Levan asks judge not to ban him from leading BBX

BBX Capital Corp. Chairman and CEO Alan B. Levan asked a federal judge to reject the Security and Exchange Commission’s demand that he be banned from leading a public company. The SEC won a jury verdict in December finding the Fort Lauderdale-based company (NYSE: BBX) and Levan liable for securities fraud and accounting fraud. U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles denied the motions by BBX and Levan to overturn that verdict, but they have requested that he reconsider based on a recent U.S. Supreme…