According to the powerful Fanjul family, the State Department has launched an investigation into Bruno Scaioli, an Italian-Argentinian art dealer who is suspected of trafficking artwork the Fanjuls say is rightfully theirs. Not long after Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, the wealthy Fanjuls fled to Palm Beach, taking…
Curmudgeons like Bob Norman may not want to admit it, but the Sun-Sentinel’s association with the Chicago-based Tribune Co. does have its perks. For instance, when some unknown driver kills a couple of British tourists with a tricked-out Porsche owned by a wealthy playboy with a history of driving luxury…
Fort Lauderdale Police have arrested five men they believe are connected with at least 20 armed robberies, the department announced in a press conference today. Most of the robberies targeted construction sites and vacant houses. Police say the suspects would enter a construction site, produce weapons, and demand the construction…
width=330; height=280; wral_insert_video_player_4390406(width,height); Christopher Mignocchi, a 22-year-old U.S. Army sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., is among seven soldiers charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death last July of Pfc. Luke Brown, according to a North Carolina newspaper.Investigators say that Mignocchi and the other soldiers were trying to get Brown…
In federal court testimony, Stephen C. Marcus, a direct-mail magnate from Philadelphia who kept a summer home in Boca Raton, has emerged as something of a sugar daddy to Vincent Fumo, the powerful Pennsylvania state senator currently being tried for corruption charges.According to today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, the two met on…
Rabbi Michael Resnick of Palm Beach’s biggest synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, told a national TV news magazine that Bernard Madoff’s fraud case has been a catalyst for wealthy anti-Semites in South Florida’s most exclusive Zip Code. Resnick’s interview looks to be the centerpiece in tonight’s edition of 20/20 (10 p.m. ET…
This Stanford Group case keeps getting uglier. Stanford employees gave over $31, 000 to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and over $28,000 to Republican candidate Sen. John McCain.The only good news: FBI agents found alleged $8 billion fraudster Allen Stanford in Virginia yesterday and he turned in his U.S. passport.This morning,…
As we reported on this blog Friday, speculation has been flying through the financial community that Stanford et al could be operating an enormous Ponzi scheme a la Bernie Madoff. Now it’s official: The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit in Dallas Monday against Stanford Group Co., seeking to halt what…
Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan is a 31-year-old Iranian woman accused of trying to export night-vision goggles to Iran. This detail probably means she won’t ever be a confidant of the Obamas, but that hasn’t stopped Gholikhan from offering the First Couple her thoughts.Juice recently uncovered a letter Ms. Gholikhan penned to…
There he is, folks, the guy that PBSO says forced a West Palm Beach masseuse to perform oral sex on him. His name is Gerald Hansen — spelled just like the surname of the host of the Dateline show To Catch a Predator. Coincidence? U.S. Marshals nabbed Gerald Hansen in Sarasota, where he was…
OK, so that faith in mankind thing lasted almost an hour. Meet the Marc family of North Miami. Mom’s stepping out on Dad, but in what might be the most twisted way of atoning for sins in the history of extra-marital affairs, she allegedly lures her lover into a trap,…
Michael Israel, the Boca painter who whips out large-scale portraits of patriotic scenes (like the ones above) by karate-chopping his canvas, was scheduled to create a painting at the so-called Veterans Presidential Inaugural Ball in Washington on the night of Barack Obama’s inauguration. But the ball got canceled at the…
Barbaro Montesdoeca (pictured) and his daughter were just taking the old dump truck out for a spin recently. After they’d gone some 100 miles north, Montesdoeca allegedly decided it was time to lighten his load a bit — dumping about 2.6 tons of garbage right there. Seems he wasn’t expecting…
As anyone with cable news knows by now, there will be a public memorial for Caylee Anthony tomorrow in Orlando. Caylee’s grandmother Cindy asked the Orlando Sentinel to publish this eulogy in advance of the funeral. Notice that Cindy Anthony specifically invites only “those with the purest of hearts and…
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says a guy who looked like the one on the right showed up for an appointment Saturday afternoon at a massage parlor on Belvedere Road and forced the masseuse, at gunpoint, to perform oral sex on him. Apparently unsatisfied, he then allegedly yanked her pants down…
The driver of the truck — an older white male with a white ponytail and ‘stache — kept on driving. Schmidt has been in the intensive care unit at Broward General ever since. So, call Crimestoppers if you see a truck with tags similar to JDM-OTM that sorta resembles the one on the right…
The original episode of COPS (AKA The White Trash Oscars) was filmed 20 years ago in Broward County, and tonight Broward Sheriff’s Office is back on the air. Our boys are on at 8:30 on the Fox affiliate, WSVN Ch. 7. Called the “Back to Broward: Special Edition” episode, the…
It seems like the classic love story: middle-aged vampire runs for president, wins heart of teenage girl, stalks girl, girl is forced to make up a desperate story trying to get away from vampire, vampire is charged with a felony. Aww, sweet romance. But this is no work of fiction. John Alfred…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office sent out a press release yesterday afternoon boasting “Young Thelma and Louise Back Behind Bars.” A pair of 20-year-old girls were arrested after stealing and crashing a 2007 Chevy Tahoe. Thing is, this is the 12th time Erica Eisworth has been booked into the Broward County…
I’m not so sure high school security guards should have tasers in the first place. And I definitely don’t think they should be unleashed on a couple 18-year-old women, like happened yesterday at a high school in Pompano Beach. The goofy guy on the left is enough to subdue the…
Falcor may soon be the last line of defense in the War Against TerrorGlobeTel is a Pembroke Pines company that first appeared on the local radar a few years ago, when it was promising to fill South Florida airspace with sci-fi machines called “stratellites” — a clunky combination of a…
Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper became a familiar sight on TV after the death of Anna Nicole Smith two years ago, when he was the man overseeing her autopsy. These days, he’s been popping up regularly on Nancy Grace to talk about the death of toddler Caylee Anthony,…
