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In yet another in the series of "guess the missing party label" we once again present the case of imprisoned former Broward County (FL) sheriff, Ken Jenne. As we have seen before, the South Florida news media is extremely reluctant to apply a party label to the disgraced Jenne, who was convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion while in office, despite the fact that the Broward sheriff  office is most most important political post in the county. A hint as to what  is Jenne's political label is the fact that if he had been a Republican, we would have seen that fact...

In what seems to be an almost comical pattern among South Florida newspapers, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel has once again failed to apply the political party label to disgraced and imprisoned former Broward county sheriff Ken Jenne. Can you guess the political party to which Jenne belongs? I'll give you a hint. It is the big D. If Jenne had been a Republican, you can bet this fact would have been made known in the first paragraph of the Sun-Sentinel story yesterday about the former sheriff, convicted on corruption charges, being transferred to a more comfy prison. One feels like the late great...

This has been happening so much in the past few years that it is reaching the point of redundancy to report on it. A politician is caught up in a major scandal and/or corruption. The media dutifully reports on it but leaves out one key factor. The political party of the fallen politician. And can you guess which political party is ALWAYS missing from these reports whenever such an affliliation is conveniently purged from the news stories? That is your Blue Book exam question, boys and girls. If you had answered "Democrat" you would have been absolutely correct. Such was the case today...

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) -- The sheriff of Broward County resigned Tuesday amid a corruption investigation, and a law enforcement official said a plea deal was in the works involving federal tax evasion and mail fraud charges. Sheriff Ken Jenne made his resignation official in an e-mail to his employees and in a separate letter to Gov. Charlie Crist. "I need to turn my attention to myself and my family," Jenne wrote in the e-mail. Under the agreement, Jenne would plead guilty to three counts of tax evasion and one count of mail fraud, according to a senior federal law...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne has a few more days to sign a plea agreement with federal prosecutors or face an indictment by a federal grand jury of allegations that he used his position for personal gain, Local 10's Rad Berky reported. A deadline of 5 p.m. Friday has now been extended until Tuesday at 5 p.m. The grand jury has uncovered evidence that Jenne took as much as $100,000 in loans and payments from companies doing business with the Broward Sheriff's Office and then did not report the income on financial disclosure forms or his...

HomeUpdates By Ethan JordanComing SoonNewspaper Articles Crime Statistics ScandalJenne's Moonlighting Corruption TV News Crime Statistics ScandalJenne's Moonlighting Corruption Evidence Sworn StatementsOther DocumentsAudioPowerTrac VideoPolitical Connections PetitionsPublic ForumContacts March 19, 2006: New BSO second-in-command Col. John Auer praising Chief Greg Page of Weston in PowerTrac. Also, sworn statements from Edwin Arias. (video & sworn statements download link at the bottom of article) Featured in this video of a September 16, 2003 PowerTrac session are Lt. Col. John Auer and Weston Chief Greg Page. Chief Page is being commended by Auer for posting a 62.7% clearance rate. And, very deserving of the...

Sheriff Ken Jenne's 34-year career in public service always seemed like a steady, inexorable march upward. He climbed from hotshot assistant state attorney to a high-profile member of the Broward County Board of Commissioners before moving on to the Florida Senate, where he served for 20 years. In 1998, after the death of Broward Sheriff Ron Cochran, Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Jenne to run the largest sheriff's agency in America. Widely acknowledged as the most influential elected official in Broward County, Jenne was elected to a third term in November 2004, facing only nominal opposition. The sky was the limit....

Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne sent a chilling message to deputies who want to warn him about problems in the agency when he demoted two veteran supervisors this week, an attorney representing one of the men said Friday. "This appears to be an effort by the sheriff to stifle information from getting to the sheriff," said Hilliard Moldof, the attorney for Roy Vrchota Jr.

From the post-election muck of the past two weeks, with all the mud flying back and forth, who emerges from the Broward County swamp with the cleanest profile? Perhaps the smartest politician in town: Sheriff Ken Jenne.With a steady -- but not a heavy -- hand, he dispatched deputies on Election Day to troubled polls, served as a confidant for Secretary of State Jim Smith, plotted with county commissioners and repeatedly offered assistance to beleaguered Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant.In a carefully calculated effort, he walked the line between selling her out and appearing as her close ally.Instead of publicly...

The Broward County Commission voted down two proposals Tuesday that could have reformed the county's fire rescue service. One would have set in motion earlier plans to accept a proposal from Sheriff Ken Jenne to run the Broward County Fire-Rescue department. The other would have asked voters whether they want to set minimum standards for all fire departments in Broward County. There has been a push to reform the fire service since last year, when outside consultants condemned the county's system of 24 departments and 11 dispatch centers as "wasteful and inefficient." Commissioners voted last month to accept a proposal...

Cars were stopped. Roads were closed. Pedestrians were cleared off the crosswalks. Then a sleek car with tinted windows sped by, escorted by at least 10 police motorcycles. Was it a Third World generalissimo? A rich rajah? A self-important rock star? No, it was Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne. While thousands sweated through traffic when leaving the McDonald's Air & Sea Show, Jenne traveled in style. Sunrise Boulevard and other streets were closed for his motorcade. "Does the sheriff of Broward County have the same clout as the vice president or the president of the United States? We don't think so,"...