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Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Man Steals Two Cars, Shoots Two Cops, Kills Himself on Florida Turnpike

    Here's the latest from a 9:10 p.m. press conference from authorities about the shooting this afternoon; information is pulled together from the FBI, Broward Sheriff's Office and other news sources.From FBI spokesman Tim Donovan:It started at about 2:20 p.m., when a man stole a car at the intersectio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Joe Kaufman Tells BSO to "Cease All Activities" With Muslims

    South Florida's favorite anti-Islam nut bag masquerading as a Republican congressional candidate has his knickers in a twist over a recent meeting between Broward sheriff's officials and Muslim leaders.Joe Kaufman, head of the hate-mongering group Americans Against Hate, is upset because the sheriff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Mark Ott, Former Lantana Cop, Gets Three Years in the Pen for Robbing Hispanic Men

    As part of a plea deal, former Lantana cop Mark Ott was sentenced to just three years in prison (out of a possible 45) for robbing three men, specifically, Hispanic men.According to his arrest report, Ott was targeting Hispanic men that "he thought were illegal immigrants," and would steal money fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Americans for Prosperity Florida Bringing Some Interesting Individuals on "Education" Tour

    ​Americans for Prosperity Foundation Florida, part of the Koch brothers' political-funding machine, announced yesterday that it's going to be "providing essential educational tools to Floridians in advance of the upcoming 2012 elections."Among the "influential leaders" AFP Florida is bringing on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Former Alcee Hastings Aide Convicted on 30 Counts in Fraud Case

    ​Mikel Jones, a former aide to Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, was convicted for his role in a scheme to defraud a New York venture capital fund that financed the operation of his Philadelphia law firm.Jones, a 55-year-old Boynton Beach resident, was convicted of conspiracy, money laundering, 14 c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    How Broward Bulldog's Dan Christensen Broke a 9/11 Conspiracy That's Actually True

    Wikimedia Commons​Dan Christensen lost his job in the Miami Herald's Broward bureau in 2009, a casualty of rampant cost-cutting in daily journalism. Rather than throw in the towel, Christensen started his own local news site, Broward Bulldog, and vowed to continue breaking stories. "This website w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Hollywood City Manager, Under Investigation by Feds, Bails Before He Can be Fired

    townmapsusa.com​Hollywood City Manager Cameron Benson didn't want last night's commission meeting to be his political funeral, so he made the decision to quit during a meeting recess.Benson was taking a lot of heat from Mayor Peter Bober for a few things yesterday -- a $10.3 million budget defici ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Margate Mosque Tries To Move On Amid Smear Campaign By Local Religious Groups

    Photo by Mike RiceTuesday night's protest at the Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen mosque in Margate​The indictment of Izhar Khan -- the former imam of Margate's Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen mosque -- has sparked outrage from religious groups and tea party members, leading to the their protest attempting to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    The Many Faces of "Pill Mill Vinny"

    ​The many faces of Vincent Colangelo, the convicted heroin and cocaine trafficker who decided he could make more money in the pill mill business, where authorities say he unloaded some 770,000 high-powered pain pills in a single year. Fort Lauderdale activist Cal Deal put together ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Five Reasons Why Kevin Simon, Alleged Belligerent JetBlue Passenger, Is No Steven Slater

    Kevin Simon, former resident of Fort Lauderdale​You can take the man out of South Florida, but you can't take the South Florida out of the man. The country learned that lesson the hard way this week, when former Fort Lauderdale resident, Kevin Theodore Simon, allegedly went berserk on a JetBlue fl ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Huge Dogfighting Bust Went Down Only After Cops Brought Their Pit Bulls to the Fight

    Kevin Simon, former resident of Fort Lauderdale​You can take the man out of South Florida, but you can't take the South Florida out of the man. The country learned that lesson the hard way this week, when former Fort Lauderdale resident, Kevin Theodore Simon, allegedly went berserk on a JetBlue fl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Attorneys Describe Legal Maneuvers by School District, Board Members After Gallagher Was Charged

    Beverly Gallagher​In the weeks that followed the announcement last September that Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher had been busted for taking bribes in an FBI sting, several of her colleagues got anxious. So did the school district administration. "The FBI was asking a lot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Morning Juice: Mortgage Fraud Ring Busts Cops, Lawyer; Gunzburger Calls Investigation a "Dirty Trick"

    ​Thursday's local news roundup:Three officers with the Plantation Police Department have been arrested, along with a Lauderhill cop and an FBI agent, based on an undercover investigation that they conspired in a mortgage fraud scheme. Also arrested was Steven Stoll, who with his wife, Rebecca, is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Morning Juice: Would-Be Chain-Saw Killer Busted in Miramar; Police Fire Shots in Boca Raton

    ​The headlines in Broward and Palm Beach:Mercedes Morales may be an even more bloodthirsty spouse than Dalia Dippolito. The Miramar women is accused of hiring a hit man (who turned out to be an FBI agent) to murder her ex-husband as retaliation for his providing information that led to her arrest ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2010

    Four Kids From South Florida Led the World's Biggest Online Identity Heist

    ​The headlines in Broward and Palm Beach:Mercedes Morales may be an even more bloodthirsty spouse than Dalia Dippolito. The Miramar women is accused of hiring a hit man (who turned out to be an FBI agent) to murder her ex-husband as retaliation for his providing information that led to her arrest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Pompano City Manager Making Changes Following Corruption Charge Against City Official

    Photo: City of Pompano BeachDennis Beach​Dennis Beach, city manager of Pompano Beach, wants to put prospective volunteers through a more rigorous training course before allowing them to volunteer on city committees. He hopes that it will help to prevent arrests like the one that occurred Monday, w ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2010

    Miami Beach's Troubled Police Force Pays Officers in the Six Figures

    Photo: City of Pompano BeachDennis Beach​Dennis Beach, city manager of Pompano Beach, wants to put prospective volunteers through a more rigorous training course before allowing them to volunteer on city committees. He hopes that it will help to prevent arrests like the one that occurred Monday, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Morning Juice: Wellington Man Tells Murderous Tale; Cell Phone Records Point to Ryan LeVin as Porsche Driver

    ​New Times blogs pounced on Monday's two big stories. Scroll down to check out Juice coverage of the break in the Porsche hit-and-run case. And check out Pulp, where Bob Norman got the scoop on Scott Rothstein's role as an informant in a federal investigation of the Mafia. In other local news:In a ... More >>

  • News

    December 31, 2009

    The Most Offensive People of 2009: Scott Rothstein, Dalia Dippolito, and Jimmy Buffett

    ​New Times blogs pounced on Monday's two big stories. Scroll down to check out Juice coverage of the break in the Porsche hit-and-run case. And check out Pulp, where Bob Norman got the scoop on Scott Rothstein's role as an informant in a federal investigation of the Mafia. In other local news:In a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Who Is Patrick Lochrie?

    Flickr​According to a scoop in yesterday's edition of the Broward Bulldog, he's the businessman who went undercover to help FBI agents lure corrupt Broward County officials, like Josephus Eggelletion, who will be entering his guilty plea in a money-laundering case tomorrow.Judging by Dan Christens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    GlobeTel CEO Indicted

    courtesy GlobeTel​A couple of years ago, we ran a feature story about GlobeTel, a company that was supposedly going to deploy blimp-like satellites across the country and beam down internet signals. There were a few problems with the scheme: building hi-tech airships seemed a job more suited for b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Boca Man Commits Pint-Sized Fraud in Kansas; Earns Super-Sized Sentence

    Flickr: invisibleElementFor South Florida-based junk faxes, the Plains states are a no-fly zone​As every other movie attests, being an FBI agent is exciting! Except in a place like in Wichita, Kansas, where crime-busting business is so slow that agents apparently have time to take their investigat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Morning Juice: Rothstein's $57 Million Counterfeit; Florida Sits on Economic Faultline

    ​Your daily dose of news from around Palm Beach and Broward:The FBI's due to hold a press conference this morning to ask for public assistance in agents' ongoing investigation of Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein. [Miami Herald]Curious about how Rothstein tricked Ed Morse into doling out $5 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Morning Juice: Hollywood Finds a Beach Bum; Pythons 100,000 - Humans 39

    ​Let's see what's in the news this morning.All these political scandals lately and none involving Hollywood? Well, the City Commission wasn't going to stand for that! Yesterday commissioners fired Gil Martinez, director of their beach community redevelopment agency, after accumulating evidence he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Sex on the Beach: Cops LOVE Going Undercover at Strip Clubs

    Photo: Courtesy Boynton Beach PoliceThe scene Friday night at Platinum​After DEA and a Boynton Beach Police SWAT team stormed into the Plantinum Showgirls nightclub on Friday night, it was a good bet that that was going to be the sexiest news story of the weekend. But with the FBI now hanging out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Also on the FBI Yacht: Linda Ferrara

    Linda Ferrara, a former Cooper City commissioner and longtime School Board appointee and volunteer, was among what is really turning into a rogue's gallery of attendees for the party on the Intracoastal thrown by the FBI in December. Drinking At The Public Trough ​Funny ... More >>

  • Film

    September 17, 2009

    The Informant! Gets Cute With Massive Corporate Scandal and Blows the Story

    Linda Ferrara, a former Cooper City commissioner and longtime School Board appointee and volunteer, was among what is really turning into a rogue's gallery of attendees for the party on the Intracoastal thrown by the FBI in December. Drinking At The Public Trough ​Funny ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    West Palm Beach Man Arrested in Giant Drug Trafficking Ring

    ​Hopeton Joseph Reid, of West Palm Beach, was one of 16 men arrested in Texas last week in connection with what authorities are calling a "major drug ring" that allegedly moved tons of marijuana from Mexico across the U.S. A grand jury in Houston indicted all 16 individuals on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Liberty City Charade Ends With Injustice

    Yesterday morning's headline on the top of the front page of the Sun-Sentinel was, "5 Guilty In Sears Tower Plot." This morning's lead headline is: "Desperation Turns Deadly Off Florida." They are connected in a way, because both are about Haitians. The first about several Haitians from Liberty Cit ... More >>

  • News

    March 12, 2009

    DNA Dilemma

    A brutal and mysterious murder opens a Pandora's box of DNA privacy.

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Some (Polar Opposite) Ideas for New Year's

    You could be there for Lindsay's next embarrassment! So you've opened the presents and done all your dreaming about sugar plums, which is probably what the kids are calling some kind of messed up pill these days. Now your brain moves on to the next challenge: how to spend New Year's Eve.  Sou ... More >>

  • News

    October 18, 2007

    Looking for Lucifer

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2007

    Hollywood's Dirty Brotherhood Exposed

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2007

    The Sons Of Hollywood

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • Film

    February 15, 2007

    Spy Versus Spy

    Billy Ray takes on another liar: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    The Art of Piracy

    On the high seas, it may be best to resist the urge to buy a masterpiece.

  • News

    June 22, 2006

    Have Wire, Will Travel

    Anna the Medic, one of the FBI's top informants, has cut a wide swath through the antiwar and animal rights movements.

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Mr. Big Shot

    The charismatic lawyer and power broker took one last lap in a New River mansion during his run from the law

  • Film

    March 24, 2005

    Ugly Duckling

    Sandra Bullock fires off another Miss

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Rock the Vote

    A father assesses his anarchist son's chances of becoming Lake Worth's next mayor

  • Film

    August 26, 2004

    Screenplay Zero

    Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley struggle through floundering frights

  • Subtropical Life

    May 13, 2004

    Best Correction Best Journalistic Restraint

    The Palm Beach Post, October 3, 2003 Sun-Sentinel Travel editor Thomas Swick

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Bad Operation

    Prominent parasites bleed the taxpayers in the name of medicine

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Pulp Nonfiction, Act 2

    A good, upstanding American family gets mixed up with the mob

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Look Back in Anthrax

    Magazine mogul David Pecker rates public agencies' response to the Boca debacle

  • News

    September 16, 1999

    The Great Pretender

    Jimmy Sabatino scammed millions of dollars' worth of goods and services by claiming he was a Hollywood player. But the self-described Mafia kid played too rough when he threatened to kill President Clinton.

  • News

    May 6, 1999

    Caught in a Web of His Own Design

    The story of a freedom-loving teen who posted a screed by one of the Littleton killers on his Website. The authorities were not amused.

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Undercurrents

    The story of a freedom-loving teen who posted a screed by one of the Littleton killers on his Website. The authorities were not amused.

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    Undercurrents

    The story of a freedom-loving teen who posted a screed by one of the Littleton killers on his Website. The authorities were not amused.

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