Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo, the subject of a 22-week criminal trial in Philadelphia, was convicted yesterday on 137 fraud and conspiracy charges. A jury found Fumo guilty of stealing some $4 million, a sum that may have helped him pay for the $2.5 million Fort Lauderdale home pictured above,…
Lately, there has been little news about last month’s most breathlessly covered local story — the two British tourists who were killed when a drag-racing Porsche lost control and struck them as they walked along Seabreeze Boulevard. I haven’t been able to find an article with more recent information than…
Yeah, depressing isn’t it? Today’s Houston Chronicle reports on one victim of that slightly lesser (alleged) Ponzi, the Stanford Group. A North Carolina man named William Allen couldn’t close his Stanford account before the Feds froze it. Among the last things he bought before the company went Madoff? A trip…
Early Friday morning, Wilton Manors police responded to a 70-year-old man living near the corner of NE 26th Street and Andrews. The man told them his neighbor had hit him with a hammer and robbed him. He was bleeding from the head. Yesterday, police arrested a man living two doors…
This whole arrest-on-felony-drug-charges thing came along just when Howard K. Stern’s legal life had finally calmed. The attorney ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith filed a lawsuit in Fort Lauderdale’s U.S. District Court in April 2007 against mega-millionaire attorney, John O’Quinn, accusing the lawyer of libel for statements O’Quinn made in…
Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper is heading back on the national pundits’ circuit now that California prosecutors have filed felony drug charges against Howard K. Stern and two doctors in connection with the February 2007 death of Anna Nicole Smith from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. That…
Sen. John Kerry knows a thing or two about boating safety. He actually drove one around during some stupid war in Southeast Asia. Now he’s trying to bring more safety to the cruise liners, which apparently are floating anarchies. Ship staff don’t have to report the crimes that occur outside…
Below, the first of the two-page incident report for Jeffrey Kerlikowske, the stepson of Obama nominee for drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske. In October 2002 Jeffrey Kerlikowske was booked on battery charges after his live-in girlfriend accused him of slamming her head against kitchen cabinets and throwing her 6-pound Yorkie against…
This morning, MSNBC interviewed one of the many, many victims of Bernard Madoff, who entered his guilty plea to 11 felony charges this morning so he can go to prison to die. The victim, Peter Moskowitz, asks a good question: Is Madoff being a good general, jumping on the proverbial…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is hoping that the public will help solve a murder. Last night, friends of 68-year-old Larry Ellison wondered why he didn’t show up for a planned dinner. They stopped by his townhouse on NE 19th Street in Wilton Manors only to make a terrifying discovery –…
Stuart-based attorney Willie Gary (pictured above with his wife) is not shy. On his website, he boasts of his three “posh waterfront offices” and his 32-passenger custom-designed Boeing 737, “appropriately named ‘Wings of Justice II.'” When he posed for a Miami Herald photo, Gary flashed a giant diamond ring. And…
I still haven’t heard back from Deerfield Beach City Manager Michael Mahaney, but his office just emailed a copy of the message that apparently was the basis for an investigation into whether the city’s firefighters played an improper role in the recently wrapped election.The author of the note is Deerfield…
Every single Circuit City has closed, because the Great Depression has caused us to stop buying ginormous television sets. The company hired a Fort Lauderdale man named Frank Joseph Connor II to help liquidate the merchandise at its store in Tredyffrin Township, Pa., just north of Philadelphia. But “liquidate” does…
Palm Beach financier Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty and get a life sentence.Here’s betting that Bernie’s future fellow inmates are looking forward to performing a very literal rendition of what Madoff did figuratively to his investors…
Now that we know former County Commissioner Mary McCarty managed to steer lucrative bond deals to her husband’s bond underwriting firm, it would seem high time that the county reform the way it chooses a firm for financing the bonds issued to fund major public projects. Currently, Palm Beach and…
Your favorite, gun-toting, suspended Miramar commish, Fitzroy Salesman, woke early this morning to cast his vote without the television cameras. That plan didn’t quite work.Much to the chagrin of those reporters, Salesman did not whip out a gun and tell them to “back the fuck off.” Last week, a mistrial…
BSO just made public its interviews with James Rosa and Anthony Russo, the two 20-year-olds who were among the four charged with petty theft in connection with stolen campaign signs.The report indicates that both Rosa and Russo implicated Thomas Noland, son of Deerfield Beach mayoral candidate Peggy Noland, along with…
Screw it. Let’s slap a “gate” on this puppy.One of those arrested this morning in connection with destroying campaign signs in Deerfield Beach, 20-year-old Anthony Scott Russo, told police he “kind of sort of used to date [Noland’s] daughter when in school.” Earlier today, Noland told the Juice that the…
Local attorney Norm Kent serves on the Board of Directors of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. So it wouldn’t take a giant stretch of the imagination to picture him puffing on what my grandma used to call “the wacky weed.” Saturday, however, Kent made it…
Deerfield Beach mayoral candidate Peggy Noland is beating back an 11th hour campaign scandal — early this morning her son 20-year-old son Thomas, a Deerfield Beach firefighter, was arrested on charges of criminal mischief for stealing campaign signs of ex-Mayor Al Capellini and others.I reached Noland just a few minutes…
Oh, sure. It starts with ducks. Then it’s cats, maybe a dog. Eventually, that loses its thrill and the sick bastard upgrades to humans. So we really have to catch the Miramar Duck Killer, who struck again yesterday. From a statement released today by the Humane Society:The second duck was…
Fort Lauderdale Police have released the search warrant in connection with the deaths of two British tourists last month, struck by a white Porsche that was drag-racing on Seabreeze Boulevard. It appears that LeVin and his friend, Derek Cook of Tamarac, switched cars before the accident, the Sun-Sentinel is reporting.According…
