U.S. Attorney's Office

Report Slams Bureau of Prisons For Denying Compassionate Release to Sick or Dying Inmates Like Keskea Hernandez

In January, Keskea Hernandez was whisked from her cell at the Federal Detention Center downtown to Larkin hospital in South Miami. The pretty 42-year-old real estate agent had pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud a year earlier. Ever since her incarceration, however, her health had been in free fall. Sh ... More >>

South Florida Is Ground Zero for Medicare Fraud

Miami-Dade TNT Unit Loses the War on Drugs and Liberty City's Trust

Miami PD's Seven Fatal Shootings Last Year Now Being Probed by U.S. Justice Department UPDATED

The fallout from ex-chief Miguel Exposito's reign hasn't ended yet.Miguel Exposito may be gone, but the blowback from his turbulent reign atop the Miami Police Department hasn't ended yet. Eight months after the last of seven fatal shootings of young black men by Exposito's force, the U.S. Just ... More >>

Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants

FAIR-y tales: The immigration saga continues

Assistant State Attorney Richard Scruggs squirms on the stand

Jerry Powers, the man behind Ocean Drive, refuses to surrender

A Movie Guy's Lies

An L.A. producer heads to court with Jean-Claude Van Damme, French bombshell Lydie Denier, and Miami's Bryan Abboud.

Frontier Justice

Peter Michael Daniel was savagely beaten at the Sweetwater Police Complex over a missing Jet Ski. No one’s saying who did it.

Glorious and Notorious

Casablanca had Rick's, Vegas had the Stardust, Miami's cocaine jazz age had the decadent Mutiny Hotel

A Shock to the System

Powers That Be

It's nice to have wealthy and influential friends, especially when you need loads of campaign cash

The Hard Fall

Money and glitz made Richard Bronson a South Beach luminary, a memory he now ponders in prison

Heavy Traffic

Miami attorney Joaquin Perez helps drug kingpins get minimum jail time, maximum profits, by cooperating with the feds

Trouble From Denmark

Wacky Danish cult leader Mogens Amdi Petersen was a guest on tony Fisher Island until recently; now he's staying with the State of California

Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

Where can terrorists find safe harbor? If you're of the Cuban exile variety, right here.

Life in the Secret Service

For Patrick Cruise it was a life of hounding, harassment, and humiliation

Under Suspicion

Despite a history of corruption in its north district substation, the Miami Police Department won't get tough with its own cops

Inside the Wasp's Nest

In the cloak-and-dagger world of a Cuban chief spook, Puerto Rican music magazines, wet beepers, and pregnancies can cause unexpected turbulence

Rick ... or Red?

Could Rick Sanchez, Miami's most notorious journalistic windbag, actually be an agent of Fidel Castro?

Wiping Out the Spongers

A new crackdown on Biscayne Bay's sponge poachers has netted an entire Cuban subculture

Goon Over Miami Part 2

Clubland king Chris Paciello ain't exactly a Mafia don. But it sure seemed he was headed that way.

My Lawyer, the Criminal

Attorney Russell Carbone played dirty. How dirty? Try conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury.

Cash Cargo

Despite recent deaths and a federal crackdown, smugglers continue the dangerous business of transporting Cubans to Miami

The Devil and Mr. Jones

Activist Leroy Jones battled personal demons and has emerged as a radical bent on black empowerment.

Teele's Deal

Miami Commissioner Art Teele needed a house fast. What he got was a controversy.

Passport to Paradox

The Cuban embargo is supposed to be getting tougher on travelers, but it's just getting weirder

Uncertain Justice

Was Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega really a drug trafficker? Or is it possible he was set up by the U.S. government? Try asking a few dozen people who should know.

Fraud Buster!

Want to know what makes Miami's mayor really mad? Voter fraud, that's what.

Letters

The Baba Chronicles

For some people, African millionaire Foutanga Dit Babani Sissoko was a dream come true. For others he was a nightmare.

A Race About Race

If Humberto Hernandez has it his way, Miami's only black commissioner, Rev. Richard Dunn, will be history

Cesar's Piggy Bank Redux

Already charged with corruption, Odio now faces renewed questions about his misuse of a discretionary fund

Taint What You Think

A local authority on money laundering is linked to a banker accused of fraud

Scalded: The Afterburn

A state fraud investigator says he was punished because he tangled with U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey

The Best Defense Money Can Buy

Sal Speaks

Coffey Grind

Why would state prosecutors probe a penny-ante fraud case against Susanna Timor? Maybe it has to do with who she works for.

In Havana, On Drugs

As faith in the revolution sinks to new lows, kids in Cuba are getting high

The Powers Behind Ocean Drive

For South Beach publishing magnate Jerry Powers, life wasn't always marked by glamour and upstanding citizenship. Some would argue it still isn't.

Bad Medicine

He allegedly fondled and caressed patients against their will. AIDS patients. No wonder he is known as Doctor Scumbag.

They're Gonna Live Forever

Federal officials have spent an eternity trying to put the founders of Fort Lauderdale's Life Extension Foundation behind bars

Three Scenes from the Political Stage

Election night with Steve Clark, Miriam Alonso, and Raul Martinez

A prominent attorney. A briefcase full of cash. A scheming girlfriend. And a severely manipulated legal system. They all come together in the bizarre tale of The Missing Briefcase

Politics and Prosecutors

Why is it that naming a U.S. Attorney for Miami seems to be one of the world's most complicated tasks?

The Conner Conspiracy

He was an aviation classic: independent, stubborn, savvy. And he was convinced powerful forces were out to ruin him. Did that include government informants and federal agents? Gus Conner will never know.

Birds Do It, Bees Do it

But is that any excuse for Matthew Block's lawyer to send Shirley McGreal a card that shows zebras doing it?

Triggerlock

Politics and Power