Two Christian teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Broward County School District, whose investigators reportedly found that the two did not sprinkle holy water at an atheist teacher, as was alleged. But interviews conducted in that investigation appear to have…
The man, Charles Bostwick, is said to have fired a gun at his ex-girlfriend, who was not struck. But the gunshot brought Boynton Beach police to a home on the 1600 block of N. Seacrest Blvd. According to the police report, Bostwick fired a shot at police, who then set up…
Good luck getting onto a jury in the South if you’re black. And if you’re a black defendant, good luck challenging the fact that the prosecutor eliminated potential jurors just because of the color of their skin. Unless you live in Florida.The Sunshine State’s laws aimed at protecting jurors from…
Frankly, there aren’t enough pages in our print edition to give you the full details on Sean Healy’s Ponzi-fueled spending spree. But TGI the age of the interwebs, because court-appointed receiver Melanie Damian cataloged and posted everything she seized from the Healys last July. Click here to view her initial…
There’s been plenty of speculation about where Wellington polo mogul John Goodman was headed the morning of the fatal car accident that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson.The night of February 11, multimillionaire Goodman was drinking at the Players Club, a popular bar on South Shore Boulevard in Wellington. He left the…
We knew that was coming, didn’t we? Marco Rubio borrows footage from a Sun-Sentinel editorial meeting with Charlie Crist to show how the governor defended Jim Greer even as it became evident that the Florida Republican Party chairman had been mishandling — if not stealing — party money.There should be…
Jim Greer, former chairman of the Republican Party and a close friend of Gov. Charlie Crist’s, was arrested this morning in connection with allegations that he formed a slush fund using contributions from party supporters. The Orlando Sentinel has the story.This won’t help Crist’s campaign for U.S. Senate. On the…
Sometime between discussing pal Dennis Rodman and faking an illness to get to the Heat game, Sean Healy was read a list of 49 names at his April 7, 2009, deposition. One of those names was Alfred Madeira, the Pennsylvania chiropractor whom Healy befriended and stole upward of $14 million…
Yesterday, a judge refused Wellington polo mogul John Goodman’s request to delay the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him for the car accident that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson.But Palm Beach Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley’s ruling is small consolation in a case that has been marked by repeated delays and eyebrow-raising…
Unsurprisingly, Sean Healy was less-than-thrilled when court-appointed receiver Melanie Damian showed up to seize his house, cars, and valuables last July. Damian brought along two more attorneys from her firm, and she recalls Healy threatening to pick up Ken Murena and throw him across the room. It would be a…
Between her racy text messages to a secret lover and videos of her rendezvous with a supposed hit man, there’s little evidence left to scandalize followers of Dalia Dippolito’s salacious murder-for-hire tale. Yet buried in a mountain of court documents is a tidbit that once again seals the professional escort’s…
The hardest thing for Alfred Madeira to come to terms with is the broken trust: His longtime friend Sean Healy had scammed him out of up to $14 million in less than a year. Instead of investing the money, Healy financed his own lavish playboy lifestyle, Now, Madeira is left…
Scott Wilson, the 23-year-old Wellington native who died in February after multimillionaire polo mogul John Goodman crashed into his car, was an aspiring mechanical engineer and a beloved son and older brother.But he was also a typical college grad, a sort of absent-minded scientist who loved basketball and videogames and…
If Rothstein was a mini-Madoff, then Sean Healy was a mini-Rothstein. But as you’ll read in this week’s feature, “mini” doesn’t do Healy’s larger-than-life MO justice: He blew the nearly $16 million he stole from 40 investors on exotic cars, a $2.4 million country club mansion (plus $2.3 million in…
A 20-year-old man from Fort Lauderdale has been arrested and charged in the beating death of Rood Marc Desronvil on May 18 at the Normandy Village apartment complex in Lauderdale Lakes.Late that afternoon, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call of a large disturbance in the Normandy Village parking…
David Byrne, lead singer of the rock band Talking Heads, has filed suit against the Charlie Crist senatorial campaign, alleging that Crist has used a song that Byrne wrote, “Road to Nowhere,” in a commercial without having received permission from Byrne to do so.Check out the County Grind report from…
You can’t be a sleazy lobbyist on the national scale of Jack Abramoff without doing some dirty deeds in Broward County. That’s the setting for an opening scene in a just-released documentary, Casino Jack and the United States of Money. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that the…
Dalia Dippolito, South Florida’s most infamous escort, has already been accused of hiring an undercover Boynton Beach police officer to kill her husband.But a newly released police report alleges that she also offered to pay a Palm Beach Gardens cop to investigate Michael Dippolito.In March 2009, Officer R.L. Wilson got…
After crashing his Bentley into another car early on the morning of February 12, a drunken, dazed John Goodman wandered down a dirt road to find someone with a cell phone, according to a probable cause affidavit written by a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office investigator.Only horses and pasture graced…
When the Fort Lauderdale Police responded to a domestic violence call April 10 at the home of Frank Hottenrott, officers made a grisly discovery: over 1,200 images of child pornography and more than 300 videos stored among several of Hottenrott’s computers. In his confession to police, Hottenrott allegedly owned up to…
John Goodman, the multimillionaire founder of the International Polo Club in Wellington, was booked into the Palm Beach County jail early this morning, charged with DUI and vehicular homicide.His arrest comes three months after Goodman allegedly plowed his Bentley through a stop sign and crashed into a Hyundai driven by…
The popular middle school special ed teacher who was shot and killed last week in Riviera Beach was investigated five years ago for allegedly exposing himself to a high school student.While Calvin Williams, 41, was working as an assistant principal at Palm Beach Lakes High School, he began mentoring an…
