Commissioner should at least be removed from Bayfront Board Trust A group of Miami business owners, community leaders, concerned residents and, perhaps, some former elected officials will descend on Miami City Hall at 9 a.m. Tuesday to demand the resignation of City Commissioner Joe Carollo, who was found last week to have violated the First […]
The city of Miami can stop paying Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s legal bills right now. Let him pay for his own appeal with the funds from his political action committee. Carollo, who has spent more than $2 million of the taxpayers’ money defending himself from a federal lawsuit he lost Thursday, has a neat $1,380,295 sitting […]
Attorney says the city should also be liable because of its role in abuse They said it was not about the money, but the businessmen who sued Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo for violating their first amendment rights and the attorneys who won them a jury award of $63.5 million on Thursday are going to go […]
Commissioner may appeal $63.5 million award to Little Havana partners Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo has been found by a jury of his peers in a federal civil trial of violating the first amendment rights of two businessmen who apparently supported Crazy Joe’s opponent in the 2017 election. The six-member jury ordered Thursday that Carollo […]
Miami City Manager Art Noriega. Former city managers Emilio Gonzalez and Daniel Alfonso. Former Police Chiefs Art Acevedo and Jorge Colina. The current and former code enforcement directors. The majority of the witnesses listed for the first amendment trial against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo are current or former city employees. Carollo was sued in 2018 […]
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Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo must be crying in his cafecito. On the heels of losing his last attempt to delay the April 10 federal trial for violating the rights of a couple of Little Havana businessmen — including Bill Fuller, who owns Ball & Chain Bar — a U.S. Southern District judge denied several […]
A request to change venues was denied; the trial will be in Fort Lauderdale As the federal first amendment case against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo approaches, Carollo asked the U.S. Southern District Court to move the jury trial to Miami from Fort Lauderdale. A U.S. District Judge said no. ¡Pero por supuesto! Carollo does not […]
No, it’s not El Gran Combo. But it sounds just like them. There’s a new parody song and video about the man chicken protesting Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo who was arrested at Maurice Ferre Park at the grand opening of the dog and cat sculptures walk last month. The video was posted this week on […]
Predatory scheme to buy and sell homes may have targeted the elderly Two months after his mother passed away, facing $271,500 in code enforcement fines from the city of Miami, Jose Alvarez agreed to sell his 4-bedroom, 3-bath family home near Marlins Park for the bargain price of $205,000. After all, the buyer was recommended […]