Former Miami-Dade Transit Director Alice Bravo pleaded no contest on Wednesday to an accusation that she violated the county’s ethics code by lobbying two months after leaving her $250,000-a-year county job — rules require a minimum of two years — and she was basically slapped on the wrist by the Commission on Ethics and Public […]
After 21 years, the advocate at the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust — the man who basically serves as the prosecutor — is leaving us. Michael Murawski has a new job: He will keep politicians and government folks in line at the new Naples Ethics Commission. Murawski will be their first executive director […]
Not only did Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez take a free ticket to the Super Bowl from a political benefactor, he scored a sweet deal on a clubhouse ticket for his wife and then he got to bully Miami Gardens residents protesting future plans for Formula 1 races at Hard Rock Stadium with his personal police force. […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, king of the pay-to-play game, got two free tickets to Super Bowl LIV this Sunday as a gift from Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium owner Stephen Ross, a longtime ally and campaign donor who (1) got a sweet deal in 2014 where the county pays him up to $5 million […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez finally announced his run for Congress on Thursday, with quite the dramatic flair. He did it via twitter with a new campaign handle, using the arrival of President Donald Trump — and immediately securing his endorsement — to try to shore up his thin GOP cred. “Welcome to Miami @realDonaldTrump. Thank you […]
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, who is expected to win her re-election bid without much trouble, is thought of as the soft-spoken, bespectacled progressive who starts many of her sentences with an apology and stays away from negative politics. But to Ran Gimeno and his family, she is “a monster.” Gimeno and his husband, […]
In a sick plot twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan, Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez flipped the script on the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust Tuesday and announced that his city had been investigating the agency’s possible expenditure of public taxpayer dollars on a seminar this past March about doing business in and with Cuba. […]
Miami-Dade County commissioners gave preliminary approval Tuesday to an ordinance that would force elected officials and any candidates for elected office to disclose when they were soliciting funds for any political action committee. Hmmm. Doesn’t that sound familiar? Am I the only one having de ja vu? Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, who sponsored the measure, said […]
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 […]