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Bill Scherer

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Working Girls: Ritter And Lieberman Won't Stop Trickin'

    Simple question: How are Broward County Commissioners Stacy Ritter and Ilene Lieberman even still in office? Ritter at work​Seriously. Both voted for the dirty developers Bruce and Shawn Chait and both received something from them in return. Lieberman is now a state's witness testifying again ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    New York Hedge Funds Strike Back In Rothstein Suit

    We've heard all about how the Centurion and Platinum hedge funds in New York sank hundreds of millions of dollars into Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme.  Fort Lauderdale attorney Bill Scherer is suing them, claiming they were privy to the fraud and now must cough up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Judge Larry Puts on the Ritz

    Boy, was former Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin living high off the widow. Seidlin ​ A civil suit filed by Bill Scherer alleges that Seidlin -- who gained notoriety as the judge in the Anna Nicole Smith hearings and reportedly has a TV show in the works -- basically ra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Judge Strikes Down Voter-Backed Term Limits

    On a day when voters are going to the polls to show their power, a Broward County Circuit judge has decided to take it away from them. Broward Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips has struck down term limits for Broward County commissioners as unconstitutional after voters went to the polls in ov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Commissioner's Suit to Kill Term Limits Going to Court

    Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom's attempt to kill term limits (chiefly for himself) is going to court tomorrow, where a judge is expected to rule on it up or down. Rodstrom, plain and simple, is trying to overturn the will of the people for his own selfish reason -- namely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    UPDATED: Scott Rothstein Ends Ponzi Scheme Saga With 50-Year Sentence

    ​Scott Rothstein will spend 50 years in prison, a federal judge decided this morning. The sentence ends a seven-month saga since Rothstein's empire crumbled. Once one of South Florida's most politically connected lawyers, he swindled more than a billion dollars in perhaps the biggest fraud case in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Former Hospital District Attorney Settles Whistleblower Suit Against Hospital

    With all the money Broward Health spends on lawyers, you'd think it would be able to cut down on its legal blunders. The district, it seems, has a tendency to pay its lawyers excessively -- and to continue paying long after those lawyers have left.The latest example is Joe Truhe, the associate gener ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Morning Juice: Break in 25-Year-old Murder Case in Jupiter; Ethics Panel Driving Hard Bargain in Broward

    ​Your daily glance at the headlines in South Florida:The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office closed a 25-year-old cold case yesterday with the help of DNA evidence that linked a Fort Myers man to the 1984 murder of Vickie Lynne Long in Jupiter. The suspect, Todd Clayton Campbell, was 22 and lived on the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    A Couple Million Dollars in Cost-Cutting Not Enough to Keep Former Broward Health Attorney in Job

    Laura Seidman​Documents recently made available by the North Broward Hospital District show that former general counsel Laura Seidman made major improvements to a legal department that -- by some indications -- had been full of cronyism and waste under attorney Bill Scherer. The most striking exam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    The Man Beneath Charlie Crist's Wings

    The Sun-Sentinel's report on Charlie Crist's air travel (along with a parallel investigation by the Times/Herald Tally bureau) supports my image of the man who is our governor. He's a politician who wants to hobnob with the elite while trying keep his own hands cle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    UPDATED: Maus Should Step Down From City Board

    Catherine Maus is the chairwoman of Fort Lauderdale's Planning & Zoning Board. And that isn't right. Maus is perfectly smart enough and certainly seems of fine enough character to serve in such a capacity. In fact, I'm sure that she, as a lawyer, is a very valuable memb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    And The Next Davie Mayor is ...

    Prediction: Judy Paul will win the Davie mayoral election over Tom Truex.     Will Paul (at left next to white-hatted Ron Bergeron) be Davie's next mayor? This is an almost blind forecast based upon a single quote in Laura Figueroa's story on the race in Sunday's Miami Herald. ... More >>

  • News

    October 16, 2008

    Rise of Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein has town talking

    Prediction: Judy Paul will win the Davie mayoral election over Tom Truex.     Will Paul (at left next to white-hatted Ron Bergeron) be Davie's next mayor? This is an almost blind forecast based upon a single quote in Laura Figueroa's story on the race in Sunday's Miami Herald. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Bill Scherer Gearing Up For Electoral Rampage

    Prediction: Judy Paul will win the Davie mayoral election over Tom Truex.     Will Paul (at left next to white-hatted Ron Bergeron) be Davie's next mayor? This is an almost blind forecast based upon a single quote in Laura Figueroa's story on the race in Sunday's Miami Herald. ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Courthouse Surprise

    Ian Richards bucked the ol' boys and ousted the incumbent judge

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2007

    Exposed: The Overcrowded Courthouse Myth

    Ian Richards bucked the ol' boys and ousted the incumbent judge

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2007

    Jenne Can Blame Bag Man Bill

    Ian Richards bucked the ol' boys and ousted the incumbent judge

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2007

    Lawsuit Slappy

    Ian Richards bucked the ol' boys and ousted the incumbent judge

  • News

    January 25, 2007

    Going to Plan T

    Obfuscation made things worse in North Broward hospitals, so the brass is trying the truth option

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2006

    Don't Vote... It Only Encourages Them

    Obfuscation made things worse in North Broward hospitals, so the brass is trying the truth option

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2006

    North Broward Hospital District Admits Shell Game

    Obfuscation made things worse in North Broward hospitals, so the brass is trying the truth option

  • News

    February 16, 2006

    Red Dollars, Blue Pennies

    Show Us the Broward Money

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    Crist Is King

    Bill Scherer's fall from grace is a clear sign from Jeb that he's chosen a successor

  • News

    July 21, 2005

    The Man Who Would Be Mayor

    Dan Lewis wants to be Fort Lauderdale's next mayor. Or does he?

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    Minority Report II

    Dorsey Miller's at it again

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    Hospital Index

    Want to play free golf and stay at the finest hotels in the country?

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Deliver Us

    South Florida's most corrupt hospital district is at it again, compromising health care to reward a crony

  • Best of BPB

    May 17, 2001

    Best Recount

    Broward County Canvassing Board

  • News

    January 27, 2000

    The Plot To Depose King Jenne

    Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, have banded together for one simple reason: to stop Ken Jenne from becoming Broward's first strong mayor.

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