The law offices of David J. Stern, known as the “foreclosure king,” are closing on March 31 after a highly publicized fall from grace and a state investigation of the firm’s allegedly fraudulent foreclosure practices, according to the Sun-Sentinel.The publicly traded affiliated document processing company, DJSP, filed documents with the…
The fleet of rickshaws along Las Olas Boulevard and A1A is about to double, according to the Sun-Sentinel. City commissioners green-lighted the increase in people-powered chariots on Tuesday. But with everything over the top (especially transportation) in South Florida, these humble vehicles, though charming, have a lot of unrealized potential…
If you’re among the majority of people who want to crawl out of their skin while waiting for car servicing or any sort of time-consuming auto-related paperwork, you’re in luck. The folks at JM Lexus in Margate heard about your automobile angst and addressed it accordingly, with an antidote in…
Bernard Madoff is not a sociopath and the U.S. government is a large Ponzi scheme, according to Bernard Madoff — in New York Magazine. That’s circular attribution, a nod to the business mastermind’s years of roundabout manipulations. The infamous schemer talked to a New York Magazine writer, and this week’s…
Fort Lauderdale law firm Ben-Ezra & Katz is the most recent subject of the state attorney general’s mortgage fraud investigation. The firm “appears to be fabricating and/or presenting false and misleading documents in foreclosure cases,” according to the allegation listed by the office of Florida’s attorney general, Pam Bondi…
Yes, the Fort Lauderdale gets progressively more upscale every season, and yes, the classy set tries to downplay the annually resurfacing celebration of Fort Liquordale’s past, but it seems that as long as there are fraternities and the Elbo Room, there will be spring break, as evidenced in this 2008…
Restrepo is war in the raw. Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington crafted an Oscar-nominated film that ignores domestic politics and views the war in Afghanistan from one of the most dangerous and deadly areas, the Korengal Valley. It’s graphic, it’s anxiety-ridden, and it’s shocking, but most strikingly and simply, it’s…
You can snag 5,000 miles (about one flight) from Spirit Airlines today at 5 p.m. at Round Up Country Western Club in Davie simply for participating in its luggage-throwing competition, and if you have exceptionally good aim, you can win the grand prize of a million miles (about 200 flights)…
Facebook now includes “Civil Union” and “Domestic Partnership” among its relationship status options. Since the genesis of the online “Relationship Status” in the early 2000s, the few and definite choices have fallen short of defining the ever-complex myriad of situations that could constitute a “relationship.” Yes, “It’s complicated” has been…
The latest round of 96 layoffs at foreclosure attorney David J. Stern’s subsidiary document processing company, DJSP, shows that this once-booming business is teetering more delicately than ever. The ongoing pressure of a Florida attorney general investigation of allegedly fraudulent foreclosure practices and the loss of its biggest clients, including…
The latest round of layoffs at DJSP Enterprises, the foreclosure processing company for the law offices of David J. Stern, could add fuel to a class action case against DJSP and Stern, according to a lawyer for the companies’ former employees. On Tuesday, 96 people lost their jobs, following several…
Bernard Madoff, the Ponzi villain with Palm Beach roots in real estate and scorned investors, told the New York Times that banks and hedge funds handling his fortune turned a blind (an perhaps unlawful) eye to his criminal schemes. The Times article is based on a prison interview with the…
Prosecutors in Cuba said they will charge Alan Gross, the American detained as a spy in Cuba since December 2009, with “Actions Against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State,” seeking a 20-year prison sentence. Two years ago, Gross went to Cuba on a ten-day trip to provide internet…
If the New York Times was the sole authority on Valentine’s Day, it would indeed be a very odd and unromantic day. There’s the postponed marriage due to a groom slapped with charges of insider trading. But who can blame them, “They want their wedding day to be one of…
Yesterday evening, an explosion and fire blew the roof off a Broward County home on SW 43rd Way, rattling the nerves of neighbors and launching debris into the air according to NBC Miami. No one was injured in the incident, which not-so-subtly drew authorities’ attention to the home’s contents –…
Riddle me this: What do the five Grammy nominees for Album of the Year have in common with Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida? Answer: All five albums were mixed or engineered by a Full Sail graduate, as Time magazine pointed out in today’s article…
Seizing the opportunity to rally his tea party troops, Allen West sounded off about AOL’s $315 million purchase of left-leaning Huffington Post, insinuating that the large-scale merger is a threat to tea party presence online. “You look out there, you see that AOL has purchased the Huffington Post. Now all of…
The W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale is the trendiest hotel in the country, according to TripAdvisor — an upscale win for the changing face of Fort Liquordale (Fort Martinidale?). So why, with the bounties of trendy in cities like New York and Los Angeles, did the folks who use TravelAdvisor…
Tucked into the corner of Las Olas Boulevard and Tarpon Drive sits Upper Room Gallery, an airy, eclectic space with an understated storefront — easy to pass, though worth the stop. Lamps of bamboo and organic paper by Filipino artist Wendy Fernando Regalado hang from the walls in shapes that…
If you’re in your 20s (or 30s, 40s, 50s…), the 85-year-old lady barely peeking over her dashboard and reaching up to the steering wheel of her Lincoln Continental might be a safer driver than you are, if you take driving statistics at face value, according to the Sun-Sentinel. You may…
Remember a couple of weeks ago when Obama’s State of the Union Address emphasized the need for clean air technology and innovation? “Well,” you may have wondered, “what does that actually look like in practice?” Here’s a peek. Cyclone Power Technologies in Pompano Beach, with the help of government and…
A student at the high school run by megachurch Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale endured repeated sexual abuse in 2006 by Rodger Thomas, a part-time church employee. In 2008, a judge sentenced Thomas to ten years in prison for sexual battery, and this week, a Broward County jury determined that…
