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Tant asks for the DOJ to investigate the violation — which could lead to fines or other civil penalties — “or, if and as appropriate, initiate a criminal investigation.”
And I know where that is going. Because if any of his clients at Capitol Gains benefited from his position at the School Board, that could be construed as 
bribery or at the very least unlawful conpensation. I hope the FBI, who has time on their hands after the bungled cases against former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi, have an appetite for this one. Seems juicy and easy enough to serve up.
Of course, Curbelo spokesman Wadi Gaitan said the complaint was “frivolous” and “a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the chronic corruption that Garia has perpetrated on our community.”
But the State Attorney’s Office cleared Joe Garcia of any wrongdoing in the AB fraud for which his chief of staff did 65 days in jail. And we still have no way of knowing what his involvement was here. Meanwhile, it is crystal clear that Curbelo is consciously hiding his client list for some reason.
And this Gaitan fella is the same outright liar who went on Mira TV and said that Ladra had committed extortion on the candidate and promised favorable coverage for a price, which everyone knows is ludicrous. They don’t have enough money even with a million dollars. Gaitan is the one who is a paid shrill who will say whatever is politically convenient to his paycheck. So nobody can believe a word out of his mouth.
Still, Ladra called him. You know? Out of professional courtesy. He does not get to say who is the press and who is not like they do in Cuba. I asked him to please explain, if this was all legal, why Curbelo alternately identified himself as a principal, president and owner of his wife’s company. He to email him the questions and that he would call me back. That he was meaning to call me anyway. I know. I snickered, too. Of course he was.
Needless to say, he has not returned my call or responded to the emailed questions.
Read related story: Who are some of Carlos Curbelo’s business partners?
We in the media, by the way, have to stop letting these paid filters do the talking for the candidates because it’s getting ridiculous and it’s just not right. 
And it’s only getting worse because we let them. People want to hear from you, Ms. Elected or Mr. Candidate, not the paid spokespeople who we know already are crafting your message for you. More on that later.
Curbelo has said repeatedly, either on TV or through his paid spokespeople, that he has not violated any law. “My commitment is to follow the law and to disclose all of the information that is required by the law,” he told the Miami Herald and other journalists.
“None of your business,” is what he told Ladra when I asked him about it first.
The thing is, Curbelo circumvented the law by putting the company in his wife’s name. And just like Curbelo said about another candidate running in the primary but living outside the district: Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right, Carlitos.
In his case, however, there may be something illegal at least in the falsification of one record or another. Either he is the owner and president of Capitol Gains, as he has listed on several campaign finance contributions — including a loan to his own campaign — or he’s just an employee working for his wife’s firm, as he listed on is financial disclosures.
He can’t be both.
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