LOL.That acronym could be a common reaction to Rep. Allen West’s comment to the Sun-Sentinel editorial board on Wednesday in response to a question about whether Mitt Romney’s a flip-flopper.”No,” West replied. “Look I’m not into name-calling, all that kind of stuff.”…
Remember when Nezar Hamze — a Muslim and executive director of Florida’s Council on American-Islamic Relations — got shut out of the Broward Republican Executive Committee?That whole situation got a well-deserved clowning from the Daily Show With Jon Stewart.The show even landed a hilarious interview with “congressional candidate” Joe Kaufman,…
Brandon Deyo, the son of David Deyo — also known as “Noodles the Clown,” who’s currently serving a 17-year prison sentence for his child-pornography collection — pleaded guilty today to possessing his own kiddie-porn stash.Brandon Deyo, 25, was an Air Force Reservist when police discovered his mass of child pornography…
Stephen Pearlman, described by his victim as “like a grandfather to her and the other neighborhood children,” was convicted by a jury yesterday on three felonies related to molesting a girl beginning when she was 11 years old.Pearlman, now 73, was picked up by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office…
The New York Rangers haven’t been a hip hockey team since Bill Clinton was president.That said, his appearance last night at Madison Square Garden to watch the Rangers take on the Florida Panthers actually makes sense.The Rangers are on a hot streak right now, and beating the Panthers last night…
There are two things Rep. Allen West is trying to sell this week — war and war propaganda.West did yesterday what he typically does — take to Newsmax or Fox News to call people names and speak without any hint of fact, this time claiming President Obama’s “incompetence” at understanding…
On the ninth day of Scott Rothstein’s deposition in Miami — December 22 — he made a few interesting comments about his relationships with Plantation police officers.Rothstein was repeatedly prevented from answering questions about law enforcement by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence LaVecchio — who cited the government’s “investigative privilege” –…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office says it believes it knows who killed a 34-year-old man at a West Park warehouse last month, but investigators don’t know where he is.The sheriff’s office says 35-year-old Nalio Williams is the suspect in the shooting death of Raimundo Modia, who showed up to the warehouse…
Gov. Rick Scott confirmed that another vacation “trade mission” is in the works, with Spain being the next target.This would be “trade mission” number four with Enterprise Florida, after already hitting up Canada, Brazil, and Israel.How much “trade” is actually being done is hard to tell, since the only job…
It hasn’t passed either chamber of Florida’s Legislature yet — so it’s not official — but memorial bills filed in the House and Senate suggest that Osama bin Laden’s death was a good thing.Ranking somewhere around Sen. Stephen Wise’s “Christmas break” bill as far as importance is concerned, the bill…
Gov. Rick Scott signed the third death warrant of his governorship yesterday, this time calling for 65-year-old Robert Waterhouse to get the juice.All three death warrants signed by the governor have been for inmates over age 60.Waterhouse, who was arrested for the murder of a St. Petersburg woman on January…
Here’s a philosophical question — how much money could one Ponzi schemer spend on prostitutes every month?In Scott Rothstein’s case, that number’s between $50,000 and $60,000 — unless his politician friends are in town. Then it’s more.Oh, don’t forget the condo across the street from RRA that was purchased with…
Donald Trump, the chump of Palm Beach, is apparently still upset that nobody wanted to go to his Newsmax debate/circus that ended up getting canceled.Now he’s taking it out on Rep. Michele Bachmann, saying so few people voted for her in Iowa’s Republican caucus last night because she didn’t want…
While Kevin Hershewe and his family were out of town for Christmas, their landlord “evicted” them from their Lake Worth home.By “evicted,” we mean that the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is investigating it as a burglary.Hershewe wasn’t exactly prepared for how this landlord-tenant dispute would end — coming home…
Fort Lauderdale Police Officer David McElligott was charged yesterday with wire fraud after allegedly defrauding the city for supplemental pay while serving in the Air Force.After 9/11, the Fort Lauderdale Commission put a supplemental military pay policy that would give city employees called to active military service money to bring…
On a scale of one to ten, the Florida Tenth Amendment Center says Rep. Allen West deserves zero special treatment in the redistricting process.As we’ve been covering, the Broward GOP has been fighting hard against the redistricting proposals, asking that its supporters help “save” West and beg the reapportionment committees…
There are currently 50 psychoactive compounds banned by Florida as “Schedule I” substances — meaning the government doesn’t believe they have any medical use, and they’re illegal for any regular schmo to possess.State Rep. Clay Ingram would like to add 92 compounds to that list, filing legislation late last week…
Before Scott Rothstein sounded like he was about to soil himself over questions about the murder of Melissa Britt Lewis during the ninth day of his bankruptcy deposition, objections from Assistant U.S. District Attorney Lawrence LaVecchio made things interesting again.Attorney Mary Barzee Flores filled up pages of the transcript on…
The Broward Bulldog’s Dan Christensen obtained Broward’s “Brady list” — a laundry list of cops who are being investigated for any number of reasons, ultimately to be used by defense attorneys to question the veracity of a cop’s testimony.The list is the result of a 1963 Supreme Court case involving…
Israel Rosado was discharged from the emergency room at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce on December 17 but told a cop working an off-duty detail at the hospital that he wasn’t leaving until he got a free meal.Police say that between that statement and his trip to jail,…
Here’s something laughable — Scott Rothstein vehemently denies being similar to fellow billion-dollar Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff.Not only that, Rothstein claimed that he did “the right thing,” unlike Madoff, and said Madoff should have taken what Rothstein did “as an example.”On the ninth day of Rothstein’s ten-day deposition in Miami,…
The Broward GOP is still fighting hard against proposed changes to Rep. Allen West’s congressional district, now releasing a ridiculously lengthy open letter on its new website — saveallenwest.com — asking the reapportionment committees to change it up in their favor.The letter, from Broward GOP Chairman Richard DeNapoli, specifically states…
