Subject: U.S. Department of Justice

• Hastert Points to St. Pete Times

  October 2, 2006

• Deerfield Editor Resigns

  June 5, 2006

• DeGroot On King Ken

  August 2, 2007

• Morning Juice: DCF Protects Children with Racists, State Beats Legion of Doom for Most Corrupt

  The children of DCF.DCF Managers Use Racial Slurs That You'll Need to Look UpEmployees at the Department of Children and Families office in Tallahassee apparently like to throw around racial insults. An internal DCF audit found that six employees, even supervisors, were throwing around words, like "the word 'N  - - - -,' Niggardly, Niggets or Niggy's during a managers' meeting held in May 2008." We can all learn a lot from this DCF audit, including that Nigget is not, as I thought, a mini c

  December 22, 2008

• Cyber Stakes

  July 9, 1998

• To Protect and Flatten

  October 15, 1998

• Undercurrents

  February 24, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  May 3, 2001

• Admitting Terror, Part 3

  November 1, 2001

• Black Sunday

  January 24, 2002

• Best Working Man's Agitator

  May 16, 2002

• Onstage Culeros

  June 14, 2007

• Boca-Based Office Depot: More Screwed Up Than Dunder Mifflin?

  Office supplies giant Office Depot, based in Boca Raton, is the latest major American corporation to get itself in trouble with federal regulators. The company, which claims $14.8 billion in annual sales, is being investigated for improper contact with business analysts. Specifically, representatives of the company allegedly phoned analysts, seeking to manage expectations in advance of a disappointing earnings report, in hopes of heading off a stock drop. It didn't work -- and even if it had, it

  February 26, 2009

• Broward Man at Center of National Scandal in Philippines

  Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada would have been "pleased" by the murder of a journalist, an affidavit taken in Florida claims.This February, 47-year-old Cezar Mancao went to the Philippine consulate in Fort Lauderdale to give a sworn affidavit. When the contents of his testimony were leaked this month to a Philippine news outlet, no one here seemed to notice, and nothing about it was reported in the U.S. press. His allegations, however, sent shock waves throughout the Philippines.

  March 30, 2009

• Janet Napolitano's Sorry Service Makes Her a Terrible Choice as Homeland Security Secretary

  November 27, 2008

• With a Bullet

  August 21, 2008

• Rx for Plunder

  Looting the Treasury was never so easy

  September 20, 2007

• Welcome to Hooters

  Jimmy Buffett inexplicably leads a kid movie to the big screen.

  May 4, 2006

• Blood for Oil

  December 8, 2005

• Artbeat

  Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

  July 28, 2005

• Artbeat

  Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

  July 21, 2005

• Avast, Ye Pirates

  Get yourself -- and Congress -- ready for the next wave of absurd anti-file-sharing tactics

  December 9, 2004

• To Re-Catch a Thief

  December 2, 2004

• I SCREAM!!!

  June 10, 2004

• Buyout Revisited

  Yoo-hoo! Investigators! Check the president's pockets!

  October 16, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 31, 2003

• Forgotten 9/11

  The INS screwed up when it let in the September massacre's mastermind

  September 11, 2003

• Barred For Life

  The process for restoring the civil rights of felons in Florida works perfectly -- if not restoring their rights is the goal

  December 26, 2002

• Indian War

  A Hollywood man has spent the past decade trying to pry open the Seminoles' accounting books -- without much success

  December 5, 2002

• Felon Follies

  A problem that marred the 2000 ballot is back

  October 31, 2002

• Happy on the Outside

  Everglades National Park's subsurface tsuris

  January 2, 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

  September 12, 2002

• The Campaign that Wasn't

  An insider in the governor's race tells his tawdry tale

  September 5, 2002

• Do the Math

  The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

  August 8, 2002

• A Family Affair

  Wackenhut Corp.'s days as a South Florida firm are over, but its legacy lives on

  May 23, 2002

• The Perils of Marilise

  A child of a Tonton Macoute family escaped political violence in Haiti - and then her real troubles began

  December 20, 2001

• Admitting Terror, Part 4

  The INS's Mary Schneider warned of the terrorist threat, but nobody listened

  November 8, 2001

• Waiting For Otto

  Why would a man sullied by Iran-contra and illegal propaganda campaigns be a Bush nominee? Good question.

  November 8, 2001

• Admitting Terror

  The immigration service's own describe how America failed to protect its borders from the September 11 terrorists

  October 18, 2001

• Elián Plus One

  Conflict of interest. Anti-Cuban high jinks. A cover-up. It must be the Florida INS.

  April 19, 2001

• [Updated] Payday: Bernie Gets a Buck Fifty

  U.S. Department of JusticeCareful trying your Ponzi act with inmates' cigarettes, Bern.It's the day that Bernard Madoff gets to pay for his $65 billion sin. If you had money to invest -- and here I'm assuming you're not one of his victims -- then would you invest it on a bet that today the convicted swindler gets a prison sentence of just 12 years as his lawyers have requested? Or would you guess it's closer to the 150 years that prosecutors are asking for?Barring a sudden, 11th-hour willingness

  June 29, 2009

• Plantation Accountant, Firm Barred From Filing Taxes for Clients

  In a deal that will have to come with a career change, Carole Exantus of Plantation accepted a permanent injunction against filing tax returns on clients' behalf in order to settle a case with U.S. Justice Department attorneys who had sued her for fraud. From the release:The court found that [Exantus'] J's Corporation repeatedly prepared federal income tax returns claiming false tax credits and deductions that it knew would result in understating customers' tax liabilities. Exantus agreed to the

  July 20, 2009

• 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 world's peace-loving champions of neutrality. The case against UBS in Fort Lauderdale's federal court has revealed a dark side of Switzerland.The national bank has been exposed for its past efforts to

  July 30, 2009

• Morning Juice: Mystery in Miramar; Hurricane's Northern Path May Kill Bill

  ​So far, the morning brings no new information on what, exactly, happened yesterday in Miramar -- just that whatever it was was horrible. WPLG has some video with interviews from neighbors. In the meantime, here's what else is happening in South Florida:The U.S. Justice Department has indicted Albert Gonzalez -- not to be confused with Alberto Gonzales, Bush-era U.S. attorney general, who fired all those federal prosecutors for political reasons. No, this one is the alleged Bernard Madoff of i

  August 18, 2009

• 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 diplomats. USA Today reports that 4,450 cheaters will be named by the bank and targeted for criminal prosecution.

  August 20, 2009

• Fugitive From Jersey Lived Under Assumed Identity in Delray Beach

  Flickr: spinadelic​For those of you who thought you knew James Present, you didn't. You knew Ronald Hippolyte, the mastermind of an identity theft ring who was to serve a 4-and-a-half-year a prison sentence in New Jersey. He bolted in 2005 and has been living in Delray Beach as James Present since the long arm of the law plucked him from there in July.From the Star-Ledger:The 31-year-old Haitian citizen was first arrested in 2003 along with his live-in girlfriend, Marie Louissaint, who worked

  September 18, 2009

• With Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore Sells the Same Old Shtick

  October 1, 2009

• Feds' New Stance on Medical Marijuana May Be Boon for West Palm-Based "GreenCard"

  Flickr: captainandapants​Now that the U.S. Justice Department has committed -- at least rhetorically -- to an "efficient and rational use" of its enforcement powers against marijuana users and sellers, there's money to be made. Maybe Commerce Online of West Palm Beach will emerge as a kind-of mountain cabbage Mastercard.The company, whose website is here, this week announced the launch of its GreenCard, a debit card through which people with permission to use marijuana for medical purposes can

  October 22, 2009

• President Obama Fails to Go After Those Responsible for Financial Meltdown

  October 29, 2009

• Morning Juice: Bernie's Boats Go to Auction; Dalia's in Deep

  ​Let's check out local news on this Tuesday:Which boat of Bernie's floats your boat? The whole "flotilla" is to be auctioned today in Fort Lauderdale, with proceeds going toward a good cause: the scores of cheated investors. But mostly, attorney fees. [Sun-Sentinel]Dalia Dippolito, the Boynton Beach woman who's accused of plotting to kill her husband, is said to have hatched two murderous schemes before the third one, which involved hiring an undercover officer to do the deed. [Palm Beach Post

  November 17, 2009