The private investigator who finally bust open Pandora’s Box of absentee ballots in Hialeah was questioned at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office Monday afternoon — and came out with a much better attitude than the one he had going in. Joe Carillo took an awful long time upstairs with investigators and/or prosecutors – ‘specially for […]
Private detective Joe Carillo is headed to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office this afternoon so they can question him about his investigation of the two women collecting absentee ballots in Hialeah, who were later detained and stopped by police. But Carillo, 57, said he knows he is stepping into a trap and that his sources […]
She threatened to get involved in the county’s judicial races and now Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador has made good on that. But she is not the only piece of the Hialeah political machine driving the candidacy of former Hialeah cop John “Johnny” Rodriguez, who is Miami Lakes Vice Mayor Cesar Mestre‘s law partner. Standing […]
Manny Diaz, Jr., a longtime teacher who has been campaigning for 15 months to run for a state House seat, wants you to know that he is not going to pull out of the race now — even if he has to face a more experienced legislator whose family dynasty is the stuff of political […]
While homegrown actor Andy Garcia hosts a fundraiser for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Jeb Bush stumps for U.S. Rep. Connie Mack‘s senatorial bid, Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi had to settle for a lot less star power: Hialeah Mayor Carlos “The Rock” Hernandez and his Lakes council faction, er, I mean colleagues at […]
Okay, so Ladra’s been busy and begs for scraps of forgiveness from the political junkies that need her particularly sarcastic java. But I’m baaack. And in a new venue, tracking a new scent. Or several ominous odors, as it were. Despite the barrage of distractions, both random and deliberate (more on that later), there has […]
You heard it here first. Actually, months ago. Ladra is not just a public watchdog. She’s a political psychic. Back in April, when a Miami Lakes dentist sued Constant Contact about an email he says defamed him to find out who the signed author “Sandra Lopez” really was, Ladra came right out and bet it […]
The swearing-in ceremony at Hialeah City Hall Friday was more like a circus or a carnival than a solemn, vow-taking induction for a new (same as the old) government body. From the Mariachis to the teary-eyed thank you from Su Alcaldito Carlos Hernandez when he mentioned his financial backer, Roberto Cayon to the three-part harmony from three female judges who swore in […]
The chairwoman of the Miami Voice recall PAC, Vanessa Brito, has repeatedly said she was going to stay neutral in the mayoral race and has been made a media darling — including a Best Local Activist nod from New Times, which apparently does not vet its best candidates — for her role (read: paid Norman […]
Their first official meeting is Tuesday, but two new Miami-Dade Commissioners — elected in districts 7 and 13 last month in the recall wake — tried out the dais Monday morning when they were sworn in at county hall before a bevy of elected officials and politicians, almost every single county department head, their extended […]