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Miami Gardens stiffs nonprofit it hired to help condo residents evacuated after fire
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For nearly two years, Miami Gardens elected officials and bureaucrats have ignored Prosperity Social & Community Development Group’s demands to pay a $32,709 invoice for assisting 125 unit owners and tenants forced to evacuate the New World Condominium Apartments at 395 Northwest 177th St. that was partially destroyed by a blaze on Jan. 28, 2023. -
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MoonPay’s Ivan Soto-Wright gets free pass for secretly donating to Francis Suarez PAC
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami crypto bro whose company has ties to the Trump family’s meme coin racket is the latest beneficiary of the Federal Elections Commission’s recent practice of giving a pass to wealthy donors who conceal their identities. -
Homestead PD accused of covering up for amorous detective
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Homestead’s police chief demoted and briefly suspended a city detective who an internal investigation found began an intimate relationship with an alleged crime victim and later arrested her ex-boyfriend after consulting her about its timing. -
Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava boosts Republican, torpedoes political ambition of her female Democratic staffer
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Daniella Levine Cava rode to victory in 2020 as the first female elected Miami-Dade County mayor by playing up her bona fides as a progressive Democrat even though it was a non-partisan race. Four years later, Levine Cava is aiming to prove Republican lawmakers can count on her even if it means torpedoing the political ambitions of one of her progressive Democrat female staffers. -
Bay Harbor Islands police chief promoted to top spot despite ‘double-dipping’ findings by Miami-Dade police
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A recent whistleblower’s lawsuit lays bare how Bay Harbor Islands Police Chief Lindsley Noel ascended to the top spot despite getting caught “double-dipping,” earning tens of thousands of dollars in off-duty pay when he was also on-duty for the town’s cop force. -
Chief of FDLE Miami office retired after probe found he sent thousands of sexually suggestive texts
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For nearly a decade, Troy Walker lorded over the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Miami office with the iron fist of a paranoid tyrant. But it was Walker’s penchant for sending sexually explicit text messages on his work-issued phone that led to his departure.
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