Quinnipiac University has been ringing Florida phones off their hooks the past week or two — a poll yesterday showed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pulling ahead of Barack Obama in the state, and there’s a poll about Florida baseball that came out this morning that’s of pretty much no…
A Boca Raton man arrested last week on accusations he was running a pill mill in Maryland may be the vice president of a Deerfield Beach clinic that was raided by the DEA last year.Gerald Wiseberg is a 78-year-old from Boca Raton resident currently free on bail outside of Baltimore…
UPDATE, 3:26 p.m.: Received a statement from Broward College. Modified the post accordingly.A developing story from Gossip Extra: Apparently, a police leadership class at Broward College’s central campus was dismissed early today after “what appeared to be child porn popped up on the instructor’s computer as he taught.”The class is…
People magazine broke a story Tuesday under the headline “Casey Anthony Flushed Out of Hiding.” It featured Orlando lawyer Matt Morgan saying that he’d found Casey Anthony in order to serve her papers in a lawsuit but that at the 11th hour, her lawyers accepted the papers for her.”Our investigation…
Yesterday, we brought you the accusations against Rothstein Ponzi investors George Levin and Frank Preve, who the Securities and Exchange Commission says knew about Rothstein’s scam and fed hundreds of millions of dollars into it anyway.That post took you through what (allegedly) happened from the start of the scheme in…
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On Tuesday, we had a story looking at suspicious use of a Belle Glade garbage truck — the mileage records were a mess and seemed to suggest something shady was happening that caused the use of the truck to skyrocket earlier this year while gas use was suspiciously low.Well, we’ve…
Update, 1:17 p.m.: Added comment from Patrick Murphy, his Democratic opponent in the District 18 race.Allen West’s unpredictability quotient is through the roof these days. The whole “communists in Congress” thing was off-the-wall, but it was at least in line with the rest of his statements. Ditto when he lied about it…
Took a little while to get to because Quinnipiac University’s website is being duct-taped together today, but here are the results of its latest poll, taken May 15 to 21 with a 2.4-percentage-point margin of error.Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama 47 to 41 percent in the…
This is one of those times when the documents speak for themselves; I could rewrite and paraphrase the claims made by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but that wouldn’t be better for either of us.The short version of the story: The SEC says Fort Lauderdale-based hedge fund managers George Levin and…
Broward Sheriff’s Office Det. Anthony Costanzo faces charges of witness tampering, evidence tampering, disclosure of confidential information, and felony use of a two-way communication device, all of which could theoretically put him in prison for life.But a review of county personnel files shows Costanzo as a 13-year officer who, once he…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has filed a complaint against two of the men who provided investors for Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme.The SEC says George Levin and Frank Preve helped Rothstein raise more than $157 million in his billion-dollar scheme by getting investors to purchase discounted…
Pill mills might be a South Florida trademark, but a 78-year-old Boca Raton man is accused of taking the trade to points north.Gerald Wiseberg posted bond Friday after being arrested on charges that he ran a narcotics operation outside of Baltimore, Maryland, according to the Baltimore Sun…
Believe it or not, the Council on American-Islamic Relations might actually have something in common with tea party members. It’s about last year’s National Defense Authorization Act, which a federal judge ruled last week is vague enough to potentially allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens.Tea partiers (and libertarians…
How many uses could there possibly be for a gigantic garbage truck, and how hard could it be to fill out a little tiny form when it gets filled up with gas? According to data coming out of Belle Glade, the answer to the first one is “more than one,”…
The batting stud formerly known as Mike Stanton hit his second grand slam in eight days last night, busting a bunch of lights on the Marlins left-field videoboard in the process. If he’d swung a moment earlier, he could have destroyed that home run statue instead. Ah, what could have…
Newt Gingrich’s campaign for the Republican presidential campaign is over. Done-zo. Finished. The guy is walking around his home state wearing a Mitt Romney sticker.But the former speaker of the House isn’t even close to concluding the dealings surrounding his campaign, as documents filed over the weekend show. Gingrich owes…
A federal judge has found that the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office “had a policy of threatening hospital staff” who refused when ordered by police to take blood samples in DUI cases, finding that “this policy directly impacted the Fourth Amendment rights of hospital employees… the Sheriff’s Department knew or…
All across Florida… people are running. For Senate.The latest entry into the hunt for Sen. Bill Nelson’s seat is former Florida Rep. Dave Weldon, who served seven terms in the House before retiring in 2008 to spend more time with his family. Apparently he got tired of them…
UPDATE, 6/7: Okrzesik was indicted today for first-degree murder.Original post, 5/21:Police say 19-year-old Juliana Mensch was strangled in a Fort Lauderdale home by two of her friends, James Ayers and his girlfriend, Nicole Okrzesik, who wanted to rob her for drug money. Ayers was arrested several days following the killing…
A section of Fort Lauderdale International Airport Terminal 2 has been evacuated and HAZMAT investigators are on the scene, according to Broward Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Dani Moschella. At least three four victims have reported respiratory issues after being exposed to an “unknown substance/irritant.” More to come.(UPDATE: All clear, per the Miami…
