Consider this a Political Cortadito Page Six tidbit. Guess who was spotted having lunch Friday at Morton’s Steakhouse in Coral Gables? CJ Gimenez, the son of the Congressman who last week slapped Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the same Ponce de Leon restaurant and got arrested right after. Nobody was arrested this […]
Perhaps the new chairman will hire more ghost employees Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla grabbed the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency from Commissioner Ken Russell last week — again — and immediately asked the executive director to resign. Ladra could not reach Executive Director Jason Walker, but sources at the city say that the […]
And Crazy Joe Carollo goes off the reservation on a rabid rant Buried in the Miami city commission meeting last week, dropped during one of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s disturbed diatribes — which is maybe why nobody caught on to it — was news that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the Miami […]
Former city commissioner goes from convict to confidante This could be one of the greatest comeback political stories of the 305. Former Miami Commissioner Humberto “Bert” Hernandez was removed from office twice amid accusations of federal bank fraud and mortgage fraud and absentee ballot fraud. He spent four years in jail, was disbarred by the […]
Updated: The videos released Friday by Coral Gables Police is not the only footage revolving around the arrest of a U.S. Congressman’s son in Coral Gables Wednesday. The five videos from CCTV cameras on nearby skyscrapers show the events that occurred at Morton’s Steakhouse on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, when CJ Gimenez slapped Miami Commissioner […]
It looks more like a bop. Videos of the incident between CJ Gimenez, the congressman’s lobbyist son, and Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the Coral Gables Morton’s Steakhouse is out. And it doesn’t look so much like a slap as it does a bop on the head. Kinda like the NCIS guy […]
Updated: The son of Congressman Carlos Gimenez was released from jail late Thursday morning, posting $1,500 bond for a battery charge after slapping a Miami city commissioner at a Coral Gables restaurant almost 24 hours earlier. But there are a lot of questions about the atypical arrest of CJ Gimenez in an incident that the […]
But arrest by Miami sergeant-at-arms seems like a conflict of interests Carlos “CJ” Gimenez, the son of the Congressman by the same name who used to be our county mayor, ran into Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla outside of Morton’s Steakhouse Wednesday — and slapped him. There is animosity between the two and […]
If you blinked, you missed it. The Miami City Commission had what is probably its shortest meeting ever Thursday when Chairwoman Christine King adjourned about 10 minutes after it started and deferred all agenda items to the Feb. 10 meeting except redistricting, which will likely come up separately at a special meeting. Both Commissioners Alex […]
We may get some answers at Thursday’s city commission meeting What is it with the city of Miami Police and car crashes? First, it was Commander Nerly Papier who crashed into a curb, nearly killing two pedestrians, busting her tires and driving her unmarked vehicle through a red light on its rims. She and her […]