If you’re like most of the folks at the Juice, watching music awards shows generally ranks somewhere above sniffing Tom Delay’s underwear and below intentionally getting Tazed on your scale of “things I’d like to do with my evening.” But that might change this year, all because of one fantastic…
As trials approach in the civil suits against Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, a legal strategy is beginning to take shape. His high-priced attorneys appear intent on forcing Epstein’s alleged victims to relive their most traumatic sexual experiences.Of course, a certain amount of that is unavoidable in cases where sex…
The ethics complaint filed on behalf of Lake Worth business owner Gary Dario against City Commissioner Cara Jennings was dismissed yesterday by the Florida Commission on Ethics for “lack of legal sufficiency.” The commission upheld Jennings’s “right to boycott” — even though she holds political office.Dario, who owned Nature’s Way…
At noon on Tuesday, there was one man waiting, seated quietly on the curb outside the new Chick-Fil-A on Federal Highway in Pompano Beach. By 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, there were already 20 more people. By 6 a.m., nearly 200 people were waiting in line just for the chance to be…
Every so often, there’s a news event that suggests (or proves?) that the modern media is making the world an even more confusing place. This week, the office of West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced that former Politico.com writer Jonathan Allen had been hired as an aide. Pretty straightforward,…
I have just confirmed that John Harris, who was Scott Rothstein’s banker at Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust and headed the bank’s operation on Las Olas, is no longer with the company. This development wouldn’t seem to bode well for the bank. In late September, Rothstein purchased a 5 or 6 percent…
If there’s a lawyer in South Florida in a position to hustle big cash settlements out of billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, that lawyer is Adam Horowitz, who represents seven women who have filed suit against the billionaire, seeking damages based on claims he sexually molested them. That makes Horowitz…
A recent Florida State University graduate and political activist is being held at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach and faces deportation to Colombia.Andrea Huerfano, who graduated from FSU in 2008 with an international studies degree and now lives in Coral Springs, moved to the United States with her…
A few morsels of South Florida news while you enjoy your breakfast:Is that Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderly standing with Scott Rothstein on Broward Boulevard, at the scene of an August car crash that involved former Rothstein friend Moe Sohail’s car? [JAABlog] And if so, is this what the…
A turtle suns itself on a rock along the edge of a dark and placid comma-shaped lagoon that marks the center of campus. Casually dressed students carrying schoolbooks saunter across manicured lawns or slouch at patio tables outside the modest student activity center. A pleasant breeze rattles leaf-stocked branches on…
Well, I told you below that something good was brewing, and it just came out. Bill Gelin at JAABlog got the story on cigar man Moe Sohail’s Bentley crash — and a couple of unexpected guests show up at the scene. You can get all the details on Gelin’s post,…
In this week’s New Times feature story, Gus Garcia-Roberts writes about Florida Memorial University’s penchant for violent crime — and violent crime suppression by the security staff. A young man from Deerfield Beach named Theonus Times, studying to be an embalmer, apparently felt the need to borrow his deceased father’s…
I hear an, uh, “interesting” story is soon to break regarding Scott Rothstein and FLPD, and I’ll link it as soon as it does. I’m trying to get a piece of it as we speak. In the meantime, and mostly as a comment cleaner, what follows is the “confidential” memo sent to…
Tennessee Volunteers head football coach Lane Kiffin loves South Florida football players — we told you how he bought a billboard in their honor, which you can see here. But now the question for NCAA investigators is whether he and his staff encourage the university’s female students to show a…
Long before he made headlines as the victim of his wife’s alleged plot to have him killed, Michael Dippolito had a scheme of his own.From a Boca Raton apartment, he ran a telemarketing business that preyed on strangers as far away as Ohio, Illinois, and California, convincing them to invest…
For the past few years, the man known as “Frankie D” was a fixture at the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler firm. Former law firm employees say Frankie, a street guy from Brooklyn, started out as Scott Rothstein’s driver and more recently worked was a jack-of-all-trades, helping in any way Rothstein asked. More…
According to a scoop in yesterday’s edition of the Broward Bulldog, he’s the businessman who went undercover to help FBI agents lure corrupt Broward County officials, like Josephus Eggelletion, who will be entering his guilty plea in a money-laundering case tomorrow.Judging by Dan Christensen’s article, Lochrie has worked mostly the…
Joel CastilloWe’re beginning to feel sorry for the public relations department of Miami Gardens’ Florida Memorial University. As this week’s feature story on the violence-plagued school — think shootings, carjackings, home invasions, and a near-riot — went to print, the first reports of a fresh stabbing on campus began to…
Florida Atlantic University just can’t leave well enough alone. It’s been much too long since the school was accused of harboring terrorists — but a day without anti-Muslim hysteria is a day without sunshine. Last week, the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, in conjunction with the Florida…
Gov. Charlie Crist is learning to tread lightly on the Broward County fund-raising circuit. Yesterday morning I posted this item about how Broward Health Commissioner Joseph Cobo was named to the host committee for next week’s swanky Crist fundraiser at the home of West Broward developer Ronnie Bergeron. And by…
Martin Thorborg is one of those unusual success stories because he’s one of those businessmen who broke most of the rules and became a success. Martin is Danish and is a serial entrepreneur who’s now living in Delray Beach.His first venture was the Danish Internet Portal Jubii, which started in…
