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BY JON TAYLER browardpalmbeach.com ut in the East Ever- Javier Morejon, who works for Airboat in TS | TS glades along the Captain Jesse Kennon Everglades, a 1-year-old private tour company N that operates along the Trail, has another sort TE Tamiami Trail, on the of complaint about Matthews from when N thin strip of asphalt that O Morejon worked for him. He, along with two C Oruns between Miccosukee Resort other former Airboat USA employees, sued & Gaming and Naples, plenty of Matthews in April 2012. They claim Mat- dangers await the unsuspecting thews stiffed them out of wages. PULP | Matthews contends the lawsuit is a shake- visitor. Alligators, pythons, cotton- down attempt designed to divert attention from mouth snakes, and snapping tur- Morejon’s crime against him: the alleged theft tles lurk in the marshes, ready to of nearly $70,000 from Matthews between | NEWS | | NEWS strike at a moment’s notice. 2010 and 2011. “He tried to steal from every part Y of the company he could,” Matthews says. DA But to Gary Matthews, nothing is more (New Times found no legal charges or law- treacherous than airboat captains — those suits confirming this allegation.) wizened, weathered men who pilot tons of Like Kennon, Morejon says Matthews is metal backed by a ten-foot propeller over a fabricating events. “If that were true, I’d be few feet of water and miles of sawgrass. incarcerated,” says Morejon, who was ar- GE | NIGHT+ Threats, intimidation, theft, and under- rested and convicted of armed robbery in A handed tactics are as abundant in the Ever- 2008. “I never did anything illegal.” Pressed T S glades as lilies and gators, he says. about his relationship with Matthews, More- “It’s very cutthroat.