Following the lead of the Miami Herald (and, to a lesser extent, the Sun-Sentinel), the Palm Beach Post announced some major management changes this morning. Top Editor John Bartosek will move down to the investigations editor role and Managing Editor Bill Rose is retiring in the summer, giant developments both…
Retired Sun-Sentinel reporter Joe Kollin sent the Pulp this serious piece of righteousness about the state grand jury. I’m going to go ahead and call for it: Grand jurors should fire State Attorney Michael Satz as their “legal advisor” and hire an attorney who wants to do the job instead. Below is Kollin’s important…
Doesn’t this woman look like she’s been taken by surprise? Or perhaps that a secret has just been found out? Actually, the woman in the photo, Stacy Schultz, has been flying under the radar just fine. Schultz is the “sole proprietor” of a life settlement company called LIfe Insurance Exchange (yeah, I…
— JAABlog reports on the latest developments of the Judge Ana Gardiner saga. The evidenciary hearing to determine if Gardiner did anything wrong when she partied with then-prosecutor Howard Scheinberg during a murder trial (and allegedly spoke with him about the case) is now scheduled to happen in Judge Paul Backman’s courtroom…
This story on the underbelly of the cops-and-steroids trade can use a bit of an intro. First, Marty Hommel, the former Plantation police officer who told me about his personal use of steroids, was an open book who should be commended for his honesty. All he wanted to do was clear his…
This from Herald Publisher David “We Are Stable And Vital” Landsberg: From: Landsberg, David – Miami Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:49 PMTo: .MIA NewsroomCc: .MIA Executive CommitteeSubject: Job Posting for Herald Editorial Page EditorJob Posting for Herald Editorial Page EditorMarch 31, 2009We are starting work on filling the very…
One of the GOP’s top tax experts is under investigation for her own homestead tax exemption. The Pulp has learned that the Broward Property Appraisers Office is investigating the homestead exemption on a Fort Lauderdale home owned jointly by two Tallahassee heavyweights: Lobbyist David Ericks and star Republican budgetmeister Donna Arduin. The one-time couple bought…
State Sen. Eleanor Sobel is renting an office from the City of Hollywood. Nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is that the city is planning to spend $30,000 to renovate the office for Sobel and the lobbyists and suckers — oops, I mean constituents — who visit her. I could rant about this myself, but…
Former Plantation police officer Martin Hommel says there are cops who abuse steroids, but he insists he wasn’t one of them. The 54-year-old Hommel readily admits that, while working as a cop in 2007, he injected anabolic steroids, specifically a synthetic form of testosterone called nandrolone. But he says he…
Former state Sen. Steven Geller is currently running for a seat on the Broward County Commission against incumbent Sue Gunzburger. I just want to tell him to save his breath. He should quietly exit local politics stage left. Now. If he doesn’t, the county should file a restraining order to keep…
There’s a strange link on the Miami Herald home page today. It’s the top left-hand corner of the site and says, “Herald Publisher: Herald remains strong, stable, and vital.” It leads to a large photograph of Publisher David Landsberg with a “message to Miami Herald readers and advertisers.” Some excerpts: I…
In yet another symbol of the fall of American newspapers, the man billed as the “only U.S. reporter based in Havana” is leaving Cuba. Sun-Sentinel Executive Editor Earl Maucker told staff during a meeting on Friday that the newspaper is shutting down its bureau in Havana and bringing reporter Ray Sanchez, whose…
Ralph De La Cruz, who had a column with the Sun-Sentinel for more than seven years, wasn’t given the opportunity to write a farewell (his final column, which was about farting, actually ran this weekend). So he made his goodbye here in a post below. Some of it: I find it embarrassing that we do…
Davie Police Officer Stephen Kenneth Olenchak stands accused of drugging his wife and a teenaged girl so he could then rape the girl while his wife was zonked out. The happens after the they all watched Big Love on HBO (this is impossible to make up). It’s sort of like he was directing his own…
Judge Larry Seidlin is setting up his defense for the elderly abuse complaint lodged against him — and it appears to be another variation of “I’m the victim here.” Seidlin’s wife, Belinda, spoke with a staffer at TMZ.com after the national gossip website followed the Pulp report below, saying that “she and Larry…
Mostly as a comment cleaner, I’m starting this new post. So far the news from the Sun-Sentinel has been a bit less awful than anticipated. There are less than ten confirmed layoffs and they don’t seem to have come very heavily in the area that everyone seemed to expect (copy editors and page…
In a disturbing development in the Larry Seidlin saga, the judge now faces a complaint of elderly abuse from the niece and caretaker of the elderly woman he has already been accused of financially exploiting.Corine Kasler, who is in town visiting 83-year-old Barbara Kasler, says she filed a complaint against Seidlin on…
The cover-up was the crime in Plantation last week. Police Chief Larry Massey blatantly broke state open-record statutes, commonly called the Sunshine Law, which is essential in keeping an eye on what our public officials are doing. And Plantation City Attorney Donald Lunny Jr.. sat by and apparently approved. The…
An anonymous source supplied three names that I won’t repeat until further word, but they are all three very high-profile journalists. The faces of the newspaper, in fact. I’m afraid tomorrow is going to be Black Thursday. UPDATED: Okay, this is now from multiple sources (including a comment below): Yesterday…
The Sun-Sentinel’s report on Charlie Crist’s air travel (along with a parallel investigation by the Times/Herald Tally bureau) supports my image of the man who is our governor. He’s a politician who wants to hobnob with the elite while trying keep his own hands clean. A man who believes his destiny is to be a benevolent king. A…
The Sun-Sentinel’s lead story was reprinted from the Miami Herald and written by a staff reporter who was recently announced to have been laid off and won’t be working for either newspaper. And it’s about Miss Cleo coming out as a lesbian. A story broken by the Advocate in 2006. Two years ago you would…
Catherine Maus is the chairwoman of Fort Lauderdale’s Planning & Zoning Board. And that isn’t right. Maus is perfectly smart enough and certainly seems of fine enough character to serve in such a capacity. In fact, I’m sure that she, as a lawyer, is a very valuable member and a conscientious one. The problem is…
