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Better Business Bureau

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Brian J. Weiss, South Florida Scammer, Killed In NYC As Police Investigate Mob Ties

    Last Thursday, a 31-year-old named Brian J. Weiss was holding a meeting in a Hilton hotel near Kennedy International Airport when a man pulled out a .380 Baretta and shot him five times in the head. That man, Gary Zalevsky, then killed himself as four others in the room dove for cover. The brut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Azul's Tasting Menu Sours After "Per Person" Misunderstanding

    GKS via flickr Read (clearly) before eating.​One hundred bucks for a dinner for three at an upscale Miami restaurant? Never going to happen. You'd know that if you're from Miami. But if you hail from Colorado, that might not be so obvious.It wasn't for Dorene Miller when she dined at Azul i ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2009

    Fort Lauderdale's Total Focus Professional Photography and Video is a scam, say angry newlyweds

    GKS via flickr Read (clearly) before eating.​One hundred bucks for a dinner for three at an upscale Miami restaurant? Never going to happen. You'd know that if you're from Miami. But if you hail from Colorado, that might not be so obvious.It wasn't for Dorene Miller when she dined at Azul i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Bash the Bride: Newlyweds Say Total Focus Video Scammed Them

    via wetv.com​If angry brides in Miami were to suddenly sprout fangs and stomp north like a mob of fuming Sasquatches, there's one business that just might scream and run. In the past two years, Fort Lauderdale-based Total Focus Professional Photography and Video -- which banks on wedding DV ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    D'Artagnan Fed Public Deceptive Foie Gras Claims, Now Has To Eat Its Words

    Farm SanctuaryNational Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus earlier this week recommended that D'Artagnan Inc. discontinue certain advertising claims regarding its' Artisan foie gras -- specifically that "the liver is not diseased, simply enlarged", and that the anima ... More >>

  • News

    November 16, 2006

    The Orange Man Cometh

    South Miami's first murder in eleven years came after a brazen robbery

  • News

    May 25, 2006

    The Name Game

    County commissioners named a street for a drug dealer. Then there’s this.

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Bad Move

    A hurricane victim says she was hijacked by hired haulers

  • News

    March 2, 2006

    A Beastly Background

    A Little Haiti company outlives its checkered past

  • News

    January 12, 2006

    Fracas

    A would-be supermodel takes a shot at Miami’s beauty agents

  • Dining

    March 7, 2002

    Serving Subpoenas

    On the pain and suffering of restaurateurs falsely accused

  • Dining

    March 29, 2001

    Fake Padding

    Spot a pumped-up meal a mile away

  • Dining

    June 1, 2000

    Dish

    Tilapia Posing as Grouper Posing as Mahi-Mahi

  • News

    December 21, 1995

    The Kingmaker

    In the soap opera that is Hialeah politics, Herman Echevarria might be poised to supplant Raul Martinez as leading man.

  • News

    November 30, 1995

    Inside the American Police

    Hall of Fame and Museum: Morbid kitsch and money. Lots of money.

  • News

    October 27, 1993

    Weiner Takes All

    Want to make a little easy money? Whatever you do, don't go into business hawking hot dogs on the street. It's a jungle out there.

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