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A Florida lawyer alleged to have played a key role in an US$83 million ($118 million) mortgage loan scam has been denied permission to fly to Auckland tomorrow to judge a cat show.
"The cats of New Zealand will just have to be judged by someone else," the Sarasota Herald Tribune reported yesterday.
United States federal judge Mary Scriven denied a bid by Sarasota lawyer John Yanchek, 48, to leave the country.