Category: Miami-Dade Cities
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Fantasies of a Cuba invasion deferred: How Trump and Rubio lost the hearts of Miami’s war-crazed Cuban exiles
By Kirk C. NIelsen
FloridaBulldog.org
Disillusion with President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has increasingly set in among Cuban exiles in South Florida, nine months after U.S. special forces invaded Caracas, seizing Venezuela’s autocratic president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and killing 32 Cuban soldiers providing security for them. -
Miami-Dade Commish Oliver Gilbert funneled $3M in taxpayer funds to opaque nonprofit run by his deputy chief of staff
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Oliver Gilbert, the Miami-Dade County commissioner who is U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson’s heir apparent, steered roughly $3.2 million in taxpayer funds to a murky nonprofit youth sports league run by one of his top county aides. -
Complaint to the Florida Bar: ICE’s loudest courtroom champion endangers judges with flimsy gripes
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Retired judges from across the nation who fear for their colleagues are using a Florida Bar complaint to turn a government lawyer’s inflammatory words against him. -
Miami Commissioner Miguel Gabela’s taxpayer funded legal advisor is raising political donations from developers, vendors with city business
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Jose Sanchez-Gronlier morphed quickly into a Miami city hall power broker. In three years, the Coral Gables-based attorney went from being Miami City Commissioner Miguel Gabela’s personal lawyer to his District 1 office’s consigliere, earning a taxpayer-funded annual salary of $130,000. -
Christian Ulvert is Miami-Dade’s leading PAC man, gobbling up campaign cash for local politicos
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Democratic strategist Christian Ulvert has turned a sprawling network of political action committees into one of the most powerful fundraising engines in Miami-Dade politics, collecting roughly $1.6 million since Jan. 1 so far for this year’s primary and general elections. -
U.S. judge wants Trump’s Coral Gables lawyer Brito punished, but Florida Bar’s history suggests he’ll skate
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Bar ethics reviewers aren’t likely to take direction from a federal judge and discipline Alejandro Brito, President Trump’s personal lawyer in the case of Trump v. IRS.
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