Of former Miami New Times impresarios Jim Larkin and Mike Lacey, one deleted himself off the face of the earth, the other stayed alive to face more charges related to the global sex operations of Backpage and Backpage.com, which he founded.
Not long before that, in 2005, longtime Miami New Times editor Jim Mullins quit after two of his staff illegally wiretapped phone calls for a piece that saw nationwide condemnation when the subject of their story offed himself by hammer strike to cylindrical projectile in the lobby of the old Miami Herald building on Biscayne Bay
That was Commissioner Arthur Teele.
Pretty historic era in the story of news media in Miami.
Teele has been forgotten but would probably make an interesting documentary.
Meanwhile, the Backpages operation was making millions by the boatload.
The guy who took over Miami New Times was aware of all lawsuits against the company as they rolled in, and with his help the paper insulated itself from corporate associations while continually going after stories that mirrored its own former parent organization's allegedly abetted activities. Typical Miami craziness.
It's all part of the dark and nasty world of the end of the newspaper business as we know it, an epochal moment in American history full of leeches and slugs and the swampy backwater crap of the news flush
The reason I mention it is because I'm an independent author and I was there to see a lot of these events or their outcomes first hand and maybe I've got some more interesting stories to tell