Subject: Ellyn Bogdanoff

• The Crist Question

  October 24, 2006

• He's Not Tom's Buddy

  September 7, 2006

• Buddy, the Blog, and the Boot

  April 10, 2006

• Stacy Ritter For President!

  September 10, 2008

• Sooey! Ellyn Bogdanoff Wallows In the Muck

  September 11, 2008

• The Bogdanoff/Hasner Spa Video

  September 18, 2008

• Chick Fight! Bogdanoff Vs. Ritter

  October 24, 2008

• November 4 Election Predictions

  November 4, 2008

• Early Election Results

  November 4, 2008

• Ellyn Bogdanoff Mutually Benefited From Fraud Too

  One thing about the $1 billion Ponzi scheme that was Mutual Benefits Corp.: It loved to throw money at politicians. And boy did our fearless leaders lap up the cash. It gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to elected officials, but nobody benefitted more from Mutual's generosity than state Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff. When she ran against Oliver Parker to win her seat in 2004, a federal 527 political non-profit called  Alliance for Florida's Future poured&nbs

  January 22, 2009

• Stacy Ritter Voted For Company That Renovated Her Home

  While serving as a state representative in 2004, Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter voted on legislation that benefited the fraudulent company that paid her husband $20,000 a month, renovated her Parkland home at a cost of $100,000, docked her family's boat, and provided a house in Maine for vacations. Records show that Ritter voted yes on a bill in April 2004 that limited the state's regulatory control of husband Russ Klenet's employer, Mutual Benefits Co

  January 22, 2009

• Letters for May 10, 2007

  May 10, 2007

• The Stacy Ritter Corruption Compendium

  After the Miami Herald over the weekend broke a story on yet another Stacy Ritter vote that benefitted the lobbying business of her husband, Russ Klenet, I think it's time we had a one-stop shopping spot for all the alleged misdeeds of the Ritter-Klenets. Because of its length, the post jumps. I will update as the saga unfolds. 2007 -- It begins in the summer of 2007 with a notebook left behind at a commission meeting by a supervisor working for URS, the company that has bee

  February 2, 2009

• The Line To Lansky: Steinger Linked To Ben-Veniste, Jewish Mafia

  We know that Joel Steinger, the mastermind of the billion-dollar Mutual Benefits Ponzi scheme with ties to several Broward politicians (Steve Geller, Stacy Ritter, Ellyn Bogdanoff, and others), had connections to Colombian drug cartels. Now we have evidence of another intriguing connection, this one to the so-called Jewish Mafia in Miami, including business mogul and The Forge owner Alvin Malnik and infamous gangster Meyer Lansky. Another old Steinger chum: Wh

  February 19, 2009

• Some Mutual Benefits Boys Pose In Colombia

  For those of you following the Mutual Benefits story, here's a photograph to bring some visuals to the table. It was taken in Bogota, Colombia, in 2001, as Mutual Benefits was trying to round up South American investors in what feds say was a billion dollar Ponzi scheme. The rather heavyset dark-haired fellow in the center of the photo is Joel Steinger, who is now under federal indictment on fraud and money laundering charges. Steinger, of course, is the fell

  February 18, 2009

• Sun-Sentinel Insults Joel Steinger

  In the lead story on this morning's local section, the Sun-Sentinel took off its little white glove and slapped Mutual Benefits' mastermind in the face with it. The newspaper reports that the Ponzi scheme called Mutual Benefits poured $1.4 million into political coffers to help keep state regulators from knocking down its doors. Reporter Scott Wyman did some good decent digging and, in a true kettle meets pot moment, quotes former legislator Skip Campbell getting all indigna

  February 23, 2009

• Mutual Benefits used dirty money to pay its legal defense

  February 12, 2009

• Mutual Benefits may have collapsed, but the fallout for South Florida politicians is still coming.

  January 29, 2009

• The People Person

  State Rep. Ellen Bogdanoff puts you ahead of politics — if you're the right kind of person

  September 25, 2008

• Stop Charlie

  Sell one of our most traveled freeways to some foreigners? Might as well just give 'em a Budweiser.

  July 31, 2008

• The Talk of the Green Iguana

  Will American voters elect the first gay vice president in November?

  February 28, 2008

• If Waldman's a Dem, What's With the GOP Cash?

  Another in the long tradition of Broward elephants posing as donkeys.

  March 30, 2006

• Letters for March 9-15, 2006

  March 9, 2006

• The GOP's Buddy

  If the Sun-Sentinel's Buddy Nevins has declared for Crist, why's he still covering the governor's race?

  February 23, 2006

• 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.

  January 27, 2000

• No More Taxes on (Almost) All Things Fancy

  Photo courtesy Tom Fancy StudiosIf that looks like your shopping list then, well, thank you, good sir, for generous contributions to the State of Florida, but you probably should have waited till after the legislative session. A bill recently passed by the House Finance and Tax Council would remove sales taxes on yachts and private jets but add it to magazine subscriptions.Should that bill become law, then you can buy this "giga-yacht" and save $30 million in taxes. Hey, that's enough for anothe

  April 21, 2009

• Why She Did It

  May 28, 2009

• Cash Dries Up in Key Races for Dems

  house.govA painting of Bill Young, whose congressional career may have pre-dated the invention of still photographyOn paper, the congressional district of Rep. Bill Young of St. Petersburg would seem to be one of the best chances for the Democratic Party to pick up a seat. Although Young has kept that district Republican for almost 30 years, it went for Obama last November, and at 78 years old, Young ain't young enough to be a force on the fundraising trail. He raised only $1,355 in the year's f

  July 20, 2009

• Broward School Board Members Who Oversaw Rampant Overspending Just Make Things Worse

  August 20, 2009

• Candidate: Broward Democrats Offered Her Big-Money Donors if She'd Back Off From Evan Jenne

  September 24, 2009

• Who Got Rothstein Money? (And If That Gets Bad, Will They Give It Back?)

  Flickr: Hasner on the MoveLamberti, Lieberman, Hasner, and Bogdanoff: They all got Rothstein $$.​At the Florida Secretary of State database, you can call up a list of the Florida politicians who accepted campaign contributions from embattled attorney Scott Rothstein. Long, isn't it? Mind you, that doesn't include the contributions he made to the candidates for federal office -- John McCain and Charlie Crist, to name a couple. Nor does it include the many contributions he made directly and bund

  November 2, 2009