Michael Ryals News Today

In 2021, an armed SWAT team raided the office of Daniel Drotos and Michael Ryals, whom their former employer accused of stealing trade secrets.

2022 was a busy year for the University of Florida and Alachua County Public Schools. Heres a recap.

The State Attorneys Office has confirmed to The Gainesville Sun that it has dropped all criminal charges against two prominent real estate agents.

An arbitrator on Wednesday awarded two real estate brokers Daniel Drotos and Michael Ryals $1.5 million in back commission from their former employer.

A county commissioner is set to be deposed in an ongoing defamation lawsuit that stems from a criminal investigation of two local real estate agents.

Michael Ryals and Daniel Drotos are charged with racketeering, scheme to defraud/organized fraud and theft of trade secrets.

Fresh Take Florida’s two-month investigation into the deal also revealed that it largely circumvented oversight from a committee specifically tasked with monitoring the use of funds stemming from a half-cent education sales tax, which county officials pitched to voters as a way to fund improvement

The allegations are essentially the same as in a search warrant that ended with a SWAT raid and detention of employees not named in the warrant

Two of the real estate agents targeted in a Gainesville police raid are engaged in a legal battle with a man accusing them of trade secret violations.