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The trouble started in May 1981, when Sidney Jaffe, a prominent Toronto land developer, failed to appear for a pretrial hearing in rural Putnam County, Fla.; the charges involved criminal violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced...
The capture was quick and dirty, so Jaffe claims. He was returning to his condominium from an afternoon jog when he was lured into a car, handcuffed and then taken south to the U.S. border at Niagara Falls. "This is a gotcha," Johnsen allegedly told Jaffe, who contends that the...
Convicted in Putnam County on 28 counts of land-sale irregularities, plus one count of failing to appear for his trial, Jaffe, now 58, was sentenced to 35 years. Florida legal observers were astonished at the severity of his sentence, especially since no one else has ever been charged under...
The Canadian government was less astonished than infuriated. More than any other nation, it has been scrupulously cooperative in complying with U.S. requests for the extradition of fugitives. Florida's failure to file the forms and cowboy-style tactics hardly seemed justified. Under a 1971 U.S.-Canada treaty, Florida...
"We were struck by how strange this was," recalls Jaffe. A group of medical detectives at the CDC was organized into an AIDS task force under the direction of Dr. Curran, a venereal disease specialist. They quickly uncovered 50 cases around the country that fit the definition of what the...