This is the video from the school board shooting in Panama City. It’s chilling to the bone, but one question stands out: Why didn’t security guards knock this homicidal idiot off before he got off so many shots? (Gimmesamore in the comments says the guard is a hero and for the record, I…
I would say that Ilene Lieberman has left the building, but she never came in. Lieberman missed today’s Broward County Commission meeting again this week. She also missed last week’s meeting. And one before that. She doesn’t go to much of anything anymore and when she does, she’s quiet as…
Okay, so you’re tired of hearing about the Stacy Ritter and Russ Klenet campaign fund, but I just can’t quit it yet. Revelations keep coming to the surface. We already have the extravagant dinners, the family phone bills, the dinner in Manchester, Vermont, the bedsheets and pillows from Target, the nonexistent…
Did Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter use her campaign fund to help her gain sway with the Obama Administration in the hopes of getting a plum job in the White House? People forget that once upon a time it was supposedly a done deal that Mrs. Ritter was headed to Washington. And…
Some of the more suspicious expenses Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter and her lobbyist husband Russ Klenet ran up during her controversial 2008 campaign involve “unknown” dinner receipts. There are a few receipts that Ritter turned in to the Florida Elections Commission during its investigation that you just can’t read. One…
[jump] Whatever you think of the pardon granted to Jim Morrison by outgoing Gov. Charlie Crist or of Jim Morrison himself, that indecent-exposure case against him was a sham. And what a sham it was. I remember as a young kid, several years after the fact, hearing about Morrison taking out his Mojo…
Yesterday we got the first official whiff of it when eye doctor and felonious political operative Alan Mendelsohn told a U.S. District Judge William Zloch while pleading guilty that it was Klenet who showed him how to take gifts from clients and not report them to the IRS. More important, he claimed that Klenet…
The illicit payments made to former legislator Mandy Dawson had been widely reported, but it is interesting that seedy lobbyist and political fundraiser Alan Mendelsohn, an eye doctor by trade, singled out Russell Klenet in federal court today. When Mendelsohn pleaded guilty to a federal charge of corruption today, he said that Klenet,…
Bruce and Shawn Chait paid off a who’s who of Broward County public officials to get government approvals for their controversial housing development on two golf courses in Tamarac. The father-and-son team bought since-imprisoned Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion a golf club membership and gave him cash totaling $25,000 before Eggelletion voted…
Back in 2008, Stacy Ritter was stumping hard for Barack Obama and looking for payback if he won a job in the White House. Perhaps to further both of those causes, Ritter donated $15,000 out of her own campaign account to a committee tied to the Democratic National Convention in Denver on…
If you’re wondering what kind of guy former star baseball player and recently acquitted Jim Leyritz really is, I think we now have an official answer. Leyritz, who was driving drunk in downtown Fort Lauderdale when his car struck and killed 30-year-old Fredia Veitch, yelled at New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser that…
It’s a question that keeps popping up: Is Stephanie Kraft cooperating with law enforcement? I’ve never seen anyone so disgraced try to retain such a high profile. She’s running around town, claims she’s going to beat the nails-hard case against her, and is trying to maintain a presence in schools. What…
— Tamarac Mayor Beth Talabisco, a figure in the ongoing State Attorney’s Office corruption investigation, was released from Broward General Hospital on Sunday after undergoing surgery for a serious medical condition. The Pulp wishes her a speedy recovery to good health. What impact it may or may not have on her position in Tamarac…
When disposing of all the campaign cash she and her husband didn’t spend on dinners, family phone bills, and other luxuries, Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter decided to do the Florida Democratic Party a favor: As seen above, she contributed $5,000 to party coffers. Or so it seemed. Although Ritter claimed the donation…
I’m digging into the Florida Elections Commission reports on Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter’s campaign case, and a few things quite literally don’t add up. Then again, nothing about Ritter’s campaign makes sense. It appears to have been a big-spending free-for-all. When examining the actual receipts for the roughly $15,000…
In a sworn statement with state prosecutors, late Broward Superintendent Michael Garretson gave a downright creepy description of the telltale sign of when “cunning” former School Board Member Stephanie Kraft, who is facing corruption charges, was lying. “She’s a very demanding lady, she’s very smart and very demanding but very cunning, and I don’t know how else…
More than $1,000 was spent during four shopping trips at the Fresh Market, an upscale grocer that happens to have a notably fine wine and meat selection. Curiously, the couple like to have alleged “campaign dinners” in Boca Raton in Palm Beach County. A visit to Chop’s Lobster Bar in Boca Raton ran…
Well, we already know Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter’s 2008 political campaign stealthily reimbursed thousands of dollars in lavish dinners reimbursed to herself and her lobbyist husband and an unexplained $1,600 check to AT&T. Now we know that the Florida Election Commission discovered that about $6,600 in Ritter campaign checks paid to AT&T was used in…
The hits keep coming for lobbyist Russ Klenet. As if investigations regarding his work for Mutual Benefits fraudster Joel Steinger, a State Attorney’s probe into his Broward County Commissioner wife Stacy Ritter’s involvement with dirty developers Bruce and Shawn Chait, and civil charges stemming from dubious reimbursements he received from his…
Last year, Javier Manjarres was a landscape designer who’d had a couple of “chainsaw incidents” — one of which severely gashed a leg — and was thinking that maybe fate was telling him to change occupations. That’s when Manjarres — a 37-year-old first-generation Colombian-American who lives in Fort Lauderdale — started getting serious…
Here’s what I don’t understand about the Florida Elections Commission investigation of Stacy Ritter: Why weren’t there more charges? As I reported yesterday, four of the charges against Ritter pertain to reimbursements made by her 2008 campaign to her lobbyist husband, Russ Klenet, for expensive dinners at fancy restaurants and trips to…
A recently released report from the Florida Elections Commission shows that Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter’s 2008 campaign was an utter mess, replete with bookkeeping errors, acceptance of excessive contributions from special interests, failure to report contributions and thousands of dollars in dubious “reimbursements” paid from the campaign account to…
