As you can see, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is quite comfortable on the cable news circuit; so comfortable that the otherwise circumspect West Broward Congresswoman is willing to describe in vivid terms exactly what deviant metaphorical acts the insurance companies are inflicting upon us virginal American consumers. But then, the smug…
Later this month, when North Broward Hospital District Commissioner Robert Bernstein makes his case to the board for firing CEO Frank Nask, it’ll be based on these grounds:that Nask’s lack of hospital operations experience has made him use poor judgment in deciding what district programs should be trimmed and which…
Commissioner Robert Bernstein has asked that the North Broward Hospital District’s board consider removing the public hospital’s CEO, Frank Nask, after a year when the district was hit by a barrage of scandals.The item will be placed on the board’s January 27 agenda. District spokesperson Sara Howley couldn’t immediately confirm…
Fred Chalker says a turning point in his understanding of the needs of the Haitian people came five years ago, when he was visiting one of his clinics on the Northwest coast of Haiti. A mother had brought her 18-year-old son in to the modest medical clinic Chalker funds through…
The North Broward Hospital District has hired a national law firm to conduct what appears to be a wide-ranging investigation of whether the district has violated federal laws against health care fraud, according to records recently made available to Juice.The investigation likely focuses on points of concern described in a…
Broward Health Commissioner Robert Bernstein is known both for his emphasis on ethics and for his short temper. In a string of emails to the district’s CEO, it appears he was torn between those two impulses.On one hand, Bernstein was an enthusiastic supporter of ethics reform that occurred in 2007,…
Attorneys at Scott Rothstein’s firm landed a highly privileged meeting with the executive leadership of the North Broward Hospital District in September 2008, the month after Rothstein was appointed by his friend, Gov. Charlie Crist, to the nominating committee for Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeals, according to documents that…
What are the odds? Of 10 extraordinary people chosen from around the globe as the finalists for CNN’s Heroes of 2009, two of them are doing their good deeds based in South Florida. And until this Thursday the 19th, you can click here to vote for one of them, possibly…
Documents recently made available by the North Broward Hospital District show that former general counsel Laura Seidman made major improvements to a legal department that — by some indications — had been full of cronyism and waste under attorney Bill Scherer. The most striking example of Seidman’s progress: She reduced…
Since May, Sam Goren has been the acting general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, a position that allows him to dole out millions of dollars in legal work and makes him one of the county’s most powerful attorneys.But the manner in which Goren landed that job keeps getting…
This weekend, Hollywood Beach will swarm with impossibly ripped humans, all here for the NPC National Bodybuilding, Figure & Bikini Championships, which is making its annual appearance at South Florida’s Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa. For rubberneckers who can’t fathom how a person can get that muscular, the answer’s in…
Shortly after Marc Goldstone began his new job as general counsel of Broward Health in November of last year, he found that the public hospital district — which is among the nation’s largest — had been violating a range of federal laws and court orders, some of which jeopardized the…
It was a balls-to-balls battle, with Joey “Jaws” Chestnut squeezing out a victory over Pat “Deep Dish” Berletti at Sunday night’s Masters Meatball Eating Championship in Las Vegas. The competitive-eating marathon was sanctioned by Major League Eating and hosted by Broward restaurateur Steve Martorano, the tattooed hulk we recently profiled…
Your former governor was in Atlanta recently, earnestly pretending to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican nomination for president. Or maybe he was testing a theory about mind control: that if you keep telling people something that’s false, maybe they’ll come to believe that it’s true.If so, Jeb Bush…
We can all agree with what Florida’s new senator, George LeMieux, says above, that this health-care fraud thing should stop. And he makes it sound so easy!But if you watch the longer version of that speech above, you’ll see that LeMieux’s debut piece of legislation is part of a larger,…
Way back on Friday, when it was still October and Scott Rothstein was still a pillar of Broward County society, I spoke with Sheriff Al Lamberti. Not about Rothstein, who was a major a campaign fundraiser of Lamberti’s. Rather, I spoke to Lamberti about his mustache.I realize that such topics…
We have some splendid local mustaches, but the only suspense in this week’s contest was for readers who forgot that Burt Reynolds is eligible based on his brief residence at a West Palm Beach addiction treatment center. Reynolds lives just north of the Palm Beach County border, in Hobe Sound,…
It may be a little early to anoint Tony Sparano the savior of the franchise, but at the very least he’s made the Dolphins fun to watch again. And he definitely un-did the damage to a previously proud tradition of upper-lip hair inflicted by one Dave Wanndstedt.Juice hereby awards Sparano…
Everybody’s still talking about Crist gaffe-ing (lying?) over the Obama appearance, but this quotable moment is, I think, much more precious. Let’s pull out a portion of that Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, which asked for Crist’s opinion of a Senate Democrat health-care reform package that would allow states to opt out…
You may have noticed there’s been a pause since we unveiled the fourth most formidable mustache in Broward and Palm Beach counties. That’s because we were really hoping to get a comment from the man behind Mustache No. 3: Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. And it’s become clear that those hopes…
Does “consumer option” sound more inviting than “public option”? How about “competitive option”? In case it does, Fox News is warning its partisan audience that whatever West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Nancy Pelosi call it, it’s still a “public option” — which still translates to the dreaded “big…
Last week, we told you about Dr. Bernard Zaragoza, the Harvard-educated surgeon who in 2007 operated on an 83-year-old man who had an inflamed gallbladder. Zaragoza was supposed to remove the gallbladder but took out the man’s kidney instead.However innocent the mistake was, the original penalty seemed a bit light…
