Tomorrow at 2 p.m., the North Broward Hospital District will have an “emergency” meeting. According to the announcement the purpose is for “discussion and possible action regarding the report of Martin Goldberg,” the former assistant U.S. Attorney who was hired by the district to investigate possible ethics violations by Commissioner…
A tipster claiming knowledge of the North Broward Hospital District’s investigation of Commissioner Joseph Cobo recently suggested Juice take a closer look at one of the most damning passages in the report: that Cobo allegedly used his power as a commissioner to do favors for a prospective client of his…
Monday marked the start of hurricane season in South Florida, but it seems a few youngsters in the region couldn’t wait for an actual hurricane to start the looting. BSO reports:Last night, at approximately 2:42 am, Deerfield Beach Deputies responded to Deerfield Beach Elementary in response to a silent alarm.Upon…
It’s been a rough few weeks for working women. First Sasha Grey came to town and started blabbing about feminism. Then hooker ads got kicked off Craigslist. Now a local stripper is being sued for kicking a customer in the face. Michael Ireland has filed suit in Palm Beach County Circuit…
It’s been years since the television cameras stopped rolling, but Mike “Bogey” Boguslawski, the television icon who turned consumer reporting into performance art, is still plying his trade — now in South Florida. A household name in Southern California, Bogey’s gruff confrontational style endeared him to audiences in the late…
Every week the Palm Beach Post runs a special page inside the sports section called “Outdoor World.” It looks like journalism, but it isn’t. It’s an “advertorial” page done by the newspaper’s marketing department. And last week, one of the people marketed on the page was none other than Publisher Alex Taylor. The page,…
Remember the Boca Raton couple who had their dead dog cloned? Well, it’s been five months, and the Otto family’s puppy is growing up in a freakily familiar fashion. Lancelot’s the original. And the clone is Lancelot Encore. The St. Pete Times talked to Nina Otto for an article in…
With all the Boca-based financial fraud lately, one’s liable to wonder about the characters who occupy that town’s upper crust. But with Father’s Day coming this month, let’s consider exempting one member of that society from our suspicion: Kenneth Blum, Sr.The 82-year-old co-founder of United Health Care and former chairman…
[jump] That incident occurred on March 1 of this year, after Burress was pulled over in Pompano Beach. Sadly, Burress is accused of being rude to another police officer — this time a different Broward Sheriff’s deputy — when he was pulled over on the westbound side of I-595 less than…
Joe Truhe, former associate general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, who was fired along with the district’s general counsel May 15, has sent a letter to hospital commissioners demanding that they investigate Sam Goren, the attorney who became the interim general counsel.In a letter dated June 1, Truhe…
The Pulp and Miami lawyer Ed Shohat have a lot in common these days. I’ve been writing about con artist Joel Steinger and former Anna Nicole Smith judge Larry Seidlin, and Shohat… well, he’s been defending them. I caught up with the lawyer on the phone on Friday and we had…
If Jacksonville U.S. Rep Corrine Brown should become U.S. Sen. Corrine Brown, can we expect a whole crew of city (and state and possibly federal workers) to come to her home to stop the next tropical storm? After all, it’s pretty ridiculous that she had to call “several” times during…
Former mayoral candidate and compulsive activist Earl Rynerson has been looking for dirt in the office of new Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler. Who knew he’d find it in his own mailbox?Judging by his blog post yesterday, Rynerson can barely contain his excitement over having received a form letter from…
[jump] The Wreck Bar was featured in perhaps the most memorable scene in Where the Boys Are and again years later in Analyze This, with Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal. The dark old watering hole has always satiated my urge to down not-so-cheap, not-so-stiff drinks with not-so-glamorous yacht owners while riding…
The post about the feds seizing city activist Fane Lozman’s floating home from the Riveria Beach Municipal Marina blew up yesterday. By that, I mean it got deluged by the people at Digg.com, a web community thingie wherein people promote stories of interest. I don’t know how many views have…
That’s video from Saturday’s Netroots Coalition meeting in Miami Beach, where State Sen. Dan Gelber acknowledged his intention to leave the U.S. Senate race. Miami-Dade Democratic activist Larry Thorson posted it last night on the Daily Kos, along with his congratulations for the Democrats avoiding a nasty primary battle, so…
It’ll be weeks, at least, till we learn how Gov. Charlie Crist intends to respond to the politically explosive packet of material he received last week from the North Broward Hospital District. It’s the report of a former assistant U.S. Attorney retained by the North Broward Hospital District Board to…
It’s something of a cliché by now to think of Florida developers as the bad guys. But as homeowners start blaming them for the defective Chinese drywall rotting their homes, it is literally the stench that has led them to contractors.Not the developer’s stench, technically, but the rotten eggs smell…
Last week, the Hollywood Commission considered a measure that would have broadened the “cone of silence” rule for city officials. They rock the cone in Miami — click here and scroll down for a definition. Basically, when the city puts a project out for bid, the contenders and their supporters…
The Federal Aviation Administration has been investigating Gulfstream International Airlines in Fort Lauderdale ever since operator error was blamed for the February 12 crash of a flight bound for Buffalo, N.Y. The regional operator has come under fire for allegedly falsifying flight logs and letting pilots fly without sufficient rest…
Beaches without life guards, higher bus fares, laid off county workers, a major tax hike. Such a dismal budget proposal is hardly shocking in a county that’s drowning in a housing bust. But Palm Beach County’s proposal–detailed in the Palm Beach Post this morning–is stomach- turning because it can’t entirely…
