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Kashi Ashram: Claims of Rape, Child Abuse, and Kidnapping

The night the dark-haired guru declared herself greater than God, the chanting started at dusk. Scores of sweaty followers squeezed around a platform and closed their eyes. Their features slackened,…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5171 words)

Pope Family Battle: Like The Godfather

It's Tuesday morning and Paul Pope's staff is hustling around a walk-in closet in his Spanish Colonial spread in Highland Beach. A buxom 30-something with cascading brunet hair sits on the floor…
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1605 words)

Blue Scorpion Venom: Cuba's Miracle Drug

Six-year-old Leandro Gonzáles sits attentively at the foot of his parents' double bed, his legs dangling along the faded flower-print bedspread. His tiny brown eyes follow Dr. Niudis Cruz's…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4256 words)

When Jay Miscovich Found a Multimillion-Dollar Haul of Emeralds, Mel Fisher's Treasure-Hunting Family Attacked

When Jay Miscovich stepped off Duval Street into the Bull & Whistle bar in January 2010, Key West was shivering through a cold spell, the thermometer parked at a rare 70 degrees. A bearish guy in…
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5142 words)

South Florida Millionaire Irving Moskowitz's Millions Thwart Middle East Peace

The bulldozers arrive at dawn on a Sunday. In the inky twilight of this crisp January morning, several bearded men creak open a barbed-wire gate to grant entry to the three Caterpillar machines. For…
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5229 words)

Miami Hurricanes Basketball Moves to NCAA Championship

At tip-off, Jim Larranaga is on his feet, watching the first ugly minutes unroll from the sideline. It's a Wednesday night in Tallahassee, the stage for a Rivalry Week hoops battle between Florida…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5215 words)
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Everett Wilkinson: Media Darling, Fringe Tea Party Extremist

Everett Wilkinson, portly, nervous, and drenched in Polo cologne, is a man of many titles. In the past year, the New York Times has called him "Chairman of the Florida Tea Party" and a "Tea Party…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1368 words)

CIA Operatives, Barrels of Whiskey, and a Biker Named Thor

Thor Holm Hansen, disheveled and cantankerous inside his orange prison tunic, really wants you to know there hadn't been much cocaine. Grenades and women, yes. A briefcase stuffed with $54,000:…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 12, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4701 words)

Jim Greer: Racism and Dead Bodies Ahead

Hidden among the shadows in a cavernous banquet hall, Florida's most notorious backroom politician sips his third cup of complimentary coffee and begins to cry. Jim Greer, the 50-year-old embattled…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1336 words)
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