I suspect someone on West 43rd Street in Manhattan lost a boatload condo flipping. Why else is the world’s leading newspaper so determined to embarrass Broward County? Just a week after the New York Times gave multimedia treatment to the delirious ramblings of health-care worrywarts in Sunrise Lakes — a…
Anyone got Shatner’s number? Because isn’t he the guy to call when looking to unlock the poetry contained within a true conservative’s Twitter posts? So please channel the voice of the Emmy Award winner and master thespian as we read from Marco Rubio’s Twitter page. The most recent post:To those…
On what’s unofficially the last week of summer, here’s what’s in the news:Florida’s U.S. senator designate, George LeMieux, did not fall for an effort by Alan Mendelsohn, the Hollywood ophthalmologist and Charlie Crist fundraiser, to lure the administration into admitting complicity in the Mutual Benefits fraud, according to investigators in…
The Miami Herald’s Jay Weaver wrote this weekend of how the feds “cleared” George LeMieux and Charlie Crist in the ongoing corruption probe into con man Joel Steinger and his billion-dollar life settlements scam, Mutual Benefits. But you’d have to be a fool to think the Department of Justice is blind when…
The political story of the week was Gov. Charlie Crist naming Broward homeboy George LeMieux to the open seat in the U.S. Senate. After some initial shock, we recovered our wits. Lisa Rab got this report from Fort Lauderdale City Hall, where Broward big shots lined up to congratulate the…
Standing next to Gov. Charlie Crist’s famously tanned mug, George LeMieux looks positively pasty, like a British-transfer student on the first day of spring break. But no one cared this afternoon at Fort Lauderdale City Hall, where Crist anointed LeMieux the state’s new U.S. Senator. For what he lacked in…
Why go through all the trouble of vetting a company that wants a big pile of cash from the town when the town has a high-ranking official who can vouch for them?If you said “conflict of interest” then congratulations! But you’ll never make it in Jupiter.Today’s South Florida Business Journal…
All this worrying about serial cat killers and serial horse killers has led us to overlook the very serial nature of how lawn-care equipment has been vanishing from North Palm Beach County.The latest one occurred before dawn broke, between 4:40 and 5 this morning at the Lake Worth Public Works…
We liked this one for the judicious use of indoor furniture and the commitment to xeriscaping: As you can see there isn’t much lawn here, and presumably the statuary doesn’t require more than the twice weekly waterings allowed by the city. Drought tolerant plants like cactus and succulents complete the…
Broward County School Board Member Ann Murray was surrounded yesterday by sycophants who showered her with campaign checks. It wasn’t in her home district in the Hollywood area where she lives but in Okeechobee, the little town on the big lake up north. It was at a business called Royal Concrete…
Pembroke Pines City Manager Charles Dodge has a sweet gig. For his hard work running the 150,000-resident Broward suburb, his company earns $755,000 a year, thanks to a special deal that makes him and Deputy City Manager Martin Gayeski private contractors, not city employees.Dodge has managed to maintain this arrangement…
So after the first four episodes of Broward’s double-X chromosome cop show, the main characters are getting a little more fleshed out. We’ve seen Detective Andrea Penoyer scream at crack heads, mother her son (sometimes seconds before screaming at crack heads), go to the beach in a hot pink bikini…
Here we are in the dog days of August, an excellent time to do a little summer re-reading. On the Juice’s beachside reading list is the Grand Jury Report released in 2007 on the “Pay to Play” scandal in West Palm Beach. A Grand Jury was convened three years ago,…
Congressman Kendrick Meek, the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate just released a statement about Charlie Crist’s announcement that he was appointing former chief of staff George LeMieux to the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez.From the moment Senator Martinez announced his retirement, Governor Crist placed his ambitions over Florida’s…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department just issued a news release saying that someone tried to rob the Bank of America at 3030 Davie Boulevard, near with intersection with SW 31st Ave.That’s the bank pictured above, as seen from SW 31st. Police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sousa says that a suspect is…
As far as I can tell — and I’m going by this list, the most immediate one available — there has never been a U.S. Senator from Broward County. So what does it say about this county’s history of incestuous, corrupt politics that the breakthrough would finally come not through…
Did I really just type those words? Well, it’s being reported that George LeMieux, Fort Lauderdale lawyer and GOP operator, is Crist’s pick for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez. This was actually pretty predictable. Crist, of course, is running for the seat in 2010, and LeMieux is…
It seemed too nakedly cynical to be possible — and yet it just happened. Pass the smelling salts.We warned Charlie Crist this could be his Harriet Miers moment. He didn’t listen — to us or to the people in his campaign who must have had the same anxieties. If Crist…
Operation Show Me the Money was a big hit for the Fort Lauderdale Police, who invited people with outstanding warrants to collect stimulus checks only to be arrested. In this fashion, they corralled 76 bad guys. Not bad, but cops can’t rely on stimulus checks every year, so we’ll need…
Robert Fletcher, a literary agent and publisher said to be based in Boca Raton, has been named as a scammer by a group called Writer Beware, which protects authors against being cheated in the publishing industry. Publishers Weekly is reporting that Fletcher, who sued Writer Beware for defamation in 2008,…
Like many who ask, “What is Fort Lauderdale”? we at Juice have answer for you. It is beautiful foreclosure capital, playground of good deals for opportunity investment. Indeed, some have called “Venice of America” this place because (in addition to canals, beaches, and boats,) Fort Lauderdale have many empty housing…
