Miami commissioner lashes out against ‘timid’ State Attorney Nearly six months after he was arrested and forced to spend the night in jail, Coral Gables attorney lobbyist Carlos Julio “CJ” Gimenez — the son of the former county mayor and current congressman — was off the hook Tuesday when the State Attorney dropped a battery […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
So, that’s why we suddenly see the former Miami-Dade mayor’s son and his wife on these Community Newspaper Facebook chats doing their best to look like James Carville and Mary Matalin. Tania Cruz Gimenez is running for Coral Gables commission. Ladra was wrong when she thought, after running into her and lobbyist Carlos J. “CJ” […]
The video ad about the shady deals that have benefited Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s family — principally his two lobbyist sons — has been updated with more precise information after an attorney for Grimenez complained of inaccuracies, threatening legal action. The first video came out the night of the primary, where Gimenez won with 59% […]
UPDATED: Miami-Dade Mayoral Son CJ Gimenez, the lobbyist, was at a meeting Saturday of Coral Gables residents who live on Alhambra Circle and on the side streets along the planned bicycle lanes from Coral Way to San Amaro Drive. That’s nowhere near his house. So why was he there? CJ Gimenez lives much further away than […]
People watching the City of Miami meeting last week were surprised when Commissioner Joe Carollo went with the majority and voted against the very contract he helped negotiate with Ultra Music Festival organizers, even after getting everything he demanded. The three-day electronic music event was kicked out of Bayfront Park, its home the past 18 […]