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Lawyers for real estate mogul Donald Trump have withdrawn a subpoena issued for Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne as part of a lawsuit against developers of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
At a hearing this afternoon, Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld admonished Trump's lawyers for leaking to the media the fact they were issuing a subpoena against Jenne -- before Jenne and his attorneys were informed of the subpeona.
Streitfeld also gave his lawyers ten minutes to cough up the name of the reporter who was given the information last month.
David Bogenschutz, Jenne's attorney, is pushing to keep his client from giving a statement, claiming Jenne's relationship with the casino, its developers and security firm have nothing to do with the Hard Rock case.
Trump filed suit last year against Richard Fields and the casino developers, Baltimore-based The Cordish Company, claiming Fields in 1999 told Trump earlier that a casino deal could not be done with the Seminole Tribe.
A year later, Fields teamed up with Cordish, and closed a lucrative deal within months.
A groundbreaking took place in 2001. The casino opened for business in 2004 with much fanfare and made record profits within months.
Trump claims Fields closed the deal by having the Seminole Tribe think Trump still was involved in the negotiations -- an allegation Fields and Cordish flatly deny.
Jenne was served the subpoena to produce records and to testify about any business dealings he may have had with Fields, the developers, or the Seminole's security firm.
At the time, Jenne was working as a paid consultant for the security firm, T&M Protection Resources of New York.
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