This is one of the last photographs ever taken of Melissa Britt Lewis, shot during the party marking her promotion to partner at the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm. It was sent to me by Lewis’ aunt, Lynn Haberl, who left the following note. It’s clearly meant not just for…
Since Monday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office has been circulating the video below in hopes of catching the man who ransacked a pawn store in Lauderdale Lakes on December 4. But while Juice is usually the first media outlet in South Florida to lend BSO a bad-guy-apprehending assist, we decided to…
A look at what’s in the news on this morning in South Florida:Frank Spinosa, the TD bank executive who handled Scott Rothstein’s investor funds, was fired last month and his attorney says Spinosa’s name was falsified in fraudulent documents provided to investors. [Sun-Sentinel]Broward parents’ protests were heard by the school…
The New Orleans Saints are having a splendid season, but despite their 12-0 record, they’re still a long way from the kind of immortality enjoyed by the ’72 Dolphins. But it seems no one bothered to tell Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who in public remarks today claimed that his beloved…
Since 1997, the print version of New Times hasn’t changed much. Sure, we’ve added a website, BrowardPalmBeach.com, that has become South Florida’s best news and entertainment spot on the ‘net, with more than a million pageviews a month. But the printed paper has stayed largely the same.Not anymore. On January…
WSVN-7 has posted video of the 80-year-old man who perished last month while trying to walk across a drawbridge on Sheridan Street in Hollywood. Check it out and see whether you agree with the family of the victim and the family’s attorney, who are suing the bridgetender.It’s a tragedy, of…
So Florida Bar President Jesse Diner says in the Daily Business Review (thanks, Christy) that the Bar “can be preemptive” when it comes to investigating lawyers but is “not in the position of just going out willy-nilly and auditing people.” I bet not, especially since Diner’s sister-in-law was getting tens of thousands in…
Make room in the pool for a whale of a victim of the South Florida housing slump. Malcolm Glazer, a billionaire corporate raider/sports franchise owner, had to mark down a Palm Beach home he was listing for $27.5 million. It sold for just $24 million.What? You don’t feel sorry for…
When German-born Erika Biddle first set foot in Key West in 1994, she looked around and thought, “This is the only city I’ve ever visited where I’m not the most eccentric person around. Here, I’m the normal one!” Biddle had been an active Green Party member in Germany; she was…
Most weekends, at the corner of Oakland Park and Federal Highway, there are some colorful protests. This is a regular spot for self-proclaimed “tea partiers” to tell the world (and the luxury cars going to and from Galt Ocean Mile) about their conservative beliefs (like Obama is a socialist Muslim…
Eleven years before he married the woman who allegedly tried to have him killed, Michael Dippolito admits he “may have” fathered a son with another woman who lives west of Boca Raton.According to a paternity suit filed by the child’s mother, Karen Tanne, Dippolito acknowledged that he was the father…
On the right, that’s a portion of the fundraiser flier being circulated by West Broward land baron Ron Bergeron, who’s hosting an event for his favorite U.S. Senate candidate, Charlie Crist. (Click to enlarge.) I’ve highlighted the name of one headlining contributor, Joseph Cobo, the Broward Health commissioner currently under…
Here are the kinds of things I get in my email box these days. It’s abridged slightly: ———————————————— hi bob, i’d like to keep my name private for obvious reasons. but what i can tell you that i was a former long time employee of Bova Prime and was…
Eric Affholter, an attorney who practices in Pompano Beach, has had his law license suspension upheld by the Florida Supreme Court, based on Affholter’s arranging a fraudulent marriage designed to make his partner, a Peruvian man, a legal resident.It was a real-world consequence in the often abstract debate over whether…
Here’s what’s happening in South Florida this Tuesday morning:Disgraced Palm Beach mega-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein has filed suit against disgraced Broward mega-millionaire Scott Rothstein based on reports the latter attracted investment dollars by fraudulently claiming to have reached a cash settlement with teenaged victims of Epstein’s erotic massages. [Palm Beach Post]More…
Ahnich Khalid’s eyes misted over, and the tears started falling. “Why me?” he asked with choked emotion. “I keep asking that question. Why me? I am a little guy; I work all the time; I have a wife, two kids, a mortgage on a small townhouse. How did this happen…
Former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion has agreed to enter a guilty plea in the federal corruption case against him.UPDATE: Just got off the phone with Eggelletion’s former colleague, Commissioner John Rodstrom. “I think it’s just a tragedy,” he said of Eggelletion’s fall. “It’s bad for everybody — bad for…
The Boynton Beach Police Department just released the probable cause affidavit in yesterday’s deadly hit and run. Leticia Flores, 28, is accused of accidentally killing 10-year-old Darness Brown, then leaving the scene.Flores, who is being held on $1 million bond, lives on SW Ninth Avenue, just a block away from…
That’s an ad from the Super Bowl, when Ed McMahon had only one foot in the grave and Hammer was merely a pitchman for Cash4Gold. Now the semiretired rapper owns an equity stake in the Pompano Beach-based company, according to CNNmoney.com.It should be noted that Hammer is a better rapper…
Broward Health Commissioner Robert Bernstein is known both for his emphasis on ethics and for his short temper. In a string of emails to the district’s CEO, it appears he was torn between those two impulses.On one hand, Bernstein was an enthusiastic supporter of ethics reform that occurred in 2007,…
