Looks like Office Depot, which is based in Boca Raton, has a major scandal on its hands. A former senior account executive named David Sherwin has accused the office supply retailer of overcharging governments across the country, and there’s talk of a grand jury investigation in Florida.Judging by the article…
Based on this weekend’s Daily Pulp, we know that Scott Rothstein’s investors are going to try to get money back from the many charities that received his generous donations. That post triggered a conversation in the comments field about whether it’s appropriate for the investors to seek those funds, given…
Or maybe porn drives the tech industry here. In either case, it’s an interesting consideration, since both industries are on the rise and both are huge sectors of employment in the orange juice capital of the world. Most of the actors who come to Florida don’t do it to get…
Some of you may have heard this morning’s report on WLRN about the U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine on what basis it’s just to put a child in prison for life. There seems to be a lot of violent crime committed by children in South Florida, but I…
One thing about Scott Rothstein is that people who know — or knew — him best will tell you that he lies as naturally as he breathes (especially his good friends, whom he ripped off for millions of dollars). Keep that in mind when you read what he told the Miami Herald on his cell phone…
Monday in the Broward and Palm Beach. Here’s the view from headlineville.Scott Rothstein gave a brief phone interview to the Miami Herald in which he said he was “doing good,” smoking cigars with his attorney, Marc Nurik, who then took the phone and retracted all that Rothstein had just said,…
Scott Rothstein gave $1 million to Holy Cross Hospital and hundreds of thousands of dollars to a slew of other charities, including the Dan Marino Foundation, Alonzo Mourning Charities, the Humane Society, the American Heart Association, the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, and the Jewish Federation. Guess what? The lawyers are…
Here’s your weekly serving of Florida’s best — not from concentrate:We were all over the alleged mega-millions swindle by Scott Rothstein. Look here, here, and here.On our blog and in our print feature, Gail Shepherd is taking on Internet crooks, playing a little trick on them for a change. The Yahoo-yahoo boys…
Long before Demi met Ashton, Boca Raton has been a cougar’s lair. You see those botox-boosted, silicone-pumped ladies prowling everywhere, especially Mizner and Blue Martini, occasionally displaying a barely pubescent piece of arm candy.That was Darin Riggio once. The Boca native was 19 when he first became cougar prey. His…
Now that Chad Henne has twice dusted the rival Jets this year and revived what looked like an atrocious season, sports outlets all over South Florida are discussing the man. They debate his arm strength, his ability to lead a team, his fit in this offense, his Marino-ness. Some have…
Here’s what we know: This past Tuesday, Chad Fleming, 31, from Deerfield Beach was delivered to a Massachusetts hospital — after he had already died. In fact, doctors found he’d been dead for several hours. Fleming had been beaten to death. The man who dropped him off at the hospital,…
You can say a lot of things about Scott Rothstein (and you have), but one thing that’s hard to question about him is his loyalty to his parents. Through all the years, he has remained very close to his mother and father, housewife Gay and Harvey, who worked as a…
Your former governor was in Atlanta recently, earnestly pretending to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican nomination for president. Or maybe he was testing a theory about mind control: that if you keep telling people something that’s false, maybe they’ll come to believe that it’s true.If so, Jeb Bush…
Just slap on those handcuffs. His name may be David R. Forget, but he remembers this drill. According to police, the registered sex offender who lived in Plantation believed — truly believed — that when he arrived at their meeting place, he would see the 15-year-old girl with whom he’d…
I’ve been stymied in my efforts to get an answer to the question I put at the bottom of this mammoth post from yesterday, about the Deerfield Beach’s Mango Festival. Namely, why did the city cut the Mango Festival a check for $36,000 in June 2008?Acting parks and recreation director…
Broward Sheriff’s Lt. David Benjamin, who serves as Sheriff Al Lamberti’s “executive officer,” escorted Scott Rothstein through Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport to his chartered jet when the fallen lawyer fled the country for Morocco last week. Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Leljedal confirmed that Rothstein phoned his friend Benjamin, who was off-duty and armed at…
Some end-of-Friday news: Miami Herald — Add another Scott Rothstein investor to the mix: Ovi Levy, who helped found the Renato Watches, a company in which Rothstein once told me he owned 40 percent. Sources say Levy invested several million dollars with Rothstein, who had a collection of several hundred watches…
Lee Abrams is an infamous figure around the Sun-Sentinel newsroom. He’s chief innovation officer for the Tribune Co., which owns the Sun-Sentinel, WSFL-TV (CW), the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and a slew of other newspapers and television stations across the country.Abrams ordered the dramatic redesign of the Sun-Sentinel last…
The Oasis of the Seas, the largest ship ever built (think Noah’s Ark meets the Titanic meets Rhode Island), cleared her largest obstacle this week en route to a new home in Fort Lauderdale.AP reports that crew on the massive 20-story, $1.5 billion ocean liner lowered the telescopic smoke stacks…
If the man who stole the bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue from the Weston liquor store thought that this blog — which covers only major breaking crime stories — was going to overlook this case, well, that person does not know this blog. We will solve this case, and we…
Poor Frank Sarcona, AKA Frank Sarcone, AKA Dave Johnson. Whatever the chap’s name, he lacks the creativity to concoct new scams. Sarcona — let’s stick with that — was convicted last week by a federal jury for a host of fraud charges, after he violated the terms of an injunction…
