When you write a song called “Dr. Feelgood,” you have to be careful: From then on out, anything bad that happens to you is ripe for puns by late-day reporters (hello there). So, ready for it? Motley Crue frontman and part-owner of Feelgoods, a West Palm nightclub, was arrested in…
The Sean Healy ponzi scheme crossed so many state lines that postal inspectors had to get involved in the prosecution. He started out in New York, lived and spent in Weston, and funneled money from Pennsylvania. But Healy has finally been sent to a federal prison to serve his 188…
Scene: Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Monday, something like way-too-early o’clock in the American Airlines terminal. I had just plotted out the finer details of the nap I was going to take on my flight back to Palm Beach when I decided to go to Starbucks. Hot apple cider puts me…
Over at the Juice: Rapper and occasional Plantation resident Fat Joe was recently accused of sexual assault in Wisconsin and was apprehended after a 33-year-old woman filed sexual assault claims against members of his crew. They were all released early Monday morning; no arrests were made.He flew back via Chicago’s…
Earlier this week, we introduced you to Baje Fletcher, a self-proclaimed gold digger who spent a year travailing South Florida and got herself a house, a Bentley, a college degree, and enough purses to fill another SATC sequel. “Guys are always using women for sex, so why shouldn’t women use…
If it has been a while, or if your diploma’s from a dotcom, here’s a refresher on College 101: You can make vodka out of anything. Anything anything? Not gym shorts or freshmen, no, but if it can be fermented and distilled, it can be 80 proof. In this case,…
Frankly, there aren’t enough pages in our print edition to give you the full details on Sean Healy’s Ponzi-fueled spending spree. But TGI the age of the interwebs, because court-appointed receiver Melanie Damian cataloged and posted everything she seized from the Healys last July. Click here to view her initial…
Her book’s called A Gold Digger’s Guide. She teaches “apprentices” how to get gifts from men without falling in love. Hell, she wears gold eyeshadow. So while neither Kanye nor I is saying she’s a gold digger, that’s just because Baje Fletcher has no trouble saying it herself.The 26-year-old author, actress…
Sometime between discussing pal Dennis Rodman and faking an illness to get to the Heat game, Sean Healy was read a list of 49 names at his April 7, 2009, deposition. One of those names was Alfred Madeira, the Pennsylvania chiropractor whom Healy befriended and stole upward of $14 million…
If Emily Reo’s dreamy, gossamer swaths of songs don’t instantly make a devotee out of you — the New Times staff is already assigning fan club positions — then her cute hats and use of silverware as musical instruments will. The Orlando organist, guitarist, flutist, and kitchen utensil master is…
Unsurprisingly, Sean Healy was less-than-thrilled when court-appointed receiver Melanie Damian showed up to seize his house, cars, and valuables last July. Damian brought along two more attorneys from her firm, and she recalls Healy threatening to pick up Ken Murena and throw him across the room. It would be a…
The hardest thing for Alfred Madeira to come to terms with is the broken trust: His longtime friend Sean Healy had scammed him out of up to $14 million in less than a year. Instead of investing the money, Healy financed his own lavish playboy lifestyle, Now, Madeira is left…
Sean Healy sat fidgeting in a low, black-leather chair, stuck in a sixth-floor law-firm conference room overlooking SE Second Street in downtown Fort Lauderdale. It was April 7, 2009, and he was being asked a series of questions usually reserved for Las Vegas barmaids. “Do you know Dennis Rodman?” “Sure,”…
If Rothstein was a mini-Madoff, then Sean Healy was a mini-Rothstein. But as you’ll read in this week’s feature, “mini” doesn’t do Healy’s larger-than-life MO justice: He blew the nearly $16 million he stole from 40 investors on exotic cars, a $2.4 million country club mansion (plus $2.3 million in…
Last night’s Community featured all the standard season finale staples — a love triangle, a twist ending, an 18-inch diameter cookie — but local viewers may have noticed a special surprise: Surfer Blood’s “Fast Jabroni” was featured just as Annie pulls Jeff aside to confess she’s transferring from a community…
As a general rule, people like going to the beach and splashing around in the ocean, but they tend to get fussy when they emerge covered in toxic tar sludge from an exploded BP oil rig. Strange, I know–but decidedly true.Although the April 20 catastrophe has already released 6 million…
If you haven’t already seen this week’s Meek campaign ad, get ready to laugh so hard that you fall out of your chair and can’t find your way back from the 1950s again. That’s apparently what Meek’s campaign staff is doing, anyway, because every time I call them, I get…
Jeff Greene’s ad campaign launched today, and despite his billionaire status, Pixar animations were left on the cutting room floor. Also absent from the two spots: Greene’s “I took on Wall Street and won” slogan. With the campaign heating up, it looks like our badboy is reforming. “He’s starting with…
Lane Cardwell grew up in Miami, so when the CEO was scouting locations to test changes in his Boston Market restaurant empire, South Florida seemed like the perfect place — but he chose West Palm Beach over South Beach.”West Palm is a sane Miami,” says Cardwell, who launched changes in…
Warren Newell has made yet another awful, awful mistake.First, the former Palm Beach County commissioner pocketed half a million dollars in secret land deals. That’s a no-no. In 2007, he pleaded guilty, earning himself five years behind bars at the Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola.But he’s outdone himself this time…
Farmers equate saying goodbye to atrazine to depleting Floridian agriculture. But a growing number of scientists believe atrazine, an herbicide widely used to remove weeds and promote the growth of cash-crop sugar cane, may cause cancer and birth defects in animals and humans. While the EPA met recently to review…
Things are getting dramatic with a capital “middle school” between the Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene campaigns for the Democrat Senate nomination. This weekend, the he-said, he-said jumped from catty campaign emails to my cell phone, when I got word from Greene’s campaign that the lawsuit against Greene for defrauding…
