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FEBRUARY 6-12, 2014 I VOLUME 17 I NUMBER 15 BROWARDPALMBEACH.COM I FREE 2 February 6-February 12, 2014 NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | STAGE | NIGHT+DAY | NEWS | PULP | CONTENTS | browardpalmbeach.com browardpalmbeach.com NBROWARD PALM BEACH ® browardpalmbeach.com BROWARDPALMBEACH.COM ▼ Contents 2450 HOLLYWOOD BLVD., STE. 301A HOLLYWOOD, FL 33020 [email protected] 954-342-7700 VOL. 17 | NO. 15 | FEBRUARY 6-12, 2014 EDITORIAL EDITOR Chuck Strouse MANAGING EDITOR Deirdra Funcheon DEEPAK EDITORIAL OPERATIONS MANAGER Keith Hollar STAFF WRITERS Laine Doss, Chris Joseph, Kyle Swenson MUSIC EDITOR Liz Tracy CHOPRA WEB EDITOR Jose D. 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Time ART | PULP | NEWS ART DIRECTOR Miche Ratto magazine heralds Deepak ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Kristin Bjornsen Chopra as one of the top 100 PRODUCTION PRODUCTION MANAGER Mike Lugo heroes and icons PRODUCTION ASSISTANT MANAGER Jorge Sesin ADVERTISING ART DIRECTOR Andrea Cruz of the century, and credits PRODUCTION ARTISTS Oscar Galvis, Fabian Lengua ADVERTISING him as “the poet-prophet of ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Don Farrell SALES DIRECTOR Alexis Guillen alternative medicine.” AP Photo/Bodini AP DIRECTOR OF MARKETING Jennifer Nealon N SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Sarah Abrahams, | IGHT+DAY Peter Heumann, Andrea Stern ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Featured Stories ▼ Isabelle Arboleda, Michelle Beckman, Kelsey Koebel, Tony Lopez OPERATIONS MANAGER Ash Cyress SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER Chesi Madej Fast Times LIZA MINNELLI MARKETING COORDINATOR Nathalie Batista A pair of famed Fort CLASSIFIED S Simply Liza | TAGE SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Lauderdale racers speeds Patrick Butters, Ladyane Lopez, Joel Valez-Stokes ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE into drug smuggling and CIA FEBRUARY 16 Olivia Gentilini, Danny Reyes CIRCULATION controversy. 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Y “You’re a fucking nigger,” he snorted. DA Later, according to a lawsuit filed in Broward County Circuit Court, he “spat on” several employees of a company he was trying to evict for alleged nonpayment of rent. “I’m going to fix you so good that you GE | NIGHT+ don’t even know it,” he allegedly shouted. A T That 2011 incident hints at the volatile, S mysterious world of Don Whittington and his brother, Bill. Today the pair is starring in an only-in-South Florida tale of intrigue, crime, and terrorists that arcs from the Indy 500 to the CIA and Guantánamo Bay. The cast includes not only drug smugglers and AP Photo/Bodini racecar drivers but also celebrities such as past decade, the warrant asserts, Bill Whit- Don (left) and Bill Whittington (center) chat with actor Paul Newman at the Le Mans race in 1979. Latin television star María Celeste Arrarás tington’s account with LGT Bank in Vaduz, and former Chicago Cubs great Sammy Sosa. Liechtenstein — “a preferred financial loca- up. His son Donnie, a broad-shouldered, gadocio, their names glutted local media. Though not long ago it seemed as if the tion for narcotics traffickers” — has grown auburn-haired 26-year-old, said, “I’m not In 1979, they won the prestigious 24 Hours Whittingtons’ outlaw days were behind from $1 million to nearly $11 million. going to say anything about anything,” of Le Mans, one of the world’s oldest races, them, this past November, the Miami office The Whittingtons, who allegedly operate while escorting a reporter out of World Jet which traverses the French countryside. | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | | NEWS NIGHT+DAY STAGE | PULP | CONTENTS | | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | MUSIC DISH FILM ART of the Drug Enforcement Administration the scheme out of a mammoth hangar called headquarters. “It’s an awkward subject.” They each participated in five Indy 500 filed a damning search warrant applica- World Jet on Cypress Creek Road in Fort But Don and Bill Whittington, who races, and Don finished sixth in 1982. In those tion accusing the Whittingtons of helming Lauderdale,