Here’s what happened in Broward and Palm Beach over the weekend:The Lynn University students who escaped the earthquake in Haiti gave their horrifying first-person account. Two of the students and the group’s two faculty advisers remain missing. [Palm Beach Post]Scott Rothstein has been a wrecking ball through Broward Sheriff Al…
Timmerman with Gov. Crist in photo taken at Scott Rothstein’s home. Former Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm clerk and Nova Southeastern University law student Julie Timmerman committed suicide yesterday at her home in Fort Lauderdale, police confirmed. She was 26. Timmerman, who worked two summers for imprisoned Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, consumed an overdose of…
I obtained an email from Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein in which he begs for forgiveness from his closest friends and family members. “I have lied, I have hurt you, I have hurt your feelings,” Rothstein wrote. “I have not been there when you needed me, I have put less important things before those…
This just seemed like a perfect photograph for a lazy Saturday morning. I don’t know where it was taken, but it appears that Scott Rothstein and his second-named partner, Russ Adler (the “A” in RRA), have just finished a meal while on a trip. The soccer ball (I can’t make…
Commissioner Marty Popelsky broke a 2-2 tie on the Deerfield Beach City Commission this evening, voting in favor of a resolution that terminated Mike Mahaney, the city manager of more than two years.The meeting was civil, by Deerfield Beach standards anyway. Commissioners Joe Miller and Sylvia Poitier teamed up with…
One last swig of the Juice from this past week:After the quake hit Haiti, we got in touch with local charities that work in the impoverished nation, like Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches, whose staff suffered injuries, and Planting Peace, whose orphanages were miraculously spared.In Parkland, a mystery…
That’s video of Marco Rubio from last night’s The Kudlow Report. At the 2-minute mark, Kudlow asks Rubio to respond to the recent profile in New York Times Magazine, which asked whether Rubio is “The First Senator From the Tea Party?”Of course, Rubio saw that question coming from a mile…
In just a few hours, the Deerfield Beach City Commission will hold its special meeting to vote on a motion by Commissioner Bill Ganz to terminate City Manager Mike Mahaney. I reached Ganz by phone a few moments ago to see whether he had been able to work out his…
That’s what former Rothstein business partner Roger Stone is reporting on his blog this morning. He says that former Heat center Alonzo Mourning played matchmaker in an encounter that took place in Miami Beach on the night of October 26 — just before Rothstein left for Morocco the following day…
I’m starting to wonder if Broward Undersheriff Tom Wheeler and BSO Lt. David Benjamin went to local airports to thumb rides to football games with wealthy politically connected folks. I’ve confirmed that Wheeler and Benjamin — along with Broward County Judge John “Jay” Hurley — flew to Tallahassee for the September 7…
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Last night, South Florida’s two top weekly newspapers (said modestly), New Times Broward*Palm Beach and Miami New Times, donated $5,000 to Partners in Health, perhaps the most important charity in returning Haiti to normalcy after this week’s monstrous earthquake.And we are challenging alternative newspapers across the country to give more…
When Dalia Dippolito met with an undercover Boynton Beach cop to plan her husband’s murder, she revealed some interesting details about Michael Dippolito’s finances.Dalia told the cop — who she thought was a hit man — that Michael would be withdrawing $10,000 in cash from a Bank of America on…
As the images from Haiti get more horrific, Americans are digging into their recession-ravaged pockets to help the international aid effort. But these moments bring out the worst in people, too. Already, sham charities are constructing phony websites and sending spam solicitations.But besides avoiding those obvious villains, donors should try…
Your daily look at the headlines in South Florida:A contractor working in Haiti was mistaken in reporting that three of the twelve Lynn University students who were there on a charitable mission had been found. So the number of missing students is back up to four, along with two members…
A video version this morning. That’s Deerfield Beach at dusk, from this past weekend, courtesy MrDspee…
Scott Rothstein isn’t the only big-spending, politico-favoring accused crook in Broward County whose stuff is about to go up for auction. South Florida Times Eggelletion (top), Bruce Chait (middle), and son Shawn Chait at bottom. Put Prestige Homes owner Bruce Chait on the list as well. Chait, who was recently charged…
In yet another demonstration of Charlie Crist’s plummeting stock in the state Republican Party, a legislative committee has rejected the compact his office hammered out with the Seminole Tribe last year that would have allowed the Seminoles to keep theirLas Vegas-style games in exchange for annual payments to the state,…
Who’s up for a harrowing tale from the high seas? This comes from Annie Richey, who is traveling the world with Tom Gensemer aboard their retrofitted sailboat Emma. Richey recently posted an account of the Midwestern couple’s nearly catastrophic encounter with the Palm Beach Princess, the cash-strapped gambling barge that’s…
It’s hard to watch the footage of injured, homeless Haitians without remembering the desperate Katrina survivors on the rooftops of New Orleans. Soon, the Katrina refugees were taken in by sympathetic citizens across the United States. But South Florida is no Houston. Our Haitian neighbors routinely drown trying to get…
The Airport Hilton, Palm Beach. The Marriott Key Largo. The Clevelander Miami Beach. The Ocean Manor Resort Fort Lauderdale. The Embassy Suites in Boca. These are only a few of the South Florida hotels and guesthouses riddled with bedbugs, according to the bedbugregistry.com, a site devoted to tracking the evil…
