Subject: Michael Satz

• Mid-Terms Came Too Late

  November 14, 2006

• Sun-Sentinel Is The Big Man Now

  October 27, 2006

• Random Thoughts On Hollywood Sludge Case

  October 11, 2006

• Wasserstrom Indicted!

  October 10, 2006

• Notes from the Weekend

  September 18, 2006

• Jenne Hires Prosecutor Who Cleared Him In Scandal

  September 8, 2006

• Morning Rundown

  August 15, 2006

• Is Katherine Harris A Ruthless Soviet Dictator?

  July 28, 2006

• In The News

  July 13, 2006

• Mama Kitty, Marijuna, And More

  June 29, 2006

• Hating On Aunt Betty

  June 26, 2006

• You Have The Right To Remain Absolutely Fabulous

  June 9, 2006

• It's Milian Time

  June 3, 2006

• Ken Jenne's Simple Plan

  June 1, 2006

• It's Hard to Be A Pimp (Really)

  April 26, 2006

• Judge Larry and the Polo Shirt

  June 30, 2007

• Jailbird Commits Unspeakable Act Upon Himself

  July 26, 2007

• Inside Baseball

  August 2, 2007

• Wasserstrom Guilty

  September 12, 2007

• The Sentinel's Mayor Al Redux

  January 10, 2008

• School Board Email Reveals Even More Dysfunction

  February 11, 2008

• New Courthouse? Ha!

  February 21, 2008

• SA Satz Back To Old Tricks

  April 17, 2008

• The Blog With No Name

  May 30, 2008

• Newsflash: Broward Prosecutors Get Pay Cut

  September 25, 2008

• Broward Links

  October 27, 2008

• Michael Satz's $100,000 Club

  I was bored so I thought I'd compile the list of all the people at the State Attorney's Office who make $100,000 or more. In light of the recent pay cuts and furloughs, I thought it might be interesting. In all, 27 of Michael Satz's 487 employees have reached triple digits, with a quartet of trusted right-hand lawyers -- Tim Donnelly, Jeff Marcus, Charles Morton, and Mark Springer -- matching Satz's own salary of $153,000-plus. I don't have a lot to say about it, just thought I'd share. Here

  November 18, 2008

• Satz Must Act Now On Deerfield

  So rumors are out there about the State Attorney's Office investigation of Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini. Word is that an FDLE probe of his political nemesis and challenger for the mayor's chair, Commissioner Steve Gonot, has also been forwarded to the State Attorney's Office for a decision. The truth is that both men could be in handcuffs before the March election. And no matter what the outcome of the criminal cases, the cloud hanging over the city must be lifted. The futu

  December 11, 2008

• Mayor Al Capellini Charged With Criminal Corruption

  A government source just informed the Pulp that Deerfield Mayor Al Capellini has been charged right now with crimes of corruption by the State Attorney's Office. His mug shot, taken hours ago, is pictured at right. UPDATED: The charge is unlawful compensation, a third-degree felony stemming from his involvement in the development at Natura. I know about that deal because I broke the original story on Natura . Here's a link to the article in New Times. I alway

  December 12, 2008

• Undercurrents

  March 15, 2001

• Rambo and the Phantom

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

  December 6, 2007

• Furloughs End At Broward State Attorney's Office

  Good news: our prosecutors are back to work full-time. Broward State Attorney Michael Satz informed his minions yesterday via e-mail -- which came across the Pulp transom -- that the payroll should be good to the end of the year, thanks to "fiscal restraints" and a hiring freeze.  Satz is also hoping the state legislature doesn't gut his budget next year. Here's the text: --------------------------- From:   ADM1 - Michael Satz&nbs

  February 3, 2009

• Capellini "Not Guilty"? We'll Be The Judge Of That

  Yesterday, the Juice blog published one of the deceptive headlines from one of ex-Deerfield Beach Mayor's Al Capellini's newest propaganda rag, the Deerfield Beach Dispatch. In huge letters, the headline says, "Capellini Cleared." In small letters, between those words are the crucial, if equally dubious, "will be." In addition to shenanigans like that, Capellini continues to refer to himself as the mayor, even though he's been removed from office by Charlie Crist after he was hi

  March 3, 2009

• UPDATED: Maus Should Step Down From City Board

  Catherine Maus is the chairwoman of Fort Lauderdale's Planning & Zoning Board. And that isn't right. Maus is perfectly smart enough and certainly seems of fine enough character to serve in such a capacity. In fact, I'm sure that she, as a lawyer, is a very valuable member and a conscientious one. The problem is that the position represents a glaring (potential) conflict of interest with her other job. You see, Maus is a public corruption prosecut

  March 24, 2009

• Grand Jury: The Sword and the Shield

  Retired Sun-Sentinel reporter Joe Kollin sent the Pulp this serious piece of righteousness about the state grand jury. I'm going to go ahead and call for it: Grand jurors should fire State Attorney Michael Satz as their "legal advisor" and hire an attorney who wants to do the job instead.  Below is Kollin's important piece, which wasn't published by either the Miami Herald or his own former newspaper. Their loss.   ----------------------------------------------

  April 7, 2009

• Judging Ana

  Broward Judge Gardiner's alleged relationships with defense lawyers and prosecutors raises troubling questions

  April 24, 2008

• Terrible Trio

  The Wasserstrom conviction should have at least a few pols shaking in fear — but, hey, this is Broward

  October 4, 2007

• Suddenly, Justice?

  It's never too late to clean up Broward County.

  November 16, 2006

• Letters for October 12-18, 2006

  October 12, 2006

• A Politician Weeps

  Confronted with evidence of influence peddling, a school board member tearfully claims she'll quit her job.

  October 5, 2006

• City Bites Dog

  August 24, 2006

• A Work of Art

  Michael Satz's office clears Ilene Lieberman. Some might call it a travesty, but we call it transcendence.

  May 19, 2005

• Prostrate Loyalty

  My President, Right or Wrong

  January 27, 2005

• Justice Revised

  A new court ruling will make it harder to sit on corruption cases

  May 20, 2004

• Best Scandal

  International Swimming Hall of Fame

  May 15, 2003

• Burn, Oliphant, Burn

  Listen up, lady; your attackers know whereof they speak

  February 13, 2003

• Corruption and Nothingness

  Are they crimes or simply matters for philosophical discourse? Our state attorney wrestles with the question.

  January 23, 2003

• Who Is Ari Porth? And Why?*

  -- How do we get all these shameless, grandstanding state reps? Adam Hasner, Nan Rich, it just gets so tiresome. Now listen to this from Rep. Ari Porth, a Democrat from Coral Springs: "I'm ashamed that my county has the unenviable distinction of being the pill-mill capital of the United States. We have the chance to stop the explosive growth of these clinics, to stop these clinics from festering, to send these sleazy, bottom-feeding operators of these death centers back to K

  May 1, 2009

• Morning Juice: Room for One More Forked Tongue in Broward

  ​The Broward School District admits it's overbuilt classrooms, but oops! It overbuilt in the wrong areas. So some are jam-packed while others are desolated. And yet as the Sun-Sentinel's Kathy Bushouse reports, the state isn't eager to help the district go on another building binge. Maybe if it's on a ballot, Broward taxpayers will be more generous? Not Pulp's Bob Norman, who writes, "Any voter who would authorize this deadbeat and arrogant board any more of its money would have to either be i

  August 21, 2009

• 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 rates will help to illustrate. [Palm Beach Post]A love triangle soap opera in the Pembroke Pines Police Department, where Capt. Dan Rakofsky allegedly sent nude photos of a woman he had an affair with wh

  November 6, 2009