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Remember this Godfather 3 painting that Scott Rothstein kept at his doorway in the administrative corridor outside the inner sanctum? Of course you do, especially since it was the inspiration behind the moniker of a hall-of-fame Pulp presence (Godfather 3). But guess who painted it… ah, you’ll never get it. It…
Gov. Charlie Crist’s office has removed Commissioners Robert Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the Broward Health board in a maneuver that appears likely to spare Commissioner Mike Fernandez from an ethics inquiry and save the job of embattled CEO Frank Nask.Bernstein had been on an ethics rampage for the past…
It’s not much, but it’s what we got. Hey, it is the best view of Joe Alu rising from the planter after the fight. Oh, and the last 30 seconds are nothing; once the camera goes down, it’s over. Don’t want you wasting your time or anything…
Everybody wants to be on the Broward Health board, it seems, except the people who are actually on the Broward Health board. Specifically, the four-person majority of Mike Fernandez, Joseph Cobo, Rebecca Stoll, and Maureen Jaeger, whose politically motivated absences are responsible for the board’s having canceled its last two…
Let’s be real. Charlie Crist isn’t trailing in the Senate race because he’s a weak leader who surrounds himself with a coterie of crooked businessmen and conflicted advisers. No, those would be legitimate reasons. Rather, he’s trailing the Senate race because back in February, he hugged Barack Obama.In the year…
It’s surreal to hear a conservative like LeMieux campaigning for mass transportation, typically a crusade for liberals. But when it comes to the railroad industry, to which LeMieux has deep ties from his halcyon days as a lobbyist, LeMieux turns liberal.As we’ve mentioned on Juice this month, LeMieux’s former law…
A national anti-dog-racing group has officially requested that the Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigate whether the state has the authority to revoke the license of Ursula O’Donnell, the greyhound trainer arrested in 2002 on felony animal abuse charges related to a massive greyhound graveyard police discovered just over…
Collecting and showing prisoner art is Carol Strick’s second career. It started when she left her job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1994, where she worked making faience reproductions for the Ancient Egyptian collection. Her husband had died, she’d moved to Florida, and she was…
The headlines this morning in Broward and Palm Beach:Following his guilty plea to fraud charges in connection with a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein received a sentencing date of May 6. He’s hoping for leniency based on his having returned from Morocco and helping investigators identify…
Michael Szafranski has always been one of the most mysterious figures in the Scott Rothstein mess, so new information about hefty payments made to him and a potentially damning email he sent to Rothstein as the fraud fell apart can only add to the intrigue. Szafranski, a certified investment adviser…
Moises Chambi needs only two tools to survive on the world’s largest salt flat: a wooden-handled pickax and a shovel beaten into a worn fold. The 23-year-old with sun-darkened skin, prominent cheekbones, and a quick, sarcastic smile grunts softly as he repeatedly slams his ax into the parched earth of…
Imaneed is a real-time classifieds service that is based in Weston, where its founder, Matt Lally, lives. He created the site as a way of making classified-style ads more dynamic — functioning in real time rather than “print time.” The idea is innovative, even if the name’s kind of goofy.After completing…
At 73 years old, Dr. Georges Boutin had never been to Haiti, and he had no reason to ever go until a phone conversation he had two weeks ago with his daughter Pier, an orthopedic surgeon who lives with her husband, Mark Hyman, in Massachusetts.The first pictures of the earthquake’s…
There’s some confusion about Mike Verdugo’s newsmaking clash with his former employer, the Hollywood Police Department. Verdugo is not claiming that he was fired for being gay, as this article in the Miami Herald implies. Rather, he’s claiming that he was fired from his job as a police officer because…
Broward Health Commissioner Mike Fernandez failed to attend this morning’s board meeting at Coral Springs Medical Center in what appears to be a thinly veiled effort to avoid voting on whether to fire the district’s CEO and to address concerns about whether he violated state ethics laws by failing to…
Scott Rothstein pleaded guilty today to five felony counts, then his wife Kim read a prepared statement to the press. Then a fight broke out between Kim Rothstein’s body guard and a TV reporter. In other words, it was just another eventful day in the Rothstein scandal. “Guilty,” Rothstein said…
The story of the speeding BSO police cruiser that killed 14-year-old Cara Catlin last Saturday in Oakland Park is hauntingly similar to the case of Eric Brody, the 18-year-old boy who 12 years ago turned into the oncoming path of a Broward sheriff’s deputy named Christopher Thieman on his way…
So Scott Rothstein pleads guilty this morning and his wife, Kim, will be there to stand by his side. Or at least behind him, in the gallery with the media. He’ll be shackled before the judge, after all. Yesterday, as you know, the woman called Kimmie gave a brief and somewhat…
When the earthquake first hit, Aaron Jackson immediately announced that his charity, Planting Peace, would help as many Haitians as possible with food, water, medicine, and shelter. Within days, Aaron was on the ground in Port-au-Prince, literally.While down there, his story made the front page of the New York Times…
