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Disgraced Florida lawyer is charged with murder of his father who was found ‘dead in a pool of blood at the office’ – Brandon Labiner, 34, was forced out the family law firm after being sued for stealing $450,000 from his family’s trust fund

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261a1a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Brandon Labiner&comma; 34&comma; was charged after a bullet-ridden body was found in a pool of blood outside the law office of his father Paul Labiner&comma; 68&comma; on Saturday <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261a1a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Florida Bar suspended Brandon&&num;8217&semi;s law license in April after his father sued him for stealing &dollar;450&comma;000 from a trust fund which lists his mother as the sole beneficiary <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261a1a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Father and son worked together in the same law office until Brandon was forced to resign last September over an escalating rift between the pair <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261a1a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Surveillance cameras caught a man believed to be Brandon Labiner as well as his car&comma; near the crime scene <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261a1a&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>A search warrant was executed on his car and police found a black drawstring backpack&comma; a 9mm magazine&comma; multiple boxes of ammo&comma; a box for a gun&comma; a gas can&comma; a lighter&comma; gloves and a face mask<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;image-6&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-444530" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"554"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Florida attorney Brandon Labiner&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; was arrested for on a first-degree murder charge in the death of his wealthy estate attorney dad Paul Labiner&period; He will appear in court on July 10<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A Florida based lawyer who was disbarred after being accused of stealing &dollar;450&comma;000 from his family&&num;8217&semi;s trust fund has been charged with the murder his former employer &&num;8211&semi; his father&period;<br>Brandon Labiner&comma; 34&comma; was charged after a bullet-ridden body was found in a pool of blood outside the law office of his father Paul Labiner&comma; 68&comma; on Saturday&period;<br>Police said in a statement that &&num;8216&semi;Marsy&&num;8217&semi;s law&&num;8217&semi; had been invoked by the victim&&num;8217&semi;s family to avoid naming them but local outlets&comma; including <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;sun-sentinel&period;com&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;03&sol;boca-lawyer-charged-in-murder-victim-may-be-his-father&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">The Sun Sentinel<&sol;a>&comma; suggested the body was that of the suspect&&num;8217&semi;s father a prominent Estate and Trust attorney&period;<br>According to the Florida Bar&comma; Brandon Labiner had his law license suspended in April after his father sued him for stealing around half a million dollars from a trust fund of which his mother was listed as the sole beneficiary&period; <br>His father alleged the theft started immediately&comma; from June 7&comma; 2022&comma; for more than two months&period; Paul Labiner said in court filings that his son had stolen &dollar;445&comma;198&period;53 from him&comma; using the account &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;as his own personal checkbook&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;image-7&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-444533" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"866"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Brandon Labiner&comma; 34&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; was charged after a bullet-ridden body was found in a pool of blood outside the law office of his father Paul Labiner&comma; 68&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A redacted police report seen by the outlet indicated the victim was found at the address of his father&&num;8217&semi;s law office and an attorney for Brandon said he was &&num;8216&semi;grieving his father&&num;8217&semi;s death&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>The pair had worked together in the same law office until Brandon was forced to resign last September over an escalating rift between them&period;<br>According to police&comma; the victim&&num;8217&semi;s body was found by a family member on the 5400 block of North Federal Highway in Boca Raton around 4&period;30pm Saturday&period;<br>He was found with car keys in his hand and had been shot in the head&comma; upper chest&comma; and twice in his lower body&comma; police said&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;Brandon-Labiners-law-office-in-Boca-Raton-FL-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-444521" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"544"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Paul Labiner&&num;8217&semi;s body was found on Saturday afternoon outside his law office on the 5400 block of North Federal Highway in Boca Raton&comma; Florida&period; His son&comma; Brandon Labiner&comma; has been arrested in his death <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;image-5&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-444525" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"987"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>According to the Florida Bar&comma; Paul Brandon &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; <strong>sued his son for stealing around half a million dollars&period; Brandon resigned from their shared practice in Sept 2022&period; In April&comma; the Florida Bar suspended h<&sol;strong>is law license <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Brandon had been a personal injury attorney before his law license was suspended and after leaving his father&&num;8217&semi;s practice operated out of his own office around three miles to the north&comma; also in Boca Raton&period;<br>According to the police incident report&comma; license plate readers identified a vehicle belonging to Brandon driving in the area of the crime after 2pm on Saturday&period;<br>Surveillance video also showed that after that a man rode up to Paul Labiner&&num;8217&semi;s law office on a bicycle just after 3pm&period; That man carried a drawstring backpack and took a box out of the backpack and then a gun out of the box&period;<br>He then put the gun on the ground and began &&num;8216&semi;to pace around the parking garage&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>Forty minutes later he picked up an item from the ground and hid near the wall&comma; according to the arrest report released by Boca Raton Police on Monday and seen by The Sentinel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"0bBax&lowbar;FmZy0&quest;rel&equals;0&amp&semi;showinfo&equals;1&amp&semi;hl&equals;en-US" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;0bBax&lowbar;FmZy0rel0showinfo1hlen-US" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;0bBax&lowbar;FmZy0rel0showinfo1hlen-US&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" rel&equals;"prettyPhoto"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;0bBax&lowbar;FmZy0rel0showinfo1hlen-US&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;Paul-Labiner-left-with-his-son-Brandon-Labiner2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-444528" width&equals;"830" height&equals;"769"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Paul Labiner &lpar;left&rpar; is pictured with his son Brandon &lpar;right&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A second man&comma; believed to be Paul is then seen scuffling with the suspect&period; After the two went out of view of the surveillance camera the man with the gun then ran away&period;<br>Using the surveillance video Boca Raton Police identified the suspect and found him at his own law office in the 900 block of North Federal Highway&comma; where he had barricaded himself in the building&period;<br>By Saturday night his lawyer had been able to encourage him out of the building&comma; police said&period;<br>Inside the office&comma; an officer &&num;8216&semi;observed a bicycle&comma; in an open closet door&comma; matching the description of the bicycle seen on the parking garage video surveillance&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>While officers were inside the building they also went into the public restroom and found in the trash on the second floor&comma; by Brandon&&num;8217&semi;s office&comma; a gun cleaning kit and a piece of paper with the attorney his attorney Rodriguez&&num;8217&semi;s name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;Paul-Labiner-right-with-his-son-Brandon-Labinerleft-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-444523" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"580"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>The father and son &lpar;pictured&rpar; were said to have had a &&num;8216&semi;fairly good father-son relationship&&num;8217&semi; until around February 2022<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A search warrant was executed on his car and police found a black drawstring backpack&comma; a 9mm magazine&comma; multiple boxes of ammo&comma; a box for a gun&comma; a gas can&comma; a lighter&comma; gloves and a face mask&comma; according to the report&period;<br>A trash can was also burned in what &&num;8216&semi;may have been used to attempt to destroy evidence&comma;&&num;8217&semi; according to the police report&period;<br>In the car they also found a poncho they said the suspect wore to the crime scene&comma; which was seen on surveillance video by a nearby motel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;Paul-Labiner-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-444529" width&equals;"832" height&equals;"1092"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Paul Labiner&&num;8217&semi;s Boca Raton based law firm specializes in estate and trust planning&period; Before the falling out&comma; the younger Labiner had managed his own division within his father&&num;8217&semi;s law office called the Personal Accident and Injury Law Center <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Brandon Labiner&&num;8217&semi;s criminal defense attorney&comma; Valentin Rodriguez&comma; said his client is &&num;8216&semi;disputing&&num;8217&semi; the charges&period;<br>Paul&&num;8217&semi;s law firm specializes in estate and trust planning and he was admitted to the Bar in 1992&period;<br>He sued Brandon over the trust fund dispute and in a lawsuit the pair were said to have had a &&num;8216&semi;fairly good father-son relationship&&num;8217&semi; until Brandon began exhibiting &&num;8216&semi;bizarre behavior&&num;8217&semi; in February 2022&period;<br>On June 2&comma; 2022&comma; Paul Labiner filed an emergency petition to have his son removed as the trustee&comma; but the judge ruled it was not an emergency&period;<br>Paul said in the lawsuit that his son assaulted him in May that year&comma; injuring his shoulder&period; <br>Brandon Labiner who was living above his means allegedly tried to make up funds by funneling money out of his father’s accounts into his own&comma; according to the lawsuit&period;<br>He was caught and Paul Labiner told his son he had changed the passwords&period; That caused his son to go &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;on a verbal and expletive laced tirade” and then a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;physical altercation&period;” Ultimately he was forced to leave the building&comma; which he did&period;<br>But Brandon Labiner was administrator of the office email accounts&comma; and according to his father’s lawsuit&comma; still accessed his father’s email to get the new password information&period; He logged in&comma; then transferred money to his own account&period;<br>Before the pair fell out Brandon had managed his own division within his father&&num;8217&semi;s law office called the Personal Accident and Injury Law Center&period;<br>Labiner&&num;8217&semi;s law firm reportedly&comma; at the time they once hired around 20 staff&comma; &&num;8216&semi;But Brandon&&num;8217&semi;s poor work ethic and subpar performance as a plaintiff&&num;8217&semi;s attorney caused the volume of cases to drastically dwindle&&num;8217&semi; to &&num;8216&semi;no more than a handful of viable cases&comma;&&num;8217&semi; according to the lawsuit&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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