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A South Florida Muslim Leader Refused to Be a Snitch, so the Feds Tried to Destroy Him

By Trevor Aaronson
Oct 8, 2009

Bush-Cheney and Kerry-Edwards signs littered the lawns as Imam Foad Farahi walked from a mosque to his North Miami Beach apartment a few blocks away. It was November 1, 2004, the day before George W. Bush would win a second term in office. But Farahi, an influential South Florida Muslim...
Buy My Rock!

South Florida's Jon Jacobs wants to be a millionaire. His business: virtual real estate.

By Trevor Aaronson
Aug 3, 2006

It's the big day. On a recent June afternoon, Jon Jacobs is rushing around his office inside his Spanish-style house in Miami's Design District. A 39-year-old with a British accent, Jacobs is checking the settings on four computers in the front room of his home. They are all connected to...
Chump Tower

South Florida's housing bubble has popped, suckas! But the Donald still wants your millions for his condos.

By Trevor Aaronson
Jun 22, 2006

Note: An earlier version of this story attributed some quotes to Melania Knauss-Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, at an April 14 marketing event for Trump International Hotel & Tower. This woman was actually Senada Adzem, vice president of marketing for Bayrock Group, the developer building the hotel. Melania Knauss-Trump was not...
Redemption Plea

Born-again lawyer John P. Contini flies high to find the good side of murderer Gil Fernandez Jr.

By Trevor Aaronson
Jun 1, 2006

On May 17, John P. Contini leaned across a table in Broward County Courtroom 343 and whispered in his client's ear. Martin Diez, a 34-year-old Pembroke Pines man with brown eyes, brown hair, and a chubby face, looked up and smiled. He didn't have much to smile about at the...
The $11 Billion Man

Meet the world's most castigated spammer — a South Florida man who says he's an innocent victim.

By Trevor Aaronson
May 11, 2006

In January, one piece of paper changed James McCalla's life. A muscular, six-foot Haitian-American, the 26-year-old McCalla went out to get the mail at his suburban home in Pembroke Pines. He found an official letter from the federal courthouse in Davenport, Iowa. It was a civil judgment. "$11,200,000,000," the document...

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