Ex-Everglades Foundation chief scientist Van Lent guilty of contempt, faces up to 1 year in county jail
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge has found the Everglades Foundation’s former chief scientist Thomas Van Lent guilty of indirect criminal contempt for disobeying a court order and deleting from his computers “massive amounts of data” owned by the foundation.
“The court finds that the Foundation proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Dr. Van Lent intended to violate the Temporary Injunction and intended to obstruct the administration of justice when he deleted data from his devices and accounts and when he refused to timely deliver the…hard drive” to the foundation as ordered, Lopez wrote in his 23-page ruling.
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