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Holy Cross Hospital

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Broward County Tallies Four Drownings in Five Days

    Water mishaps aren't anything new for our special sweat-year-round corner of the country, but it's not every week four people die in the course of five days.The latest victim is 7-year-old Damien Tubbs, who died Sunday in an Oakland Park pool after it appears he wandered into the deep end and sank, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Happy Birthday, Jaco Pastorius!

    ​It seems inevitable that no matter how brilliant an artist, the specter of an untimely death always hangs heavy over any and all accomplishments. Take Janis, Jimi, and Kurt, for example -- each was an innovator, but any discussion of their careers often veers to the subject of their early tragic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Fort Lauderdale Ultrasound Tech Pleads Guilty to Sexually Assaulting a Patient During Exam

    pregnancycheck.com​Ivo Diaz, a former ultrasound technician at Fort Lauderdale's Holy Cross Hospital, pleaded guilty late last week to sexually assaulting a woman while she was undergoing an ultrasound in 2009.Diaz, now 43, will serve five years in prison and 12 years of sex-offender probation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Feds: Another Court-Appointed "Trustee" Is A Crook

    The federal government has charged 64-year-old Hollywood bankruptcy trustee Marika Tolz with misappropriating $16 million in court funds -- and ultimately pocketed $2.4 million of it for herself. Miami HeraldFreeman​Among the funds Tolz allegedly misappropriated was $1 million involved in the ... More >>

  • Articles

    December 16, 2010

    The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

    The federal government has charged 64-year-old Hollywood bankruptcy trustee Marika Tolz with misappropriating $16 million in court funds -- and ultimately pocketed $2.4 million of it for herself. Miami HeraldFreeman​Among the funds Tolz allegedly misappropriated was $1 million involved in the ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

    The federal government has charged 64-year-old Hollywood bankruptcy trustee Marika Tolz with misappropriating $16 million in court funds -- and ultimately pocketed $2.4 million of it for herself. Miami HeraldFreeman​Among the funds Tolz allegedly misappropriated was $1 million involved in the ... More >>

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    Richard Lippner Had Two Beautiful Young Women Die in His Apartment Four Months Apart

    The federal government has charged 64-year-old Hollywood bankruptcy trustee Marika Tolz with misappropriating $16 million in court funds -- and ultimately pocketed $2.4 million of it for herself. Miami HeraldFreeman​Among the funds Tolz allegedly misappropriated was $1 million involved in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    What Killed Brianna Negron and Casey DiStefano?

    Casey and her mom at Disney World.​In May, paramedics were called to Richard Lippner's Fort Lauderdale condo, where they found a young woman, 20-year-old Casey DiStefano, unconscious on the floor. It was the second time this had happened in four months. She wasn't breathing; her lips were blue. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Photos, Video of Man Suspected of Murdering Dave Montney

    The surveillance video shot of a man thought to have a role in Montney's murder.​The Broward Sheriff's Office has just released a photograph of the man suspected of a role in the August 13 murder of Dave Montney in Pompano Beach.I've uploaded the surveillance video. Check it out after the jump. He ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    Did Friendship Cost a Young Scott Rothstein Lawyer Her Life?

    The surveillance video shot of a man thought to have a role in Montney's murder.​The Broward Sheriff's Office has just released a photograph of the man suspected of a role in the August 13 murder of Dave Montney in Pompano Beach.I've uploaded the surveillance video. Check it out after the jump. He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Seal Clubbing: Broward Health Attorneys Threaten Blogger

    Flickr​John DeGroot's eponymous blog has been threatened with legal action over his use of the district's corporate seal. In a letter emailed Wednesday, an attorney for the North Broward Hospital District ordered DeGroot to stop using the nonprofit corporation's logo and remove the image from his ... More >>

  • News

    December 31, 2009

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

    Flickr​John DeGroot's eponymous blog has been threatened with legal action over his use of the district's corporate seal. In a letter emailed Wednesday, an attorney for the North Broward Hospital District ordered DeGroot to stop using the nonprofit corporation's logo and remove the image from his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    [UPDATED] Curse of the Holy Cross: Lauderdale Hospital Haunted by Dirty Donors

    Flickr: oz.gauntletHoly Cross needs bling, but it's running out of sugar daddies.​Of all the local nonprofit organizations that have been stung by recent investment scandals, Holy Cross Medical Center wins the Triple Crown. Or is it the Grand Slam? Check out the list of medical facilities on the m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Abrams on Tribune: "You Can FEEL the Fear"

    [REMINDER: PBS Frontline show on Bernie Madoff and his lieutenants, Frank Avellino and Michael Bienes, is on tonight at 9 10 p.m., including an interview with Bienes, the Fort Lauderdale "philanthropist" and backer of the Broward County Library, Holy Cross Hospital, St. Thomas Aquinas, and other loc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Investigator's Report: Commissioner Cobo Bent Law Nearly to Breaking Point

    browardhealth.orgCommissioner Joseph CoboJudging by the report delivered yesterday to the North Broward Hospital District commissioners by an investigator, Commissioner Joseph Cobo is in deep trouble. Attorney Martin Goldberg, a former assistant U.S. Attorney, found five instances of possible miscon ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 7, 2009

    Sing It, Edna

    browardhealth.orgCommissioner Joseph CoboJudging by the report delivered yesterday to the North Broward Hospital District commissioners by an investigator, Commissioner Joseph Cobo is in deep trouble. Attorney Martin Goldberg, a former assistant U.S. Attorney, found five instances of possible miscon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Madoff Crony: "God Wanted Us to Have This"

    Former Fort Lauderdale "philanthropist" and Bernie Madoff money man Michael Bienes gave an interview to the PBS investigative news show Frontline, and it looks to be a doozy. Here's a snippet: In it Bienes, who was a member of the Broward arts board and has his name on plaques all over town (inc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Monsignor On Madoff Victim List -- UPDATED

    The full list of Bernie Madoff fraud victims has been released by the court and among them is St. Thomas Aquinas High, the football powerhouse private Catholic school in Fort Lauderdale.   Listed as the representative for the St. Thomas account is Monsignor Vincent Kelly, who als ... More >>

  • News

    February 5, 2009

    Letters From the Issue of February 5, 2009

    The full list of Bernie Madoff fraud victims has been released by the court and among them is St. Thomas Aquinas High, the football powerhouse private Catholic school in Fort Lauderdale.   Listed as the representative for the St. Thomas account is Monsignor Vincent Kelly, who als ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Madoff Crony Abruptly Resigns From Broward Arts Center

    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 immediate ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    Gadfly Chaz Stevens brought down a couple Deerfield Beach politicians

    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 immediate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Fort Lauderdale Philanthropist Tied To Epic Swindler Madoff -- UPDATED

    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 Diann ... More >>

  • News

    October 16, 2008

    Rise of Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein has town talking

    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 Diann ... More >>

  • News

    April 10, 2008

    Bust Me if You Can

    If it looks like a lawyer and quacks like a lawyer, is it really a lawyer?

  • Music

    April 3, 2008

    American Idol Goes Geriatric

    If it looks like a lawyer and quacks like a lawyer, is it really a lawyer?

  • News

    January 18, 2007

    Baring False Witness

    In a dramatic scene, a city official accuses another of falsifying a document

  • News

    October 12, 2006

    Mr. Snyder's Opus

    A police beating can't hold back the Hallandale band director and his irrepressible charges.

  • News

    July 20, 2006

    "I Created the World in Six Days and All I Got Was This Lousy Billboard — God"

    The strange saga of a religious advertising campaign begins and ends in Fort Lauderdale.

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    These Deals Will Blow You Away

    Should Local Buyers Watch Out for "Katrina Cars" ?

  • News

    June 16, 2005

    The Doctor's Trials

    Meet Hollywood's Donald Tobkin: caring M.D., feared lawyer, accused felon

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    All the Governor's Men

    A sweetheart hospital district deal could land Jeb Bush in front of a grand jury

  • News

    August 21, 2003

    Dying to Be Thin

    Like other "super morbidly obese" people, Marc Patterson would do almost anything to slim down

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Troubled Endings

    For-profit hospice care provider Vitas Healthcare sacrifices patient needs for the bottom line

  • News

    July 4, 2002

    Profile of a Predator

    Tennis pro Paul Edwards hustles both on and off the court

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    Requiem for a Butcher

    Need a tummy tuck? Plastic surgeon Jerry Lingle may not be your guy.

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    The Best Shot at a Cure For Cancer

    Cancer vaccines are the hottest thing in oncology. Dr. Howard Abel is bringing the experimental treatment to South Florida.

  • News

    March 30, 2000

    A Touch of Glass

    Stripper and adult-film star Leslie Glass is battling cancer in the same way she's conducted her career: with compassion and guts

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    A Matter of Life and Dearth

    When the Cleveland Clinic closes, who will save lives on the barrier island?

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    Miracle Baby

    Seven years ago Bill Wetzel got testicular cancer and became sterile. Luckily he had already made a deposit at the sperm bank.

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Home Alone

    After years of struggling to get her disabled son, Jimmy, into a reputable full-care facility, Micki Burton thought she'd found just the place. But she may have lost a son.

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