Josephus Eggelletion

Sylvia Poitier's Secret "Defense Fund" Set Up by Judy Stern and Friends, According to Email

Broward Sheriff's OfficeSylvia Poitier​If you're wondering how suspended Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia Poitier -- who was convicted yesterday on four counts of falsifying public documents -- managed to pony up the cash for defense lawyer Johnny McCray Jr., a months-old email acquired by the ... More >>

Coffee Art: Osama Bin Latte

Ron Gunzburger's Facebook PageThis is the fine work of Rob Negron at the Brew Urban Cafe on Himmarshee.​Al Qaeda put out a statement on the internet today about Osama Bin Laden's death: "It [Bin Laden's blood] will remain, with permission from Allah the Almighty, a curse that chases the Ameri ... More >>

Rick Scott Does Something Good. Yeah, I Said It

Model Citizen Scott deserves a hand today. ​Rick Scott's move to force government employees to contribute to their pensions (like everyone else) and drop the horrid DROP triple-dipping program is flat-out wonderful. It's high time someone derailed the gravy train that government ... More >>

Morning Juice: Major Drug Bust in Palm Beach County; Eggelletion Helps State Build Corruption Case

​The local news for this Friday morning:Federal prosecutors announced the arrest of 16 South Floridians in a nationwide illegal drug trafficking investigation called Project Deliverance that was based in West Palm Beach. [Palm Beach Post]Another guilty plea coming in the Scott Rothstein case, this ... More >>

Morning Juice: Family Identified From Sunken Minivan; Mass Murderer's Attorney Wants to Seal Records

​A quick look at what's making news around here:A Palm Beach County jury gave a not-guilty verdict to Allison Dinsmore, the 27-year-old teacher from Boynton Beach tried on felony animal-cruelty charges after leaving her two cats home alone, where they starved to death. [Palm Beach Post]The bodies ... More >>

Will Eggelletion Bring Down Another Broward Politician?

FlickrJoe Eggelletion, star witness?​The Broward State Attorney's Office made a generous accommodation of disgraced former County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, allowing his prison sentence in the state case to run concurrently with the one in the federal case. But those kinds of favors don't ... More >>

Morning Juice: Eggelletion Prepares for Prison; Norovirus Fears in Broward

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this Friday:Former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an FBI bribery sting. [Miami Herald]Police have identified the man whose remains were found in a box near Jo ... More >>

Eggelletion Sentence: Two-and-a-Half Years

​That does it for the political career of Josephus Eggelletion. Sounds like a sad, pathetic scene at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. One tear-choked quote:"What I did was wrong. I'm not trying to hide from it. I'm not trying to run from it."Just to correct the historical record, yes, Eg ... More >>

Broward County Commissioners Face Questions About Shady Deals

Author of Thieves in the Temple Investigated for Bribery

​Andre Eggelletion, brother of corrupted Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, is a target of the investigation by the Broward State Attorney's Office, according to an article published in South Florida Times.That revelation appears to have triggered the recent cancellation of Andre Eg ... More >>

Five Local Officials Who Should Be Expecting Coal This Week

flickr.com​Most public servants are good people, even in South Florida. Most commissioners and school board members take sacred the public trust. At least during the holiday season, we try to tell ourselves that. But clearly, especially around these parts, not all our politicians are nice. And whe ... More >>

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 >>

UPDATED: Eggelletion to Enter Guilty Plea

Eggelletion​Former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion has agreed to enter a guilty plea in the federal corruption case against him.UPDATE: Just got off the phone with Eggelletion's former colleague, Commissioner John Rodstrom. "I think it's just a tragedy," he said of Eggelletion's f ... More >>

Morning Juice: Let's Try a News Round-Up Sans Rothstein

​Well, it's worth a try anyway. Here's what's going on in Broward and Palm Beach counties:The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit against the state for its failure to provide Floridian family with a quality education -- a point for which the Palm Beach County School District drop-out rat ... More >>

Morning Juice: Rothstein Crawls Back; Broward School Officials Try Blame Game

​It's Wednesday. Here's the local news:A bruising campaign for mayor of Lake Worth will go a few more rounds as Rene Varela didn't quite win enough votes to avoid a runoff with Laurence McNamara. In the Commission races, conservative Scott Maxwell beat Ron Exline and Jo-Ann Golden won reelection. ... More >>

Eggelletion Cheats at Golf Too

Photo: C. StilesEggelletion​About two years ago, a couple of golfing buddies took the first tee at Parkland Golf & Country Club. A club official asked Mike and Paul if they'd agree to be joined on their round by a single player who'd just shown up and was to be joined later by his own friend. ... More >>

Sun-Sentinel: Corruption Is Suddenly ... Everywhere!

Jennifer Gollan had a nice little scoop about elected officials' travel that centered on mayors Richard Kaplan, Joy Cooper, and Frank Ortis billing hundreds of dollars to stay at a hotel for a convention in Miami -- all of about 30 miles away. Nothing earth-shattering, but a sweet daily&nb ... More >>

Bus Fuss

No detail is too small to escape the unblinking eye of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin. Just before the adjournment of today's commission meeting, she spoke of something horrible that she saw recently at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport while waiting for a ride ... More >>

Election Post-Mortem

A Few Silly Election Predictions

Hitting The Links

Unfinished Business

A son denied becomes a festering campaign issue haunting Commissioner Eggelletion as Election Day approaches

The Dirty Dozen of 2007

Rush, Naugle, Loria... and, hey, what's going on in the criminal justice system?

Two Important Stories

Rambo and the Phantom

Investigating a gun-slinging city commissioner and the mayor who hides in the bathroom

In The News

Mold? Rats? Yikes! Tear the Place Down!

The courthouse must be replaced! says an unholy alliance of judges and downtown landlords

Black Electeds, JAABlog Commenters, and SPJ Haters

How´s Your Slime IQ?

Take the Broward Corruption Quiz

So We're Set For Takeoff

Politicians Feed At Super Trough

What's This Guy Still Doing In Politics?

Somebody Listened

Eggelletion's Cronies Feel Political Bite

Terrible Twosome

Vice Mayor Eggelletion's golfing and business buddy stands to profit from county land deal

Cheating for Dollars

It's easy if you're a county commissioner who's also a hired gun. Just pocket the money and deny everything.

Best Political Activist

Joe Major

Best Politician in Broward

Broward County Commissioner Ben Graber

Tailpipe

Get Rich in the Developer Biz

Who's Your Daddy?

Commissioner Eggelletion ducks questions about his amorous past

The Lobbyist

Broward Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion quietly pulls political strings in Lauderdale Lakes -- and personally profits in the process

Ch-a-a-rge It!

You thought there was a problem with Broward credit cards? Get this.

Best Scandal

Josephus Eggelletion's credit card

Print and Politics

The Broward Times delivers unconventional, often shrill journalism to an unsuspecting town

Undercurrents

Thanks to Joe Eggelletion, Broward County commissioners violate the law and screw the public

Hailing Taxis

A major miscalculation cost Broward County's taxi czar his monopoly

Keith Clayborne in Black and White

A lesson in becoming a black power broker by doing business with the white media elite, courtesy of the controversial editor of The Broward Times

An Education in Double Dipping

A politico gets a salary from the Broward school board that most teachers would kill for. Why? Because he's a state legislator.

The People's Republic of Area A

A group of neighborhood leaders prepares to declare independence and start Broward's first black-majority city

Does Not Compute

Dillard High School's Emerging Computer Technology magnet program is missing just one thing: emerging technology