Bookmarks for August 10th

rakontur links for August 10th:

• Borrowers Betrayed: State let crooked brokers keep working (Miami Herald) - Time and again, regulators caught mortgage professionals breaking the law -- fraud, forgery, and stealing from clients -- but allowed them to stay in the business with few consequences during the richest housing boom in state history, The Miami Herald found.


• Woman who had affair with John Edwards has a wild past (Sun Sentinel) - Rielle Hunter, the woman at the heart of the John Edwards scandal, was born in Fort Lauderdale and attended college in Tampa. But it was from the cocaine-fueled New York City social scene of the 1980s that she emerged as the literary model for the ultimate party girl.


• When cops are gunned down, it's different (Fred Grimm/Miami Herald) - The sheer number of law enforcement officers created the illusion that this intimidating army was hunting down a cold-blooded cop killer. But the reality was an all-too-familiar scenario on the rude streets of South Florida. A collision of testosterone-cranked fools. A mundane, mindless, insane road rage incident that escalated into homicide.