South Florida Times’ Elgin Jones has reported that Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion faces a possible corruption indictment and is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation. Jones, a tenacious and good reporter, is definitely barking up the right tree, just the wrong branch or at the wrong time. Eggelletion does…
Like so many in this market, Eileen Miller wants to sell. But the owner of two small hotels on Hollywood Beach — the Swan and the Mermaid — is up against a formidable adversary. The City of Hollywood, which is also a seller and whose commissioners and staff are under…
A month after a national magazine named Resveratrol Ultra among the drug supplements that profit from what appear to be misleading advertisements and in the week following its being mentioned in a similar context in the New York Times and then sued by Oprah Winfrey, that same controversial product is…
Well, Jason Wetherington came through. After the former GOP staffer who had boasted of an affair with Charlie Crist was arrested on charges of stealing his pastor’s daughter’s wedding ring, he told me his attorney would call. And veteran Fort Lauderdale attorney John Contini, who is representing Wetherington, did just that…
A few moments ago, President Barack Obama released this statement about the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy: Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy. For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights,…
On this Wednesday, a national story dominates the local headlines:Sen. Ted Kennedy died late last night at age 77.The Broward School District made a huge cut to its construction budget, reports Akilah Johnson in the Sun-Sentinel, reducing it from about $3 billion to $1.3 billion. Readers of Pulp learned this…
Many unusual objects wash in with the tides on Delray Beach: a dirty sneaker, a mangled flip-flop, a bright-blue shampoo bottle. But last night, I noticed one that simply didn’t belong: a small sailboat, careening on its side, looking like a forgotten bath toy. It was floating close to shore…
Joe Truhe, former associate general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, is asking that board’s chairman to investigate whether its acting general counsel, Sam Goren, is wasting district resources by billing for unnecessary legal work.Goren’s Fort Lauderdale firm of Goren, Cherof, Doody & Ezrol has been running the district’s…
Jorge “Angel” Villamizar-Ayala, wanted in the November 2004 slaying of Bianca Sierra in Pompano Beach, was arrested Friday in Brownsville, Texas, after a television viewer phoned police with the tip. Here’s the news release from Broward Sheriff’s Office:Bianca Sierra’s young son and daughter were the ones who found her body…
Sometimes you have to abandon questions of guilt and innocence and just admire the sheer audacity of a criminal suspect. Herve Jaubert is one of those cases.We told you about Jaubert, a resident of Wellington, a few weeks ago, but the former French spy wanted by the United Arab Emirates…
Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion has hired defense attorney and good friend Johnny McCray to represent him in an ongoing criminal investigation, according to sources. On top of that, rumors are swirling among government insiders that Eggelletion is considering quitting the commission and may have even drafted a resignation letter that has so far…
You have to hand it to the Related Group. No matter how bad the economy gets or how many ghost towers dot the skyline, the Miami real estate giant keeps looking for ways to make a buck. Here’s the current philosophy: We can’t pay our own bills. But hey, let’s…
Shirley Cunningham Jr., an attorney based in Kentucky but who kept a penthouse apartment in the Waverly condominium in downtown Fort Lauderdale, will spend the next 20 years in a federal prison after being convicted of defrauding clients in a class-action suit against makers of the diet drug fen-phen.Along with…
The week after the gayest dog ever was stolen in Wilton Manors by a man with the gayest tattoo ever, the case is a national sensation — following the original Sun-Sentinel article, there’s this Huffington Post article and then this one in the New York Post. Yet the case remains…
[jump] A salesperson at Maroone Chevrolet in Fort Lauderdale told me that location stopped taking in clunkers on Friday. Maroone is owned by AutoNation. The program (and indeed the president) has many detractors (something about not wanting to give away taxpayer money), and some dealers aren’t totally confident they’ll get…
Take a look at that video, evangelicals and anti-Muslim crusaders. Are you really, really sure you want to risk your credibility on the Fathima Rifqa Bary case? Y’all remember how the Terri Schiavo thing backfired, right? Actually, this one is the media mutation of the Schiavo story and Elian Gonzalez…
Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley checked into a rehab facility in Houston over the weekend, just days after a photo of the number two overall draft pick with what may have been a bag of pot made waves on sports blogs across the country. Beasley posted the photo to his…
What isn’t South Florida smoking on this Tuesday morning?A deep-pocketed Israeli businessmen is vowing revenge against the Broward Sheriff’s deputies who he said beat him up and hurled anti-Semitic slurs during a traffic stop for marijuana DUI in June. The Sun-Sentinel’s Jon Burstein has quotes from an angry Guma Aguiar.The…
“All art is quite useless,” Oscar Wilde once declared. But in Palm Beach Gardens, maybe not. The Palm Beach Gardens city council has $440,000 burning a hole in their pockets: They’re planning to spend the money commissioning eight works of public art that will also function as bus stops. The…
Anonymously mailed envelopes are usually full of a whistleblower’s goodies. But today’s discovery was a bit of a let-down: This envelope with no return address contained the minutes of the April 7, 2008 special meeting by the North Broward Hospital District board.That was the day that the commissioners had summoned…
