that the duo illegally sold hundreds of thousands of prescription painkillers from a Palm Beach-area pharmacy they owned. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's search warrant affidavit, Beshara provided Hydrocodone, the powerful and addictive painkiller, to middlemen drug dealers like Joseph Coppola who then resold the pills to users. It has been reported that Limbaugh scored some of the Beshara pills via Wilma Cline, a former maid at the radio star's West Palm Beach mansion. Beshara and Rodriguez, who each face two felony drug trafficking charges, are free on bail, though Beshara is under house arrest."