Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was arrested Thursday on money laundering and political corruption charges — including unlawful compensation, bribery and criminal conspiracy — after a yearlong investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Broward State Attorney’s office. These charges do not stem from the shakedown of the Rickenbacker Marina […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla has a new challenger as of Thursday when Marvin Tapia, brand ambassador and shareholder of the Salty Donut and chairman of the Miami-Dade Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board, filed to run in the city’s November election. And it’s too late for the city commission to cut his house out […]
Another lawsuit is filed by a candidate in District 1 The highest court in the land has ruled that the city of Miami’s carefully crafted redistricting map will stand for the Nov. 7 election, in which three commissioners are on the ballot. A lawsuit brought by residents, with the NAACP and the ACLU, to nix […]
After several cancellations, the foreclosed Little Havana house owned by Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — you know, the one he supposedly doesn’t live in because it’s outside his district — has been set for auction in November. Unless he gets another last minute reprieve. Again. ADLP’s house has been in foreclosure for […]
Miami City Commissioners deferred making a decision last week on allowing up to 45 giant LED billboards downtown — and some critics worry the can will be kicked down the road until after the November election. You know, so commissioners don’t have to be held accountable. Or maybe so they can collect more contributions from […]
Commissioner Joe Carollo is suddenly living outside his district A U.S. District Court judge on Sunday tossed out the new same-as-the-old redistricting map passed by city of Miami Commissioners in June, saying it did nothing to remediate the racial gerrymandering found in the first version. A substitute map prepared by the ACLU, one of the […]
One staffer worked on brother’s commission campaign UPDATED: Remember Jenny Nillo? The “ghost employee” Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla had on the Omni CRA payroll while she drove around picking up his booze and his dry cleaning? Well, she is not the only District 1 staffer that ran errands for the commissioner […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla is still raising money hand over fist for his re-election this November. In the last two months, he’s raised more than $610,000, almost as much as the two months previously, bringing the total since March to more than $1.2 million. In his campaign’s first month, Diaz de la […]
Scolded for having passed a racially gerrymandered redistricting map and forced to start over after a federal judge threw it out, Miami city commissioners passed a new map Wednesday that, basically, doubled down on the gerrymandering and looks a lot like the old map. This time, it’s blatantly political. Using partisan presidential and Florida gubernatorial […]
If you can’t beat them at the polls, draw them out of your district. That’s what’s happening in the city of Miami at today’s special meeting to redraw the new district maps that were tossed out by a court after several organizations and residents sued over gerrymandering (more on that later). The new map proposed […]