The disgraced Augusta County businessman accused of swindling the brother of the Parkland, Florida, shooter will no longer face prosecution for at least one of the charges against him: assaulting the same young man he’s accused of cheating out of his inheritance.

The Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office told a judge Tuesday that it intended to drop its prosecution of the misdemeanor assault and battery charges lodged against former Nexus Services CEO Michael Donovan, 47. Crime

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The charges were brought in March by Zachary Cruz, 25, the brother of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, responsible for 17 deaths at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Donovan and his husband and former business parter,

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