Miami commissioner lashes out against ‘timid’ State Attorney Nearly six months after he was arrested and forced to spend the night in jail, Coral Gables attorney lobbyist Carlos Julio “CJ” Gimenez — the son of the former county mayor and current congressman — was off the hook Tuesday when the State Attorney dropped a battery […]
UPDATE: The owner of CruisePort Destinations, a dba of America’s Gateway Inc., said that she was paid to pay her employees to canvass during the 2020 election because they were not working due to the COVID crisis. “It was really good because it helped my employees stay alive,” said Jeannette Pineiro. “During the pandemic, which […]
And Circuit Court Judge Robert Watson needs to publicly distance himself One of the things that judicial candidates can’t do, according to the very strict judicial rules in the state, is campaign or get too political. It’s canon number 7 in the Florida Supreme Court’s Judicial Code of Conduct: A Judge or Candidate for Judicial […]
Former elected and three-time loser Renier Diaz de la Portilla has raised $62,700 in little more than a month for his judicial race, according to the latest campaign finance report. And many of the campaign contributions are from real estate developers and special interests in the city of Miami, where his big brother is a […]
The city of Miami’s Omni Community Redevelopment Agency is responsible for 35% of the debt service paid for the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center. It is so delineated in the 2007 interlocal agreement and has always been paid. Every year. Until now. The city owes the county more than $10.7 million, according to a memo […]
2020 campaign funding could be under scrutiny by the Miami-Dade SAO She wasn’t just drinking and driving on the job. She wasn’t just running personal errands for Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla instead of working as a community liaison for the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency. She wasn’t just stealing taxpayer dollars for an […]
Commissioner ADLP then travels with school attorney While all eyes were on the Melreese Golf Course and the insider Miami Freedom Park deal last month, the city of Miami basically gave another city-owned property away to the private school that got national headlines last year for its backwards COVID policies. City commissioners approved a license […]
The executive director fired from the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency last month was just the first casualty of Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla‘s wrath — and/or graft. ADLP was made chairman of the Omni CRA in February and immediately started to retaliate against employees who may have cooperated with authorities in the investigation into […]
The Florida traffic crash report on the January accident involving a city car with Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla in it shows that his sergeant at arms was at fault for the collision. And we only know that the commissioner was in the car because it was leaked to Ladra and became a […]
What the hell happened? People are still asking themselves that after last week’s special meeting in Miami to give final approval to the redistricting. It looked like the residents who had begged to keep Coconut Grove together in the new map had won. It seemed, from the meeting before last week’s, that they got their […]