{"id":65491,"date":"2015-02-16T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/prosecutors-prepare-weak-case-against-carbone\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:43:56","slug":"prosecutors-prepare-weak-case-against-carbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/02\/16\/prosecutors-prepare-weak-case-against-carbone\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors prepare &#8220;weak&#8221; case against Carbone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Canadian media says that Dominican prosecutors have prepared a weak case in the attempted murder accusations against Canadian casino mogul Antonio Carbone. Carbone is accused of fraud by Canadian multi-billionaire Michael De Groote. The two were involved in a network of gambling facilities in the Dominican Republic, Dream Casino. <\/p>\n<p> As reported in CBC.ca, media investigations have found that the case against him is largely based on information that a key witness and the alleged victim himself now contradict. <\/p>\n<p> As reported by Fifth Este, there are key details in the Santo Domingo district attorney&#8217;s case against Carbone that appear to be based on some factual errors and are contradicted by other evidence and what a key witness is now saying. The situation questions the strength of the case against the Toronto-area businessman. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/antonio-carbone-case-key-statements-contradicted-in-attempted-murder-allegation-fifth-estate-1.2955472<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian media says that Dominican prosecutors have prepared a weak case in the attempted murder accusations against Canadian casino mogul Antonio Carbone. Carbone is accused of fraud by Canadian multi-billionaire Michael De Groote. The two were involved in a network of gambling facilities in the Dominican Republic, Dream Casino. As reported in CBC.ca, media investigations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/02\/16\/prosecutors-prepare-weak-case-against-carbone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}