Cindi Hutchinson's Developer Friend Had Alleged Civil Fraud History With Toy Store

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WFOR-Channel 12
Former Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Cindi Hutchinson leaving jail in a New York sweatshirt.

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I want to thank Fort Lauderdale activist and graphics designer Cal Deal for supplying these images. Deal was on Hutchinson's case before it became a case.

And it was Deal who snapped several photos of Hutchinson sitting with former Toy Store manager and construction project manager Steven Goldstrom at a 2009 City Commission meeting. Goldstrom was working with developer Glenn Wright when he began ordering subcontractors to do work on Hutchinson's home, prosecutors allege.

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Hutchinson should have known what she was getting into with Goldstrom. I wrote about the antics at the Toy Store, which was then one of the leading luxury car dealerships in the country, back in 1999. Under Goldstrom's management, the car dealership on Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale that counted Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger among its customers was hit with more than 40 lawsuits alleging everything from odometer fraud to racketeering. One suit over an allegedly defective Porsche led to an accusation of attempted murder. Goldstrom told me at the time that the allegations were false and that one in particular amounted to "legal extortion." One angry customer told me that Goldstrom and former Toy Store owner Peter Wolofsky were the "biggest liars in the world." Read all about that here.   

How she thought she could get away with telling a BSO detective that she didn't know anyone associated with Wright's company we'll probably never know. Here's a backview shot by Deal of Hutchinson and the bald Goldstrom, who himself was charged with perjury, at the meeting.

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Cal Deal
​More inside.

 

Hutchinson was a creation of the Steel Magnolias, which at its core was a trio of women. One of them was Ellyn Bogdanoff, currently a state senator. Hutchinson and Bogdanoff were close political allies to the end.

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Cal Deal
Hutchinson and Bogdanoff

​Here Hutchinson campaigns for Bogdanoff. 

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In part because of their triumphs with the likes of Hutchinson and also criminally charged Stephanie Kraft, the Magnolias were once touted by the media as a Broward political powerhouse. Below is a piece Deal dug up from Florida Trend.

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