On Wednesday, New Times published "Treasure Island", the story of serious civil and criminal fraud allegations involving the Grandview Palace condo association in North Bay Village, the building's father-and-son developers, and an insurance provider accused of being a shell corporation. That same day, the attorneys representing the insurance company and the developers -- Dr. Charles C. Edwards, a famed Baltimore spine surgeon; and his son James -- in the civil case filed their official defense
Vice Mayor Reinaldo Trujillo and Grandview Palace board president Sophia Lima claim Dr. Charles C. Edwards masterminded a scheme to "unlawfully take" $233,730.In April, we brought you "Treasure Island", the story of big-time spine surgeon and developer Charles C. Edwards being accused of defrauding a North Bay Village condo building out of $233,000 that was supposed to go towards insuring the place.In three sentences: in 2004, Charles and son James Edwards were two-thirds of the Grandview Palace