AltWeeklies Wire
MLB Steroid Scandal: How Porter Fischer Exposed Biogenesisnew
Porter Fischer shared the medical records, patient spreadsheets, and handwritten composition books with Miami New Times for an explosive story that sparked the biggest drug-related scandal in professional sports since Lance Armstrong lost his seven Tour de France medals in 2012. He could never have predicted the insanity that followed the story's publication: a high-speed car chase on U.S. 1, midnight knocks on his door, death threats, and unmarked envelopes stuffed full of cash.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
06-19-2013 |
Features
Road to Extraditionnew
Every year in Miami, dozens of murderers, smugglers and rapists flee to their homelands.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
09-29-2011 |
International
Gerald Posner Plagiarizes Againnew
A 48-year-old Wisconsin doctoral student named Greg Gelembiuk has discovered Gerald Posner lifted 35 passages in two books: his 2003 take on the 9-11 attacks, Why America Slept, and Secrets of the Kingdom, a 2005 tome about Saudi Arabia.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
05-19-2010 |
Media
Tags: Gerald Posner
Chinese Drywall Has Screwed Thousands of South Florida Homeownersnew
"Some people indeed say that the drywall Knauf Tianjin produces is toxic," Liao says cautiously in soft Mandarin. "Everyone in the company has heard about it." In fact, this bustling factory is the epicenter of a global consumer disaster that reaches all the way to South Florida.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
01-11-2010 |
Housing & Development
In South Florida, Dogfighting Rages on Despite Tough Lawsnew
What seemed like a straightforward case in Boynton Beach would ultimately evolve into an expensive and drawn-out legal quagmire that would serve as a test case for Florida's new laws targeting the clandestine world of dogfighting.
Miami New Times |
Michael J. Mooney and Tim Elfrink |
10-26-2009 |
Animal Issues
Cuba's Black Market Moves Online with Revolico.comnew
On an island where selling almost anything on the street, over the airwaves, or in the newspaper is forbidden by the socialist constitution, Revolico offers tens of thousands of items. Legions of Habaneros shop on the site every day, making it the most obvious crack yet in the foundation of Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink and Vanessa Grisalez |
10-05-2009 |
International
A Darker Look at Che's Revolutionnew
There's little question that, as former top CIA analyst Brian Latell puts it, Gustavo Villoldo played a "very critical role in the capture of Che Guevara." But while some exiles consider Gustavo a hero, Che fans and scholars such as UCLA's Peter McLaren call him a "narrow-minded ideologue who set out to avenge his father and took his anger out on a great man."
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
08-10-2009 |
International
Black-Market Cigarettes: Miami's New Vicenew
A gray-haired 57-year-old Florida man named Roman Vidal smuggled millions of cigarettes from Miami to Dublin criminals who funded a terrorist group, investigators say. The charges are just the latest link between black-market U.S. smokes and violent terrorist groups around the world.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
07-06-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Swamped: The Everglades Restoration Isn't Good for Everyonenew
As environmentalists absorb the biggest infusion of cash in a decade from the federal government, activists around the Glades are raising some inconvenient concerns.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
06-08-2009 |
Environment
Feds Say a Cutler Bay Man Funded Irish Terrorists Through the Port of Miaminew
A Cutler Bay man funneled money to the Irish terrorists who murdered two British soldiers in Belfast earlier this month, federal prosecutors say in a complaint unsealed in Miami-Dade court.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
03-23-2009 |
Crime & Justice
New Tax Might Kill Miami's Cigar Rollersnew
Miami's cigar-makers are scrambling to survive past April 1, when President Obama's new State Children's Health Insurance Plan takes effect — and brings with it a 900 percent tax increase on every single cigar made or imported to the States.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
03-09-2009 |
Business & Labor
Guantanamo's Final Daysnew
The day President Obama ordered the closure of the camps at Guantanamo Bay, writer Tim Elfrink was the only American reporter inside the detention camps. While there, he was able to get an inside view of the facilities that some of America's sworn enemies occupy.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde |
03-02-2009 |
War
Tags: Guantanamo, War on terror
Gitmo Status Quo: Business As Usual Inside the Campsnew
In Washington, the ink has barely dried on President Obama's order officially closing Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta detention facility. But for a legion of Gitmo guards on the Cuban waterfront, nothing has changed.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
02-02-2009 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, civil liberties
Developer Tibor Hollo Helped Build Miaminew
Tibor Hollo knows Miami real estate as well as anyone — he has been through its booms and busts — and he is convinced the city will bounce back. Indeed, he's betting everything he's right and plunging millions of dollars into his next project: a thousand-foot tower downtown on Biscayne Boulevard.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
02-02-2009 |
Housing & Development
Victims of a Bolivian Massacre Seek Justice in Miaminew
It has been five years since Bolivian soldiers killed Marlene Rojas Mamani in the village of Warisata. Today her parents have come to Miami seeking justice.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
12-22-2008 |
International
