By: Jose Lambiet, Gossip Extra
CORRECTION — In its original version, this story included a reporting mistake. Maggy Hurchalla and her legal team did NOT offer to settle the case with Lake Point for $7 million. According to trial transcripts, Hurchalla and her lawyers offered to settle for $1.7 million. Gossip Extra apologizes to Maggy Hurchalla and her legal team for the mistake and is happy to be able to set the record straight.
STUART — Already on the hook for a $4,391,708-judgment, 77-year-old environmentalist Maggy Hurchalla could be forced to pay another $311,000 in court costs to Lake Point, the winner of a recent lawsuit against her.
The costs, as well as a motion to jail Hurchalla for allegedly dragging her feet in filing paperwork showing her wealth, is set to be brought up at a long hearing tomorrow in the same Stuart court where Hurchallas was branded a liar in February when she was found to have interfered with a contract between Lake Point and several government entities to exploit vacant land near Lake Okeechobee.
The hearing, set to start at 2 p.m., could end with the judge finding Hurchalla in contempt of court for failing to disclose her finances in due time…