Here’s a commercial you didn’t see during the Super Bowl. The first and anticipated video attacking Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava for her $2.5 billion bomb, er, bond initiative, revealed last month at the State of the County address, is out. It’s not on TV. It will probably be on a smart phone near you […]
Former Miami Commissioner Sabina Covo, who ran on a platform of fighting corruption, is currently under investigation for “remuneration by candidate for services, support, etc. and bribery.” Remuneration? Yeah, that means promises of money or jobs by a candidate for support of her candidacy and it is illegal under Florida Statute 104.071. Remember that in […]
Plaintiffs seek to remove Loco Pollo Carollo from office You can run, but you can’t hide from the courts. The lawsuit to remove Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo from office was filed in January, but the elected has been dodging the serving of papers every which way since. Coward. So he was served with the summons […]
Miami City Commissioners will get another chance this week to take back a public park and reverse a vote that was basically bought through public corruption and led to the September arrest of former Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla on bribery and money laundering charges. In April of 2022, Diaz de la Portilla convinced […]
He may be under arrest on bribery and money laundering charges. He may have lost an election. He may have lost his house to foreclosure. He may be served with divorce papers by his new wife. But former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla sure knows how to party. People in Tallahassee for the […]
Former State Sen. Annette Taddeo announced Monday that she would run for Miami-Dade County Clerk and Comptroller against Juan Fernandez-Barquin, a former state rep that was appointed to the job by Gov. Ron DeSantis last June. This completes campaign consultant Christian Ulvert‘s dance card for 2024. He’s got all the five of the big countywide […]
Can you imagine a sports bar without TV screens? Neither can Fernando Yanes, the owner of Bar77 on Giralda, where fans can almost always find a football or futbol game to watch. Yanes has been working to make the TV screens up against his windows legal since code enforcement cited him last year. The city […]
Tricky Vicky is also under investigation by the Florida Bar Miami City Attorney Victoria Mendez did not have a good day Monday. First, the Miami Herald discloses that Mendez is under investigation by the Florida Bar for her potential part in a real estate scheme where homes that belonged to some of Miami’s most vulnerable […]
But Peter Iglesias has not resigned or been fired — yet It’s no secret that Coral Gables City Commissioner Ariel Fernandez is not happy with City Manager Peter Iglesias. He already tried to fire him once, and failed. Then they got into that nasty public fight on the dais at the last commission meeting. Now, […]
Several political action committees had good quarters at the end of the year, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed in January, ending months of reporting zero contributions in some cases. Citizens for Justice, a PAC for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle, raised $182,000 between October and November. It hadn’t reported any financial activity […]