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Florida issues a $110,000 fine and orders a resort to restore the protected mangroves that were destroyed last spring. Rhode Islander Michael Mota was questioned as the owner's representative; the fine is about a third what Mota and his business partner were paid as advisors to the resort. Mota had blamed the damage on on a tornado the National Weather Service said did not exist.

Michael Mota’s public company is making all kinds of claims to investors and the OTC markets about what it’s doing with the former Memorial Hospital. But those claims aren’t true — and that’s a problem under federal securities laws.

The former Memorial Hospital of RI is once again among the options the state is considering. The full plan is due out next week.

Memorial Real Estate Group, a company founded by R.I. businessman Michael Mota, announced this week that it has renovated part of the former hospital building in Pawtucket for use by Amos House. But the state’s housing department and the homeless services provider both say they are not working with Mota on the project.

/PRNewswire/ -- Memorial Real Estate Group entered into a plan to assume ownership of the former Memorial Hospital and resume its initial goal to rehabilitate...