College Sports | ’Red flags on top of red flags’: Problems mount for UM athletics booster John Ruiz

BY BEN WIEDER AND JAY WEAVER

Even by Miami standards, John H. Ruiz has been living large. He doesn’t buy just one waterfront mansion. He buys seven. He doesn’t just buy a 20-seat private plane. He buys a private Boeing passenger jet. And he doesn’t stop at buying fancy speed boats. He buys the companies that make them.

The brash attorney and entrepreneur has also become known as the sugar daddy of the University of Miami athletic program, making headlines for his company’s sponsorship of star players and bold proposals to build the university a new football stadium.

But the high living might soon be coming to an end. Read the full story at MiamiHerald.com.

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