With the rhetoric coming from Allen West and Adam Hasner, it seems only a matter of time before they start talking about protecting our precious bodily fluids against the Muslim “infiltration.” Hasner, likely U.S. Senate candidate and former Florida House majority leader who represented parts of Palm Beach and Broward…
So the Broward County Commission is going to discuss putting $610,000 worth of public art in the new courthouse that is being built against taxpayers’ wishes. You might think the Pulp, hard as it is on public officials and waste of taxpayers’ money, might be averse to the expense on principle. Not so. As my former colleague Edmund Newton…
Plantation Chamber of Commerce President Siobhan Edwards focuses on the positive these days. She focuses on her four grandchildren, not the terrible situation that ended her marriage in what was then a hush-hush scandal that rocked Plantation City Hall six years ago. It all happened so fast. Siobhan’s husband, then-Councilman Bruce Edwards, filed for divorce against her in April 2005. Edwards’ colleague…
[jump] He is Mladen Antolic, a seemingly mild-mannered physician in Orlando who has been charged with unlawfully dispensing pain pills. But that’s just the start, according to the Orlando Sentinel: “By night, authorities say, Antolic was hosting wild drug and sex parties at his 4,700-square-foot Hunter’s Creek home. The 55-year-old…
Schools inspector Michael Marchetti has been exposing corruption at the Broward County School Board for more than a decade, risking his job in the construction department at every turn. Most recently, he filed a lawsuit against the board, numerous individuals, and six school-building firms looking to recover millions in taxpayers’ money they…
The Everglades Corporate Park project on the edge of the Everglades in Sunrise might soon be killed as the literal victim of nearby gunplay. After great controversy over the massive hotel and office space development, which would consist of a hotel and office space and is planned to be built in…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now investigating Sheriff Al Lamberti’s Super Bowl adventure with his then-15-year-old son, Nick. Though I think there are far more important matters to investigate, this is a good thing. Remember that the Lamberti Super Bowl story was broken here on January 3 with a document showing that Nick…
The many faces of Vincent Colangelo, the convicted heroin and cocaine trafficker who decided he could make more money in the pill mill business, where authorities say he unloaded some 770,000 high-powered pain pills in a single year. Fort Lauderdale activist Cal Deal put together the montage. Deal saw his neighborhood sullied by…
You may remember the post about Bill Mathis, the psychologist hired by the board four years ago after it was discovered during the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that the board was “dysfunctional.” He was also contracted to help the School Board do its dog-and-pony-show evaluation of Supt. Jim Notter. Well,…
The son of Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper was arrested this morning in a law enforcement raid of pain pill mills in South Florida. Zvi “Harry” Perper was arrested at 10 a.m. of Delray Pain Management, which he owns with another man, Kenneth Murry. I questioned the medical examiner about his…
Before you start comparing me to Model Citizen for this obviously photoshopped image of Broward Supt. Jim Notter, I have to confess that I didn’t create it. It comes courtesy of a video produced by BECON, the School Board TV station and propaganda center that is subsidized by taxpayers for millions of…
Passing the buck again — Gottlieb was told by staff that the school didn’t need to be built and could have stopped it instead of pushing it through. — I find it somehow comforting that John McEnroe is still out there cursing out line judges and breaking tennis racquets in big tennis…
Ann Murray was elected to the Broward County School Board as a working-class reformer. In record time, she became part of the problem. Murray quickly cozied up to special-interest campaign contributors she claimed she would fight, has proven to be a go-along advocate of the corrupt status quo, and hasn’t reformed a thing. Worst of…
For those pining for arrests coming from the statewide grand jury investigation, all hope isn’t lost. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which served as the investigative arm of the grand jury, has compiled all kinds of intelligence during the investigation and could produce charges in the case yet. The…
The Sun-Sentinel obtained some comments from school boarder defending themselves from the findings of the statewide grand jury. Said Broward Schools Supt. Jim Notter: “I’ve built a 37-year career by being passionate about digging through the data, emphasizing accountability and getting things done right.” Sure. Except when he was willfully violating…
Well, it’s finally official. The Broward County School Board wasted hundreds of millions of your dollars while doing the bidding of a select group of contractors and lobbyists. You’ve been reading about that here for the past five years. Now the statewide grand jury has found the same thing. The final grand…
When convicted political operative Alan Mendelsohn was recently debriefed regarding his knowledge of corruption in Florida, it wasn’t just federal officials at the table, according to multiple sources. State prosecutors working under Michael Satz were also there taking notes. The state and feds, informed sources say, are working together on the case, each taking up where the…
Peter Weinstein, the most political judge in Broward County, was rather fittingly elected the chief of the 17th Judicial Circuit yesterday to succeed Victor Tobin. After 14 years in the Florida Senate and a low-down and bruising loss to Robert Wexler in his bid to become a U.S. Congressman, the Queens-born Weinstein certainly…
In a blow to the lead counsel in the Rothstein bankruptcy case, Judge Raymond Ray disqualified the Berger Singerman law firm from representing the trustee in a clawback suit against Qtask, a California company in which Scott Rothstein invested millions of dollars in alleged Ponzi proceeds. The ruling, more than anything, shows what a small world Rothstein operated in…
One 10-year-old girl, Nubia Doctor, was killed in horrific fashion. Her twin brother Victor is fighting for his life in the hospital, suffering from chemical burns and broken bones. The suspect is their adoptive father, foster parent Jorge Barahona, who was found unconscious beside his pest control truck on I-95 in Palm Beach…
The woman acquitted of stalking Channel 10 reporter Kristi Krueger after a highly publicized and bizarre 2003 trial now stands accused of stalking a family in the Orlando area in an eerily similar manner. Georgia Roberts, according to a Winter Gardens police report, was arrested in November at her home after…
Finger lickin’ gone? Information is sketchy right now, but reports are coming in that Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants at more than 20 locations in Broward County are being shut down as I type this. The only confirmed shutdown so far is at the KFC at 815 Hallandale Beach Boulevard. I…
