Jay Weaver

Despite the uplifting news of a nearly $1 billion settlement in the Surfside condo collapse case, the ordeal of divvying up that massive sum isn’t over.

A convicted Haitian drug trafficker who voluntarily flew to Miami to face new charges in the assassination of Haiti’s president agreed to be detained and appears to be cooperating with U.S. investigators.

Six months after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was killed, a second suspect was detained in the Dominican Republic, then arrested by federal agents in Miami.

An estimated $750,000 in randomly scattered cash that was recovered in the rubble of the Surfside condo collapse will soon be driven in an armored truck to Washington, D.C., and converted into a lump-sum payment — courtesy of the Treasury Department for the benefit of residents who lost the money in the summer tragedy.

Dozens of federal agents fanned out across South Florida Tuesday to carry out the first search warrants related to the assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, focusing on two local businessmen that Haitian authorities suspect funded and trained the group of Colombians and others implicated in his killing.

As discussions continue about whether to sell the Champlain Towers South condo site to a developer or build a memorial, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber is proposing to use part of the city’s North Beach Oceanside Park to honor the victims of the June 24 condo collapse in neighboring Surfside.

Hundreds of victims of the deadly collapse of a Surfside condo building could expect to see compensation in the near future, as a Miami-Dade Circuit judge Wednesday approved the planned sale of the oceanfront property, valued at more than $100 million, as well as the disbursement of millions more in insurance payments for property and personal damages.

A Miami-Dade man who fired dozens of rounds from his assault rifle at Everglades National Park rangers and police officers during a standoff Sunday faces attempted murder and other federal gun charges, authorities said Tuesday.

One federal law enforcement source said at least five agents were shot during the raid.

Former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta used “poor judgment” when he chose not to prosecute Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on federal sex-trafficking charges and instead let him plead guilty to a state offense of soliciting young girls for sex, a Justice Department review of the case has found.

The U.S. Justice Department began investigating the allegations after they were first raised by the former chief operating officer of the UM Miller School of Medicine, Jonathan “Jack” Lord, who filed a whistle-blower lawsuit in 2013.

Venezuelan money maven Martin Lustgarten was stuck in a federal lockup on charges of laundering millions of dollars for Latin American drug traffickers as he confronted the grim reality of spending the rest of his life in prison. Today, Lustgarten is a free man living in a $1 million Miami high-rise unit overlooking Biscayne Bay.