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Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 07:22:17 AM

From the morning papers:

-- Kevin Deutsch writes about the DUI arrest of Boca Raton developer Greg Talbott after he was caught napping in his Bentley after 1 a.m. Talbott sounds like a walking disaster at this point, as he's been accused of being in default on about $50 million in loans. It's tough to be a developer -- especially when the cops wake you up in the middle of the night in your car. The ensuing scuffle involved the use of a taser three times on Talbott, who also suffered a cut over his left eye.

-- The courthouse enforcer has left the building. Judge Jay Spechler resigned after he was banned from the courthouse by chief judge Tobin. Spechler for years was a top lieutenant for former chief judge Dale Ross and was known mostly as a bully and intimidator for the Ross mafia. He won't be missed much from what I hear.Only the Daily Business Review printed what I had been hearing the past couple weeks: That Spechler was under investigation by the JQC for a conflict (including nasty anonymous letters) he had with Judge Peggy Gehl, in which he disparaged her sexual orientation (can one of you guys at DBR forward me a link?).

-- And, on the journalism front, a judge will decide this morning whether to unseal the arrest report on Tony Villegas, who is accused of killing lawyer Melissa Britt Lewis in Plantation. Both the Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel are suing for the records, God bless 'em. Note to the Plantation Police Department and State Attorney Michael Satz: Quit trashing the Sunshine Laws. This is America, not some outlying tribal area of Pakistan.

-- And from the humorous headline gaffes department, we have this from page 5B in the Sun-Sentinel: "Asphalt tree proposed between Fig Tree and center." Now what kind of sick mind would propose an "asphalt tree"? Well, turns out they meant an asphalt trail.

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8 Comments:

Kudzu says:

The Post destroyed the Sentinel on this story, at least in the early online vesions. The S-S had a few grafs that read like a police department press release. The Post had a full story, including color and background.

alton dellen says:

Ellen Dalton lives!!!

Spade says:

actually per the article it was defense counsel who wanted to keep them sealed because of too much publicity. looks like the documents were unsealed.


Anonymous says:

Hey Pulp -- still sucking at the Seidman teat for information?

If anyone is an expert on anonymous letter-writing, it's him.

anonymous says:

I'm surprised a blog that covers South Florida journalism has not mentioned the death of George McEvoy, one of the truly memorable characters in newspapers here since the 1970s. He was a Front Page-style reporter (not journalist) who befriended and helped out a couple of generations of young reporters at the Sun-Sentinel and the old Fort Lauderdale News during the 1970s and 1980s. You might look in askance at a couple of his facts when he really got going on a story, but they were always beautifully written. A George McEvoy story might make you laugh, or it might make you cry, but you sure as hell were never bored. He loved to go drinking with reporters half his age and spend the night telling stories, always with his late wife Ruthie by his side. He wrote a column for the Post in recent years while in semi-retirement. The Post did a decent, but incomplete, obit on the life of a colorful, decent and talented reporter.

what a joke says:

bob
just admit that you have had pleanty of information regarding interesting conduct by judge seidman andhis wife who is head counsel at broward health and have done nothing. why?

Anonymous says:

Tsk Tsk Bob -- listening to the fools at JAAB and their judicial patron Seidman again?

Try getting information from a source that doesn't have such overt bias.

Hey, Spechler's former JA just got fired yesterday even though there are 2 judges without JA's and there is a new hire freeze in effect.

Even though Tobin LIED in his letter to Spechler stating that his JA would be kept on with whomever took over the division, there's little coverage on that.

The only person Spechler bullied was your friend Seidman, and rightfully so.

This whole event is nothing more than old grudges between Seidman, Gehl, and Tobin and Spechler getting settled.

Crass politics -- thanks for taking part Pulp.

C. Little says:

Cluck Cluck Cluck. Where's the real story on the Broward Judiciary, Pulp?

CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK.

Who got to you Pulp?

CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK.

Your wife has been doing such a good job lately on exposing some stuff in Broward politics, what happened to you?

CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK.

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