Forgive me for doing so many posts on this, but it’s crucial that all the facts be reported regarding Broward School Board member Stephanie Kraft’s involvement in getting a $500,000 favor from the School Board for the development firm that employed her husband. Longtime readers know that they get a jump on…
Two weeks after a suit-wearing man pulled a gun out of briefcase and shot Tobias Barfield of Dania Beach, “Dapper Dan” is in police custody. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting that the suspect, John Roger Jenkins, turned himself in this morning. Here’s the release.Investigators have not yet identified a…
The man who shot and wounded a Fort Lauderdale police officer this weekend before being killed has been identified as Bastiany Georges, a 29-year-old who had an extensive criminal history. The incident occurred following police attempts to make a traffic stop on Andrews Avenue. The Fort Lauderdale Police news release:The…
Harry’s Banana Farm in Lake Worth has long been famous for its stuffed alligator, its paperback “lending library,” its Penthouse designation as one of the ten sleaziest bars in America, and for the philosophical musings posted on its outdoor sign. But this week’s message struck a deeper chord. Maybe we’re…
The Stephanie Kraft School Board corruption scandal is unfolding before our eyes. According to a just-released School Board document, Kraft contacted district staff last month, on September 29, to get information regarding a developer who had hired her husband to influence her own School Board, according to a recently district document. Kraft called the…
Crazy, charming Marco Rubio — but you’re serious about the Jets vaccine, right? Do NOT toy with us, boy wonder. Anyway, video of his appearance one week ago at the Broward GOP Women’s Club, whom he charmed as surely as the Palm Beach Republicans who would give him an overwhelming…
When developer Bruce Chait learned last month that the mitigation fees he owed the Broward County School Board had climbed during the past two years from a specially reduced $1.2 million to more than $1.8 million, he wasn’t happy at all. After all, Chait, owner Prestige Homes, had hired Board Member Stephanie Kraft’s husband, Mitch, for…
In June 2007, an 83-year-old man went to the Northwest Medical Center in Margate to have his inflamed gallbladder removed. The surgeon took out the man’s kidney instead. Dr. Bernard Zaragoza told the Florida Medical Board that he was “completely mortified” by his error, and that’s about the reaction you’d…
On a chilly Monday morning, here’s what’s in the news in South Florida:A family that lives in the Acreage, where experts have been seeking to explain a cancer cluster, report that three pets died of the same kind of cancer, hemangiosarcoma. [Palm Beach Post]Homicide detectives are investigating a body found…
The 24th-annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival begins October 23 and runs through November 8. With the exception of the opening night, all films will be shown at Cinema Paradiso at 503 SE Sixth St. in Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-525-3456. Normal false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 classid=”clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D” id=”ieooui”> st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }…
One of the great joys of watching the greatest corruption story in Broward County history begin to unfold during this past month has been watching the Sun-Sentinel play catch-up. The newspaper discovered Neil Sterling, a lobbyist who has been corruptly running the Broward County School Board with a hidden hand…
We wrote about sex offender Ronald Murphy last week here and here, a man released from prison in September after serving 13 years on a rape conviction, and stuck in limbo ever since.Murphy’s home is currently a bench outside the Delray Beach Florida Department of Corrections Probation and Parole Office…
With the first (and likely only) season of Police Women of Broward County all wrapped up, I thought the first South Florida-centered mom-kid-cop docudrama-ality show deserved some sort of special send off. But instead of, oh say, a recap of the show’s high points, I thought it might be nice…
Now that the corrupt machine running the Broward County School Board is showing signs of breaking apart, I think it’s a good time to point out that there there are a lot of great people working in the district. Some of them are even bonafide hereos. Put Sheila Alu into that category…
Don’t call it the Titanic, but there’s a new history-making ship soon to make a posh premiere in Fort Lauderdale. On December 1, Royal Caribbean’s $1.2 billion, 5,400 passenger Oasis of the Seas will cruise out of Port Everglades. Nearly four football fields long, boasting 18 decks, with a crew…
Super Democratic awesome-man Rep. Alan Grayson, from Orlando, is like the a left wing version of Joe Wilson, but slicker and funnier. After proposing a a federal paid-vacation law and his hilarious rants against the Republican health care “plan”–Plan A: don’t get sick, Plan B: if you do get sick,…
Here’s a wrap-up of the juice readers ingested this week:A new mini-Madoff in town, as the Feds allege fraudster David McQueen ripped off investors, moving millions among multiple accounts, blowing the dough on himself and his wife. McQueen might be trading in his Sunshine State condo in Fort Lauderdale for…
In light of the explosive findings Bob Norman’s been posting over at Daily Pulp, it’s time we identify a trend in Broward corruption: power-mad married couples, ruling the region like a king and queen, carving up our public money like it’s their Thanksgiving turkey. For all the damage these duos…
If you slapped your spouse around lately, then earned an arrest warrant but wondered where the police were, check your front porch. Broward Sheriff’s Office just announced the arrest of 30 offenders in a sweep that concluded this morning and which coincided with the seventh anniversary of the National Family…
Former West Palm Beach Police Department Chief Bill Riggs is part of a 10-person law enforcement dream team appointed by a federal court judge to make sweeping changes to the Detroit Police Department, following a nasty batch of scandals. The last court-appointed monitor, Sheryl Robinson Wood, resigned after the same…
Broward County School Board Member Stephanie Kraft’s intervened with school staff on behalf of a developer help get it a $500,000 reduction in fees from the school district, according to school board records. At the same time Kraft’s husband, lawyer Mitch Kraft, was on the payroll of the developer, Prestige Homes, that received the half-million dollar favor. School…
