Well-known Democratic fundraiser dead in shooting at Signature Grand (banquet hall)

Miami Herald ^ | Apr. 29, 2003 | Herald staff

[Liz]

Miami businessman Jerome Berlin, once described as the country's most powerful Democratic fundraisers, died in a murder-suicide this morning at the Signature Grand, the huge and popular Davie banquet hall in Davie that he owned with partner Michael Pecora.

Police say Pecora is the other person found dead in a second floor office of the hall.

An employee reported hearing a loud argument, then three gunshots behind the locked door. The shooting occurred following a loud argument while hundreds of public school students ate lunch one floor below.

Police broke in and found two white males -- a part of the catering hall's upper management -- on the floor.

The shooting occurred during an event where eighth-graders from Broward public schools were learning more about African tradition at an African Heritage Forum.

The children, who were eating lunch on the first floor, were not evacuated. It was unclear whether the children knew what was going on above them.

The banquet hall hosts hundreds of events a year, including weddings, corporate events, luncheons, reunions and other events.

It has 100,000 square feet, capable of hosting up to 1,800 guests in private areas.

Police stopped traffic on State Road 84 near 70th Avenue. Berlin, who over the years has raised millions of dollars for political candidates, was acquitted in 1991 of federal charges that he and another lawyer conspired to defraud a crippled securities investment firm in 1985.

At the scene of the shooting, a Rabbi and family members appeared at the scene of the shooting and were quickly ushered inside the building.

[Liz]

Remember my prediction about how these former elite rats would start to turn on each other and devour each other? I think that we are starting to see. As their money gets really tight and GW grows stronger, they will become like starving jackals in the same cage with each other.

Yes, you did predict this, Gramps. And I never doubted you for a nanosecond.

[SkyPilot]

Geez, we have

1. Murder between a man and his "partner"--business partner or "other?"

2. PC claptrap with "African tradition at an African Heritage Forum"

3. Firearms, which I am certainly not against--but these were Democrats--so we need "Safer Murder Weapons with Safer Bullets"

4. Did it have a "trigger lock"?.......................the gun, that is......

[Consort]

A Klinton Klatch Killing, no doubt. Update the Body Count.

[mabelkitty]

No, but I like the name!!

[sarasota]

Hilarious!

[Grampa Dave]

You left out the visiting Rabbi and his family.

Also, the fact that was probably Gay Violence on another Gay and that was not mentioned in the article.

[Liz]

Everything you didn't want to know about Dumbocrats.....and more.

Trigger lock? What about a license? And how did he conceal it?

[Grampa Dave]

The security people thought the bulge in the pants was just their normal zucchinis being carried to impress other gays.

[NativeNewYorker]

http://www.pinkpistols.org/index2.html

[Uncle Miltie]

Drug Smuggler Made Clinton Donation in Cuba, Investigators Say
By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
New York Times
April 4, 1997

MIAMI -- Jorge Cabrera, a drug smuggler who has emerged as
one of the most notorious supporters of President Clinton's
re-election campaign, was asked for a campaign contribution in
the unlikely locale of a hotel in Havana by a prominent Democratic
fund-raiser, congressional investigators have learned.

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her only strong memory of Cabrera is at the
fund-raising dinner on Dec. 3, in Coral Gables, Fla., at the home
of Jerome Berlin, a lawyer who was indicted in 1990, and later
acquitted, of federal conspiracy charges of bribing public
officials.

[Destructor]

Dimocrat shot. In other words, the shooting was GANG RELATED!

[Grampa Dave]

This movie is being released to be timed with the release of the Hildebea$'ts newest ghost written book.

[Liz]

LOL. Good one.

[Liz]

Nice post.

[irgbar-man]

Link! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900755/posts

[Liz]

Dimocrat shot. In other words, the shooting was GANG RELATED!

Nice translation frem newspeak.

[mt tom]

guess his partner had eyes for another ewe

[Liz]

Zucchini? More like a pickled gherkin.

[weegee]

The article doesn't even disclose who shot who.

[Liz]

Hey, it's the liberal media. They don't give out details on Dumbocrats. Only Republicans.