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Judge Orders Jail Time For Prominent Everglades Scientist
Tom Van Lent is accused of stealing “trade secrets” from his former employer, the well-connected Everglades Foundation
By Amy Green
ORLANDO, Fla.—A renowned Everglades scientist whose work has helped steer one of the most ambitious attempts at ecological restoration in human history has been sentenced by a state judge to spend 10 days in jail in a bitter legal dispute with his former employer.
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