Jose Suarez has a 1998 arrest for soliciting a prostitute In a pocket item for the Miami Commission meeting Tuesday — that means it is not on the agenda — Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo will propose making his former chief of staff, Jose Suarez, executive director of the Bayfront Park Trust, where he is chairman, […]
Commission will consider a review of pending litigation Lawsuits and outside attorneys have cost city of Miami taxpayers millions in public dollars. Miami City Commissioner Miguel Gabela wants to stop the spigot. Gabela has several items on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting about the City Attorney’s office. One would hire an auditing expert to review […]
His Coconut Grove house is safe for now. A judge ruled on Friday that Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo can keep his Morris Lane casa off the auction block until it is determined that it is not a legally homesteaded property. U.S. Marshals posted a notice of levy on the multi-million house last month in an […]
Plaintiffs seek to remove Loco Pollo Carollo from office You can run, but you can’t hide from the courts. The lawsuit to remove Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo from office was filed in January, but the elected has been dodging the serving of papers every which way since. Coward. So he was served with the summons […]
He isn’t up for election this year, but Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s political action committee had a really good fundraising quarter at the end of the year, getting $202,066 in contributions in the three months through Dec. 31. What for? Maybe to pay the legal fees for his multiple appeals, since the days of him […]
Commissioners wife’s bank accounts could be next Federal agents swooped into Coconut Grove Friday and posted notices on the door of Joe Carollo‘s house, beginning the process of seizure, ordered by the court to pay a $63.5 million judgement against him for violating the first amendment rights of two Little Havana businessmen. Well, he hasn’t […]
The battle cry is “Joe must go.” The aim is to remove Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo from the Bayfront Park Trust, where he is chair, because of what downtown residents say is an abuse of his power and mismanagement of Maurice Ferre Park, which is also under the trust’s purview. In the same 24 hours […]
After several hours of discussion and passionate public comment, the city of Miami Commission deferred making a decision on the repeal of the ordinances that allow LED billboards on city parks and a moratorium on approving any such signage for 30 days while new rules are adopted. Basically, they passed the buck to the state, […]
Rumors of Manolo Reyes’ impending death are vastly exaggerated. The Miami commissioner was diagnosed with leukemia last year, but has apparently responded well to treatment and is on the mend. And – after what he’s seen the city go through in the last couple of months — he’s also on a transparency and accountability tear. […]
Talk about awkward: Steven Miro, the former chief of staff fired by Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo in 2018, is back at City Hall this week as special advisor to newly elected Commissioner Miguel Gabela. Miro said his job would be to run the district offices and “make sure the constituent services are up to par, […]