By Dan Christensen, browardbulldog.org
Suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion has agreed to plead guilty to a new federal information filed Tuesday that charges him with conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to a trio of sources.
Federal court records show that in exchange for Eggelletion’s plea, prosecutors have agreed to cap the amount of prison time [...]
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Eggelletion agrees to plead guilty
Money and betrayal on Las Olas Boulevard
By Dan Christensen, browardbulldog.org
The heiress to a Broward family fortune that includes Fort Lauderdale’s landmark Riverside Hotel and much of chic Las Olas Boulevard’s priciest real estate is suing her once trusted right hand man saying he betrayed her.
Barbara S. Wells, whose grandfather started The Las Olas Company in 1936, alleges ex-company president Irving Bowen [...]
Remembering the dead; Obsessed with justice
By Jonathon King, browardbulldog.org
His right eye is swollen and sightless, the victim of diabetes, blinded by age and bursting blood vessels. But behind its brown glaze are the memories of one man’s accounting of the dead. So many dead.
“I worked more homicides than I can count,” says retired Detective Doug Evans, sitting at the kitchen [...]
Chief judge Tobin reopens old wounds, wins at Supreme Court
By Dan Christensen, browardbulldog.org
When Broward Circuit Judge Victor Tobin was elected chief judge two years ago he vowed to heal a deeply divided courthouse and restore public faith in Broward’s judiciary.
But Tobin’s recent decision to transfer two rival veteran judges to divisions they did not request, and have told supporters they do not want, is [...]
Finalist for U.S. Attorney planted phony court records
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
A Miami-Dade judge who President Obama is considering to be South Florida’s next U.S. Attorney once falsified official court records in apparent violation of state law.
Judge Daryl Trawick, right, instructed the clerk’s office to alter the public court docket in 2002 at the request of state prosecutors seeking to protect a drug informant. [...]
Money, politics and Bush’s failed plan to name a Broward loyalist U.S. Surgeon General
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Sworn testimony in the Broward insider stock-trading case against a top Republican fundraiser is shedding new light on the alleged fraud and how political access is bought and sold.
Fort Lauderdale heart doctor Zachariah P. Zachariah and two other physicians, including his brother, are accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of using [...]
Top Republican fundraiser’s insider trading trial called off amid possible deal
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Next week’s federal insider trading trial of a major Broward GOP fundraiser with close ties to former President George W. Bush has been called off while a possible settlement deal is worked out.
Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah, his physician brother and a third Fort Lauderdale doctor are accused of hauling down more than [...]
