Former elected and three-time loser Renier Diaz de la Portilla has raised $62,700 in little more than a month for his judicial race, according to the latest campaign finance report. And many of the campaign contributions are from real estate developers and special interests in the city of Miami, where his big brother is a […]
The city of Miami’s Omni Community Redevelopment Agency is responsible for 35% of the debt service paid for the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center. It is so delineated in the 2007 interlocal agreement and has always been paid. Every year. Until now. The city owes the county more than $10.7 million, according to a memo […]
2020 campaign funding could be under scrutiny by the Miami-Dade SAO She wasn’t just drinking and driving on the job. She wasn’t just running personal errands for Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla instead of working as a community liaison for the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency. She wasn’t just stealing taxpayer dollars for an […]
Commissioner ADLP then travels with school attorney While all eyes were on the Melreese Golf Course and the insider Miami Freedom Park deal last month, the city of Miami basically gave another city-owned property away to the private school that got national headlines last year for its backwards COVID policies. City commissioners approved a license […]
The executive director fired from the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency last month was just the first casualty of Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla‘s wrath — and/or graft. ADLP was made chairman of the Omni CRA in February and immediately started to retaliate against employees who may have cooperated with authorities in the investigation into […]
The Florida traffic crash report on the January accident involving a city car with Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla in it shows that his sergeant at arms was at fault for the collision. And we only know that the commissioner was in the car because it was leaked to Ladra and became a […]
What the hell happened? People are still asking themselves that after last week’s special meeting in Miami to give final approval to the redistricting. It looked like the residents who had begged to keep Coconut Grove together in the new map had won. It seemed, from the meeting before last week’s, that they got their […]
The redistricting process in the city of Miami has turned into a land grab. A battle erupted Friday between Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla in District 1 and Chairwoman Christine King in District 5 over who would get the Wharf Miami, site of a proposed $185-million mixed use project with a 165-room hotel. It […]
Or ‘How Miami Police tried to extradite a Gables resident’ Documents and interviews with Coral Gables police indicate the city of Miami had much more interest than previously acknowledged in the arrest last month of lobbyist and Gables resident Carlos “CJ” Gimenez, son of the congressman by the same name, for slapping a city of […]
Expect more firings, shake-downs, quid pro quo The executive director of the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency — who last year fired the ghost employee hired by Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — is leaving the agency, at the commissioner’s behest. Jason Walker gets one month of his salary, or $15,000, half his banked sick […]