Top Everglades restoration scientist Van Lent ordered to jail for indirect criminal contempt
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
One of the nation’s preeminent scientists involved in Everglades restoration was ordered to jail Thursday by a Miami-Dade circuit judge who found him guilty of indirect criminal contempt of court in May.
Thomas Van Lent, 67, was told by Judge Carlos Lopez that he must serve a sentence of 10 days in the Miami-Dade County jail. He could have been jailed for six months or fined $500, the judge said.
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