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Juiced: The Week in One Gulp
Here’s a recap of what loyal readers learned this week — and what sporatic readers may have missed:Michael Dippolito, the target in an alleged murder plot by a gold-digging wife, has a warrant for his arrest that dates to 1993 — and it’s active.The University of Tennessee is under investigation…
Tattoo Take 2! Eleanor Sobel Takes Another Shot at Bill Regulating Tattoo Industry
Six months after Florida tattooists organized, hired a lobbyist, and gunned down her bill regulating the industry, Sen. Eleanor Sobel will introduce a new bill — this time with those same adversaries as allies.We told you last week how Fort Lauderdale tattooist Stevie Moon took a lead role in the…
Hot Tip on Cold Case: Fugitive Arrested Nearly a Decade After Murder
This February 4, Yakoub Levy would have had his 10-year anniversary as a fugitive from justice. Instead, the man wanted in a 2000 homicide in Fort Lauderdale will spend it in a jail cell. The Fort Lauderdale Police are reporting that Levy, one of three suspects in a killing that…
[UPDATED] Chief Adderley Should Give Up Phone Bills
[Updated with quote from a source who knows Rothstein, after the jump.]Fort Lauderdale residents pay for Police Chief Frank Adderley’s cell phone calls. And so Fort Lauderdale residents are entitled to look at his cell phone bills, especially in light of his having been spotted with Scott Rothstein at the…
Broward Congresswoman Named Most Likely to Succeed by House Colleagues
This coming week’s cover story in the National Journal will reveal the results of a survey of political and Capitol insiders, who speak candidly about their political colleagues in exchange for anonymity. It’s a little bit like a high school yearbook poll, isn’t it? Largely irrelevant to society at large,…
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El Toro Loco: How Loco Is Too Loco?
Let’s do a quick review of recent law enforcement visits to the suburban West Palm Beach nightclub El Toro Loco:This past January, 17-year-old Maciel Martin Videla was in the club when he was lured outside, allegedly by his girlfriend, on the pretext of a drug deal, only to be stabbed…
Car Alarm Leads Lauderdale Burglary to Escalate to Sexual Assault
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department is reporting that a man broke into a woman’s car early this morning. After the woman came outside to investigate the alarm, the thief sexually assaulted her, say police.Javerros Wright, 22, was arrested in connection with the incident, which occurred along NW Third Avenue between…
Morning Juice: Questions Raised About What Rothstein Knows About Handling of August Car Crash, Law Partner’s Murder
Lots of news on this Friday morning in Broward and Palm Beach. Umm, sorry. None of it good:City officials appear to agree with blog commenters that the blurry figure standing next to Scott Rothstein at the site of an August crash involving his then-friend Moe Sohail was Fort Lauderdale Police…
Of Course, Jeffrey Epstein Has Also Had Awkward Moments in Pretrial Depositions
Earlier today, I posted claims made by attorneys representing alleged sex abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein in which they alleged that Epstein attorneys have been crude and unprofessional in their questions during pretrial depositions. But as you can see in the video below, it’s been rough on both sides of…
Drug May Help Compulsive Gamblers
Maybe gambling should be treated like any other addictive substance. Researchers have found that the same antidepressants typically used to combat addictions to alcohol and drugs can help people who have a compulsion to gamble themselves into poverty.That report is one of the highlights of this week’s science conference at…
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Epstein Attorneys Scolded for Asking Alleged Abuse Victims About Abortions, Sex Positions
As trials approach in the civil suits against Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, a legal strategy is beginning to take shape. His high-priced attorneys appear intent on forcing Epstein’s alleged victims to relive their most traumatic sexual experiences.Of course, a certain amount of that is unavoidable in cases where sex…
Name Game: Sarah Palin Worship Blog Fears All Jonathans in Wasserman Schultz Office
Every so often, there’s a news event that suggests (or proves?) that the modern media is making the world an even more confusing place. This week, the office of West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced that former Politico.com writer Jonathan Allen had been hired as an aide. Pretty straightforward,…
Attorney for Epstein Victims: No Contact With Rothstein; Calls Epstein Suit Against Rothstein “Disgraceful”
If there’s a lawyer in South Florida in a position to hustle big cash settlements out of billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, that lawyer is Adam Horowitz, who represents seven women who have filed suit against the billionaire, seeking damages based on claims he sexually molested them. That makes Horowitz…
Morning Juice: Wimberly Guilty; Seminoles Making Bank as They Wait for State Compact
A few morsels of South Florida news while you enjoy your breakfast:Is that Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderly standing with Scott Rothstein on Broward Boulevard, at the scene of an August car crash that involved former Rothstein friend Moe Sohail’s car? [JAABlog] And if so, is this what the…
We Got Issues: New Times in Print
In this week’s New Times feature story, Gus Garcia-Roberts writes about Florida Memorial University’s penchant for violent crime — and violent crime suppression by the security staff. A young man from Deerfield Beach named Theonus Times, studying to be an embalmer, apparently felt the need to borrow his deceased father’s…
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University of Tennessee Probe Leads Investigators to South Florida
Tennessee Volunteers head football coach Lane Kiffin loves South Florida football players — we told you how he bought a billboard in their honor, which you can see here. But now the question for NCAA investigators is whether he and his staff encourage the university’s female students to show a…
Who Is Patrick Lochrie?
According to a scoop in yesterday’s edition of the Broward Bulldog, he’s the businessman who went undercover to help FBI agents lure corrupt Broward County officials, like Josephus Eggelletion, who will be entering his guilty plea in a money-laundering case tomorrow.Judging by Dan Christensen’s article, Lochrie has worked mostly the…
Hospital Commissioner Bounced From Host Committee by Crist Campaign
Gov. Charlie Crist is learning to tread lightly on the Broward County fund-raising circuit. Yesterday morning I posted this item about how Broward Health Commissioner Joseph Cobo was named to the host committee for next week’s swanky Crist fundraiser at the home of West Broward developer Ronnie Bergeron. And by…
Roof-Breaching Robber Video, Now With Appropriate Audio
Since Monday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office has been circulating the video below in hopes of catching the man who ransacked a pawn store in Lauderdale Lakes on December 4. But while Juice is usually the first media outlet in South Florida to lend BSO a bad-guy-apprehending assist, we decided to…