New video of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein introducing John McCain and Charlie Crist at a pair of fundraisers, the latter on May 20, 2008, at his side. It was dug up by McCain’s opponent in the Senate primary race, J.D. Hayworth. You can read Hayworth’s press release after the jump…
A lot of people looked at the first investigation publicized of the newly formed Broward Sheriff’s Office corruption unit and said, “Whaaat?” BSO is investigating Broward County Commissioner Suzanne Gunzburger in a case that goes back 20 years and centers on a business owned by her now-deceased husband. The company sold bus benches to the county…
All of us in Broward County who know what a bad joke Judge Larry Seidlin really is have had to watch him hawking his unconscionable book about the Anna Nicole Smith case and his new proposed “Psychic Judge” TV show all week on national news shows. They let the huckster…
Some guys get all the luck, apparently. Here is famed Nixonian dirty trickster Roger Stone, former political director for fallen Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, getting licked at the New York Gay Pride parade by model Kat ForTra on Sunday. Stone, who has a (partially self-made) reputation as a swinger, was out at…
So now allow me to quickly finish yesterday’s post on the investigation into Tamarac Mayor Beth Flansbaum-Talabisco. Established facts are: — A political committee called Tamarac Residents for Good Government was created by dubious Democratic operative Barry Harris just before the 2006 election in Tamarac. — The committee was funded with $21,000 on March 9,…
After the mostly noneventful emergency meeting at Tamarac City Hall this morning, I asked Mayor Beth Flansbaum-Talabisco if she had taken anything of value from dirty developer Bruce Chait. Flansbaum-Talabisco very graciously declined comment, saying that she couldn’t discuss the ongoing State Attorney’s Office investigation. Then she walked away. Next to the mayor’s seat was…
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UPDATED: Not long after I posted the rather cryptic report below, the State Attorney’s Office issued a press release noting that Tamarac City Commissioner Patricia Atkins-Grad had been charged with bribery, official misconduct, receiving unlawful compensation, and conspiring to commit unlawful compensation. As first reported here last month, the charges involve…
Another day off the grid (in a way). You know, after Tony Bova shut down Bova Prime so covertly and unceremoniously, after allegedly failing to pay some employees, after filing for personal bankruptcy and going through foreclosure procedures on his house, after stiffing his landlord tens of thousands of dollars, after going…
Out of pocket today, but wanted to put in a comment cleaner. Some of you discovered that the page about me on Wikipedia had been hijacked by a Stacy Ritter-backing propagandist (here’s the Ritter Compendium for those interested in what I and others have reported about her). There are a…
First I need to give props to none other than a Republican congressman out of Georgia, a fellow named Phil Gingrey. He threw down some common sense regarding the oil leak in the Gulf. Here it goes: For the life of me, I can’t understand why BP couldn’t go into the ocean floor,…
Ponzi schemer Joel Steinger, a felon whose Mutual Benefits stole $837 million from investors (almost twice as much money as Scott Rothstein’s scam), ran to several supposedly reputable lawyers in town while he was committing his massive crime. Steinger, using his stolen money, hired attorney Michael McNerney and partner Ken Keechl to attack anyone who had the audacity to…
Well, they said Scott Rothstein brought a crowd to tears with a rendition of “Let It Be,” his mom said her boy has an “exceptionally beautiful tenor,” and here finally is proof that the guy can carry a tune. Wearing a Prince-like getup and bearing a solid lounge-style presence, the recently sentenced-to-prison Ponzi schemer does a…
This just came across the Pulp transom: Broward Palm Beach Circuit Judge Edward Garrison today struck now-former judicial candidate Jordan Howard Breslaw from the ballot, writing in a court order that he is using the name Breslaw after abandoning it in 1991 was simply a ploy to pander for the Jewish vote. Breslaw changed his name…
The bid by a gaggle of commissioners to kill a key ethics provision could blow up in their faces in a very big way. An emergency Broward Ethics Commission meeting regarding county Attorney Jeff Newton’s outrageous memo telling commissioners that the ethics reform bill was unconstitutional was held this morning and…
Well, the crazy saga of Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter and her father is finally over, apparently. Ritter’s dad, Ed Portner, told me today that he received five years’ probation for threatening his daughter with a gun at her home last October when she supported his opponent, Beth Talabisco-Flansbaum, in…
We’ve seen indictments, we’ve seen handcuffs, we’ve seen some of the worst elements in this town go down hard. But please don’t think that things have changed. They haven’t. This place is still run by the lowest common denominator. There’s still a whole lot of work to be done. I…
Can you smell the desperation in the air? It’s coming from Broward judges who have drawn unexpected opponents in their reelection attempts. They’re scared. They’re desperate. And increasingly, they are turning to the most ruthless political hustlers around for help. Merciless sharks like 77-year-old Norma Goldstein, the notorious frizzy-haired retiree at Kings Point…
If you wondered what the political fallout of the Scott Rothstein case would look like, you can see it in Arizona right now. Former congressman J.D. Hayworth, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by John McCain, has been hammering away at the 2008 GOP presidential nominee for taking so…
OK, kidzzzzz, I’m out of pocket today, so thought I would put up a comment cleaner, especially if anything big broke. Two things to ponder: I hear that former Scott Rothstein partner Russell Adler canceled three depositions scheduled for this week in the Larry Seidlin civil case. Is something up? Just FYI:…
Well, unfortunately I can’t be at the federal hearing before Judge Zloch involving Rothstein right-hand Debra Villegas, who is set to change her plea to guilty at 5 p.m. today. Five p.m.? What’s up with that? Seems to me the prosecutors and court are doing Villegas a solid favor by…
