By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Testimony began Tuesday in the politically-charged, insider stock trading trial of Fort Lauderdale heart doctor and top Republican fundraiser Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah.
Zachariah, who has raised millions of dollars for the GOP, stands accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of using nonpublic information to make nearly $1 million in illegal profits [...]
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Republican fundraiser’s insider trading trial opens, big names expected to testify
Former Pompano Beach body armor tycoon under the gun in huge fraud trial
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
The embattled founder of financially-hobbled Pompano Beach body armor maker Point Bank Solutions refers to himself on his foundation’s website as a “Living Lifesaving Legend.”
But federal prosecutors say former Broward mogul David H. Brooks is a world-class crook responsible for an audacious $200 million corporate theft.
Brooks, forced out as CEO a year [...]
Democrat Butterworth, state appeals court judge testify for embattled GOP fundraiser Zachariah
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Fort Lauderdale heart doctor and major GOP fundraiser Zachariah P. Zachariah has picked up two influential allies in advance of his federal insider stock-trading trial this summer.
Former Florida Attorney General and top Democrat Bob Butterworth and Fourth District Court of Appeals Judge Melanie May, both Broward residents, testified under oath two weeks [...]
Nine-year-old Boulis murder coming to big screen in Abramoff saga before trio of alleged killers stand trial
Anthony Moscatiello, top, Anthony Ferrari, left, and James Fiorillo
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
It was Fort Lauderdale’s murder of the decade: the 2001 gangland-style slaying of day-cruise casino cruise ship kingpin Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis.
On Oct. 1, it’s coming to a movie theater near you.
The three men charged in 2005 with conspiring to kill Boulis have yet to [...]
Broward-based boss of Jamaica’s brutal Shower Posse dies; politically connected drug gang lives on
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Vivian Blake’s peaceful death in a Kingston, Jamaica hospital bed March 21 is a grim contrast to his life steeped in violence – much of it in South Florida.
Blake, formerly of Miramar, was a founder of the “Shower Posse,” a politically connected drug gang that got its name from the bullets it [...]
Lawyers, accountants seek big fees in Rothstein bankruptcy
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Attorneys and accountants for the court trustee in the messy bankruptcy of scamster Scott Rothstein’s collapsed law firm have asked a judge to authorize nearly $2.2 million in fees for less than three months’ work.
The biggest slice of that plump pie – more than $1.2 million – was billed by Berger Singerman, [...]
FBI probes huge “Ponzi-style” scheme; thousands in U.S., Canada “financially destroyed”
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Federal prosecutors and FBI agents in South Florida are investigating allegations of yet another massive investment fraud in which thousands of investors across the U.S. and Canada are said to have lost $170 million, Broward Bulldog has learned.
The investigation began last month after a 50-page preliminary report about the “Ponzi-style” scam was [...]
High-living stockbroker who defrauded investors won’t pay, ordered to jail
UPDATE: At 2 p.m. today, Jan. 22, U.S. District Judge Middlebrooks denied ex-stockbroker Jamie Solow’s request that he stay his order sending Solow to jail on Monday. The judge did, however, delay Solow’s surrender date one week to allow Solow time to appeal. Solow’s new surrender date is Feb. 1.
By Dan Christensen, browardbulldog.org
A globetrotting former stock broker who’s been living a [...]
Two doctors fined, another to trial in top Republican fundraiser’s insider trading case
By Dan Christensen, browardbulldog.org
The former chairman of the Florida Board of Medicine and another Fort Lauderdale physician have agreed to pay substantial sums to settle federal civil charges of insider stock trading.
Dr. Mammen P. Zachariah, appointed to the board of medicine by Gov. Jeb Bush in 2004, and Dr. Sheldon Nassberg allegedly reaped illegal windfalls [...]
Executives talk, but PBS&J walks in campaign scheme
By Dan Christensen, browardbulldog.org
Political gridlock in Washington has let one of Broward’s biggest government contractors off the hook for any liability in a decades-long scheme to win contracts by shoveling out illegal campaign contributions.
PBS&J was not charged with a crime two years ago when its two immediate past chairmen pleaded guilty in federal court in [...]
