Here’s the second part of Scott Rothstein’s leniency letter to Judge Cohn, continued from the previous post: ————————- I had completely lost my moral compass. And though I clearly had the ability and opportunity to stop the forward motion of what would be a series of many despicable acts that…
Scott Rothstein wrote his letter to Judge James Cohn asking for leniency. It really is an extraordinary letter and it comes after the jump. wrote that before fleeing to Morocco he contemplated suicide, “sitting in my shower, in my business suit, crying, with a .357 Magnum up against my head. I sat…
Associated Press A brown pelican covered in BP oil Broward Sheriff’s Office Commander Alvin Pollock, who is under internal investigation for allegedly providing special treatment to an arrested Miami Dolphins player last week, contacted the Property Appraiser’s Office recently on behalf of star linebacker Karlos Dansby. Sources said that…
I’m not saying that Charlie Crist is happy about the oil spill, but since it’s happened anyway, Crist may as well use it to engineer a surge in the Senate race. This appearance yesterday on CBS This Morning was particularly strong for him. Wearing a polo that screams “volunteer,” he…
Riviera Beach police have finally arrested a suspect in the slaying of popular L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams. But the second-degree murder charge against Lawrence Hunt, 20, only raises more questions about the sexual conduct of the teacher, who was shot and killed last month. Hunt told police…
This past December, Juice chronicled the bloody year at El Toro Loco, a cantina on South Military Trail Road in suburban West Palm Beach. But as you can see in this corrected version of the post, we had mistakenly ascribed one of the recent shootings to El Toro Loco when…
Don’t call David Brady a “moderate” Republican. No, he prefers “extreme conservative.” He’s just not quite as extreme as his opponent in the primary, Allen West. Few are.Brady has never been accused of torturing an Iraqi detainee. He doesn’t think it’s appropriate to make veiled threats to the Democrat incumbent,…
After Florida Atlantic University fired student newspaper adviser Michael Koretzky on May 18, school officials warned that he may be arrested if he showed up at newspaper meetings as a volunteer. Those threats didn’t keep Koretzky away, so now FAU is threatening the newspaper’s editor.On Wednesday, FAU Director of Student…
Earlier this week, we introduced you to Baje Fletcher, a self-proclaimed gold digger who spent a year travailing South Florida and got herself a house, a Bentley, a college degree, and enough purses to fill another SATC sequel. “Guys are always using women for sex, so why shouldn’t women use…
Two Christian teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Broward County School District, whose investigators reportedly found that the two did not sprinkle holy water at an atheist teacher, as was alleged. But interviews conducted in that investigation appear to have…
The man, Charles Bostwick, is said to have fired a gun at his ex-girlfriend, who was not struck. But the gunshot brought Boynton Beach police to a home on the 1600 block of N. Seacrest Blvd. According to the police report, Bostwick fired a shot at police, who then set up…
A look at what’s happening this morning in South Florida:The National Indian Gaming Commission has found that the Seminole Tribe violated gaming laws in giving six tribal members more than their appropriate share of casino proceeds. Money that was supposed to be spent for constructive community purposes was allegedly spent…
And after the jump, we have a video of Euro Motorsport owner Gene Morales a representative of Euro Motorsport being questioned by the indomitable Lyn Evans at the Rothstein auction yesterday (she provided the video gratis, for those of you keeping score). Euro Motorsport had just purchased the Bugatti Veyron for $858,000 (in total,…
Sen. George LeMieux loves to invoke the future of his children among his reasons for wanting to slow federal spending and shrink government. But if that really is what drives his political actions, doesn’t the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico pose a far greater risk to his children’s…
[UPDATED: School board sources confirmed that former school construction chief Mike Garretson died today of heart failure at age 64. Garretson was a controversial figure at the School Board who steamrolled the construction boom that ended with the board $2 billion in debt and overbuilt with a projected 30,000-plus empty seats. See…
David Brady has been listed as a candidate for Congress in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District since August, and he qualified in April, but nobody’s paid any attention to him. Frankly, I just assumed he was the typical long-shot whack-job who gets a thrill from seeing his name on a ballot.Then…
Good luck getting onto a jury in the South if you’re black. And if you’re a black defendant, good luck challenging the fact that the prosecutor eliminated potential jurors just because of the color of their skin. Unless you live in Florida.The Sunshine State’s laws aimed at protecting jurors from…
She’s half Rush Limbaugh’s age, but don’t worry, she’s still plenty legal. He’s 59. And this weekend, the nation’s most notorious blowhard will marry Kathryn Rogers, 33, at his Palm Beach mansion in what he insisted should be a private, intimate ceremony. From an email he sent to Page2Live.com:”We try…
Frankly, there aren’t enough pages in our print edition to give you the full details on Sean Healy’s Ponzi-fueled spending spree. But TGI the age of the interwebs, because court-appointed receiver Melanie Damian cataloged and posted everything she seized from the Healys last July. Click here to view her initial…
There’s been plenty of speculation about where Wellington polo mogul John Goodman was headed the morning of the fatal car accident that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson.The night of February 11, multimillionaire Goodman was drinking at the Players Club, a popular bar on South Shore Boulevard in Wellington. He left the…
We knew that was coming, didn’t we? Marco Rubio borrows footage from a Sun-Sentinel editorial meeting with Charlie Crist to show how the governor defended Jim Greer even as it became evident that the Florida Republican Party chairman had been mishandling — if not stealing — party money.There should be…
