Stet News
Five years after The Palm Beach Post sued to make public the secret transcripts of the 2006 grand jury proceedings that resulted in one charge against Jeffrey Epstein, the court made them public on Monday. They showed, as The Post reported in 2019, that prosecutors treated a 14-year-old girl lured to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion to give a massage as if she, not Epstein, was the criminal. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
👮🏼♂️ Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw has doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra retirement pay to his top brass as they departed in recent years, some topping $400,000. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
Tri-Rail’s first express train from West Palm Beach to Miami was disrupted Monday morning when the tracks were closed in Hallandale because another train hit a person. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
🚜 The Riviera Beach Planning and Zoning Board approved three changes to allow twin, 25-story towers called Oculina on the city’s north end. As first reported by Stet News, Forest Development would build Oculina at the tip of a strip center featuring a Goodwill thrift store. The 3.3-acre site overlooks the Intracoastal Waterway next to the nearly complete Nautilus 220 twin towers, also built by Forest Development. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
🦉 Florida Atlantic University is borrowing $117 million to build 670 housing units. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
🐢 The Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach is No. 1 in a reader poll of the best free attractions in the United States. (USA Today)
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“In clubs that have memberships, there’s a lot of rules. [At] Everglades Club, you can’t bring a cell phone in.” The Park “makes you feel like you’re at a nice club without the rules.”
Payton Smith, a real estate agent in Palm Beach, in an interview for Air Mail on why he thinks the über-wealthy have taken to West Palm Beach’s municipal golf course.
