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A US$12m Florida plantation to live like a robber baron
Published Sun, Sep 11, 2016 · 09:50 PM
New York
BY the time Bob Williamson bought a 5,000-acre Florida plantation in 2008, he'd been a meth addict, a diagnosed sociopath (by the US military, no less), an armed bank robber, and, for a spell, a prisoner in a US correctional facility.
After turning his life around, he'd also founded 19 companies and made hundreds of millions of dollars - which was how he found himself in possession of an estate h…
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