Who is the brother? That’s the question everyone was asking on Tuesday after it was revealed that Miami-Dade State Attorney Kathy Fernandez-Rundle recused herself in the case of accusations against Miami’s Three Amigos by former Police Chief Art Acevedo before he was fired. In a scathing 10-page memo, Acevedo accused Miami Commissioners Joe Carollo, Manolo […]
The husband and wife team at Miami Police who were fired by former Police Chief Art Acevedo after they allegedly attempted to cover up her car accident in a city SUV are back on the job. So is Luis Camacho, a sergeant at arms who was relieved of duty after he was accused of helping […]
And now the commission may reward the driver with a new job Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was involved in a car accident last week in a city vehicle driven by a Miami police officer and now there’s apparently an internal affairs investigation. Someone also sent a complaint to the Miami-Dade State […]
Miami city commissioners reversed themselves Monday when they put electric share scooters — which had been banned 10 days earlier — back on certain urban streets, mostly in the downtown and Brickell area. Commissioner and Chief Scooter Critic Manolo Reyes doesn’t want them in Flagami. He also was the only dissenting vote on the 3-1 […]
Don’t worry, Brickell scooter jockeys. The ban on electric scooters in the city of Miami is temporary and about to end soon. And not because Mayor Francis Suarez is your hero or anything like that. Yes, Suarez praised scooters while on some junket in Las Vegas on the same day the commission voted to shut […]
It happens every year. Elected officials glom onto the efforts of local organizations and food banks to give turkeys and other Thanksgiving trimmings to Miami-Dade residents. This has always seemed like a desperate and, frankly, pathetic publicity stunt to garner favor with voters and even local media. Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz partnered with […]
Did anybody else see that knife fight between Miami Commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the commission meeting last month? Ladra sure hopes someone in law enforcement was watching. Sources say there is already an investigation into possible abuse of power and quid pro quo in the negotiations for a juicy […]
Campaign contributions marked by many special interest bundles Between his campaign account and his political action committee, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo has raised more than three quarters of a million dollars for his re-election this year in just two months, according to the most recent campaign reports filed last week. April was better than May, […]
The code enforcement officer who caught Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla “creating jobs” at an illegal nightclub in February was fired on Wednesday — just as she and her lawyers had predicted. Suzanne Nicholson was terminated, purportedly, for not cooperating with the city’s alleged “investigation” into the incident in which she said Diaz […]
Terse memo gives her a direct order to make an official statement A city of Miami code compliance supervisor who accused City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla of poking her at an illegal nightclub and causing her injury, then defaming her when the incident became known, said Thursday that she is afraid of losing […]