Greater than a decade after his demise, a well known Florida physician’s spouse used to be ordered to pay his kids $200 million after a civil court docket discovered her liable for his killing within their Tarpon Springs mansion.
Dr. Steven Schwartz, a 74-year-old kidney specialist, used to be discovered useless in Might 2014 after being shot two times in his storage.
His spouse, Rebecca Schwartz, 64, reportedly known as police and mentioned there used to be a housebreaking on the house.
A civil court docket discovered Rebecca Schwartz accountable of killing her husband, Dr. Steven Schwartz, in 2014. (FOX 13 Tampa Bay)
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Whilst nobody has ever been officially charged with the physician’s homicide, a civil court docket, as a part of a wrongful demise lawsuit, dominated Rebecca Schwartz “unlawfully and deliberately killed, or participated in shopping the demise” of Steven Schwartz, FOX 13 Tampa Bay reported.
The court docket additionally ordered Rebecca Schwartz to pay the physician’s 3 kids $200 million, however they’ll most probably handiest acquire $10 to $20 million. Wil Florin, the kids’s attorney, instructed FOX 13 the cause used to be all the time cash.
Rebecca Schwartz allegedly embezzled cash from her husband for years, giving it to her youngsters and beginning a marijuana develop space together with her handyman, Florin mentioned.

Dr. Steven Schwartz used to be shot to demise in his storage in 2014. (FOX 13 Tampa Bay)
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Steven Schwartz reportedly discovered in regards to the embezzlement and threatened to divorce her, leaving her with not anything.
“She used to be stuck red-handed, embezzling once more by means of purchasing a Verizon Wi-fi retailer in Wisconsin for one in every of her sons from a prior marriage, and this time it used to be sufficient,” Florin mentioned. “And as he left for paintings on the health facility to do his rounds, he used to be happening the steps and, in keeping with the forensic proof, used to be shot two times within the head.”
Whilst Rebecca Schwartz used to be by no means charged, the handyman used to be deported to Albania after pleading accountable to 1 depend of being an adjunct to the homicide, FOX 13 reported.

A map of Europe pinpointing Albania (Google Maps)
The handyman’s DNA used to be discovered on Steven Schwartz’s blouse, and cellular phone data didn’t fit up along with his alibi.
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“The handyman that used to be later convicted of [being] an adjunct after the reality used to be despatched to the scene to wash up the mess, take the onerous pressure of the surveillance machine, take a butcher knife and take a look at to retrieve the bullets,” Florin mentioned.
Rebecca Schwartz’s legal professional had now not replied to the media after the decision as of Thursday evening.