Larry Seidlin, the recently resigned Broward judge and would-be TV star, was once the best of friends with attorney Lawrence ¨Chris¨ Roberts. They chummed together in the courthouse every day. They dined and vacationed together. But today they´re involved in a very public battle that could wind up in a…
Freaking Mess? Not.Don´t give up on seafood: I´m a seafood lover, and after reading your mouth-watering descriptions of the Fin & Claw restaurant (¨By Hook and Crook,¨ Gail Shepherd, July 5), I have a mean craving for crab cakes. I am also a nutrition professional and have a bone to…
So the 19-year-old murder suspect who was in a shoot-out with deputies wasn’t killed by cops but by himself. And he shot himself twice in the torso to get the job done. Sounds crazy, but based on what’s been reported by witnesses and the Medical Examiner’s Office, it seems to…
When the Gray Lady is really good, she’s really good. But when she’s bad, she’s spectacularly bad, too. For a case in point, check out this story about the Miami trial of alleged wannabe dirty bomber Jose Padilla and his alleged recruiter, Adham Hassoun. It reads at times like a…
The Miami Herald’s “Talk of the Town” columnist Joan Fleischman has another dandy report today with news that Miami-Dade Police Director Robert Parker is hitting up CBS-Channel 4 for a half million dollars or face a defamation lawsuit for an erroneous report that was aired last fall. Channel 4 apparently…
The Sun-Sentinel’s Vanessa Blum has an excellent article today about Adham Hassoun, the Sunrise man accused of aiding terrorists overseas. The article basically supports what seemed to be obvious from the get-go: The government doesn’t have the goods on Hassoun and the trial itself is more anti-American than anything the…
Sun-Sentinel columnist Micheal Mayo weighs in on the Seidlin story this morning with a piece focused on Lawrence “Chris” Roberts, the man who blew the whistle on Judges Larry Seidlin and Robert Zack. The piece has its merits, including being the first to report that Roberts was planning to move…
… And the Palm Beach Post censored it from their news stories, which surprises me. The AP’s Brian Skoloff reports today on a gang rape in West Palm Beach in which a gang of teenagers, some of them in middle school, raped a woman and forced her 12-year-old son to…
I don’t get the big deal over the Scooter Libby thing. George W. Bush said from the beginning that if he found the leaker, they would be “taken care of.” He’s taking care of Libby right now, just as originally promised. And well, too. Read Larry Lipman’s piece in the…
A look at Judge Larry Seidlin’s financial disclosure forms not only shows that he never reported any gifts from wealthy widow Barbara Kasler, but they also reveal that the feds hit him for $11,000 in taxes and penalties for allegedly failing to report profits he made from stocks in 2004…
Remember feature writer Chris Hutchins at the Palm Beach Post? Well, now he’s J.C. Hutchins of podcast semi-fame, New Times’ Amy Guthrie tells us. Hutchins has written a clone-populated sci-fi trilogy called “7th Son” and when he couldn’t get it published, started with the podcasts on Podiobooks.com. The pod thing…
R.I.P. Jocks Check ´em again, doc Dimly lit hotel room. Overturned furniture. Four corpses on the floor, covered with sheets. Who´re the stiffs? Tailpipe asks. A wizened CSI, cigarette smoldering in the corner of his mouth, pulls back the sheet. ¨Pro sports,¨ he says. What? ¨Pro sports. You know, South…
The office door in Chris Hutchins´ modest Deerfield Beach apartment is closed to keep out Chester, a fat 11-year-old black tabby who´s inclined to meow unpredictably. Occasionally, a motorcycle roars or a fire truck bleats down Military Trail, the thoroughfare just outside. Traffic sounds are the bane of Hutchins´ existence…
Last weekend, dance fever was in the air. I didn´t know it until the thing had run its course, and only then did I suspect that I might have been the Typhoid Mary of this particular jitterbug. It all began when, trying to avoid an outdoor gig for which I…
Two-Way Corruption Is briber cleaner than bribee?: When is this lawyer Chris Roberts being brought up on federal charges (¨In the Bag,¨ Bob Norman, June 28)? Bribing a judge to get court-appointed cases sounds illegal to me. How much did he make from his bribery of the judge? You have…
It was such an innocent statement, with such a sinister meaning. “The weather’s good here,” Fred said. “I’m telling you, the weather’s very good here.” In the parlance of two men brought together by murder for hire, the phrase was a prearranged code, the signal that Fred had finally killed…
Ah, the Fourth of July. A time to remember our freedoms to say what we want, do as we please, and publish a front page of a newspaper without any articles on it. That’s the way the Sun-Sentinel celebrated, anyway. Their cramped front page came sans stories. Just a photo…
What’s really going to be fascinating as the Judge Larry investigation gets going is how much he really procured from Barbara Kasler, the lonely old and wealthy woman whom he “reverse-adopted.” Seidlin befriended Kasler and began delivering her meals to her every day and taking her to the hospital and…
Mingle2 – Online Dating That’s the movie rating from the website linked above, which says The Daily Pulp deserves the rating for the following reasons: This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: crack (3x) cocaine (2x) pissed (1x) rates such things. “Crack” “Cocaine” and “Pissed.”…
So it looks like the investigation is on, according to Wanda DeMarzo’s report in the Miami Herald. Crist’s office is going to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Judge Larry Seidlin, based on the story broken here reporting his taking of gifts from lawyer Lawrence “Chris” Roberts and an…
Back from vacation to find that the Larry Seidlin special we broke last week is hitting the fan. That wacky lawyer Jack Thompson prompted the Broward State Attorney’d Office to request that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist assign an independent prosecutor to determine whether Judge Larry broke the law. And the…
On a recent Saturday afternoon in a chilly Sheraton Suites conference room in Fort Lauderdale, Carolina Lainez is about to become a new pony. She has never met the cowboy at the front of the room, but there´s something about him. Maybe it´s the way he parts and braids his…
