Does anyone still remember 2007, when we were all spending like a bunch of drunken Scott Rothsteins? Turns out the world’s biggest ship, Port Everglades-based Oasis of the Seas, is also the world’s biggest floating time capsule. Construction started long before the Lehman Brothers meltdown, during an age when Bernard…
Anxious to break Marco Rubio’s momentum in their Senate race, Charlie Crist gave one of those “wide-ranging” interviews to the St. Petersburg Times yesterday, during which he invoked the sacred ancient text of The Gipper: I believe in Reagan’s 11th Commandment — thou shall not speak ill of a fellow…
The Palm Beach Post has had a rough couple of years, watching its pages shrink, its revenue decline, and its newsroom crippled by the loss of 300 employees to buyouts and layoffs. Still, the paper’s top execs have tried to remain indomitably positive. Just in time for Thanksgiving, Chuck Girardi,…
Broward Sheriff’s Lt. David Benjamin, Al Lamberti’s own “executive officer,” received $30,000 from Scott Rothstein for his outside consulting firm, according to a former close Rothstein associate. The Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating Benjamin’s firm, DWB Consulting Group, a Delaware company incorporated in Florida in May with the help of then-Rothstein Rosenfeldt…
In return for taxpayers’ massive bailout of insurance giant AIG, you would think we’d be enjoying a measure of contrition right now from the corporation’s board of directors, as well as from the greedhead executives and traders who did their part throwing the nation into this never-ending economic crisis.Instead, for…
Antonia Vargas Vilca, a 55-year-old Peruvian woman, was killed November 15 after her tricycle wandered into the path of an SUV on Saddle Club Road in Weston. The SUV was driven by Maria Barrionuevo, 49, who was unharmed. Here’s the BSO release.Add another casualty in South Florida drivers’ war against…
A sign of sweet justice appears in the Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald today. Dan Christensen, founder of the nonprofit investigative news site Broward Bulldog, reports on a scandal in Broward’s wealthiest circles. A legal battle is brewing between Barbara Wells, the Broward heiress whose family fortune includes the historic Riverside…
Think of it as a Ponzi scheme with a heart of gold. Instead of taking one person’s money to pay yourself and another investor, Circa Jewelry has taken its own money ($50,000 to be exact) to buy a bracelet that belonged to the Madoffs, and now plans to sell it…
He’s up! He’s down! He’s up! He’s down! The Juice just received this email from Michael Koretzky, whose November 19th coup attempt at our local Society of Professional Journalists chapter caused what one local observer has dubbed a “kerfluffle.” Looks like Koretzky has stepped down and Darcie Lunsford is the…
Moe Sohail considered himself a close friend of Scott Rothstein’s for many years. The high-rolling lawyer would come into Sohail’s shop, Ultimate Cigars on Federal Highway, on almost a daily basis, and the two men were planning a venture called Bova Smoke. That project — which was to go up on Las…
Yesterday we told you about the coup staged at our local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists by one Michael Koretzky — student advisor to FAU’s newspaper. Koretzky marched in to the elections on November 19th with a posse of pissed-off students and friends and voted in a number…
For single men who go to singles bars, then drink till they’re charming: Opportunity knocks on the streets of Boynton Beach. Actually, that’s not a knock so much as a… police siren? Those flashing lights must mean this one wants it bad. Was it your tricked-out car? Your deafening taste…
Nu’Keese Richardson has been at the center of controversy since first-year University of Tennessee football coach, Lane Kiffin, began recruiting the Pahokee product in the off season. His most recent–and serious–trouble came earlier this month as Richardson and two other Volunteer players were arrested for attempted armed robbery and (rightfully)…
For those of us in the news business, it’s a tad frustrating to see people skip past news stands so they can stand in long lines for movies like 2012. Not that you can blame them entirely. The media in the kiosk describes a complicated world. And the movie describes…
Here’s the view of the front page this Tuesday in Broward and Palm Beach:Charlie Crist came to Fort Lauderdale to drum up support from local Republicans and to duck questions about Marco Rubio. Check out the video — Crist reacts to the Rubio name the way Captain Hook reacts to…
Here’s a cut-and-paste press release about where and when you can — finally — get the swine flu vaccine. Officials at the Broward County Health Department announced Broward County’s first H1N1 Vaccination Clinic which shall be open to all members of the public starting Monday, November 30, 2009 at the…
Not to say that we don’t appreciate the men and women who volunteer to serve their country in the War Against Terrorism, but maybe this Marine Reserve unit in West Palm has the soldiers a bit too keyed up. On November 11, a member of that unit, Jasen Bruce, was…
If you were on U.S. 1 in Broward County about 2 p.m. today, chances are you saw the caravan of speeding tow trucks racing south, mixed in with a number of BSO cruisers, lights flashing, sirens blaring.There were at least 30 trucks in total and a half-dozen or so police…
This comes from the unsubstantiated-but-very-interesting file. My colleague Tom Francis has been digging into Scott Rothstein’s ties to the North Broward Hospital District. Specifically he’s written about the triangle of influence among Rothstein, Gov. Charlie Crist, and former NBHD Chief Operating Officer Spencer Levine, whom Crist appointed as an appellate judge…
Members of the South Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists hardly knew what hit them. On November 19, student adviser Michael Koretzky of Florida Atlantic University’s student paper, The University Press, led four of his students along with a merry band of admirers to the wine bar Hollywood…
Antonio Brandon Parker, 20, was shot and killed last night near the back door of his home on SW Seventh Avenue in Dania Beach. His grandmother and younger siblings heard the gunshots. Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators are looking for two men who are suspects in the shooting.BSO release is here…
