Complex sentence: James F. Curtis of Roslyn, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, lost the suit, and the former treasury official had to pay $500 of the $25,000 suit for false arrest and malicious prosecution.
Split into simpler sentences: James F. Curtis of Roslyn, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, James F. Curtis of Roslyn was former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Curtis lost the suit and had to pay $500 of the $25,000 suit for false arrest and malicious prosecution.