After winning the primary Tuesday for the Republican spot in the congressional race for District 26, Carlos 
“Crybaby” Curbelo could have and should have immediately disclosed his client list at Capitol Gains — the one he hides under his wife’s name — and diffused any controversy that is likely going to be a major campaign issue and could be his downfall in November.
Instead, and because he has nothing else to campaign on, he actually had the cara dura to hold a press conference on Thursday and throw stones from his glass house.
“For far too long, our community has been a victim of politicians who walk outside of the law to win elections. We need new, responsible leadership. That is why I am asking for your support,” Curbelo posted on his Facebook page with this photo of the press conference.
Instead, he’s digging his heels in and refusing to say who pays his bills and puts food on his table.
What does that tell ya?
Curbelo, who won’t speak to Ladra since I exposed his little trick back in June, told the Miami Herald that he had no reason to change the way he did business and was not going to put his company back in his own name. Even Patty Mazzei had to admit that “nothing has dogged” him more than the refusal to disclose the clients of what she called a media and public relations firm. Capitol Gains also does lobbying, girl.
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Curbelo, who founded the company in 2002, told Mazzei the same thing he told me. That he was advised by U.S. Senate attorneys to divest from his firm when he went to work for Sen. George Le
Mieux in 2009. But neither Patty nor I have gotten confirmation from the Senate attorneys. Curbelo hasn’t provided a letter or email or even the name of anyone to confirm this. And Ladra did ask him for it.
The Herald does point out that Curbelo lists himself as the company’s president, owner or principal in various federal campaign contributions he made last year, including $500 to BFF Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, whose brother’s campaign Curbelo cut his teeth on, a $2,600 loan to his own campaign and $2,500 to SuperPAC Republicans for Immigration Reform.
But isn’t he just an employee? According to the financial disclosure filed with Congress, he simply works for his wife and gets a salary.
Curbelo basically admitted to the Herald that he was lying on that disclosure form. He “readily acknowledges that he runs the firm he founded in 2002,” the story states. “His wife, Cecilia, who for the past five years as been listed as the corporation’s sole managing member, stopped working in 2009 when the couple’s first daughter, Sylvie Marie, was born.”
Mazzei asks him point blank the same question Jim DeFede asked him on CBS4s interview last weekend: Why hasn’t he changed the firm back into his own name?
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