The State of Massachusetts’ probation officers allowed Sonny Peixoto to move to South Florida in 2004, despite his having just entered a guilty plea to vehicular homicide. The move made it possible for him to meet — then murder — Amity Kozak in 2007 in a West Palm Beach high-rise…
In December 2007, when John Edwards was bracing himself for a National Enquirer expose about his affair with Rielle Hunter, hoping it wouldn’t cost him a victory at the Iowa caucuses, he sent the woman and an aide to — of all places — the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood Beach.Maybe…
The morning after he learned he would be replaced on the Broward Health Board of Commissioners, Dan Gordon is trying to strike a diplomatic tone. Reached at the office of his Pompano Beach insurance company, Gordon said he was “not upset.” Rather, he was “surprised” by Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision…
Laura Seidman, wife of Broward County Judge Lee Jay Seidman, has filed to challenge Judge Lisa Porter for Broward Circuit Court’s Group 47.A Republican activist, Laura Seidman is former general counsel of Broward Health, resigning that position in April 2008 due to health concerns and political pressure. She described her…
The NFL Network has lots of time to kill before this weekend’s Pro Bowl festivities, and it could do worse than letting Chad Ochocinco run his mouth for a few minutes. Around 1:40, he describes his plans to perform as both a punter and a kicker at Sunday’s game in…
Your daily tour of the local news:According to the local media, nothing newsworthy happened at North Broward’s giant public health-care district yesterday. Moving on…The director of the Palm Beach International Airport has decided he’d like to ride that DROP gravy train a few miles down the track. The program will…
Gov. Charlie Crist’s office has removed Commissioners Robert Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the Broward Health board in a maneuver that appears likely to spare Commissioner Mike Fernandez from an ethics inquiry and save the job of embattled CEO Frank Nask.Bernstein had been on an ethics rampage for the past…
Everybody wants to be on the Broward Health board, it seems, except the people who are actually on the Broward Health board. Specifically, the four-person majority of Mike Fernandez, Joseph Cobo, Rebecca Stoll, and Maureen Jaeger, whose politically motivated absences are responsible for the board’s having canceled its last two…
Let’s be real. Charlie Crist isn’t trailing in the Senate race because he’s a weak leader who surrounds himself with a coterie of crooked businessmen and conflicted advisers. No, those would be legitimate reasons. Rather, he’s trailing the Senate race because back in February, he hugged Barack Obama.In the year…
It’s surreal to hear a conservative like LeMieux campaigning for mass transportation, typically a crusade for liberals. But when it comes to the railroad industry, to which LeMieux has deep ties from his halcyon days as a lobbyist, LeMieux turns liberal.As we’ve mentioned on Juice this month, LeMieux’s former law…
The headlines this morning in Broward and Palm Beach:Following his guilty plea to fraud charges in connection with a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein received a sentencing date of May 6. He’s hoping for leniency based on his having returned from Morocco and helping investigators identify…
It’s liable to get lost in the avalanche of pregame media coverage, but on January 30, Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium will host the first-ever Junior World Championship, pitting 45 of America’s best football players against 45 of the best who play the sport outside the States. For the age 19-and-under…
At 73 years old, Dr. Georges Boutin had never been to Haiti, and he had no reason to ever go until a phone conversation he had two weeks ago with his daughter Pier, an orthopedic surgeon who lives with her husband, Mark Hyman, in Massachusetts.The first pictures of the earthquake’s…
There’s some confusion about Mike Verdugo’s newsmaking clash with his former employer, the Hollywood Police Department. Verdugo is not claiming that he was fired for being gay, as this article in the Miami Herald implies. Rather, he’s claiming that he was fired from his job as a police officer because…
Broward Health Commissioner Mike Fernandez failed to attend this morning’s board meeting at Coral Springs Medical Center in what appears to be a thinly veiled effort to avoid voting on whether to fire the district’s CEO and to address concerns about whether he violated state ethics laws by failing to…
In January 2008, when Broward Health CEO Frank Nask promoted his friend Deborah Breen to his former position as the district’s chief financial officer, he gave Breen a raise that was 250 percent higher than the one that a previous interim CFO received just four years before.A source in the…
Let’s see what’s in the papers and on the TV news this Wednesday morning:Prosecutors are finally getting ’round to issuing subpoenas in the long-overdue investigation of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who voted for some $11 million in grants for parks in Southwest Ranches — grants that were written by…
UPDATE: Broward Health just emailed new information containing its explanation for the strange entries I cite below. In short, they say they’re the product of a computer glitch. I’ve copied that explanation on the bottom of this post.Since 2001, Broward Health has spent nearly a million dollars on ultrasound equipment…
Aren’t investors supposed to be ruthless believers in the shallowness and depravity of the human race? That seems to be the bet that FriendFinder Networks was making when the Boca Raton-based website promoter decided to stage an initial public offering. The pitch: This could feed the human sex drive in…
