Al Lamberti

Did Police Women of Broward County Wrongly Taser Man? Federal Lawsuit Says So. Watch Video

By now, you've surely seen Police Women of Broward County, the Cops-style TV show authorized by past Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. The show had its share of problems when defendants claimed that they'd been unfairly arrested for pure entertainment value. The public defender's office handled 11 such c ... More >>

T-Shirt Attack: Can BSO Fire a Guy Who Backs the Wrong Candidate? It Seems Yes

Former BSO Jailer Not Rehired by Sheriff Al Lamberti Due to Politics, Lawsuit Claims

Scott Israel's November win in the Broward County sheriff's race will probably mean a big shakeup at the area's largest law enforcement agency. But it's a labor dispute time-stamped from the sheriff-elect's failed 2008 campaign for Al Lamberti's job that might change daily business at departments ac ... More >>

Scott Israel Defeats Al Lamberti for Broward Sheriff

Move over, Broward County. There's a new sheriff in town. Al Lamberti lost his bid for reelection to Scott Israel as Broward sheriff. See also:- Al Lamberti Mystery Emailers Remind Voters of the Sheriff's Shady Past Around 10:30 Tuesday night, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, Israel had ... More >>

Florida and Presidential Election Results Live Blog, UPDATED: Obama Re-Elected

Well. It's here. The 2012 Election is finally, coming to a slow and merciful end. Time to close the polls, tally the votes, and hope that Florida didn't screw things up too badly. Keep it here as we update the winners, and losers, and tell you who's President, who won the Senate race, who won wha ... More >>

Early Voting in Hollywood: Long Lines, an Obama-Loving Republican, and a Yacht Chef

Early voting is all the rage this election season. More than 80,000 voters flocked to the booths this past weekend to pick the president. But this is Florida, where nothing ever goes as planned. Complaints have already rolled in about long lines and wonky machines. To get a feel for what life a ... More >>

Scott Israel (Campaigning?) Calls for Investigation of Decade-Old BSO Hogtieing Death

The motto of the Broward Sheriff's Office could be "if it's uncomfortable, don't talk about it." The death of an inmate by suicide, with plenty of warning signs, in a Broward jail? Silence. The federal investigation into Lt. David Benjamin, who ferried Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein to his getaw ... More >>

How Republican Is Sheriff Al Lamberti?

It's high-octane campaign season, and Democratic sheriff candidate Scott Israel is hammering the incumbent, Al Lamberti, for his and his underlings' close association with convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein. That's only a little hypocritical, seeing as Rothstein firm money was directed toward I ... More >>

Scott Israel Has Taken $13,700 From Bail Bondsmen. What Do They Want in Return?

Previously: Israel vs. Granteed in fundraising.Scott Israel's campaign for sheriff this year has taken heavy contributions from some of the least glamorous enforcers in the chain of justice: bail bondsmen from Miami to Jacksonville. Thirty-eight of them to be exact, shelling out $13,700 for the prim ... More >>

Herald Gives Endorsement to Scott Israel for Broward Sheriff -- But It's Pretty Tepid

Read our past interview with Israel, and about how he's retweeting it a whole bunch, and about his money.The editorial board at the Miami Herald has chimed in for Scott Israel, one of the two Democratic contenders in what may be the most important and underreported primary election in Broward this y ... More >>

Scott Israel Has Retweeted Our Interview With Him Hundreds of Times

One day in February, we sat down for a get-to-know-you interview with Scott Israel, who's running in the Democratic primary this August to challenge Al Lamberti in the Broward County sheriff's race. Since then, his campaign has retweeted our story dozens and dozens of times -- we can't count exactly ... More >>

Al Lamberti Fundraiser Smells Delicious but Yields No Interview With the Sheriff

​We dropped by a fundraiser for Al Lamberti at Athena by the Sea, a Greek Restaurant at Commercial Boulevard and A1A that's stuck in the same charming but bygone era as the rest of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. We wanted to personally ask for the same face-to-face interview we've gotten with the two Demo ... More >>

Sheriff Candidate Louis Granteed: A Veteran Hollywood Cop's First Campaign

We're interviewing candidates in the race for Broward County Sheriff. So far, that means Scott Israel, this guy, and incumbent Sheriff Al Lamberti (who has not accepted an interview request).​The Pulp orders coffee, black. 

Broward Sheriff Candidate Scott Israel: "I Have a Pristine Record"

The Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) is one of the largest sheriff's departments in the country. It provides law enforcement, firefighting, and emergency medical services to areas across the county, as well as other services like corrections and parole supervision. Sheriff Al Lamberti is facing ... More >>

Anonymous E-book Offers "A Look at Corruption Inside the Broward Sheriff's Office"

​It's $9.99 on Amazon; you can get it on your Kindle in seconds. What better way to read a self-published book about alleged corruption in the Broward Sheriff's Office, including manipulation by everybody's favorite Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein?A new anonymous e-book being hawked on the web retai ... More >>

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Sheriff Al Lamberti Uses Facebook to Catch Coupon Thieves; Sun-Sentinel Has the Scoop

Guarding your deals​When The Pulp tried to ask Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti a question about campaign donations on his Facebook page last month, the sheriff responded sternly, un-friended our editor, and removed the post. In his initial response, he wrote, "This is my personal Facebook page and you ... More >>

Embattled Stacy Ritter Back on the Fundraiser Trail

Cal Deal Wild Art: Sheriff Al Lamberti at a pill mill protest Friday at the Galleria in Fort Lauderdale. Also pictured: Broward Commissioners Chip LaMarca (left of Lamberti) and Kristin Jacobs (far right). Thanks to Cal Deal for the photo. ​Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter may be in t ... More >>

Sheriff Al Lamberti Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Super Bowl

Lamberti​A former Broward deputy has filed an ethics complaint with the State of Florida against Sheriff Al Lamberti, alleging he violated state law when he engaged in a "fraudulent scheme" to bring his 15-year-old son with him on a security detail at last year's Super Bowl. In the complaint, ... More >>

New Chief Judge Peter Weinstein No Political Novice

Peter Weinstein, the most political judge in Broward County, was rather fittingly elected the chief of the 17th Judicial Circuit yesterday to succeed Victor Tobin. Judge Weinstein swears Stacy Ritter into office​After 14 years in the Florida Senate and a low-down and bruising loss to ... More >>

Report: BSO Falsified Super Bowl Papers for Sheriff's Son With NFL in Dark

U.S. Department of Justice Sheriff Al Lamberti at last year's Super Bowl security press conference. From left to right: FBI Special Agent in Charge John Gillies, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, ATF Special Agent in Charge Hugo Barrera, Miami Dade Police Department ... More >>

Foreclosure Madness Just Won't Stop

More pain is forecast in the housing market. All you need to do is look at Broward County Property Appraiser records to see why. There are thousands of properties left over from the housing boom that have neither been foreclosed or short sold. They're saying the bottom might hit in 2012 and th ... More >>

Bankruptcy Trustee: Rothstein Partner Adler Is Broke and Owes IRS

Instead of a big showdown in court with big-time witnesses like U.S. Sen. John McCain, former Gov. Charlie Crist and Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, Russell Adler and the bankruptcy attorneys representing his former law firm settled the clawback suit today with little fanfare. The Rothstein ... More >>

The Odd Couple: Sheriff Al and the Dolphin Democrat

Republican Sheriff Al Lamberti and Michael Albetta, head of the influential Dolphin Democrats, always seemed an odd couple. radaris.com Albetta with Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon at an Obama event. ​Despite their party differences, Albetta, who has played a big role in Bro ... More >>

UPDATE: BSO Says Sheriff Didn't Commit To Benefit For Slain Sergeant

Lamberti​Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti was scheduled to be a celebrity judge for the chili cook-off at a benefit car show held over the weekend for the late Sgt. Chris Reyka, who was shot to death behind a Walgreens store in Pompano Beach while on duty two and half years ago. But ... More >>

Russ Adler's Questions For Sheriff Al

Will Lamberti have to raise his right hand in Rothstein court? ​Busy news night. Another Broward jail worker, this one a nurse named Carline Jean, was arrested yesterday on charges of introducing contraband to an inmate, including giving the inmate a cell phone and (this goes without saying ... More >>

Ken Keechl Campaign Manager: We Tried To Make LaMarca "Unacceptable"

In lieu of the silence from losing candidate Broward Mayor Ken Keechl, I spoke with his campaign manager, Eric Johnson, today. Johnson of course had made a little news recently with his negative "Convicted Criminal" mailers on Chip LaMarca, who prevailed in the race despite being outs ... More >>

Friday Morning Hits

-- Remember those shady attack ads aimed at Florida Attorney General candidate Dan Gelber accusing him of being "toxic to Jewish education"? Pam Bondi Campaign Gelber and Bondi at last night's Univision debate.​Initially, it didn't appear that Gelber's opponent, Pam Bondi, ... More >>

Sue Gunzburger Throws Down Gauntlet: "What Are You Waiting for Sheriff Lamberti?"

Photo: Gunzburger campaignGunzburger (in blue) says, "Bring it on!"​Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger is taking the fight to Broward Sheriff's Office. A day after a press conference in which she accused Sheriff Al Lamberti of a political motive in launching a corruption investigation agai ... More >>

Deerfield Beach Mango Festival Claims Broward Sheriff Sponsorship; BSO Denies

Photo: Mango Festival​In what's becoming an annual tradition, the Deerfield Beach Mango Festival is exaggerating the role that the Broward Sheriff's Office has at the June event.Last year event organizers claimed that BSO deputies ensured that cash collected at the gates wasn't skimmed. BSO contra ... More >>

In Honor of Tonight's Finale, A List of Locals We'd Like to See Sent to the Island of LOST

​The hatch, the polar bear, the glowing cave, the smoke monster, the eternal battle for the soul of man, the perpetual five-o'clock shadows. It all ends tonight. Unless you've been (John) Locked in a closet for the better part of the decade, this cryptic, enigmatic television show-turned-cultural ... More >>

Diop Kamau's BSO Police Abuse Investigation: Shall We Revisit?

Kamau: Keeping an eye on BSO​Got police abuse? Diop Kamau is your go-to guy. Kamau is CEO of policeabuse.com and former head of the Police Complaint Center in Washington, DC. Kamau, who got his training as a California police detective, now runs an office in Tallahassee devoted to investigating co ... More >>

Should Politicians Have Known to Steer Clear of Rothstein?

Flickr​In his interview yesterday with the Sun-Sentinel, Charlie Crist said that he considered Scott Rothstein a "friend." He said that until Rothstein's Ponzi scheme was discovered, Crist gave the Fort Lauderdale attorney the "benefit of the doubt." It appears Rothstein enjoyed the same status wi ... More >>

Morning Juice: A Sure Way to "Hook" an Investor; Familiar Charges for Son of Pedophile Clown

​It's Friday. A list of news-related questions the South Florida media hope to answer for you in the weekend (and weeks) to come:Where is Paul Merhige? Jupiter's Thanksgiving killer has managed to evade police for an entire week, and the manhunt has now gone national. [WPTV]This questions comes co ... More >>

Awards Dinner Illuminates Ties Among Rothstein, Lamberti, and the ADL

Lamberti received an award at the ADL dinner.​On November 4, the day after alleged Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein returned from his trip to Morocco, a special party was held at the Westin Fort Lauderdale. Its attendance list reads like a who's who of political heavy-hitters in Broward.The local ch ... More >>

Former Broward Sheriff Candidate Criss-Crossing State in Trek for Chief's Job

Rick Lemack​Richard "Rick" Lemack was this close (642 votes) to becoming the Democratic nominee for Broward Sheriff. In August 2008, the ex-assistant police chief and assistant city manager of Hollywood, Lemack lost to Scott Israel, who then lost to Al Lamberti. We told you last month that Lemack ... More >>

Another Judy Stern-Backed, Born-Again Democrat Launches Campaign in Broward

Barbra Stern, the daughter of Democrat strategist Judy Stern, today followed through on her long-rumored campaign for Florida House district in Fort Lauderdale vacated by Ellyn Bodganoff, who's running for Florida Senate. Barbra Stern was originally a Democrat but she had a fling with the Republican ... More >>

Broward Sheriff's Office Brass Triple Dips, Makes Obscene Pay

Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter and Sheriff Al Lamberti Face Campaign Finance Investigations

Some Kind of Bust: BSO Corrals Runaway Nipples

This act, and variations of it, will no longer be performing at Greenbrier RestaurantAt a smoky pub on Powerline Road in Pompano Beach called Greenbrier Restaurant, there's a long-standing, much cherished tradition known only to the regulars and to their servers: A patron stacks his cash tips in jus ... More >>

The Dirty Dozen of 2008

If only we could fit all the bums in...

The Morning After

Early Election Results

Broward Links

Rise of Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein has town talking

Bill Scherer Gearing Up For Electoral Rampage

With a Bullet

Corruption-busting lawyer Bruce Udolf wants to be Broward sheriff. After the Ken Jenne experience, though, are voters too suspicious of lawyers turned cops?

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