So former Rothstein law partner Russell Adler — the A in RRA — is going to trial to fight an attempt by bankruptcy attorneys to recoup $1.2 million in gains Adler received from his old firm. The brunt of the clawback stems from hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid “loans” Rothstein…
Less than three months before she died after a two-year battle with cancer, Fort Lauderdale attorney Caryl Boies was served with divorce papers from her husband of more than seven years, Broward Sheriff’s Capt. Richard Reilly, an action has set the stage for some legal wrangling over part of the considerable Boies estate…
Don’t trust Pembroke Pines; don’t ever trust Pembroke Pines. It’s run by a private contractor, City Manager Charles F. Dodge, in a secretive and dubious way. The city manager is aptly named — Charlie dodges close scrutiny while he cozies up to the vendors in the town and makes multimillion-dollar decisions that have…
As the football playoffs are about to start and you can feel the inevitable commercially hyped push toward the Super Bowl, here’s a thought to ponder: Not only that but have an all-access credential that gets you everywhere in the stadium, including the locker rooms? Well, when the game is in South…
When ineffective governments lack the strength or wherewithal to act, there is only one thing left for them to do. They issue reports. I can’t say that the statewide grand jury that has been investigating the Broward County School Board’s construction department will fail to make cases, but the fact that it issued a…
Welcome to the first post of 2011, and Happy New Year. Let’s hope it’s a great one for all the dedicated Pulpsters — and casual readers too, of course. Thought I’d get in/ a post about the homicide of graffiti and tattoo artist Jonathan “Ynot” Corso, who was run over twice…
We all know that three Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies were arrested earlier this month and charged with supplying contraband to inmates and having sex with them. dentity of the prisoner whom one of the female jail guards was romancing and supplying with contraband. Kiara Monet Walker, a 21-year-old deputy, was consorting with Dietrick Johnson, according…
[Note on faulty comments after the jump — sorry about that.] You know something is wrong when an elected official is a close “friend” of a lobbyist or contractor on whom he or she routinely votes. Lobbyists and vendors want nothing more than to forge close relationships with government leaders so they can make sure to…
The media is real big on year-end lists of the biggest stories. I’ve already done a post relating that the biggest story this year in Broward County was corruption and the arrests it has brought so far. But there is one day this year that stands out above all the rest. It had…
You’ve probably read about the construction of Broward School Board member Jennifer Gottlieb’s pet school in Hollywood that wasn’t needed at all but still cost taxpayers some $25 million and ruined a neighborhood park. The school, Beachside Montessori Village (which is neither on the beach nor a village), was put in a…
When elected officials are charged with crimes, the governor suspends them from office until the case is resolved. But if a member of a key government committee or other government appointees get hit with, say, felony bribery charges, there is no such protocol to have them removed. That job, unfortunately, is left to the vagaries of local politicians…
If you thought Florida International University’s amazing bowl win last night had wiped away the seeming curse that the sports gods have placed on the school, think again. Trumping that news now is the arrest of FIU baseball hitting-streak phenom Garrett Wittels on rape charges in the Bahamas. The Miami Herald reports that Wittels…
Norma Goldstein just hung up on me. She said hello and I had barely got my name out when, bam, the call with Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter’s 79-year-old district aide went dead. I was going to ask Goldstein to confirm from sources that she was being swept into the State Attorney’s Office…
UPDATED: The SAO just announced that it has filed charges in the case of graffiti artist Jonathan “Ynot” Corso. The release: The Broward State Attorney’s Office has charged Reynaldo Rodriguez, 32, with vehicular homicide in the July early-morning death of a man in the parking lot of a Davie nightclub. Davie police…
OK, so it’s different. For those of you concerned about IP addresses, they are now in the hands of Disqus, not New Times. The only time I ever used them was to try to smack down trolls anyway. Disqus also eradicates all spam, which makes Pulp’s life easier. Obviously the new system brings avatars…
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 penalty ordinance that was put into place by…
When we stop to remember Michael Garretson, we should never forget that the late School Board construction chief led the spending of a billion dollars a year in what was one of the largest and most damaging school building booms in Broward County history. For those who wanted accountability out of the School Board, Garretson, who left the…
You know, every criminal investigation has its side notes apart from the nuts and bolts of the case, the stuff that fills in the dialogue when the story needs to be told. The Stephanie Kraft School Board corruption case has some of that. We know about the late School Board…
So the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrested three jail guards on charges they helped bring contraband into the jail. The mugs of the correction officers were published at the top of the Local section of the Sun-Sentinel with the words: “Inquiry focuses on contraband and sex at a county jail.” One…
In this morning’s post, I published a copy of a Stacy Ritter campaign check that the Florida Elections Commission believed was signed by the candidate herself. But it wasn’t. It was almost surely signed by her lobbyist husband, Russell Klenet. In fact, it looks like Klenet, whose name was listed on the campaign banking account,…
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