Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti’s campaign has taken a contribution from a storied drug smuggling figure who was investigated by the Broward Sheriff’s Office at a time that Lamberti helped run its narcotics unit. On September 26, a company called World Jet Inc. gave Lamberti the maximum $500 allowed under…
So I got a challenge in a post below to put up gaffes from the Obama campaign like I do with McCain and Palin. I said I hadn’t seen one worthy of posting but promised to do so if one came my way. Well, a commenter named Stephen hit me…
The latest from John de Groot, who swung by the Ellyn Bogdanoff-Stacy Ritter debate on Wednesday morning. There de Groot, who is never afraid to challenge (or offend), may have met more than his match. Enjoy. A Neiman Marcus Pitbull in Lipstick by John de Groot This has been a…
The Florida Supreme Court today struck down the “false light” provision, you know, the hare-brained Florida law that said that everything in an article could be true but the juxtaposition of sentences could create a false impression for which the newspaper was liable. From the top: The Florida Supreme Court…
Thought we could use a little comic relief around here:…
Sometimes it’s not commentary, it’s vandalism. And when that happens, it’s time to use the delete key. That’s what happened in the post below on the death of James Gary Brown. Don’t get me wrong. Even on a post as sensitive as that one I won’t touch a negative comment…
In a move that until recently would have seemed unthinkable, The Palm Beach Post will be printed by the Sun-Sentinel, its long-time rival, for the next decade. The arrangement, rumored during the last week and announced today, means that 300 more Post employees will lose their jobs, according to a…
James Gary Brown, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer and son of Broward County Property Appraiser Lori Parrish, has died of suicide. He was 38. Brown was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. Sunday morning at his home in Davie, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. Brown had been battling drug addiction, an…
Well, the GOP is in full-press mode on the Bill Ayers thing. Everywhere you go it’s Barack Obama and his domestic terrorist pal Ayers. This is the age-old Republican tactic perfected by Atwater and Rove. Find a smear and, even after its been discredited as dishonest and sleazy, keep repeating…
As if the Palm Beach Post newsroom weren’t taxed enough, now its journalists are going to have to deal with a consultation company in “intensive strategy sessions.” Post Publisher Doug Franklin announced to staff this past Friday that the newspaper had hired Frank N. Magid Associates to “help shape our…
Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein is, quite literally, a high roller. During the past couple of years, the Fort Lauderdale lawyer has owned a Hummer. And a couple of Bentleys. Maybe a Lamborghini or three. Ferraris, yes. A pair of Harleys, of course. Throw in the hum-drum BMWs, Mercedes, and…
John McCain actually gave it a good try tonight. Barack Obama, for his part, was solid and dull. McCain definitely had a chance to win this debate. He actually had Obama on the defensive for a good part of the night. For a while Obama was reminding me of John…
JAABlog reported that Broward Circuit Judge Charlie Kaplan has died of a heart attack; a source just called the Pulp and confirmed it. Kaplan, who was 45, the divorced father of three, and in charge of the juvenile delinquency program, was apparently found dead in his bed at home. He…
— It should be over for Congressman Tim Mahoney, what with a second extramarital affair now being reported. Wonder if he paid her off, too, the schmuck. Again, he SHOULD be knocked out of office. But could the power of George W. Bush keep him in D.C.? Bush has been…
On the Sun-Sentinel’s front page yesterday was a story about how your backyard pool might just be out to get you. “IS YOUR POOL A HEALTH HAZARD?” The answer, of course, is almost surely not, but the Help Team couldn’t help but ask. And no backyard pool scare story would…
Pulp readers have been aware of the events surrounding Judge Ana Gardiner and alleged improper relationships with attorneys in her courtrooom for months. In the weeks after I broke the story, one of the lawyers named in it, veteran homicide prosecutor Howard Scheinberg, left the State Attorney’s Office and Gardiner…
This just in: Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein confirmed today that disgraced former Broward sheriff Ken Jenne has accepted a job at his law firm and is working in its political consulting group. Rothstein, the managing shareholder and CEO of the firm Rothstein, Rosenfeldt Adler P.A., said Jenne started working…
For your enjoyment in these trying times. Reminds me of the following vid from Office Space. Think about it, we might just be on the cusp of the collapse of this whole rotten enslaving soul-sucking corporate structure. Then we’ll all have a lot of time left for fishing and crawling…
Everybody I know at the Sun-Sentinel doesn’t just expect another round of layoffs; they treat it as a done deal. Many are planning their futures around it. For good reason: Tribune Co.’s debt ($12.5 billion) is so massive and its revenues so tenuous that its very survival is in question…
Homicide detectives are close to solving the murder of Sgt. Chris Reyka, one of their own. Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators have suspects in the highly publicized case: a gang of armed robbers with a terrifying penchant to hit 24-hour drugstores in the middle of the night. They have the motive:…
Tribune Co. “Innovation Chief” Lee Abrams recently complained in one of his “think pieces” that he didn’t like the label “Special Advertising Section” when it is used for, um, special advertising sections. You know what they are, those sections that look and read like news stories but are really promoting…
Since I started doing this, might as well do a quickee general analysis on tonight’s presidential debate. My analysis: Obama was better, but he wasn’t all that great. McCain played the role of the cranky geezer quite well. In some ways ol’ McNasty was terrible, but I actually thought he…
