I will have the second part of the Kim Rothstein interviews up tomorrow morning, but here’s just a reminder of what was taken in the bankruptcy proceeding from the Rothstein home and other places: Twenty luxury cars, including three Ferraris, two Rolls-Royces, a Maserati, a Bentley, a Lamborghini, and three Corvettes. Also…
Late last week, Gov. Charlie Crist removed Holy Cross cardiologist Zachariah P. Zachariah from the powerful Board of Governors overseeing Florida universities. It’s another occasion for gossip in the state’s Republican Party. Was Crist wary of insider trader allegations made by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Zachariah? Or did…
Tomorrow morning, Broward Health Chair Rhonda Calhoun will convene a board that has four new members, all appointed last week by Gov. Charlie Crist, who removed two colleagues whom Calhoun admired — commissioners Robert Bernstein and Dan Gordon.She was given no explanation by the governor’s office as to its reasons…
Stupidity isn’t a crime, except in cases like Jose Armando Rodrigues. The 32-year-old man dialed 911 this morning from the shoulder of I-95. According to the police report, Rodrigues told the operator that someone was trying to kill him.After Boynton Beach Police found Rodrigues leaning against the freeway divider wall,…
The Pro Bowl is inarguably the worst event in professional sports. The game of football, replete with epic playbooks, chemistry that takes years to build, and bone-crushing hits, simply doesn’t lend itself to an all-star game. The sport does produce great athletes, though, and perhaps nobody in the history of…
Dolphins fans don’t need another reason to hate the Jets, but New York’s head coach sure gave us one more on Saturday. That’s when Rex Ryan flipped off Dolphins Fans at a mixed martial arts bout in Sunrise. An astute spectator snapped a camera phone image, above, of Ryan’s expression…
[There will be several Kim Rothstein stories told here this week, some of them in-depth, some of them in shorter vignette form. They are based on interviews in person and on the phone. She was interviewed without any lawyers or public relations people present but refused to answer some questions, saying she would wait…
A spin through the headlines from this past weekend in Broward and Palm Beach:Two young people were shot dead on the 100 block of SW Second Avenue in Boynton Beach on Saturday night. Police have identified the victims as Stephen Ocean, 22, and Tite Sufra, 21. There’s no word of…
I met with Kim Rothstein (it’s Kim, not Kimmie!) for about an hour at the Bahia Cabana on Friday in Fort Lauderdale and spoke with her this morning for roughly two hours. I’ll have a post on the interviews later tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest. She opened up about a…
It was one of the most turbulent weeks in the recent history of Broward Health — and Juice was the only media outlet that noticed. On Wednesday, two hospital commissioners under fire for ethical misconduct skipped the meeting in an apparent plot to save the health-care system’s embattled CEO. The…
These things are inevitable: death, taxes, and prostitutes coming to town for the Super Bowl.For a large number of escorts willing to travel, this week represents the annual call to cash, the ritualistic midwinter trip to whatever American city upon which the National Football League has so graciously bestowed its…
Before taking a job as band teacher at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens — where he would later be accused of raping and molesting eighth-grade students — Heath Miller worked briefly as a substitute teacher at Glades Central Community High School, his alma mater. It’s unclear from…
The State of Massachusetts’ probation officers allowed Sonny Peixoto to move to South Florida in 2004, despite his having just entered a guilty plea to vehicular homicide. The move made it possible for him to meet — then murder — Amity Kozak in 2007 in a West Palm Beach high-rise…
Sources are saying that WSFL/Sun-Sentinel reporter Jack Hambrick has filed a misdemeanor complaint against Kim Rothstein bodyguard Joe Alu alleging battery over their courthouse scuffle on Wednesday. I haven’t been able to reach Hambrick, but Alu says he hasn’t heard anything about it, and Fort Lauderdale Police Department spokesman Frank…
In December 2007, when John Edwards was bracing himself for a National Enquirer expose about his affair with Rielle Hunter, hoping it wouldn’t cost him a victory at the Iowa caucuses, he sent the woman and an aide to — of all places — the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood Beach.Maybe…
Former band teacher Heath Miller gained infamy last April for allegedly raping and molesting students in his classroom at H.L. Watkins Middle school in Palm Beach Gardens.But two months before he made headlines for those crimes, he also shot and killed an armed intruder who broke into his Wellington home.Miller…
The morning after he learned he would be replaced on the Broward Health Board of Commissioners, Dan Gordon is trying to strike a diplomatic tone. Reached at the office of his Pompano Beach insurance company, Gordon said he was “not upset.” Rather, he was “surprised” by Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision…
With a full container of vitamin- and mineral-enriched meals now on its way to Haiti, Living Water Ministries has turned its attention to collecting supplies to ship over to the island as soon as possible. According to Living Water founder Fred Chalker, who oversees the Lake Worth-based charity, volunteers will…
Laura Seidman, wife of Broward County Judge Lee Jay Seidman, has filed to challenge Judge Lisa Porter for Broward Circuit Court’s Group 47.A Republican activist, Laura Seidman is former general counsel of Broward Health, resigning that position in April 2008 due to health concerns and political pressure. She described her…
The NFL Network has lots of time to kill before this weekend’s Pro Bowl festivities, and it could do worse than letting Chad Ochocinco run his mouth for a few minutes. Around 1:40, he describes his plans to perform as both a punter and a kicker at Sunday’s game in…
Your daily tour of the local news:According to the local media, nothing newsworthy happened at North Broward’s giant public health-care district yesterday. Moving on…The director of the Palm Beach International Airport has decided he’d like to ride that DROP gravy train a few miles down the track. The program will…
