Subject: Internal Revenue Service

• When Is A Correction Not Enough?

  June 10, 2006

• Sonny's Last Stand

  April 23, 1998

• IRS Slammed Judge Larry With Tax Bill

  July 5, 2007

• Jenne Can Blame Bag Man Bill

  September 5, 2007

• Lantana-Based White Rights Group Says It's Not Racist, Really; It's Just Lookin' Out for Whitey

  The American Association of White Americans is using the election of the first black president to tell the country a few things about its American organization of Americans. In America. In two open letters addressed to the "Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Senate Wash, DC," the Lantana-based association declares that it has "no affiliation with the Arian [sic] Brotherhood or "White Supremist" [sic] groups or organizations." Then again, it sure sounds like there might be some overlap, consi

  December 4, 2008

• The Straight Dope

  December 25, 1997

• Undercurrents

  May 14, 1998

• Weird Science

  July 23, 1998

• The Dearly Departed

  September 10, 1998

• Shock Market Rises

  April 15, 1999

• Undercurrents

  April 26, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  May 3, 2001

• Letters for August 8, 2002

  August 8, 2002

• Letters for February 20, 2003

  February 20, 2003

• Morning Juice: Avoiding IRS is Actually a Crime, Lois Frankel Tells Us to Go to Work

  Prosecutors: Swiss Banker Tried to Screw IRS. Us: Is That Wrong?Federal prosecutors in Fort Lauderdale have charged a Swiss banker with helping 20,000 Americans hide assets from the IRS. A judge signed an order yesterday declaring that former UBS AG executive Raoul Weil is a fugitive from justice. Now if you're like me, you might be asking yourself right now: Isn't hiding assets from the IRS what, in April, we call filing our taxes? That's essentially what his attorney said in this statement:"Mr

  January 15, 2009

• Letters for November 4-10, 2004

  November 4, 2004

• Best Local Girl Gone Bad

  May 12, 2005

• Haunted House

  A priceless Fort Lauderdale property is sold on the cheap, and it's not the economy, stupid

  March 6, 2008

• It's a Miserable Life

  Will Smith encores his Pursuit of Happyness

  December 18, 2008

• Palm Beach Post Embarrasses Self, Re-Endorses Corrupt Goldsmith

  In a rather subversive answer to my recent blog post that exposed Palm Beach mayoral candidate C. Gerald "Gerry" Goldsmith's corrupt history, the Palm Beach Post re-endorsed Goldsmith, saying he's "still the choice." The paper, in one of the most pathetic excuses for journalism the Pulp has ever witnessed, cited a flyer that had been passed around by Goldsmith's opponent, Jack McDonald, about the allegations. Here's the crux of it:   The accusations are that Mr. Goldsmith's

  February 16, 2009

• Race Car Driver to Plead Not Guilty by Reason of Celebrity; Jury May Get Chance to Dance

  Prosecutors say Helio was two-stepping with money laundering.Race car driver Helio Castroneves goes on trial today in South Florida in a case filed by prosecutors who apparently don't know that juries are incapable of convicting a celebrity. The IRS claims Castroneves conspired to commit tax fraud and, among other things, agreed to funnel money through a Swiss bank account, which, for the ultrarich, is known simply as banking.Among the accusations detailed in this indictment: The IRS claims Cast

  March 9, 2009

• David Allan Coe

  March 5, 2009

• Letters for July 31-August 6, 2008

  July 31, 2008

• Willie Nelson

  January 10, 2008

• Nova to Workers: Drop Dead

  Janitors go jobless for months, and students don't give a damn

  June 14, 2007

• All That Jazz

  Sophie Milman is the new jazz starlet — and one hell of an interview

  April 12, 2007

• Anchor, Man?

  Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

  November 9, 2006

• Letters for August 24-30, 2006

  August 24, 2006

• The Friendly Ties of United

  Gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher has been linked to the shady insurance firm for almost a decade

  March 9, 2006

• Got House?

  December 1, 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

  May 26, 2005

• Tailpipe

  Energizer Con Man

  April 21, 2005

• Off Topic

  There isn't much going on in Campbell Scott's latest project

  April 7, 2005

• Embrace the Abyss

  March 24, 2005

• Prostrate Loyalty

  My President, Right or Wrong

  January 27, 2005

• Finished Line

  Federal indictments. Drugging. Lowbrow culture. Hollywood Greyhound Track is for the dogs.

  April 29, 2004

• That Hand in Your Pocket

  Old McDonald is making room at the County Fair for the guys with dollar signs in their eyes

  December 4, 2003

• Big Cypress Buyout

  Proposed payment of millions to a wealthy clan amounts to nothing more than stealing from taxpayers for the Bush boys' political gain

  September 12, 2002

• Wild, Wild West

  Once convicted of fraud and in debt to the IRS for a cool million, Steven West is some kind of businessman

  August 29, 2002

• Mail Chauvinists

  The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is tough on mail fraud -- and, some say, even tougher on its black female agents

  April 11, 2002

• Cleanup Patter

  Getting down and dirty with Broward's school janitors

  February 14, 2002

• The Deadbeat Goes On

  The state legislature should soon pass a bill criminalizing failure to pay child support, but those who live within the system say this reform doesn't go nearly far enough

  April 19, 2001

• Deerfield Beach Commission Braces for "Crazy Train"

  Flickr user: En AmiA preview of the public comment period?On the agenda for tonight's meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, under the heading "Written Requests," there looms an ominous entry: Chaz Stevens will address the city's elected leaders on "myriad topics." Among the myriad topics posted recently on Stevens' blog, Acts of Sedition, there's a densely technical critique of a local agency's eligibility for a federal housing grant. And there's an homage to the female cameltoe. Th

  June 16, 2009

• Can We Add Switzerland to "Axis of Evil"?

  Flickr User: Seven-Deadly-SinsAgainst an army equipped with this weapon, I like our chances​For all the hand-wringing over the North Koreas and Irans of the world, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single nation whose diabolical deeds have done more to undermine the U.S.'s global standing than the world's peace-loving champions of neutrality. The case against UBS in Fort Lauderdale's federal court has revealed a dark side of Switzerland.The national bank has been exposed for its past efforts to

  July 30, 2009

• Deal Forged in South Florida Will Peel Back Secrecy of Swiss Bank

  Flickr: twicepix​More details are emerging about the agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and UBS, the Swiss bank accused of helping wealthy Americans evade taxes -- a case that's been bandied about in South Florida's U.S. District Court and which has attracted the two nation's top diplomats. USA Today reports that 4,450 cheaters will be named by the bank and targeted for criminal prosecution.

  August 20, 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 August 5 after an investigation that involved the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and several

  September 1, 2009

• According to Mark Philippoussis, Being Mark Philippoussis Not What It Used to Be

  Flickr: ask curlyIn 2007 Philippoussis was still a tall, rich, handsome athlete. These days he figures two-outta-four ain't bad.​Maybe that wasn't the housing bubble that burst in South Florida. The real supernova may have been Mark Philippoussis, the tennis star whose South Florida debauchery was an economic engine that finally ground to a halt in 2005, when he sold his Delray Beach mansion. The big Aussie who displayed a voracious appetite for fast women and faster cars has since relocated

  September 8, 2009

• Can I Also Be Sentenced to House Arrest in a House Like Rubinstein's?

  Screen grab: Google MapsThe Rubinstein property in Boca, apparently from around 2007, when his 10,000-square-foot home was still being built.​Steven Michael Rubinstein is the Boca Raton accountant who was caught by the IRS concealing some $6 million in assets with the help of his friends at UBS. So he sang like the proverbial canary about those friends in exchange for which he just received a very lenient sentence: one year of house arrest and three years of probation. The only question I have

  October 30, 2009

• Should Feds Let Charities Keep the Rothstein Money?

  FlickrSynagogues received big money from Rothstein.​Based on this weekend's Daily Pulp, we know that Scott Rothstein's investors are going to try to get money back from the many charities that received his generous donations. That post triggered a conversation in the comments field about whether it's appropriate for the investors to seek those funds, given suspicion over whether those investments aimed to profit from an extortion scheme of Jeffrey Epstein and his high-profile friends.If that l

  November 9, 2009

• Morning Juice: Adult Charges for Suspects in Brewer Case; Rothstein With a Bad Case of the Mondays

  ​Here's a look at what's happening in South Florida this Tuesday morning:Derek Hayward of WSVN-7 delivered a methodical, metaphor-rich report of Monday at the Scott Rothstein estate, where boats and luxury cars were seized by federal agents. "I'm alone now," intoned Rothstein. "I have very few friends." [WSVN]Three of the five boys accused of being involved in the burning of 15-year-old Michael Brewer are being charged as adults. [Miami Herald]Swastikas were found on the walls of a Jewish comm

  November 10, 2009