Before their boat sank off Palm Beach last week — drowning at least nine people, including a pregnant woman — a group of 30 Haitian immigrants endured days drifting at sea without fuel and a harrowing journey from Nassau to a smuggler’s cove in Bimini.So says the complaint filed this…
When I visited Guantanamo Bay a few months ago, I caught what looked like the last act in the long, sordid miscarriage of justice President Bush called the military tribunal system. There were so many outrageous problems with Bush’s plan for trying suspected terrorists, it’s hard to know where to start. The evidence, which is so mismanaged that…
Welcome to LandShark Stadium, Miami
Listen up, foreign billionaires who enjoy pimping out your pleasure yachts with the finest in endangered African animal skins: You might want to keep that luxury boat away from Florida.Surrounded by stuffed lions, mounted, roaring tiger heads and massive carved ivory tusks, U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced this morning a…
You’ve probably already heard about Since you live in Florida, you’ve probably also heard that the film prominently features our own tanned gubernatorial whiz-kid and maybe gay guy Charlie Crist. In part through some fine reporting by New Times’ own Bob Norman, the film offers no proof that Florida’s guv…
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…
Do you really need more proof that Jimmy Buffett hates freedom, America, children, ice cream, baseball and pretty much everything else that is good in our world? Even after he wrenched out the soul of a proud football franchise in the name of selling more Corona ripoffs? After the even more…
Ever wonder what it looks like to sell your soul?At Dolphin Stadium, it looks something like this: A white guy in a pink sombrero and plastic lei jerks to the grating jingle of “Margaritaville.” Three young men covered head to waist in blue paint awkwardly bob to the faux-Caribbean beat…
Surrounded by a circle of grinning undercover cops in jeans and polo shirts, their badges swinging from silver chains around their necks, Miami Police Chief John Timoney stands on the most dangerous corner in Overtown.”The vast majority of homicides in Overtown happen within two blocks of this corner,” Timoney says,…
Twice before, the government tried to build a laughably flimsy case that six poor Haitian guys from Liberty City were getting ready to “wage a ground war against the United States,” in the silly words of disgraced uber-clown Alberto Gonzalez.Twice before, juries deadlocked and couldn’t come up with a verdict…
Obama for Beer and Cigarettes in Liberty City
As we wrote last month, there weren’t any shortages of warning signs that something was fishy at Stanford International. A number of regulators had ample opportunities to expose Stanford’s fraud, from the SEC (which ignored several employee whistleblowers) to the DEA to Congress. Thanks to some new documents made public…
The Heat’s season ended yesterday pretty much the same way it played out all year long — as a one-man D-Wade show. Unfortunately for the Heat, Sunday’s game was one of those “Wade can’t possibly carry these clowns all by himself” duds, instead of those “Holy crap, Wade is carrying…
Take a seat, PetCo Park. Nice knowing you U.S. Cellular Field. Farewell, Citi (Taxpayer Bailout) Field. Very soon, a new champion for the worst corporate named stadium in the land shall be crowned right here in South Florida, at the venue previously known quite logically and respectably as Dolphin Stadium…
It’s tough to drive through Liberty City these days without running into President Obama. He’s there on the side of Liberty City Elementary, next to the MLK portrait. He’s painted on the walls of at least a couple of street-corner ministries. And at NW 12th Avenue and 58th Terrace, Obama…
Broke Miami boat owners sink their ships
Liberty City Shootings Raise Questions
Time to shave that Rasputin-length win-beard. The Marlins are at last back in the win column after a season start that can only be described as more confusing than Charlie Crist’s sexuality.Somehow the Fish won 11 freaking games before they lost two and then decided to go on a seven-game…
Yesterday, a veteran Miami-Dade prosecutor told New Times he thinks a story by CBS4’s Jim DeFede that aired last week triggered a drive-by shooting in Liberty City on Sunday that left five young men wounded.Today, the video report in question appears to have disappeared from CBS4’s website, although a written…
Texas Monthly has a new feature story out about disgraced accused Ponzi schemer and frequent reporter threatener ‘Sir’ Allen Stanford. It’s good, although … cough, cough … your very own New Times had a pretty good read on the same guy last month, if we don’t say so ourselves. And…
Just before 5 p.m. this past Sunday, a Chevy Monte Carlo rolled up before a squat, one-story house in Liberty City. Someone inside the car pulled out an AK-47 and opened fire on a group of young men in the front yard, wounding five. The drive-by was especially significant because…
Remember this moment the next time you hear Jeffrey Loria whining about how much he needs a new stadium to keep the Marlins profitable. Remember it next year, when Loria sells off Hanley Ramirez, Dan Uggla, Josh Johnson, and any other Marlins player who might command more than a few…
