Everglades Foundation seeks criminal contempt finding against its former top scientist after settlement deal implodes



The Everglades. Photo: The National Park Service

By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org

The Everglades Foundation is once again going after its former top scientist and has asked a Miami-Dade judge to hold him in criminal contempt of court – a finding that could hit Thomas Van Lent in the wallet and put him behind bars for up to a year.

The fight between the foundation and Van Lent began quietly in early April when the foundation sued its longtime director of science and policy, alleging that in the weeks before he quit at the end of February, he mounted a “secret campaign of theft and destruction of sensitive Foundation materials in preparation for his departure,” according to the complaint.

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