New Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has officially begun the process of turning former Sheriff Scott Israel’s many controversial political hires into political fires. Tony took additional steps to clean house at BSO today, this time taking aim at two of former sheriff Scott Israel’s political cronies who’d been given high-level…
Unlike five other members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office command staff, Col. Frank Adderley remained at the agency over the weekend after Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted his boss, Scott Israel, as sheriff. Adderley, the at-times controversial former police chief of Fort Lauderdale, tried his fate with new Sheriff Gregory Tony, who…
On the same day that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended their boss from office and named Gregory Tony the first black sheriff in Broward County history, five top members of the command staff announced their resignations, sources confirmed to New Times. Those who resigned include Undersheriff Steve Kinsey, Col. Jack…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to remove Broward Sheriff Scott Israel from his post today at 3 p.m. during a news conference in front of BSO headquarters. That much is clear. But there is much speculation about whom DeSantis will install as the top cop. New Times has confirmed a Politico report that the governor is expected to choose former Coral Springs sergeant Gregory Tony as the interim sheriff. Tony would become the first black sheriff in Broward history.
Embattled Broward Sheriff Scott Israel’s second in command, Undersheriff Steve Kinsey, has informed numerous sheriff’s department staff members he is resigning his post, according to three well-placed BSO sources. The decision by Kinsey comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who took office Tuesday, is widely expected to suspend…
Israel’s numerous political hires need to be swept out.
The record shows that BSO Lt. Kevin Shults’ high-ranking colleagues failed to conduct a complete investigation and essentially covered up the case, which has never before been made public
As chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, Bob Gualtieri was supposed to bring accountability to the families that lost loved ones in that school’s massacre on Valentine’s Day. But Tuesday, Gualtieri slapped those families across the face…
Alcee Hastings’s sexual harassment woes
Scott Rothstein’s work as a Mafia informant might help him in his Ponzi case
Scott Rothstein’s drunken adventure
Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter threatened at gunpoint by her father, Tamarac mayoral candidate Ed Portner
Hollywood’s Mickey Mouse Cops, Parts I and II
Cocaine and Free Gambling at Gulfstream Park
Plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison is a dubious doctor who has been hit with a lot of life-altering allegations over the years. Five patients at the medical facility he directs in Hollywood have died after routine cosmetic surgeries during the past 11 years, three of them under Edison’s own knife…
How much does freedom of speech cost when applied to the now-infamous Liberty City terror trial? For one private investigator who worked long and hard on the case, Rory McMahon, the bill came to $9,000. For making the mistake of speaking his mind, the veteran P.I. was also banned from…
Until recently, millionaire philanthropist Michael Bienes was the toast of South Florida, a man who threw lavish parties and fundraisers at his $7 million estate on the Intracoastal Waterway, where he seemed a mixture of Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim. Now sources say he is a ruined man, so anguished that…
Last week, an anti-gay marriage measure passed statewide, garnering a majority of votes in every Florida county but Monroe. The ballot was one of the great paradoxes in American politics: The black community, the most oppressed group in U.S. history, comprised one of the unfriendliest demographics toward gays. S.F. Mahee…
Michael Wilbon, a sports commentator with ESPN and the Washington Post, has recently and repeatedly declared that Miami native Kimbo Slice took a dive October 4 in his much-publicized mixed martial arts fight at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. A little-known challenger named Seth Petruzelli decked Slice in a mere…
The loss of news is almost imperceptible; there’s really no way to know what stories we might be missing when there’s no one there to report it. The Shrinking Three have handed down nearly 1,000 buyouts and layoffs during the past couple of years, according to my estimate. About 350…
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s plan to buy U.S. Sugar for $1.75 billion has been described by Florida newspapers as “bold,” “ambitious,” and “grand.” Now it’s time to throw “stupid” and “irresponsible” into the mix. It’s true that the deal, in its broad strokes, might look like a masterpiece. It will…
When the City of Hallandale Beach bailed out a developer by wasting millions on a bad land deal, state Sen. Steven Geller was there. Geller, the Senate minority leader who represents Hallandale and most of Southeast Broward in Tallahassee, wasn’t there to fight for taxpayers. He was trying to pry…
