Steve Geller

The Toll Of Public Service

You know those before and after photos of presidents showing how much they aged during their years running the country? Here's one example: ​iThat's a big difference but it's nothing compared to what spending time in the Florida Legislature does to a politician. Inside, see the photograp ... 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 >>

Rise of Anonymous: Former Tallahassee Staffer Tells of Lying, Cheating, and Stealing at Capitol

Coming up on April 15 is a local conference on political corruption that will have among its speakers dubious former state Sen. Steve Geller, Broward County Judge Ken "Mr. JenJen" Gottlieb, and lobbyist/fake ethics champion Norm Ostrau.With folks like that on board, there should be no shortage of co ... More >>

Steve Geller: Will He Get His Fingers in Sunrise?

Daily BreezeWild art: Millions of dead sardines turned up in Redondo Beach today. Suspected cause: Winds drove them into small areas where they basically smothered each other. ​Who wants to be the new Sunrise city attorney?Well, there are a few interesting applicants among the dozen or so in the r ... More >>

Republican Commissioner Putting Criminals Back on the Streets!

Chip LaMarca is the only Republican on the Broward County Board of Commissioners, so you might think he would be the last one to spearhead a move to literally unleash known violent criminals back on our neighborhoods. But LaMarca was behind the undoing of the doggy death pe ... More >>

Broward Dems Say Change Is Coming

Let's start with some fun. Last night's Heat game against the New Jersey Nets provided a real glimpse of the kind of high-flying show this team is going to be. Dunks galore. But none was better than the one above. While the Nets watch helplessly, the towel boy can't repress his ... More >>

Two Latest Animal-Related Problems = One Perfect Solution

​Black bears are invading the suburbs. And Broward Sheriff's Office is trying to find places for the five horses they just laid off. Fate can't make it much more obvious than this: Black bear horse racing must happen in South Florida.I know this probably isn't legal, but now that Florida's greate ... More >>

Sue Gunzburger on Criticism From Fellow Commissioners: I'm Not Running for Miss Congeniality

Photo: C. StilesSue Gunzburger caught flack from her commission colleagues last night but has no regrets.​In an email that Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger sent to campaign supporters late last night, she cheered the passage of an ethics reform package at a meeting just hours before and ... More >>

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

Honey, I Rigged the Vote (Part II): With Wasserman-Rubin Charged, Time to Revisit the Juice's Corrupt Couples Watch-List

​Way back in October, this blog used the Tom Ridge terrorist threat chart to rank Broward County's power couples according to the threat they posed to the integrity of local government. The duo of Richard Rubin and Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin posed an "elevated" risk of committing corruptio ... More >>

Morning Juice: Geller Denies Role in Gunzburger Investigation; Gallagher Off to Prison

​A look at what's happening in South Florida this Friday morning:On the same day that Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger accused her opponent, Steve Geller, of a dirty campaign trick, Geller admitted having "a number of conversations" with Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, whose office is inves ... More >>

Sue Gunzburger Throws Down Gauntlet: "What Are You Waiting for Sheriff Lamberti?"

Photo: Gunzburger campaignGunzburger (in blue) says, "Bring it on!"​Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger is taking the fight to Broward Sheriff's Office. A day after a press conference in which she accused Sheriff Al Lamberti of a political motive in launching a corruption investigation agai ... More >>

Morning Juice: Mortgage Fraud Ring Busts Cops, Lawyer; Gunzburger Calls Investigation a "Dirty Trick"

​Thursday's local news roundup:Three officers with the Plantation Police Department have been arrested, along with a Lauderhill cop and an FBI agent, based on an undercover investigation that they conspired in a mortgage fraud scheme. Also arrested was Steven Stoll, who with his wife, Rebecca, is ... More >>

Still No Takers on Crist Uncloseted Meme; Pundits Say Charlie Doesn't Need "Game-Changer"

​In a U.S. Senate race that has already had so many spectacular plot twists, can anyone blame me for hoping that the biggest shocker is yet to come? But for the Crist-Comes-Outta-the-Closet meme to take hold, it will take some brave pundits besides me to give him a helpful nudge.So with that in mi ... More >>

Morning Juice: Nova Professor Murdered in Home; FBI Agent Shows Salesman the Money

​The news in Broward and Palm Beach:A Nova Southeastern University science professor is believed to be dead following a home invasion early Tuesday morning. Police say a man and his wife were tied up by an intruder, who shot the man -- believed to be homeowner Joseph Morrissey -- and then set the ... More >>

Sarcastic Sue Snaps At Constituents

Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger paints herself as an up-front ethics guru, but when a well-known activist asked her to incorporate federal standards into our corrupt county's code, all Gunzburger showed was her backside. Gunzburger (left) with Ilene Lieber ... More >>

Sun-Sentinel Insults Joel Steinger

In the lead story on this morning's local section, the Sun-Sentinel took off its little white glove and slapped Mutual Benefits' mastermind in the face with it. The newspaper reports that the Ponzi scheme called Mutual Benefits poured $1.4 million into political coffers to help keep state ... More >>

The Line To Lansky: Steinger Linked To Ben-Veniste, Jewish Mafia

We know that Joel Steinger, the mastermind of the billion-dollar Mutual Benefits Ponzi scheme with ties to several Broward politicians (Steve Geller, Stacy Ritter, Ellyn Bogdanoff, and others), had connections to Colombian drug cartels. Now we have evidence of another intriguing ... More >>

Mutual Benefits czar Joel Steinger manipulated local politicians and the state legislature. But divorce court too?

Some Mutual Benefits Boys Pose In Colombia

For those of you following the Mutual Benefits story, here's a photograph to bring some visuals to the table. It was taken in Bogota, Colombia, in 2001, as Mutual Benefits was trying to round up South American investors in what feds say was a billion dollar Ponzi scheme. The ra ... More >>

Mutual Benefits used dirty money to pay its legal defense

The Broward County Commission Is A Nest Of Whores

I've decided to go with more blunt and truthful headlines ... can you tell? The inspiration for this one is the passing of lobbyist Ron Book's initiative to bring more money to the county's bail bondsmen at the expense of our tax dollars. Book, who represents the bondsmen, has been w ... More >>

Mutual Benefits may have collapsed, but the fallout for South Florida politicians is still coming.

Stacy Ritter Voted For Company That Renovated Her Home

While serving as a state representative in 2004, Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter voted on legislation that benefited the fraudulent company that paid her husband $20,000 a month, renovated her Parkland home at a cost of $100,000, docked her family's boat, and provided ... More >>

The People Person

State Rep. Ellen Bogdanoff puts you ahead of politics — if you're the right kind of person

Letters for September 4-10, 2008

Vote Counting Stopped In Broward

Letters for June 12-18, 2008

Sorry, Charlie (Crist) ...

Letter for April 24-30, 2008

Wait, Let Me Change Hats

Geller does costly deals but shuns "L" word

For Love of God

On her radio show and in her personal life, Beverly Kennedy spreads her gospel across Broward

Three Interesting Developments

Deerfield: Seminoles Owe For Traffic Woes

In The News

Wheel of Misfortune

Crist needs to find the stones to deal with the Seminoles

How´s Your Slime IQ?

Take the Broward Corruption Quiz

One-Arm Job

And now, on tape, from the capital of Mardi Gras Gaming, it's Sunday Morning Live!

Heartbreak Hotel

It's the end of an era on Hollywood Beach, where small, cheap motels are all that stand in the way of another playground for the wealthy

Letters for January 18-24, 2007

The Tightest Slots in Town

Aren't you happy you get to shovel money into the shiny new machines?

Sentinel, In Roundabout Way, Sucks

You Scratch My Back, I Write You a Bill

Gottlieb and Geller reward Hollywood for its generosity with a big, fat payback.

Letters for February 24-March 2, 2005

Geller's Giveaway

Hollywood peddles prime downtown land for a steal with the help of a developer-loving senator

Invasion of the Cheap Seats

Ever since advertisers began plastering their names on bus benches, Broward County has been overrun by unwanted places to sit

Trinchi Warfare

Despite ailing health, a dying constituency, and a shaky season for Democrats, politico Trinchi Trinchitella appears undiminished

Undercurrents