This week I spoke with a former dancer at Platinum Showgirls, the gentleman’s club in Boynton Beach that was raided on the night of October 30. That raid came after a sting by undercover officers who claimed they found drug-dealing and prostitution.The dancer, who knows club management and several current…
Someone in the Palm Beach Post marketing department has a cruel sense of irony. The paper’s latest ad campaign — now popping up in the paper, online, and on billboards around town — strikes very close to home for Post staffers.”Anxious About Your Job?” reads the headline, beneath a photo…
WTF is it with the Marriott anyway? First the Delray Beach Marriott throws open its doors to CAIR and Geert Wilders, now West Palm’s Marriott will offer a cozy welcome for this year’s national NARTH conference. The National Association of Research and Therapy for Homosexuality, in case you’re new to…
Low-hanging fruit for federal investigators in the Scott Rothstein case might just be the political money. The millions of dollars that Rothstein pumped into the political process was clearly a big part of the fraud. It created the image of Rothstein as the politically connected friend of Republicans like Charlie Crist, John McCain,…
It sounds good in theory: Send our most ruthless Turnpike terrorists through a battery of training courses that will teach them the dangers of their driving ways. I just wonder whether a program like the one being offered next week by the Ford Motor Company Fund is going to attract…
Roldry Philia, a 34-year-old Delray Beach Police officer, was arrested late last night on charges of beating his wife. The probable cause affidavit released by the Boynton Beach Police Department does not mention the name of Philia’s wife, just that she’s 24 years old. She told police that she’d been…
A parked car, a shooting in the early morning hours: The death of Michael Frank, a 22-year-old from Lighthouse Point, sounded like it was drug-related, and that’s what Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are reporting, now that they’ve arrested Filipe Cruz, the man they believe killed Frank around 2 a.m. Thursday…
The Art After Dark event at the Norton Museum of Art last night had many highlights: free chocolate martinis, a tour of the New York, New York: The 20th Century exhibit, lovely guitar strumming by Miami troubadour Jesse Jackson.But perhaps the sweetest moment was when my friend Christina DeNardo, a…
The other day I was driving past the Don Estridge school in Boca Raton on the way to a friend’s house when it occurred to me that the Sunshine State isn’t exactly neighborly. I don’t mean we’re a bunch of a-holes or anything, just that we don’t seem to talk…
Documents recently made available by the North Broward Hospital District show that former general counsel Laura Seidman made major improvements to a legal department that — by some indications — had been full of cronyism and waste under attorney Bill Scherer. The most striking example of Seidman’s progress: She reduced…
Following a Rothsteinesque money scheme, Boca’s white collar Bonnie and Clyde are finally facing the music. This week, Victoria Meisner made her first appearence before a judge, answering charges of filing a false tax return. According to federal prosecutors, in 2003, Meisner filed a joint federal income tax return, reporting…
A metaphor of a different of age, construction of the Oasis of the Seas began during a time in American history when it was still a good idea to flip Florida properties and take out a mortgage you couldn’t afford and invest with that guy whose record was so spectacular,…
As we told you in Morning Juice, Joe Namath’s been having to defend the beastly behavior of his two dogs, which he apparently trusts to keep “gawkers” away from his Tequesta home. But whose fault is it that people are curious about how the Super Bowl III MVP spends his…
It’s like the Broward scandal sheet version of Godzilla meets Rodan. UPDATED: A source tells me there was a meeting of camps between monster Ponzi schemers Scott Rothstein and Joel Steinger. Steinger sends word to me that it never happened. But whether it did or not, I think it’s time to compare the two men, namely to determine which…
On this chilly, spooky Friday the 13th, let’s see what’s in the news:Scott Rothstein alleged fraud may have been in the neighborhood of $1 billion. Special Agent in Charge John Gillies says there are “tentacles” and wants our help identifying them. So keep your eyes out for that. [WPLG]Eww. Hallandale…
Since May, Sam Goren has been the acting general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, a position that allows him to dole out millions of dollars in legal work and makes him one of the county’s most powerful attorneys.But the manner in which Goren landed that job keeps getting…
A 22-year-old man was murdered early this morning in Pompano Beach. Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives say that Michael Frank, a Lighthouse Point resident, was sitting in the passenger seat of his friend’s car around 2 a.m. when someone walked up and fired at him. It occurred in the 200 block…
In a sign that the Rothstein scandal may be heading his way, Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti informed the department today in an email that he has removed his right-hand man, Lt. David Benjamin, as head of the agency’s internal affairs department. It was Benjamin, you’ll remember, who personally escorted Scott Rothstein to his jet at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport when Rothstein left…
What does he mean when he says he’s embarking on a mysterious mission that involves “constructive problem solving”? Given Lou’s loathing of illegal immigrants, let’s hope it doesn’t involve a bottle of whiskey, a rifle, and a sniper’s nest with a view of the Rio Grande.Rather, this might give Dobbs…
One of the great ironies of Scott Rothstein’s legacy in Broward County is the way he painted himself as such as a humanitarian. This spring, his Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm was a major sponsor of the Soref Jewish Community Center’s Humanitarians of the Year event. The soiree, held at…
On a semiweekly basis, we like to have fun at the Panhandle’s expense, and this week our victim is the very pitiable Kimberly Negron. The Fort Walton Beach resident has a depressing job and, according to local police, hatched an even more depressing criminal enterprise. From the Northwest Florida Daily…
