Morning Juice: Rothstein Nightmare Marches on; Dunbar Village Looks for New Life

What hideous things will we learn about Scott Rothstein today?Miami attorney Alan Sakowitz says he had meetings with the FBI in which he expressed suspicion that Rothstein was running a Ponzi scheme. [Sun-Sentinel]Kevin Gale, editor of the South Florida Business Journal, recounts a party at Rothstein's Fort Lauderdale home on...

By Thomas Francis

November 3, 2009

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What hideous things will we learn about Scott Rothstein today?

Miami attorney Alan Sakowitz says he had meetings with the FBI in which he expressed suspicion that Rothstein was running a Ponzi scheme. [Sun-Sentinel]
Kevin Gale, editor of the South Florida Business Journal, recounts a party at Rothstein's Fort Lauderdale home on Thursday for which Rothstein himself was absent -- supposedly, at the World Series in New York. [Biz Journal]
The Boynton Beach Police SWAT team has been busy lately. Three days after raiding Platinum Showgirls, it was sent to a home on SW First Avenue, where a man was threatening suicide. Police managed to talk him out of it. [WPBF]

The West Palm Beach Commission has agreed to spend $3.5 million to rebuild the Dunbar Village housing project, site of the notorious 2007 rape of a woman and her son. But only if the project wins a federal grant. [Palm Beach Post]
The survivor of the August 17 triple homicide in Miramar spoke at a news conference yesterday in hopes of helping police catch the killer. [Sun-Sentinel]

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