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When dirty developer Shawn Chait was called in to testify in a deposition about suspected bribes he paid to then-Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion, he called the husband of another commissioner for help. Chait, who along with his father, Bruce Chait, is now cooperating with authorities in one of the biggest corruption cases in Broward…

I don’t usually do national (or in this case, international) news, but this video is so astounding that I had to share it with you. It’s in Taiwanese, but one of the many beauties of this report is that it can be clearly understood by all — it rises above…

  Watching this critique of an anti-Bill McCollum ad, you wonder if all this nonstop politricks hasn’t finally driven Michael Putney off the reservation, but you gotta keep your sense of humor. It’s Sunday, so this is a comment cleaner. Inside, read an amazing political story from 1988 that proves…

Budget shortfalls and projected layoffs haven’t gotten in the way the Broward Sheriff’s Office buying a brand-new toy. It’s a Eurocopter EC135 made in Germany. Estimated cost: $4 million. See this link on the purchase of a new audio system for the new helicopter. Don’t make a mistake: The sheriff’s office…

The three-day suspension for FLPD Sgt. Steven Greenlaw for bodyguarding Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein is a joke but not unsurprising. The department was up to its ears in Rothstein, from his good buddy Chief Adderley on down. Forty-nine officers worked the off-duty Rothstein detail, spokesman Francis Sousa among them, and they pulled…

Like the photo of him above, Pembroke Pines Commissioner Angelo Castillo isn’t always so clear. It’s not always easy to see what he’s actually up to or who’s propping him up from behind his nice suits. Never has his slippery quality been more obvious than in a video put up this…

If it weren’t so obvious, it might be shocking. We learned today in a federal court hearing that Narcy Novack is suspected to have had a hand in killing not only her husband, Ben Novack, but his mother, Bernice, the former queen of the Fountainbleu Hotel. Finally, we get a…

Let’s see, the Broward County School Board construction department has been horribly mismanaged, has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars, and was at the heart of a federal criminal case that recently sent one elected official to prison.  ​Make no mistake: The School Board is a monumental mess, and there is…

This thing about politicians naming things after themselves got me to thinking about some things that desperately need to have their titles changed. Naming things after terrible-terrible politicians demeans the entire county. We need to name things after people who actually made a positive change or at least had a…

[jump] Look at the size of the red letters spelling out “Dr. Brenda C. Snipes.” They are something like three times larger than the ones reading “Broward County Supervisor of Elections.” I know, it seems like a small matter, but the devil truly is in the details when it comes to public office…

Not a big news day, and almost too hot to care even it was, so I thought we’d go to the video archives. Above we have what I think was surely the best 39 seconds of the first-ever James-Wade-Bosh news conference. First we have LeBron giving the best reason why his…

Recently posted a photograph of Cooper City Commissioner Neal DeJesus, who also serves as chairman of the Broward Ethics Commission, on a prototype three-wheeled police vehicle that basically looks like a SkiDoo for land (it was actually a Can-Am Spyder, which you can read about here). We had fun with it, since…

Whew, for a minute there I thought Diana Wasserman-Rubin was really in trouble. But now former Southwest Ranches Town Manager John Canada is coming to her side and promises to testify on her behalf at her corruption trial. What’s next? Is Ponzi schemer Joel Steinger going to come to the…

In purely basketball terms, this is a work of pure genius; some might call it diabolical genius, but genius nonetheless. This is the Manhattan Project of professional basketball. These three players are seizing history, and this team, barring some natural catastrophe, will be nearly impossible to stop. Worried about the supporting cast, you say? Wade, James, and…

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If the trend continues, there will be a lot of wheeling-and-dealing husbands of elected officials visiting their wives only in prison. Think about it. In Broward County, corruption comes in twos. With most power couples in Broward, it works this way: The wives are fronted as elected officials, and the husbands cut the…

UPDATED: The probable-cause affidavit (click link) was just released by the State Attorney’s Office. It details how Wasserman-Rubin voted to approve millions in county bond money on three grants written by her husband, Richard Rubin, that netted him three $15,000 bonuses from the Town of Southwest Ranches. It also alleges that Wasserman-Rubin…

SAO spokesman Ron Ishoy sent out this release: The Broward State Attorney’s Office has obtained a warrant for the arrest of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin. The warrant lists seven counts of Unlawful Compensation for improperly advocating for, and benefiting from, numerous In her resignation letter, posted by the Sun-Sentinel, she…

The corruption case involving the dirty developers Bruce and Shawn Chait is bringing a lot of rumors to the surface. And after former Tamarac Commissioner Patricia Atkins-Grad was charged with bribery and other felonies for allegedly allowing Bruce and Shawn Chait to pay the lease on her BMW, a lot of them involve politicians’ cars…

I have a professional obligation to promote political theater when it presents itself in this county. So above is a bit of graphics from the Gunzburger boy that nearly rivals Model Citizen himself. Sure there is a humorous side to all this, but it’s mostly infuriating. Sheriff Lamberti can’t get off his losing streak — and it’s his…

He was one of those bankers, working the deals behind what has become $2 billion in Broward School Board debt. Both were married with young children. And after meeting and flirting at an all-you-can-eat lobster and steak dinner put on by Citigroup for elected officials at The Palm restaurant in Tampa, romance blossomed between…