The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust announced Wednesday that it had sued Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez for his failure to pay $4,000 in fines and costs after an investigation found that he lied to the public through the media about his loansharking activities. Hernandez tried to pay: He sent the commission a […]
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust issued another couple of slaps on the wrists Wednesday, further convincing critics and watchdogs who wish it had more teeth that it is woefully incapable of handling the 305’s level of unethical behavior. Other than the occasional negligible fines that are worked into the “cost of doing […]
Former State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez, who everyone knows really wants to be Hialeah mayor more than anything else in the world, seems to be riding this city election out on the heels of last year’s loss in the property appraiser’s race. But he’s not staying out completely. And neither is former Mayor Julio Robaina, who […]
Nothing really happened when Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez swore to tell the whole truth and then testified in court that he was, indeed, a loanshark charging illegal interest rates in a shadow banking industry ruled by Hialeah politicians. He was either past the statute of limitations or granted immunity for his testimony against former […]
Maybe he got immunity from criminal prosecution when Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez testified in the federal tax evasion case that the U.S. government ultimately lost against former Mayor Julio Robaina. But he’s not getting off totally scot-free. In the very first case where the the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust has enforced the […]
DEVELOPING STORY: Two months into the fiscal year, after approving what Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez promised was a balanced budget, the City of Retrogress announced this week that the city is actually facing a $28 million shortfall and may have to lay off dozens of police officers. Hernandez blamed the “unsustainable” union benefits as the […]
In his bid for U.S. Congress, Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo likes to bring out his GOP establishment endorsements over and over again and parade them in front of us: Jeb Bush, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, Mitt Romney. But he has other endorsements or backers — contributors to his campaign coffers […]
The Hialeah Housing Authority opened its process again last week for folks to apply for Section 8 housing in the City of Retrogress and got so many applicants, the website shut down. The city has extended the deadline until today. But what city officials are really doing is creating a whole new crop of absentee […]
The Hialeah hoodlums who snub their nose at state Sunshine Laws and collect absentee ballots like some folk collect stamps got away with it again Tuesday. A jury returned after less than a day of deliberations on the federal tax evasion trial for former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife, Raiza, and said the […]
Closing arguments begin today in the trial against former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife on federal tax evasion and fraud charges. Then the jury will begin deliberations and we could have a verdict as early as Wednesday. But has Robaina already been judged by his peers? Because there has been very little if […]