She also has a profile on Medium, where she published an article in 2019 fact-checking claims about immigration into the U.S. Her current firm is also listed as Wendi J Adelson, PA, with one member. She continues to be a dedicated mother and leader of the IMPAC Fund despite these challenges.Īs her Florida Bar profile indicates, Adelson graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 2006 and was admitted to the bar that year.
We express our support of her as she navigates the impacts of this loss and media interest in the case. appropriately disclosed the terrible circumstances to us prior to her appointment as our Executive Director, and we made inquiries that confirmed her lack of involvement. Mike Fernandez, a billionaire and the founder and CEO of IMPAC, issued a statement supporting Adelson in 2018. Today, Adelson works as an immigration lawyer for The Immigration Partnership and Coalition Fund (IMPAC), a position she’s held since 2017, according to her LinkedIn page, which is no longer active. Adelson has repeatedly maintained her innocence, as the New York Times reported. In July 2020, Markel’s friends and family launched a petition calling on the state attorney to charge Adelson’s brother and mother, who were both named as conspirators in court documents.
Tamba Bay Times reported that she has also prevented Markel’s parents, her children’s paternal grandparents, from visiting or calling the children, prompting a new bill to be filed in the Florida legislature to modify visitation laws. Just days after Markel’s death, Adelson moved with their kids to South Florida, Forward wrote, and she has since changed their last name from Markel to Adelson. Her brother and mother have been named as “unindicted conspirators.” Three individuals have been prosecuted: Luis Rivera, Sigfredo Garcia and Katherine Magbanua, who was dating Adelson’s brother at the time.Īrresting documents show that investigators believed “motive for this murder stemmed from the desperate desire of the Adelson family to relocate Wendi and the children to South Florida, along with the pending court hearing that might have impacted their access to the grandchildren.”Īdelson Now Works as an Immigration Lawyer With The Immigration Partnership and Coalition Fund Where is Adelson today? Was she charged in Markel’s death?Īlthough she was brought in for questioning, Adelson was never charged in connection with her ex-husband’s murder.
Investigators believe his ex-wife Wendi Adelson’s family is connected to those found guilty of his murder and that Markel was killed by murder for hire because of his divorce from Adelson and their custody battle. Dan Markel was a law professor who was shot and killed in his driveway on July 19, 2014, in Tallahassee, Florida.
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