The Dolphins received a devastating blow Sunday when Ronnie Brown hurt his foot. Much more devastating, it turns out, than most people realized.The franchise announced today that Ronnie Brown will be put on Injured Reserve, ending his season.For the year, Brown had 648 years rushing on 147 carries, 14 receptions…
It’s bad enough to have to work when you’re 82 years old. It’s worse when you have to work as a greeter at a place like BJ’s Wholesale. And it’s phenomenally shitty that the job also placed 82-year-old George Sobol in the unenviable position of trying to stop a computer…
Long before George LeMieux was selected by Charlie Crist to be the state’s newest U.S. Senator, he was the most powerful figure in the North Broward Hospital District. An episode from this past March illustrates LeMieux’s godfather-like role. That month Marc Goldstone was still the general counsel of the North…
Santonio Holmes is from Belle Glade, and now that he’s a Super Bowl MVP wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, you’d imagine that his life in that crime-ridden, rundown berg is a distant memory. But according to the Post-Gazette, Holmes thinks of home every time he washes his hands. One…
One of the exciting things about living in a tech-centric area like South Florida amid the social media revolution happening online is how it connects locals. The internet is a global phenomenon connecting millions of people every minute, no matter their location on the planet. What’s really amazing is how…
In addition to the laid-off employees at the Versace mansion, the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm, and other former Scott Rothstein business, there are many others who are either looking for work or have lost sizable income due to the Ponzi blow-up. Three of them are in this post. Start…
Attorneys at Scott Rothstein’s firm landed a highly privileged meeting with the executive leadership of the North Broward Hospital District in September 2008, the month after Rothstein was appointed by his friend, Gov. Charlie Crist, to the nominating committee for Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeals, according to documents that…
The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office is still examining the evidence in the October 26 stabbing at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, but as we wait to see whether prosecutors will file charges, we’re learning more about exactly what happened during the speech by Nazi historian David Irving. That altercation involved…
Tyrone Pinkney, a 23-year-old who was released from prison in September, looks like he’ll be heading back. He’s been arrested by police and charged in the November 9 shooting of Demetrus Sutton on Seacrest Boulevard.According to the probable-cause affidavit, Sutton, 32, had been in an argument with two women –…
A good source has been telling me for the past week that Scott Rothstein began wiring large sums of money out of the country during the weeks before he fled to Morocco. He told me that his sources at TD Bank put the figure at $200 million total — including…
In Washington, D.C., the St. Petersburg Times politics blog Buzz button-holed Sen. George LeMieux, who’s holding that seat for his benefactor, Charlie Crist. Here’s what LeMieux had to say about young, handsome, impeccably conservative Marco Rubio, who’s been hammering Crist over supporting the federal stimulus:It’s very easy to be a…
This week’s New Times cover story details the human cost of the massive layoffs that have hit South Florida’s three major daily papers in the past couple of years. According to estimates by New Times media critic Bob Norman, roughly 1,000 jobs have been lost at the Palm Beach Post,…
The headlines around South Florida:Ken Keechl was picked by his fellow Broward County commissioners as mayor, which is exciting because he’s gay and because he hasn’t been the subject of a recent criminal investigation for corruption. Progress! [WPLG]Rene Varela won the runoff for Lake Worth mayor, defeating restaurant owner and…
Broward police are looking for a bandit with “notably bad breath” who stuck up a bank in Tamarac Monday. The man, definitely not armed with Listerine, robbed the TD Bank, asking a teller to fill a trick-or-treat bag while motioning to his waistband. A gun was not in eye shot…
Some say there are a lot of similarities between fallen New York lawyer Marc Dreier and Scott Rothstein, but one that I learned is just flat-out weird. The two attorneys — both accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars — owned apartments in the same building in New York City at…
In a brief telephone conversation this afternoon, Nazi historian David Irving confirmed that his websites and private email account were attacked by hackers opposed to his writings of World War II. He told me that he’s been in contact with the FBI in hopes of bringing the hackers to justice…
David Irving, a British historian with controversial views of the Holocaust, whose speaking engagement last month in Manalapan was marred by a stabbing between neo-Nazis, has had his websites attacked and his email hacked by a group claiming “anti-fascist” motives.It happened on Friday, apparently, just a day before Irving’s speech…
Check out the star-studded guest list for this weekend’s conference by David Horowitz’s Freedom Center. Among them: Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Fred Thompson, Liz Cheney, and the unflushable Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian who’s back to help us fight terrorists and illegal immigrants — or does he not distinguish between…
Once Scott Rothstein explained the concept of buying secret settlement deals (see Part I), he explained just how big these deals could be and how much money could be involved in them. To illustrate, he told his prospective investor about the giant Eli Lilly pharmaceutical case. The beauty of that was…
The Florida Bar Association has ruled that Sam Goren, acting general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, did not act incompetently or violate professional ethics standards in giving advice to the board, which led to the firing of the district’s two lead attorneys and the hiring of Goren’s firm…
On November 4, the day after alleged Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein returned from his trip to Morocco, a special party was held at the Westin Fort Lauderdale. Its attendance list reads like a who’s who of political heavy-hitters in Broward.The local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization that…
