In every election, judicial races get short shrift. They are the least studied, the least written about, the least talked about. Voters often don’t even know who they are putting on the bench, making decisions based on whether the names reflect their own ethnicity, or along gender lines. It certainly doesn’t help that judges, in […]
Baby Brother is back at it. Renier Diaz de la Portilla, the youngest in the family’s political dynasty, is running for Miami-Dade County judge — again. RDLP filed paperwork Monday with the Miami-Dade Elections Department showing he opened a campaign account and designated himself as treasurer. He is currently challenging Fred Seraphin, the first Haitian-American […]
The private detective that uncovered absentee ballot fraud in the Miami-Dade August 2012 election has nabbed yet another person committing electoral fraud — this time selling “access” to elderly voters, which we have to interpret as access to absentee ballots. Joe Carillo told Ladra Thursday he would give details Friday about his latest sting operation, […]
City of Miami Assistant City Attorney Veronica “Little Miss Ultra” Diaz and her sleazy attorney boyfriend have poured almost $100,000 into her campaign for judge. Even though she’s been on leave from her $95,000-a-year taxpayer funded job and claimed $47,000 in savings on her financial disclosure form, Diaz has been able to personally invest just […]
A negative mailer arrived in some county mailboxes recently calling former Miami-Dade School Board Member and one-time State Rep. Renier Diaz de la Portilla — who is running for Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge — a three-time loser. “Three strikes and you’re out,” the mailer said, referring to Baby DLP’s trifecta of losses against Marta Perez (School Board, […]
Whew! That was a close one! An assistant city of Miami attorney issued a report Thursday that said his boss and colleagues did nothing wrong when they accepted comp tickets to downtown Miami’s Ultra Music Festival, at least for the past two years in a row. Even though the Auditor General said that the city officials — […]
More details were released after we first broke the story on Assistant Miami City Attorney Veronica “Little Miss Ultra” Diaz, the party girl and subject of two ethical investigations who has taken a leave of absence while she runs for judge. And, from what Ladra hears, more is yet to come. The Miami-Dade Commission on […]
Miami Assistant City Attorney Veronica Diaz is looking for a new gig: Miami-Dade County Court judge. Diaz filed to run Friday against incumbent Judge William “Bill” Altfield a career prosecutor who served for 24 years as an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade who was appointed to the bench by Gov. Rick Scott in 2011. A member of […]
Three Democrat Party activists are looking at running for office for the first time in Miami Dade. One of them for circuit court judge this year and two of them forMiami city commissioner in the two years fe 2015 elections. And some people say that Ladra’s obsession with elections later this year is premature. Tony Diaz, the […]