No, the paper’s not closing. But after losing hundreds of employees to layoffs and buyouts and shuttering its presses so the Sun-Sentinel could print the paper, the Palm Beach Post has a lot of extra office equipment laying around.Desks, chairs, bookcases, and filing cabinets are being hawked from the paper’s…
I know this may come as bad news to the middle-class folks with a jones for cosmetic surgery, but the days of bargain Botox may soon be over. This is the kind of article that politicians tend to clip out, then paste into a new piece of legislation. It appears…
A key question regarding Scott Rothstein’s fraudulent scheme that until now has gone largely unanswered: How did he lure so many rich and powerful locals to pour tens of millions into the estimated billion-dollar Ponzi that imploded last weekend? One way he did it was by tricking investors into believing that…
Usually, we’re skeptical when a campaigning politician cites a breaking news story as a basis for new legislation, but we’ll suspend that cynicism for the moment. State Sen. Dan Gelber, Democratic candidate for Florida attorney general, has seized on the recent corruption cases in Broward County to demand new laws…
With friends like these who needs enemies? That appears to be the feeling for the owner of the Gryphon nightclub, located at the Seminole Hardrock Hotel & Casino, Michael Ault. He tells me that longtime friend and New York City club owner Adam Hoch swiped his club name’s and concept,…
Well, it’s worth a try anyway. Here’s what’s going on in Broward and Palm Beach counties:The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit against the state for its failure to provide Floridian family with a quality education — a point for which the Palm Beach County School District drop-out rates…
We’re going to start with a photo tour of Rothstein’s office. I got the video and am going to post, but I like the idea of starting with a few still shots. These shots were taken this afternoon, several hours after FBI and IRS agents left the offices after taking…
Interesting fun fact of the day: The G5 that Scott Rothstein flew to Morocco and back was apparently arranged for Rothstein by Blue Star Jets. Blue Star Jets is owned by Todd Rome. Todd Rome is the ex-husband of Carol Rome. Carol Rome is the current wife of Florida governor and…
In this week’s feature, Gail Shepherd explores the art of scam-baiting. What does that art entail you ask? In plain English, it’s screwing with Internet crooks. This hobby involves responding to those annoying emails that inundate your spam box promising get rich quick schemes.Over in Bob Norman’s The Pulp, he…
A spokesman for Gibraltar Private Bank and Trust, Peter Whalen, just released the following statement about its association with suspected Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein.The law firm of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler maintained traditional banking accounts with Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust for law firm operations, including payroll. Gibraltar Private immediately reached…
The Mango Festival of Deerfield Beach has a math problem: Its most recent festival, in June 2008, attracted a lot of people. But for some reason, it didn’t make a lot of money. And for the city, which has invested more than a million dollars in that festival over the…
With mega swindlers like Madoff and Rothstein running rampant, a rapacious capitalist like Donald Trump is almost a sweetheart in comparison. But he does not come without flaws. The Donald faces litigation in Tampa and Fort Lauderdale for allegedly falsifying his role in the construction of two luxury towers.The $300…
This just in from the State Attorney’s Office: It filed an unlawful compensation felony charge against former Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion in the Parkland Golf & Country Club case wherein he allegedly took a golf club membership from developer Prestige Homes in exchange for his support for a controversial…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has provided new information on the shooting by its officer yesterday afternoon near the bus station downtown. The man shot has been identified as 20-year-old Jonas Joseph. From the release: Sergeant Dean Schoen, a 12-year-veteren, received information from a citizen that the suspect, Jonas Joseph…
In a move aimed at further distancing Rothstein Rosenfeldt and Adler lawyers from the firm’s former swindling chairman, a media tour was offered of the law firm and Scott Rothstein’s “inner sanctum” — the elaborate office where he hatched his schemes. The Pulp went along for the tour, which was led by former U.S…
With investigators already sifting through the documents left behind in Scott Rothstein’s law office on Las Olas, it’s only a matter of time before they take their warrants across the street to the front doors of Gibraltar Private Bank and Trust.The Sun-Sentinel coverage has focused on TD Bank, which is…
The fake Las Olas Lifestyle cover was submitted by a reader who didn’t want credit for it. After the jump, see an illustrated Rothstein spoof on the Passover Seder song “Chad Gadya” (which translates to “One Kid” or “One Little Goat”) that was forwarded to the Pulp by a reader. I’m not sure if…
In a post yesterday that’s part of our Panning for Gold series, I made a crack about how it’s rather foolish to trust a charter fisherman’s hunch about the sustainability of fish population — not just for the obvious fox-running-the-hen-house reasons. Mainly, it’s because there’s a much more reliable, objective…
This week’s feature follows one kind of internet scam: 419 fraud, usually originating in Africa or Asia, and the people fighting the scammers at 419Eater.com. But one of the fastest growing scams in tough economic times is the “work from home” fake employment scam, and many of these can be…
It’s a good thing Scott Rothstein isn’t a more diabolical criminal mastermind. On Tuesday, I pulled county documents that show how he transferred several Fort Lauderdale properties — whose total value came to about $13 million — into the hands of individual private corporations registered in Delaware, which happens to…
[Update: The feds left the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm a bit after 5 a.m. after arriving about 6 p.m. They took voluminous records and left an inventory, though that is being kept confidential. The FBI and IRS did their work at night so as not to totally disrupt the…
