Internal Revenue Service

When Is A Correction Not Enough?

IRS Slammed Judge Larry With Tax Bill

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 a ... More >>

The Straight Dope

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 a ... More >>

Undercurrents

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 a ... More >>

Weird Science

The Life Extension Foundation claims it'll add years to your life with pills and cancer profiles. As long as you have the money.

The Dearly Departed

Tax collectors and employees alike have decried Susan Telli's free-spending, power-hungry ways at Broward's Hospice Care. So why is she still in charge?

Shock Market Rises

Tax collectors and employees alike have decried Susan Telli's free-spending, power-hungry ways at Broward's Hospice Care. So why is she still in charge?

Undercurrents

Slammin' Sammy keeps hitting, but his Broward County foundation whiffs

Letters for August 8, 2002

A dancing dilemma

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. N ... More >>

Letters for November 4-10, 2004

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. N ... More >>

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 h ... More >>

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 a ... More >>

David Allan Coe

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 a ... More >>

Letters for July 31-August 6, 2008

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 a ... More >>

Willie Nelson

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 a ... More >>

All That Jazz

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

Anchor, Man?

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

Letters for August 24-30, 2006

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

The Friendly Ties of United

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

Got House?

Your Own Piece of Sunshine

Prostrate Loyalty

My President, Right or Wrong

Finished Line

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

That Hand in Your Pocket

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

Mail Chauvinists

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

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

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 w ... More >>

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 diplom ... More >>

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 >>

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 wa ... More >>

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. S ... More >>

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 fri ... More >>

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 >>

Broward Check-Cashing Kingpin Busted for Money Laundering

Photo courtesy Broward Sheriff's OfficeChristiano Gloria​Christiano Leonardo Gloria, 29, has been arrested for allegedly playing a role in what state investigators say was a 5-year scheme to defraud the IRS and launder the money. The check-cashing store operator faces 110 charges.It's a perplexing ... More >>

Mercedes Smashes Into Lauderdale Jewelry Store

The black Mercedes that smashed through the front door of Windsor Diamonds in Fort Lauderdale this afternoon did not have a political motive. I say this because after yesterday's kamikaze attack on the IRS building in Texas, we're all a bit jumpy about people driving things into buildings where they ... More >>

The Humane Society's Battle With Farmers Began Right Here in Florida

The black Mercedes that smashed through the front door of Windsor Diamonds in Fort Lauderdale this afternoon did not have a political motive. I say this because after yesterday's kamikaze attack on the IRS building in Texas, we're all a bit jumpy about people driving things into buildings where they ... More >>

[UPDATEDx2] Lien on Me: Allen West Calls for "Personal Responsibility" Undermined by Personal Financial Record; Will Tea Party Protest Him?

FlickrAllen West addresses tea partiers at their July 2009 rally.​Ha ha, just kidding about the tea party protest. Not likely these folks turn on one of their own "patriots," even if the recent revelations suggest that West has done exactly what he and his tea party allies have pilloried the gover ... More >>

Kristin Haynes, Millionaire Creator of "Dreamsicles" Figurines, Sentenced for Tax Evasion

We must be in the wrong business. Looks like the big money is in knickknacks, trinkets, and doodads. According to court documents in a federal criminal case, Kristin Haynes, creator of the Dreamsicles line of collectible ceramic figurines (like the one pictured here) raked in nearly $3 mil ... More >>

Russ Klenet Is a Former Tax Deadbeat

​Sources have been telling me for the past 18 months that the IRS is going to be the agency that brings down lobbyist Russ Klenet, husband of Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter. Klenet​Yesterday we got the first official whiff of it when eye doctor and felonious ... More >>

Bankruptcy Trustee: Rothstein Partner Adler Is Broke and Owes IRS

Instead of a big showdown in court with big-time witnesses like U.S. Sen. John McCain, former Gov. Charlie Crist and Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, Russell Adler and the bankruptcy attorneys representing his former law firm settled the clawback suit today with little fanfare. The Rothstein ... More >>

Florida Among Top Three States Targeted for a New Form of Identity Theft

flickr.com​How low can you go? Apparently six feet under wasn't low enough for the Fort Lauderdale man sentenced to nine years in federal prison last Friday for stealing identification from mourners attending funerals as part of an ID theft ring. But Diaz's funeral fraud ring isn't the only s ... More >>

Florida Prisoners Lead The Nation in Tax Fraud

​Florida is number one again. The state that holds the championship belt in oxycodone consumption now leads the U.S. in fraudulent tax returns filed from prison. Perhaps our prisoners are trying to emulate the leadership traits of Captain Medicaid Fraud, aka Gov. Rick Scott. Florida inmates filed ... More >>

WTFlorida: 10 Reasons Why Florida is Better at Everything

Miche Ratto​Here in Florida we're really good at a lot of things. Topping the list we have: growing indoor marijuana, staging car accidents, and throwing children in jail. And boy are we good at all of those things.To learn more about the awesome state you live in click the image.

BurgerFi Features Two Tax Break Deals

BurgerFi​Like many Americans, you're probably waiting until the very last minute, April 18th, to file your taxes (yes, the IRS gave us a whopping three day extension this year). After learning how much of your hard earned cash you don't get to keep, you just might need a little somethi ... More >>

Tax Day Deals

Grab a bite before Uncle Sam bites you!​The IRS was nice enough to give us a whopping two-day extention on filing our taxes. That's all well and good, but you still might come out feeling a little poorer if you have to write a check to Uncle Sam today. Fret not, because there are a lot of ... More >>

Obama's War on Weed Represents a Strange About-Face on Medical Marijuana

Grab a bite before Uncle Sam bites you!​The IRS was nice enough to give us a whopping two-day extention on filing our taxes. That's all well and good, but you still might come out feeling a little poorer if you have to write a check to Uncle Sam today. Fret not, because there are a lot of ... More >>

Seven People Charged in Tax Fraud Case Based on Secret Bank-Account Conspiracy Theory

ambienceofmedia.com​Get this: The government creates a secret bank account for every person issued a birth certificate in the United States -- and has been doing so since the enactment of the 1936 Social Security Act -- that holds $630,000. Through a series of IRS filings, people can become entitl ... More >>

How Insiders Use the College Bowl System to Loot American Universities

ambienceofmedia.com​Get this: The government creates a secret bank account for every person issued a birth certificate in the United States -- and has been doing so since the enactment of the 1936 Social Security Act -- that holds $630,000. Through a series of IRS filings, people can become entitl ... More >>

Alex Johnson, Colombian Snitch in Case Against Buju Banton, Earned Millions from U.S. Government

​Alex Johnson -- a main character in this week's cover story about the conviction of Buju Banton -- on Monday further delayed his bankruptcy hearing. On the surface, there's nothing extraordinary about that; many Americans have turned to bankruptcy proceedings, which can stretch months if not year ... More >>