Corrupt Carlos Gimenez is caught by ethics commission covering his tracks

Corrupt Carlos Gimenez is caught by ethics commission covering his tracks

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and other top county officials used burner cell phones — yes, the kind used by drug dealers and money launderers — during their 2018 China trip so we wouldn’t know they met with representatives from Genting, which later became part of a group with an “unsolicited proposal” to build a monorail to […]

New, secret Carlos Gimenez ‘Baylink’ proposal benefits pals

New, secret Carlos Gimenez ‘Baylink’ proposal benefits pals

Elected officials are set to consider a secret deal, months in the making, that gives public land for development and operation of a Baylink monorail to a partnership between a manufacturer in communist China, a gambling giant pushing for a casino in Miami — and two of the mayor’s best friends/lackeys. No, this is not the plot […]

Hialeah Hoodlums recruit from the Carlos Gimenez gang

Hialeah Hoodlums recruit from the Carlos Gimenez gang

It looks like the Hialeah Hoodlums — otherwise known as Mayor Carlos Hernandez and his Seguro Que Yes crew of crooked council members –– were recruiting for their criminal enterprise last week. And they peeled a few members off of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s old G-Men gang. Campaign Finance Chair and graft master Ralph Garcia-Toledo, shake-down […]

Gimenez man Jesse Manzano gets board absences excused

Gimenez man Jesse Manzano gets board absences excused

It’s good to have palanca. Just ask Jesse Manzano-Plaza. The political consultant and strategist, who ran the campaign of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez (at least until the mayor was forced into a runoff when others were brought in), got a break Tuesday when the members of the Bayfront Park Management Trust Board voted to keep him […]

New purple spin doctor duo: Jesse Manzano & Ben Pollara

New purple spin doctor duo: Jesse Manzano & Ben Pollara

Two of the original G-Men are together again: Jesse Manzano-Plaza, who ran the immediate 2012 re-election campaign for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, has joined the consulting firm headed by Alex Heckler and former State Rep. Marcelo Llorente, who came in third in the 2011 recall mayoral race and then endorsed Gimenez. Manzano and Ben Pollara, […]