The Miami-Dade County Commission could hit the rewind button on the Miami Beach monorail project, aka Baylink, because of details that have come out about secretive meetings Mayor Carlos Gimenez had with Genting two years ago during his China trip. Those business meetings — which just happened to be left off the itinerary given to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If there is anything we should have learned from the discovery last year that the mayor’s best friend was making $200 an hour as a subcontractor on a Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department project is that these contracts need a little more scrutiny. But it looks like we learned nothing because they aren’t getting it. […]
Ralph’s back for more public money. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s best friend and campaign finance chair is up for another piece of a multi-million dollar county contract. Oh, he’s not the one bidding. They’re smarter than to do it like that. Ralph Garcia Toledo‘s company is one of the subcontractors listed for one of the […]
Ralph Garcia-Toledo, the man who went from being Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s driver to being a grossly-overpaid $200 consultant subcontractor on a $140 million water and sewer contract secured by his BFF, the mayor, sure is living the mogul’s life. Here he is at Joe’s Stone Crabs, enjoying a leisurely lunch, we presume, with two lovely […]
Gas to drive around to the bigger West Dade and Kendall precincts on Election Day Tuesday: $22. Bottles of water to stay hydrated: $10. Lunch at Subway: $8. The look on Barby Rodriguez-Gimenez‘s face when she realized her father-in-law, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, had not won the Miami-Dade mayoral race Tuesday and would be forced […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez continues to dodge debates with any of his challengers and is expected to be a no-show to the debate Wednesday hosted by a coalition of women’s groups — the first real public debate in such an important election. A member and former vice president of the League of Women Voters of […]
Let the political Hunger Games begin. When the prize is a $1.6 billion sewer contract at Miami-Dade, the lobbyists and representatives of the companies vying for that chunk of ka-ching are like “tributes” fighting to the death. They are not just going to lay down and die if they don’t get it on the first […]