Following is a news release from the campaign of Freda Stevens, a Democrat who is running for the state House seat in District 91. Stevens ran against state Rep. Evan Jenne in District 100 in 2008 and claims that Jenne, through a surrogate, offered her promises of campaign cash if she vacated his district and…
Move over, Dahlia Dippolito. The Broward Sheriff’s Office has its own undercover hitman and he allegedly convinced a couple to hire him for the murder of a key witness. Erik Kelly and a girlfriend, Tiffany Jamaluddin, are both facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder.Kelly was already in BSO custody…
Word is that Broward County School Board Member Beverly Gallagher has hired Mr. Bus Bench himself, Steve Rossi, to represent her in a reputed ongoing federal criminal probe. I asked Rossi, who also represents the Broward Teacher’s Union, about it today. “Anything involving a client I can’t comment on that,” said Rossi,…
This summer, the Juice brought you the troubling tale of the City of Pembroke Pines’ decision to outsource its building department to a private consulting firm, Calvin, Giordano & Associates. At the time, this was worrisome because the Fort Lauderdale-based firm already does engineering work for Pembroke Pines. It was…
Oscar Wolford couldn’t find work, so according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, he tried his hand at fraud. The 32-year-old Pompano Beach man was arrested at a Deerfield Beach hotel Monday after deputies got a tip that Wolford used false I.D.s to open bank accounts with bad checks, then withdrawing…
Much was made of the cold shoulder turned by Palm Beach high society against the Jaffe family and others linked to Bernard Madoff, whose locker at the Palm Beach Country Club was unceremoniously stripped after the scandal broke. Yet other villains of high finance, whose recklessness may have had an…
I don’t want to jinx it, so I’ll just say that we haven’t had to worry about currihanes lately. But there’s still six more weeks left in the danger zone. Let’s whistle past the graveyard; besides, we have plenty of other worries:As H1N1 gains momentum, the feds are close to…
Broward County’s legal system is an ultra-cynical reality show set in a leaky, creaky courthouse, where an honorable attorney’s ideals get murdered with weekly regularity — as surely as Kenny gets whacked on South Park. That culture is a disease. Attorney Sean Conway’s blog diatribe against Judge Cheryl Aleman? That’s…
In a reversal of its original decision, the Broward Sheriff’s Office is now asking county prosecutors to bring a misdemeanor case against the 17-year-old caught snapping cell phone photos of girls going to the loo at Cypress Bay High School in Weston.From the BSO news release:The victim, a 15-year-old student,…
Oh Woe is ACORN. The U.S. Senate has just voted today, 83-7, to cut housing funds to an organization which has long been the darling of the far Left — and which is now so utterly disgraced it has nowhere to go but down. The vote would make ACORN ineligible…
A conflict at the Broward Courthouse is shedding some light on the highly political nature of justice. The spat involves the courtroom of Elijah Williams, a juvenile judge who is running for reelection. The prosecutor assigned to Williams’ courtroom is Sheila Alu, who also happens to be a sitting Sunrise city…
Who doesn’t love jaguars? The big cat. The slick car. The NFL team you always forget is in Florida. But in these vicious economic times, you must choose between your love of jaguars and your desire to save money on Florida Crystals sugar.Above, a freeze frame of the sugar giant’s…
Coconut Creek Mayor Marilyn Gerber told me today that she thinks her city’s $60,000 payment to Coconut Creek Life to subsidize her column and other city content is one of the few ways to inform voters what is going on in their city. “The major complaint we always get, always, always, is that people…
In what may be the most tone-deaf, irresponsible men fashion trend since Marky Mark’s sagging pantaloons, Brooks Brothers is now encouraging us to dress like Ponzi schemers and multi-millionaire welfare queens.Of course, that’s not quite the phrasing with which the company announced its spring line — instead, the article in…
The last time we saw Kimbo Slice (aka Kevin Ferguson) he was on his knees at the BankAtlantic Center getting punched in the head by a pink-haired smoothie salesman. In 14 seconds, it seemed his mixed martial arts career – and the entire league built around him – was done. As…
Amnesty Day is coming up on October 3, but that’s amnesty for you, not for our scaly friends. Owners of exotic reptiles may turn in their anacondas at Gatorland in Orlando, no questions asked. It’s time for Spot the reticulated python to find a new home, if he survives the…
On behalf of the men of my generation, I submit the video above along with my petition to remember Patrick Swayze not for his twinkle-toed turn in Dirty Dancing but for his ass-kicking, mullet-flaunting performance in Roadhouse.Judging by the headlines that say “Dirty Dancing Star Swayze dead at 57,” the…
Congratulations are in order for Fort Lauderdale native Mike Morse. He’s playing in the big leagues! (I realize that the Washington Nationals lineup consists mostly of players who’d be in the minors for winning teams, but technically, it’s a major-league baseball franchise.) Those opportunities have occurred only sporadically for the…
A Coconut Creek man has filed a complaint with the Florida Attorney General’s Office alleging that Coconut Creek Mayor Marilyn Gerber has violated a new Florida law that prohibits taxpayer money from being spent to advocate for the passage or defeat of any issue going to a public vote. And I think…
If you had to pick the county in America with the best high school football players, it would probably be Los Angeles — but that’s not fair: With 10 million people, L.A. County’s the biggest county in the nation. Now if you picked the best tricounty area, per capita, for…
Today in Broward and Palm Beach news:In a sign that the political pressure’s getting to him, Gov. Charlie Crist is taking a hard line on a member of the Public Service Commission who dined with the FPL treasurer and is now being pressured to recuse herself from a vote on…
