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Magic City Kitty - Dr. Feelgood Sucks Real Good
June 10, 2008News Roundup
October 6, 2008Sorry Olds, but Time says Young People May Decide the Swing of the State
October 8, 2008Local Conservatives Think Conservatives Weren't Conservative Enough
November 6, 2008News Roundup
I just wanted to share the fact that this image on the right is actually from the Illinois.Gov, and is the single most helpful thing I've ever seen on a government website. [Illinois] Dr. Evan Zimmer, a well known Miami-beach psychiatrist, was arrested on charges of spending $10,000 on prostitutes, some of them under-age. [Herald]Here's the Broward-Palm Beach New Times piece related to Medicare charges a doctor evaded that he The Herald has referred to . [BPB New Times]The Miami Beach city counc
December 10, 2008Dirty Money
February 27, 1991Fraudbuster!
May 15, 1991Sorry, Lungs, Florida Remains a Smoker's Haven
The American Lung Association released Florida's annual smoking report card, and we got three Fs. As in F'ing awesome? No, as in one out of five Floridians are slowly F'ing killing themselves. Whoops. The ALA recognizes the state for increasing its tobacco control funding, but overall we're still failing. We also got Fs for our cigarette tax and cessation coverage by Medicare. But we received a B for our smoking bans. That works out to a 0.75 GPA. I don't think we could even get into MDC with
January 13, 2009Birth of a Notion
August 12, 1992News Roundup
UM is asking its individual schools to cut their budgets by at least 5 percent, and is considering pay freezes. [CBS4]Steve Rodriguez attempted to undress and possibly rape a woman in the parking lot at the International Mall. Now he's in police custody. [NBC6]A baby alligator? In my pool? [NBC6]More than 3,000 pounds of pot were found at the Port of Miami. [Herald]Another Medicare fraud ring, this one involving obsolete HIV therapy. [JustNews]Opium is moving from South Beach to the Hard Rock ca
February 17, 2009Explosive Exclusive!
May 26, 1993Death and Profits
June 16, 1993Obama's New Cigar Tax Might Just Kill Miami's Torcedores
Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and a long counter where a wrinkled 80-year-old brews espresso. Near the front window facing NW Seventh Street, Dionisio Gonzalez gently peels a cured deep-brown leaf from his table and expertly layers it atop a growing pile of tobacco. Before he fled to Miami last year, Gonzalez spent 53 years honing his cigar-rolling technique at Havana's legendary H. Up
March 3, 2009News Roundup
News5 people were shot outside a Miami Gardens night club, but it seems all will recover. [UPI]Is there anything left to cut? McClatchy, The Herald's parent company, plans to eliminate another 1600 jobs company wide. That's 15% of its remaining work force. [Bloomberg]All these recent cases of Medicare fraud are kind of Medicare's fault because they reinstated 18 medical equipment suppliers that were known to be shams. [Herald]PoliticsPresident Obama is reversing Bush's stemcell ban. [CBS4]Obama'
March 9, 2009Miami HIV Scammers Guilty of $5.3 Million Medicare Fraud
A federal jury this week convicted two doctors and two assistants of bilking Medicare for millions of dollars by setting up a bogus HIV clinic in Miami, the State Attorney's office tells Riptide, the latest conviction in a racket that's quickly become the Magic City's seamiest new claim to crooked fame.As detailed by Jay Weaver in an excellent Miami Herald series, South Florida is in the midst of a massive HIV fraud epidemic centered on an outdated procedure called "infusion treatment." Medicare
March 18, 2009Carnival of Fraud
June 1, 1995New Tax Might Kill Miami's Cigar Rollers
March 5, 2009Looking for Mr. Positive
October 18, 2007Inherit the Worth
June 8, 2006Night&Day
October 21, 2004Florida's Mean Season
June 12, 2003Cuba's Jackie Mason
June 7, 2001Addiction Affliction
February 22, 2001What Makes Alvaro Run?
August 10, 2000Best Politician Convicted In The Past Twelve Months
May 11, 2000Best Hero
May 11, 2000Pain & Gain, Part 3
January 6, 2000Pain & Gain
December 23, 1999Moreno Sidebar
September 16, 1999These Numbers Are Up
January 7, 1999Letters
November 5, 1998The Frugal Gutman
October 8, 1998Fall from Grace
April 30, 1998The Sound of Mutilation
August 14, 1997News of the Weird
November 21, 1996The Haunting of Alex Daoud, Part 2
October 17, 1996Let the Sunshine In
June 6, 1996Swelter 9
June 15, 1995Critical Condition
March 9, 1995Two More Arrested In Miami's Hottest New Racket, Medicare Fraud
Sure, it's not as sexy as running coke in cigarette boats over the Florida Straits or bootlegging moonshine for northern gangsters on the lam. But damn if Medicare fraud isn't lucrative -- which is probably why it's shaping up as one of the defining crimes of modern Miami.As Jay Weaver's great coverage at the Herald makes it clear, Miami is ground zero for all that is medical and shady these days. On Monday, the feds busted up another massive ring -- a $21 million, five-state Medicare fraud run
May 12, 2009Sparked By Sucess in Miami, Feds Widen Health Care Fraud Force
The string of headlines involving several local busts of fraudulent HIV/AIDS treatment facilities milking medicare for money was no coincidence. Two years ago the justice department begin specifically targeting medicare fraud in the city. After success in Miami and then Los Angeles, today Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced they will expand Justice Department health-care strike forces to other cities, like Detroit and Houston. According to The Washington Po
May 20, 2009Time Stares Into the Abyss of Miami's Health Care Costs, Blames Retirees
via Fidget's flickrWe broke the news this week that the average cost of health care for a family of four in Miami was the highest in nation at $20,280, 20% more than the national average. So Time's brave Tim Padgett takes a look into the state of the health industry in Miami, and while he finds many possible places to point a finger, where going to stick ours squarely at retirees. As a result of the deluge of doctors and hospitals that have flocked to the retiree mecca since the 1960s
May 21, 2009Undercover Fed Busts Major Bonanno Mob Ring In South Florida
An undercover FBI sting unraveled a South Florida wing of the infamous Bonanno Crime Family, leading to charges this morning against 11 members who are accused of running a dizzying criminal empire.Allegedly, the men smuggled cigarettes and committed bank and mail fraud. They laundered money, sold drugs and extorted business owners with violent threats. They trafficked stolen goods and ran insurance and Medicare scams. And just for good measure, they beat people up for money, conspired to murder
May 21, 2009Piece of Mind
June 18, 2009News Roundup
LocalSome guy hijacked a taxi on Alton, then drove west up the eastbound lanes of the MacArthur Causeway. Police shot him. He's dead. The road was shut down. [SunSent] The Herald and CBS4 are so hungry for Cat Killer fodder that they've sued to get sealed information about the arrest released. [Herald]The state found Medicare is paying for loads of equipment in Miami-Dade that doesn't actually exist. This is called fraud, and they will crack down on it. [SFBJ]Who will sit on the Miami Beach Cit
June 19, 2009Miami's Medicare Racket: Eight More Indicted in $100 Million Fraud
Let's go ahead and just christen it the cocaine trade of the Double-Aughts: Medicare fraud may be a lot less sexy, but it sure is keeping federal prosecutors in Miami busy.One month after busting up a $21 million, three-state ring, the feds expanded that investigation and charged eight Miami residents -- including the two ringleaders named in the earlier case -- with building a five-state, $100 million scheme. Here's how it worked, according to prosecutors: The defendants set up six fake me
June 24, 2009News Roundup
WPLG pulled the files on Adam Tavss, the Miami Beach Police officer involved in the questionable killing of a Arab-American tourist. Nothing all that interesting; they describe him as a "satisfactory" rookie cop. [JustNews]Portions of southbound Palmetto Expressway will be closed tonight. [Herald]Republic Federal Bank is closing one of five of it branches: its downtown location, which happens to be 11 blocks from HQ. [SFBJ]A Miami doctor got eight years in prison after bilking Medicare by p
June 30, 2009Victoria Jackson: Obama Is Hitler Jr. and Wants to Kill Your Grandma
So apparently Victoria Jackson's heartfelt column about breaking into tears over Year One's sheep-fucking jokes was the first in what we can only hope is a long line of columns for (former Drudge collaborator) Andrew Breitbart's conservative site Big Hollywood.Unfortunately, the SNL alum and Miami native's screeds seem to have gotten only more ridiculous. It doesn't help that we can't seem to read anything she writes without her high-pitched trademark screech echoing in our head.In the late
July 8, 2009Hialeah-Based Medicare Scammer Will Do Time
Chase Park Via Flickr CC​You know what's delightful? Knowing your tax money goes to slimy guys such as convicted Medicare crook Ramon Santos. Riptide certainly sleeps better at night knowing we helped finance his shiny new Ford Expedition. Sigh. Last Friday, the 42-year-old faux-nurse from Hialeah was convicted for health-care fraud and obstruction of justice in federal court. He and a group of three others milked the system for more than $3.2 million between 2005 and 2006. Santos worked ou
August 11, 2009News Roundup
Mayoral candidate Tomas Regalado may be accused of not being able to deal with his personal finances (he claims to only be worth $5000 year after year, and once had his wages garnished for not paying taxes), but his campaign manager is doing a good job with his war chest. He's consistently out-raising challenger Joe Sanchez. [Herald]The Bacardi buildings have won historic designation, despite not being technically old enough. No surprise really though. In this town we love our rum and we love ou
October 7, 2009
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