Michael Bienes doesn't make a lot of news and hasn't been involved much in local politics, but if you look around you'll see the tall and seemingly kindly Fort Lauderdale multi-millionaire's name all over the place.
At Holy Cross Hospital, there's the Michael and Dianne Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center. At the Broward County Library in downtown there's the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, a wing stocked with rare book collections. He's deeply inv
Michael Bienes, the fabulously wealthy Fort Lauderdale benefactor, abruptly resigned from the Performing Arts Center Authority board Wednesday with a one-sentence letter, according to a center spokeswoman.
"We received the letter yesterday which said he was resigning, effective immediately," said Broward Center of The Arts spokeswoman Jan Goodheart.
There's very clearly trouble in paradise -- and rumors are swirling among the county's elite that Bienes, who has poured more than&
