INTEGRETY MOMENTS
POSITIVE LIVING
Rude and Disruptiv ...or Respectful?
What Edition of Your Life are You Living?
By Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.
By Rick Boxx
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Boca’s Got Talent
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Batmasian Family Defamed and Damaged
This past week various media outlets chose to print a salacious, one-sided story about three frivolous lawsuits which defame and damage James and Marta Batmasian, two of Palm Beach County’s most respected civic, community and business leaders. Each of the complaints are replete with lies, false statements and half truths. “We believe that Karla Sotomayor and James Morgan Baker, who are living together, and Joe Falso, who is their close friend, conspired together to create false, purely manufactured claims against us born only after my wife and I refused to succumb to their respective demands that we give each of them large sums of money to solve their personal financial problems,” stated Mr. Batmasian. Upon learning of the Sotomayor and Baker lawsuit prior to the recent press coverage, the family’s primary concern was preventing harm to people who were not sued, but were nevertheless named in the lawsuits. Proceeding swiftly under the law, the Batmasian’s were successful in obtaining the sealing of the records. “We were shocked that the media would report these false claims without seeking prior approval from the Court. The public has been ill served and misled by publication of the allegations, and innocent people have suffered,” said Mr. Batmasian. Continue on page 3
Lynn Universit y Receives Workplace Award
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Business
‘Shrimp House’ Restaurant Chain Adds Two New Dining Locations
John Legend Wows Sold Out Crowd
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