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Pain & Gain Writer Pete Collins' 15 Minutes of Fame Have Arrived

Scott Prouty, 47 Percent Cameraman, Pulls In Only $18,000 for Legal Defense Fund

Scott Prouty's rich! Well, kinda. Scott Prouty can finally get outta debt! That's better. Five days ago, after more than 1,000 articles appeared showing how local man Scott Prouty helped vanquish the Romnoms once and for all with his commando camera skills, he set up a legal fund to battle any ... More >>

Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll Has Resigned

Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll has turned in her walking papers. Carroll cites her connection to Allied Veterans -- a non-profit that operates internet cafes -- and president of the Jacksonville Florida Order of Police, Nelson Cuba being a possible distraction to the Scott administration. Allied Vetera ... More >>

Andy Roddick Sues a Leukemia Charity for $100,000

What's the best way to top off a middling and Dave Matthews Band-filled career of harrumphs and hair gel? Sue a charity. The recently retired Andy Roddick, who went to high school in Boca Raton and was the sport's most stalwart bro, has done just that.

FBI Agents Raid Office of Doctor Who Allegedly Provided Sen. Bob Menendez With Underaged Prostitutes

FBI agents raided the West Palm Beach medical office of Dr. Salomon Melgen, an eye doctor and contributor to New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. Menendez is part of the eight Democratic and Republican senators who have joined Marco Rubio in putting together an immigration reform bill. The do ... More >>

Top Ten Films Shot in Fort Lauderdale

Everyone knows Miami is the place Hollywood goes calling when it wants sexy done right. Various films, from The Godfather, Part II to Scarface to Pain & Gain, have been shot in the Magic City. But what many don't know is that a lot of films were also shot in Fort Lauderdale. And we're not just ... More >>

Allen West Not Paying Payroll Taxes on Campaign Workers

Congressman Allen West's campaign isn't paying its taxes.The question, however, is if it owes any. A review of campaign finance disclosure documents shows West has spent well over $300,000 since the beginning of 2012 on consulting, staffers, and costs directly associated with his staff. But, while D ... More >>

Buju Banton's Legal Team Asks For A New Trial

See also "Reggae Great Buju Banton is Locked Up On Drug Charges. Was He Entrapped?" and "Buju Banton's Legal Team Blasts Feds"Buju Banton's attorney on Tuesday filed a motion with the Middle District of Florida requesting that the incarcerated reggae star be granted a new trial.The filing follows a ... More >>

Feds Nab Broward and Miami Identity Thieves Who Scammed Nearly $10 Million From IRS

Another day in South Florida, another multi-million-dollar scam collapsing. This time around federal officials working with the Broward Sheriff Office arrested Ft. Lauderdale resident Alci Bonannee and several others for filing more than 1,000 bogus tax documents that yielded $9.5 million in re ... More >>

Allen West Says He'd Consider Raising Taxes: What's Going On? (Video) (Updated)

Update, 1:17 p.m.: Added comment from Patrick Murphy, his Democratic opponent in the District 18 race.Allen West's unpredictability quotient is through the roof these days. The whole "communists in Congress" thing was off-the-wall, but it was at least in line with the rest of his statement ... More >>

NFL Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk's Broward Condo Is in Foreclosure (We Got the Documents)

(EDIT, 2:20 p.m.: Jose Lambiet is reporting Faulk doesn't even own the condo anymore because the condo association bought it from him after a deal in 2010.)PNC Bank filed a foreclosure complaint late last month on the Pompano Beach condo of Marshall Faulk, the former St. Louis Rams running back who ... More >>

Reggae Great Buju Banton Is Locked Up on Drug Charges. Was He Entrapped?

How Insiders Use the College Bowl System to Loot American Universities

PolitiFact: Where "We Have No Way of Knowing" Turns Into "Mostly False"

wildmanhangout.com​Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?The Pulitzer Prize-winning analysts of political statements over at PolitiFact -- a project of the St. Petersburg Times -- ran a pretty curious rundown of one of President Obama's statements this week.The claim: "Some billionaires have a tax ... More >>

Florida Cities Occupy the Forbes List of "America's Millionaire Capitals"

​If you've ever wondered where all the members of that oh-so-loathed "1%" that's not too hot with the Occupy Wall Street movement, look no further than Florida -- mostly South Florida.Forbes decided to use an interesting method to figure out the rankings for its list of "America's Millionaire Capi ... More >>

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

Mandy Dawson Arrested Again -- for a Little More Than Prescription Pill Fraud This Time

chinalawandpolicy.com​Remember that $87,000 former State Sen. Mandy Dawson allegedly received from ophthalmologist-turned-felon Alan Mendelsohn between 2003 and 2006? That investigation finally landed her a trip to jail yesterday.Dawson was hit with federal tax-evasion charges yesterday in her fir ... More >>

If You Didn't Think The Broward League Of Cities Was Evil ...

Commissioner Aaronson at the Broward League of Cities​Back in the heyday​UPDATE: Former Scott Rothstein partner Stuart Rosenfeldt has settled his $9 million clawback suit with the bankruptcy trustee for $1.6 million, according to the Sentinel. It's a convoluted situation. Apparently Rosenfeldt i ... More >>

Jack Tobin: One Of A Kind

Margate political powerhouse and consummate deal maker Jack Tobin, who died Tuesday at the age of 69, will be laid to rest Friday. He's remembered with near reverence by many who knew him, even those who also knew the rather unseemly nature of his long political career as a state legislator, Ma ... 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 >>

Marco Rubio Has Risen With Lightning Speed, but Conservatives Alone Can't Carry Him to the White House

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

Willie Nelson Plays Boca's Sunset Cove Amphitheater

Harvey Oyer, the Lawyer Who Inked Deals That Put a Politician in Prison, Still Walks Free

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 >>

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 i ... 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 >>

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 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 >>

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 ... 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 >>

It's a Miserable Life

Will Smith encores his Pursuit of Happyness

IRS Slammed Judge Larry With Tax Bill

Letters for August 24-30, 2006

The Friendly Ties of United

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

Best Local Girl Gone Bad

Elizabeth Fago

Tailpipe

Energizer Con Man

Off Topic

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

Embrace the Abyss

Letters for November 4-10, 2004

That Hand in Your Pocket

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

Letters for February 20, 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

Wild, Wild West

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

Letters to the Editor

Letters for May 3, 2001

Undercurrents

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

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.

Undercurrents

Sonny's Last Stand

Coming soon to a courtroom near you: dueling conspiracy theories that pit Fort Lauderdale's finest against their political bosses. One certain verdict: There's a price to pay for tangling with civic activist Sonny Irons.

The Straight Dope