Law Enforcement Attitude Changing Towards Condo Directors' Alleged Financial Improprieties?

In South Florida, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports:

• Lisa Magill, an attorney who represents condo and homeowner associations, had evidence three years ago that directors in a Pompano Beach-area condo stole $178,000. She reported it to police but "I couldn't get past step one," she said. It's a civil matter, they told her. Attitudes are changing. In Broward County alone, three court cases against former association directors, managers and employees charging fraud or misuse of owners' money are scheduled to be heard between Dec. 20 and Jan. 24. "Now, there seemingly is a willingness on the part of law enforcement agencies and prosecutors to recognize that these cases aren't dogs, that they are real crimes like anything else," said Magill, president of the Southeast Florida chapter of the Community Associations Institute.

For more, see Police target thieves in condo, homeowner associations.