Strange Case of Delaila Estefano Ends With Whimper.

The strange case of Miami attorney and UM grad Delaila Estefano, who I've written about here and here and about whom a whole blog has been devoted, ends with a nolle pros, which I believe is Latin for "thank god almighty I'm free at last!"

No word on when she gets her Florida bar license back.

SFL Monday -- Lew Freeman Wades Into It.

So Reverend Cutie Reverend Cutie Reverend Cutie Reverend Cutie Reverend Cutie everyone!

I'm hesitant to add to the massive amount of digital ink that has been spilled on this slightly overreported story, but I am quite sure the handsome South Beach canoodler is the perfect guy to carry the anti-celibacy message to the new Pope -- who recently restored the pre-Vatican II prayer for conversion of the Jews and also may or may not have been a former Nazi.

Hey, makes sense to me -- I live in Florida!

Anyone still into mortgage fraud? Boy those were the days.

Anyways, I see there has been an update in that odd story I reported on earlier involving UM Law grad Delaila Estefano -- looks like she has been suspended indefinitely pending disposition of the criminal case.

Anyone who knows more on this story, feel free to contact me directly.

Holy hail, look at that -- DBR ace John Pacenti nabbed an exclusive interview with the notoriously media-shy Lew Freeman!

Lew, don't let me down -- I need some screwball metaphors stat! I need some non sequiturs and I need them now! I need one (or two, or three) Titanic references and they better be good:

“We are in the eye of the hurricane. This is the calm,” Freeman said.

Ok, this time he went with a naturally-occuring disaster. What else:

“That’s the trend we are going to see in the future: The superhero of the court system and litigation,” Freeman said.

Superhero? But Lew, they're all ambivalent, conflicted and moody nowadays.

Let's have something classy and high-road to finish up with:

“There’s so much backed up that when it comes out we are going to need hip boots,” he said. “It’s going to stink, and it’s going to be deep.”

"And I'm just talking about breakfast," Freeman added.

Oy -- you may want to revisit the Titanic references there, Lew.

Lawyers Are On All Sides Of The Mortgage Meltdown

I see UM grad Delaila Estefano has allegedly found a different angle on this whole mortgage fraud thing:

Delaila Estefano, 35, and two men were charged last week with first-degree grand theft, organized fraud and using a fake ID.

She was released after posting a $75,000 bond. Estefano, a University of Miami grad with an office in Kendall, has been a lawyer in Florida since 1999.

''We are continuing to do our own investigation into this matter, and are very confident that Ms. Estefano will be exonerated,'' said her attorney, Jason M. Wandner.

Co-defendants John Romney, 27, and Michael Martinez, 30, were still in jail Monday.

The arrests were made by the Miami-Dade Police Department's Mortgage Fraud Task Force, which was created in response to the massive mortgage fraud that plagued South Florida during the housing boom, and put the country's economic future at risk.

The Miami-Dade prosecutor in the case is Bill Kostrzewski.

According to an arrest warrant released Monday, someone in February used the identity of Bernardo Humbero Barreira to obtain a $484,286.06 mortgage from lender Citi Mortgage for a house owned by Romney.

The price tag: $600,000. But Romney had paid just $185,000 for the two-bedroom, one-bathroom house just six days earlier.

Martinez paid a $123,286.06 down payment, according to the warrant by Miami-Dade Detective Jorge Baluja. From Estefano's escrow account, $369,896.88 was paid to Romney, and $135,000 was kicked back to Martinez's bank account.

Oy. Let's hope Jason is right and there's been a big mistake here.