As we await, ever so patiently, the feds to actually arrest more people involved in the Rothstein Ponzi (and they will), I wanted to share an interesting opinion from former RRA security man Bob Scandiffio. Remember that Scandiffio was one of two close Scott Rothstein associates whom he invited to Morocco…
We had a colorful start to the week here on Juice, thanks to Lisa Rab’s slideshow capturing all the pageantry of the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival. Here’s a look at what else we covered this past week on your Broward/Palm Beach news blog:Congressional candidate Allen West compared the religion…
West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel is to give Ozzy Osbourne a key to the city at a ceremony tonight, marking perhaps the most meaningless key to the city handoff in the history of key to the city awards.And there’s a long history of embarrassing key handoffs, although perhaps none…
A 13-year-old girl from Lantana who ran away from home says that she was picked up, then raped by a man who was staying with boxing promoter Don King. According to a police report cited by the Palm Beach Daily News, the man was in a Chevy Suburban. He took…
Kendry Morales defected from Cuba to America so he could become a baseball star and get rich. The 26-year-old achieved the first part of that formula, hitting over .300 with 34 homers and 108 runs batted in for the Los Angeles Angels. But he’s not quite as rich as he…
Well, I said it wasn’t a problem until it was a problem, and it became a problem. So Lyn Evans is no longer doing part-time research work for the Pulp. Earlier today, I gave her the choice to either keep working for New Times part-time for peanuts or to continue working as well-paid…
Before he was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting students last year, Heath Miller was one of the most popular teachers at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens. More than 400 students enrolled in the band, chorus, and drill team, traveling to Fort Pierce and Orlando, winning music competitions…
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz this morning announced that she had given her endorsement in the Florida Attorney General’s race to State Sen. Dan Gelber. But Gelber’s news-cycle victory was short-lived. Because just a few hours later, his opponent, State Sen. Dave Aronberg, announced that Congressman Ron Klein was endorsing Aronberg’s…
It doesn’t sound like investigators are close to solving the arson case of the van used by a Boca Raton charity for spaying and neutering animals. But only two weeks after the fire, Animal Aid is likely to make more in donations than it lost when the van went up…
Lake Worth gadfly and blogger Wes Blackman, who ran and lost his latest bid for District 3, against Jo-Ann Golden in the last city elections, appears to have pitched headfirst off the deep end — and we’re afraid the Juice is partially to blame. When we last caught up with…
Charlie Crist sparked controversy by hugging President Obama; Marco Rubio had a whirlwind romance with Florida Republicans only to be blindsided by a credit card spending scandal. But neither of those campaigns for U.S. Senate has been dealt as devastating a blow as Kendrick Meek’s. The leading Democrat candidate’s crime:…
Max Mermelstein is said to be the greatest informant in U.S. law enforcement history, but the man who brought down the Medillin cocaine cartel had vanished into the FBI Witness Protection Program for a quarter-century when filmmaker Brett Tabor went on a quest to find Mermelstein and tell his story…
On a slow morning, here’s a blast from the past. It’s a segment from Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter’s old radio show during which she and Mayor Ken Keechl talk about investigations and gift bans. Keechl says he doesn’t like the idea of a gift ban because it might — say…
A roundup of today’s local news:Toxic drywall has been discovered at the Preserve, a 180-unit development in downtown Boynton Beach that used a couple of million dollars from the city’s CRA fund. [Palm Beach Post]Broward Judge Dale Cohen faces the threat of sanctions after his refusal last year to recuse…
Looks like the University Press has hit a nerve with this week’s article about hazing at Florida Atlantic University fraternities. Editor Devin Desjarlais, who also works part-time for Juice, reports that since the paper came out Tuesday, more than 900 issues of the paper have been stolen from the bins…
We know it’s rough out there, but for people of a certain body type (see below), exotic dancing is simply not a viable career.Truly indecent exposure. Maybe we’re supposed to pay him to put his clothes on?…
When Scott Rothstein was spending millions in his bid to take over Fort Lauderdale, his many doubters strongly suspected that the money couldn’t possibly be legitimate. And the question heard ’round the city was: Where is this guy getting his money? There was talk of Russian Mob connections and computer…
“Alex Sink — not one of us,” says the ad by the Republican Governors’ Association. “One of them.” One of them people who wastes money, it appears.But the ad recently put out by the Democratic Party suggests that the other gubernatorial candidate, Bill McCollum, is also financially reckless…
He still hasn’t officially endorsed Marco Rubio, but former Gov. Jeb Bush is sending plenty of signals that that’s his pick for Florida’s next U.S. senator. The most recent piece of evidence came in an interview with a conservative website, Newsmax, in which Bush called Charlie Crist’s support of the…
The local news in Palm Beach and Broward:Police are looking for the driver of a late-model Cadillac Escalade involved in a hit and run yesterday in Hollywood. It collided with a minivan, ejecting a 2-year-old girl and injuring her mother and two siblings. [CBS4]The Broward State Attorney’s Offices decided against…
