In Florida, where swindlers and others criminals convicted in federal courts are ordered to repay about $1 billion a year in ill-gotten gains, the system is among the worst in the country at reclaiming that stolen money, according to an Orlando Sentinel analysis of federal data.  Florida courts wrote off as uncollectible a total of $640 million during those five years — or nearly three times as much as they collected. Florida’s 4.1 percent recovery rate badly trailed the national rate of 25 percent as well as other large states’ rates, including California (38 percent), Texas (29 percent) and New York (16 percent). No one has a definitive explanation for why federal courts in Florida lag those in nearly all other big U.S. states so dramatically.  (Read Full Article Here)