We get posts about Scott Rothstein’s daughter occasionally, and I think now is an opportune time to set the story straight. First off, Rothstein’s 16-year-old daughter is another victim of Rothstein’s, plain and simple, and has been traumatized by recent events. The story goes like this: Last year, after years of…
Somehow, the marriage fraud for which Eric Affholter was convicted seems more honest than the marriage between Charlie Crist and Carole Rome. Both were high-profile attorneys for whom a marriage was rife with political intrigue. Only in Affholter’s case, the marriage of his partner, Pedro, to a female friend was…
Three of the state’s most influential Republicans have “talked the talk” on ethics reform in Florida, but yesterday we asked them to “walk the walk.” Make a public statement backing the effort by the Florida Commission on Ethics to free itself from the handcuffs that prevent it from making real…
Just because your name is “Merry Christmas” doesn’t mean you can go resisting arrest during the holiday season. That’s allegedly what happened in Boynton Beach, where a 44-year-old woman by that name — who probably grows irritable every year at this time — came out of her home to shout…
Last week, we brought the saga of Andrea Huerfano, a 23-year-old FSU grad from Coral Springs who ran a red light and is now facing deportation. A swarm of activists, lawyers, and students across the country have taken up Andrea’s cause. Yesterday afternoon, those supporters got good news. Andrea was…
On the morning of October 8, Scott Rothstein sent out an “allstaff” email to the attorneys in his firm that was severe in its tone. There was no “kids” appellation on this one and no “love ya” at the end. If you believe that all-caps emails are a form of yelling,…
Two years ago, Eric Affholter lost his job leading the St. Louis Public Defender’s Office. This past year, he had his license to practice law in Florida suspended. And today, he’s a felon, living neither in St. Louis nor with his family in Pompano Beach. Rather, he’s in Peru, the…
A glance at the headlines this Tuesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:Two more children have been diagnosed with brain tumors in the Acreage, adding to the suspicion the groundwater is contaminated. [Palm Beach Post]The Miami Herald took a closer look at how Hollywood Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency spent its…
It looks like Charlie Crist campaign’s decided to slug back at Marco Rubio with the scandalous revelation that Rubio flip-flopped on cap-and-trade. Here’s that just-released segment:But it’s nowhere near as damning as Crist’s support for the Obama stimulus. If Crist is going to try to win this race by outflanking…
Anyone who is in the web design, print, or graphic design industries knows all about fonts. The rest of us usually don’t give them much thought, really. I know I hadn’t until attending last Thursday’s Refresh Fort Lauderdale. The discussion that night was web fonts and typography. Most of the…
No end in sight for a couple of terrifying criminal trends: violent teenagers and homeless victims. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of two teens, Harry Velez (age 17) and Brady John Fisher (19), in the murder of Eustoquio Lopez, a 40-year-old homeless man who was shot early…
Someone said everyone’s getting “punchy” around here lately, and I agree. So I thought we might take a small break from the relentless pursuit of information and enjoy ourselves for a moment with the finer things in life, namely music and literature. One of the beautiful things about the Scott Rothstein case is…
About six weeks after a Honduran man, Elvin Sanchez, was found murdered in a residential neighborhood of Deerfield Beach, the man suspected of killing him is in custody. That suspect is 22-year-old Ronald Rivera, who was working as a carpenter in Birmingham, Alabama.From the Broward Sheriff’s Office news release:Elvin Sanchez’s…
Christiano Leonardo Gloria, 29, has been arrested for allegedly playing a role in what state investigators say was a five-year scheme to defraud the IRS and launder the money. The check-cashing-store operator faces 110 charges.It’s a perplexing case, so I won’t even try to simplify what’s in the news release,…
A bill that would expand the powers of the Florida Commission on Ethics has a snowball’s chance in hell of being passed by the state Legislature — unless…Unless the effort should attract political champions in high places. Two men who can move this mountain: Gov. Charlie Crist and Sen. George…
1. Is it true that alleged Scott Rothstein victim and longtime socialite Bonnie Barnett was fronted the money for her $500,000 investment by Northern Trust Bank and hasn’t paid the bank back since the Ponzi scheme collapsed? 2. Is it true that Barnett’s physician husband banked a new MRI machine on Rothstein before the…
The political scandals in Broward County have roused the Florida Commission on Ethics from its comatose state. An outfit derided as “toothless” is asking the Florida Legislature to give it a new set of chompers with which to discourage corruption, the St. Petersburg Times reports. There are several items on…
The Rev. Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church may be a frothing looney, but he seems just as drawn to Florida’s balmy winter days as any Jersey snowbird. Based in Kansas, Phelps has achieved fame for blaming just about all the world’s ills on gay people (his website, godhatesfags.com, is…
Headlines from the weekend past in Broward and Palm Beach:The Dolphins squeaked out a win in Jacksonville yesterday afternoon, thanks to some hard running by Ricky Williams and a timely sack by Randy Starks. [NFL.com]Matthew Bent, one of the Deerfield Beach boys accused of torching Michael Brewer, apparently shook hands…
The new steak and seafood “destination” on Las Olas Boulevard called Riley McDermott’s opened on January 25, 2008, with grand expectations. The restaurant boasted $4 million in renovations, including “river slate and hardwood floors, blue and green mosaic tiles, a 10-foot crystal chandelier and dramatically high ceiling,” according to the Miami Herald…
