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1. Feature
A South Florida Muslim Leader Refused to Be a Snitch, so the Feds Tried to Destroy Him
By Trevor Aaronson Published: October 8, 2009Bush-Cheney and Kerry-Edwards signs littered the lawns as Imam Foad Farahi walked from a mosque to his North Miami Beach apartment a few blocks away. It was November 1, 2004,...
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2. Feature
Buy My Rock!
By Trevor Aaronson Published: August 3, 2006It's the big day. On a recent June afternoon, Jon Jacobs is rushing around his office inside his Spanish-style house in Miami's Design District. A 39-year-old with a British...
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Chump Tower
By Trevor Aaronson Published: June 22, 2006Note: An earlier version of this story attributed some quotes to Melania Knauss-Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, at an April 14 marketing event for Trump International Hotel &...
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4. News
Redemption Plea
By Trevor Aaronson Published: June 1, 2006On May 17, John P. Contini leaned across a table in Broward County Courtroom 343 and whispered in his client's ear. Martin Diez, a 34-year-old Pembroke Pines man with brown...
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The $11 Billion Man
By Trevor Aaronson Published: May 11, 2006In January, one piece of paper changed James McCalla's life. A muscular, six-foot Haitian-American, the 26-year-old McCalla went out to get the mail at his suburban home in...
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6. News
Pimp My Arena
By Trevor Aaronson Published: May 4, 2006Note: An earlier version of this story attributed some quotes to Melania Knauss-Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, at an April 14 marketing event for Trump International Hotel &...
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You Scratch My Back, I Write You a Bill
By Trevor Aaronson Published: April 6, 2006The slots are coming. Once Florida lawmakers work out the finer details, gamblers will be able to pull the levers at Broward County's four pari-mutuel facilities —...
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8. Feature
The Terrorist Who Wasn't
By Trevor Aaronson Published: March 30, 2006Mandoah "Manny" Ebaid walks Harrison Street in downtown Hollywood. It's 10:30 on a Wednesday night in February, and the restaurateur is checking the foot traffic outside his...
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9. News
Slush Money
By Trevor Aaronson Published: February 23, 2006Hollywood is so eager to give developers unfettered access to public money that city officials recently helped to create what amounts to a slush fund. By forming a private...
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10. Feature
Access Hollywood
By Trevor Aaronson Published: February 16, 2006Maria Jackson and Helen Chervin happily give tours of their Hollywood neighborhood. It's not a tour you'll find in a promotional pamphlet. In fact, city officials admit that...
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11. News
The Mayor's New Digs
By Trevor Aaronson Published: January 19, 2006The Villas of Positano will offer the height of luxury living in Hollywood when the development project is completed in December. Located on Hollywood Beach, just south of...
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12. Feature
Muscles, Murder, and a Messiah, Part 2
By Trevor Aaronson Published: January 12, 2006This is the second in a two-part series. See the first installment at New Times Broward-Palm Beach. "I haven't been to this area in nearly 15 years," says John P. Contini...
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Muscles, Murder, and a Messiah
By Trevor Aaronson Published: January 5, 2006This is the first of two parts. It should have been his last job. Richard "Dickie" Robertson was getting out, going straight. On April 1, 1983, Robertson had...
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14. Feature
Proselytizing 101
By Trevor Aaronson Published: December 1, 2005The call to James W. Johnson came in April 2004. On the phone was Winston Thompson, an associate dean at Broward Community College, telling him that Lulrick Balzora, an...
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15. News
Mind Your Manors
By Trevor Aaronson Published: November 24, 2005Larry Gierer is annoyed. "That's where the carport was," Gierer says, pointing to the front of his Oakland Park home. A large blue tarp covers his roof. His landscaping, once...
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The Bad Bet
By Trevor Aaronson Published: November 10, 2005Gangland-style murder. That's how the 2001 slaying of gambling mogul Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis is remembered, and for good reason. That night, February 6, while driving in...
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17. Night & Day
Step Aside, NBA
By Trevor Aaronson Published: November 3, 2005Basketball's outlaw league is back. For nine seasons starting in 1967, the American Basketball Association (ABA), with its huge afros and tri-colored ball, was the roughneck...
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Err America
By Trevor Aaronson Published: October 27, 2005War is the hot industry. Recently, New Times described how Pompano Beach's Point Blank Body Armor has raked in millions since 9/11, despite repeated allegations that the...
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19. News
Dark Tower
By Trevor Aaronson and Sam Eifling Published: October 13, 2005On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Philip Freedman steps out of an elevator on the 39th floor of Broward County's tallest building and into a condo fit for an episode of MTV Cribs....
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Vested Interests
By Trevor Aaronson Published: September 29, 2005It's a hot afternoon on July 2 in Baghdad. Inside a silver van, two Iraqi insurgents sit at an intersection. Seventy-five yards away, Pfc. Stephen Tschiderer, a 20-year-old...
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