Working on a minibombshell that cuts to the heart of Broward Town — also an interesting Rothstein political scoop. Reporting it now, so in lieu of actual news, I thought I’d share the latest gaffe from South Florida’s own Rick Sanchez. This time, he reads an embarrassing bit from the TelePrompTer, reading “ad…
What a thief. Fort Lauderdale attorney Bill Scherer, who is suing numerous alleged Scott Rothstein co-conspirators in civil court, said today that after examining bankruptcy documents, his firm has determined that Rothstein stole a grand total of $168 million out of what was a $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme. Also today…
— In the ongoing crazy dispute between batshit tea baggers and wingnut “tax activist” Doug Guetzloe, a new lawsuit has been filed that features the disappeared Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein. In the suit, Guetzloe claims the Republican Party used Rothstein and Rothstein’s money to try to discredit him and his…
You know, I’m really getting sick and tired of JAABlog getting all the credit for rude and insulting comments about judges around here. It happened today at the Tower Club, where Mike Mayo moderated one of their hoity-toity luncheons. From the Sun-Sentinel coverage: ————————— Contributing to the tumult, [Attorney and former state Sen…
— The Broward County School Board, after squandering hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars on an unnecessary school construction frenzy that profited its favorite lobbyists and campaign consultants, is now broke. So it’s going to squeeze more money from taxpayers, of course. — While Broward’s inspector general gets caught up in Tallahassee, Palm Beach County just…
hey declared Tony Villegas mentally incompetent to stand trial for the murder of Melissa Britt Lewis. I haven’t said much about it because I’m not sure I could add anything important to the discussion. In a nutshell, I don’t like it. Guilty or innocent (and the evidence, including DNA, points to the former), crazy or…
Ever since the law firm Cole, Scott & Kissane hired scandalized Judge Ana Gardiner to work in its Plantation office, a lot of people, including myself, have wondered, “What were they thinking?” Here was a judge accused by the Judicial Qualifications Commission not only of improper ex parte communication with a…
Slow news day, so I’m going to keep with one of the themes of the day and start with this video (picked up on the Juice) showing state Sen. Mike Bennett viewing “porn” on his computer during the debate for that awful abortion bill the horrible people in Tallahassee recently passed. Here…
The Broward County Courthouse muckraker JAABlog — which has helped to expose corruption in our judiciary time and again — is under attack yet again, this time for allegedly “denigrating women.” Local attorney Barbara Heyer, who happens to be the wife of Broward County Judge Marc Gold, sent an oh-so-serious letter…
The Gulf oil leak is playing out right now like a disaster movie in desperate need of a hero. The oil is gushing from the deep-water well into the Gulf right now at an estimated clip of 145 gallons a minute — or about 2.7 million gallons since the oil rig explosion…
A reader in the post below had an interesting observation about the Sun-Sentinel’s posting of a photo gallery of female prison inmates who want “letters.” “If this is representative of popular culture here, no wonder we have such corruption,” the reader wrote in a comment. Well, I checked out the gallery…
Public Defender Howard Finkelstein said it was wrong and would foster anti-Semitism. Lawyer Alvin Entin recently railed against it on JAABlog, even going so far as bringing the Holocaust into the argument. “My concern is that this targeting is based on a belief that a Jewish surname by itself is a…
Yesterday’s deposition of former Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler general counsel David Boden was by all accounts a real weepfest. Boden, who worked with Scott Rothstein directly on the Ponzi scheme investments and made $500,000 a year at RRA, was “tearful,” according to the Sun-Sentinel, while the Daily Business Review noted that…
Before it’s all said and done more than 4 million gallons of oil will likely spill into the Gulf of Mexico thanks to the BP oil rig disaster that also presumably cost 11 workers their lives. It’s making its way to shore in Mississippi and Louisiana and could destroy one…
The Broward County School Board is being ravaged by budget cuts and layoffs. A total of 461 noninstructional employees have already lost their jobs and teachers are supposed to be getting their pink slips today. The people who really need to be fired — if not thrown into the stockade –…
Above is the video of the arrest of one Brennan Hamilton — which shows once again that you can never underestimate the pettiness and downright stupidity of some members (not most, mind you) of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. You’ll see in the video that the 26-year-old Hamilton walks up calmly to a Fort Lauderdale…
A couple of newsflashes: — We all know that the Broward Sheriff’s Office is expected to start handing out pink slips as Sheriff Al Lamberti tries to cut $60 million from the budget, but a recent letter from the agency to the jail union gives some precise numbers. Needless to say the…
So finally Debra Villegas, who has been cooperating with the feds for months, is officially charged with money laundering. She’s the first of many. Word from sources close to the case is that 20 or more of Rothstein’s associates will be charged before all’s said and done, several of them from…
A key player in the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme was featured in a Philadelphia newspaper over the weekend. In the article, the player talks of how the debacle has “forced him out of the investment-advisory business and left him stunned at how things fell apart.” Here’s the lead quote from the player: “I rip…
Let’s go back to 2002. It was the year that Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Monster’s Ball, the New England Patriots won their first Super Bowl, and then-state Rep. Roger Wishner (and current Sunrise mayor) criticized the North Broward Hospital District and got on the wrong side of then-NBHD general…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department seems pretty sure about its strange ruling in the bloody death of former Miami socialite Bernice Novack in today’s Miami Herald. On one of the most perplexing mysteries this town has ever seen, FLPD spokesman Francis Sousa gave us a rendition of, “Move along, nothing to see here.” Bull…
Kim Rothstein has left the building. Well, almost. Rothstein attorney Scott Saidel told me that the bride of the Ponzi schemer has moved everything out of their palatial estate off Las Olas Boulevard. He said she is living with family and friends now, though she might spend one night a week in what she described a…
