Well, I’m back in earnest now. Didn’t disclose the fact, but I was supposedly off work the past two weeks over the holidays. I was out of town for several days and sort of out of pocket but tried to keep the posts coming at a steady trickle, and you…

Jailed Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein owes nightclub owner Mike Kent $1.4 million on a mortgage on one of two side-by-side waterfront Rhode Island homes Rothstein purchased from him during the past few years. You might think Kent would have to stand in line like so many others who are demanding…

Broward County Judge John “Jay” Hurley was married Sunday at the Riverside Hotel to a courthouse cafeteria worker named Maylin Romero. U.S. Sen. George LeMieux was reportedly there in attendance. Hurley’s friend and appointer, Gov. Charlie Crist, apparently couldn’t make it, though. You may not have heard about the wedding,…

I mentioned earlier that I had spoken to someone who was close to Scott Rothstein for several months ending in the middle of this year. That’s all I can say about the identity of the source, who I’ll call Pat, but following are some of the more interesting points of…

Just in case you were tired of that blurry Bentley auto crash photograph, here’s one of Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley cozying up with Kim and Scott Rothstein at the Humane Society’s Harley Dog Days fundraiser on April 25 at the Coral Ridge Country Club. (Thanks to the person…

I spoke with attorney Bill Scherer, who is representing about $100 million in alleged Rothstein Ponzi losses, and asked him where he thought Rothstein’s stolen money had gone. ​”It think it’s mostly in the clawbacks,” he told me. Clawbacks. You’re going to hear a lot about clawbacks in the coming months. Investopedia defines the…

UPDATED: [Since this was published, Bob Scandiffio told his story and it greatly contradicts the story that Scott Rothstein was telling about him. Scandiffio’s story also helps to make sense of why Rothstein appears to have fabricated the story. To read Scandiffio’s story, click here.] Scott Rothstein decided he was going to…

Obviously a slow day, but there are always the small outrages. Like the fact that the Sun-Sentinel named the federal corruption probe in Broward County that nabbed Joe Eggelletion and Beverly Gallagher and has several other politicians trembling the eighth-biggest story of the year. Yes, the stories were supposedly placed…

​One strange name that has popped up in this thing is Menachem “Mel” Lifshitz. He’s a former lawyer who was named in the Scherer lawsuit as having been present at the emergency meeting of investors at the Banyon headquarters in Fort Lauderdale on November 1, when it first became clear…

Someone recently said that the least I could do is delve into questions about the missing Rothstein money and theorize about where it wound up. So here I go. First off, how much money is there? Bill Scherer said he was privy to the fact that about $250 million exited Scott…

Yes, it’s real, and I have a sneaking suspicion that Roger Stone has a hand in it. Click here for the “Roll With Rothstein” website. And somebody said this thing jumped the shark this morning. Boy, that guy must feel like an idiot now…

Question from a commenter: Is there was a connection between Scott Rothstein and Tiger Woods. Answer from the Pulp: Of course there is. It comes in the form of Michelle Braun, a notorious “madam” who once supplied Hollywood (the one in California) and South Florida with a bevy of beautiful, high-priced prostitutes from her base in Boca Raton…

  Here’s the latest in potentially explosive photographs: It shows Scott Rothstein arm-in-arm with Sheriff Al Lamberti. At the far right is Undersheriff Tom Wheeler, the fellow installed in the position by his former frat brother, Gov. Charlie Crist. The youth on Rothstein’s right isn’t identified, nor is the man…

When Summer saw Kim Wendell working at a nightclub in the Bellagio in Las Vegas in 2004, she couldn’t believe the change. When she had last seen her in Fort Lauderdale more than a year before, Summer said Wendell was bleach-blond with long hair extensions, wore blue contact lenses, weighed…

I’ll be finishing the Kim Wendell series soon, but this morning I want to hit one important point about Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley.  In his recent Miami Herald interview, Adderley claimed a friendship with cigar man Moe Sohail, the Pakistani national who was a key member of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein’s…

Before Kim Wendell became the girlfriend of her wealthy and well-connected love interest, he hired her to bartend at his parties, which led Wendell to meet more and more of South Florida’s richest — and sometimes raunchiest — people. She also tended bar at the Blue Martini, a place notorious…

Long before Kimberly Wendell married Scott Rothstein and became the princess of Fort Lauderdale, she was just another young and beautiful South Florida girl trying to get by. And she wasn’t doing very well at it. Back in 2002, three years before, Wendell wasn’t just broke; she was deep in debt, getting hounded by…

Here’s Scott Rothstein with John McCain (and yes, that’s state Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff on the right) at a fundraiser at Rothstein’s home. That’s Todd Richardson on Bogdanoff’s right, it’s RRA attorney Steve Lippman in the background between Rothstein and McCain, and on the left is RRA lawyer Harold Bofshever.   Oh, and…

Developers Bruce and Shawn Chait were charged last week with bribing former Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion with $25,000, including a golf club membership, in exchange for his vote to support their unpopular housing development on two golf courses in Tamarac. The Chaits, who own Prestige Homes, also figure deeply into the investigation of…

If George Levin was Rothstein’s whale, then Ted Morse was his chief enabler. McDermott says the person responsible for that ultimately disastrous relationship was RRA attorney Les Stracher, who was Morse’s lawyer prior to Rothstein’s taking over and had a longstanding relationship with the family. “Les Stracher fed Ted Morse…

Anthony McDermott went to Bova Prime with the goal of punching Scott Rothstein in the face on a special day. “It was St. Patrick’s Day,” McDermott told me today. “For an Irish kid from Southie, that’s a good day to get into a brawl.” McDermott said there were a lot of reasons…

Remember how Charlie Crist emerged on the “short list” to become John McCain’s running mate last year? Well, the behind-the-scenes money that helped make that happen came from, yes, of course, Scott Rothstein. Those were the Ponzi schemer’s favorite candidates, after all. Rothstein, you understand, put huge amounts of his stolen money into…