Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein today officially banned his public defenders from contributing money to judges whom they practice before. It’s a continuation from the controversy regarding prosecutor (and Sunrise commissioner) Sheila Alu’s fundraising for Judge Elijah Williams, and I think it’s good policy. Here’s the email he sent to all PD employees:…
Watch CBS Videos OnlineJust look at that! Indisputable video evidence of recent economic activity in your Broward County. Katie Couric’s CBS News was so gobsmacked, she had to send a correspondent to see it in person.The Broward Bank of Commerce in downtown Fort Lauderdale has 99 shareholders and — we…
It’s a topsey-turvey world on the island of Palm Beach. A 51-pound pet Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pig named Piggy Pie Freckles has been ordered to leave the island. The pet’s illegal according to the town’s code enforcement board, which forbids swine living on the island. The family who owns him…
Among the many signs of desperation by employers who are struggling to survive this recession is that rate of sublease offerings: a company looking to trim costs lays off employees and then offers a deal on unused office space that it’s renting. For start-up and small businesses, those rates prove…
Maybe his wife’s just pissed because Charlie Crist did not appoint her to the U.S. Senate, like he did his good buddy George LeMieux. Whatever the case, it’s becoming clear that the honeymoon period is over for Florida’s First Couple, who appear to be drifting apart as they approach their…
The headlines on this Monday in Broward and Palm Beach:A flight from Gainesville to Fort Lauderdale vanished in the Everglades just south of the Palm Beach County border. One passenger has already been confirmed dead. The other three are presumed dead. [WPLG]The plea deal for Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein…
Juice readers learned this week that there’s plenty of room for sex offenders in Palm Beach. Of course, that’s not the fashionable kind of charity favored by the island crowd. Rather, they give a haughty golf clap to efforts like that of their neighbors, the Fanjul family, whose Florida Crystals…
This month, when Bernie Madoff’s three homes went on the market, it was anyone’s guess as to whether their link to the convicted swindler would be regarded as a curse or whether it would add to the home’s mystique. Folks with $10 million to spend on a home can afford…
For those of you who thought you knew James Present, you didn’t. You knew Ronald Hippolyte, the mastermind of an identity theft ring who was to serve a 4-and-a-half-year a prison sentence in New Jersey. He bolted in 2005 and has been living in Delray Beach as James Present since…
By the time the eviction notice appeared on the front door of Cafe Pisa, it was too late. Downtown office ladies with brown bags, paperback novels, and Tupperware had already descended on the shuttered restaurant’s outdoor wrought-iron tables. Ideally situated in the plaza area of the Wachovia Tower building in…
Oh good Christ. Now Delray Beach Republican House Rep. Adam Hasner is crowing about a Florida investigation of ACORN, as if that organization weren’t already a corpse riddled with right-wing arrows. Hasner appears to be terrified that the dead will rise and, once risen, perhaps even stalk around collecting fake…
A 49-year-old man named Scott Michael Barry, whose last known residence was in Broward County, was identified yesterday as the man found dead this weekend in a Pasco County lake. From the St. Petersburg Times: Neighbors along Wagon Wheel Lane found the body floating face down in the lake Saturday…
The Florida Press Club gave its first-place blog award to the Daily Pulp in a competition open to every newspaper in the state. Coming in a surprise second was Sun-Sentinel cartoonist Chan Lowe’s blog, followed by the Pulp’s sister blog, The Juice, run by Thomas Francis, which scored a third-place finish. Lucky you. Think…
Jack Carpenter is the protagonist of Night Monster, a novel released Monday by Florida writer James Swain. An excerpt posted on Swain’s website begins with Carpenter’s fielding a call about a college student, Naomi Dunn, being assaulted at a condo. I tested the door’s handle. It was locked, and I…
Paul Innamorato is the name of the man whose body was found along I-95 on September 10, but the Fort Lauderdale Police Department is still trying to learn the circumstances that brought about the 54-year-old’s death. From today’s release: Innamorato was staying at the Marriott Harbor Beach Hotel located at…
If the recent ACORN video stings hadn’t convinced you that the right wing is a whole bunch savvier and sneakier than the left, then a comparison of the net worth of our Florida House reps ought to definitively settle the contest. Florida Trend’s look at our politicians’ net worth, published…
Wayne F. Gorsek owns 31 percent of vitacost.com, and that might make Nasdaq investors a little queasy. After all, the SEC won a judgment against Gorsek and two associates in 2002, after accusing them of fraudulently promoting microcap companies in exchange for cash and stock. So in advance of an…
South Florida homebuyers who can afford to buy mansions are opting to buy, well, un-mansions, according to a story on yesterday’s huliq.com. Huliq reached its conclusion by looking at home sales in South Florida and studying census figures: Turns out the average size of a new single family home declined…
Rodney Squires is the suspect in a shooting that occurred around 12:30 this morning at a home for teens in Fort Lauderdale. The police department’s release: Preliminary investigation has revealed that the victim was in the parking lot at 1036 Northeast 3rd Avenue listening to music with three juvenile females…
[jump] Scheduled guests include linebacker turned restaurateur, Kim Bokamper; legendary wide receiver Nat Moore (remember the “helicopter catch”?); another linebacker turned restaurateur, John Offerdahl (you can ask him why so many of his restaurants have gone the way of D. Wade’s); and of course the lovely Dolphins cheerleaders (you can…
Friday’s headlines in South Florida:Casey Anthony’s attorneys say they want to bring her case to Broward or Palm Beach to get a fair trial. [Palm Beach Post] After the jump, Jack Nicholson gives a response on behalf of the locals.A Hollywood man was awarded $14 million in a malpractice suit…
