Category: Miami-Dade Cities
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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. -
Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava’s PAC got $100K from Li’l Abner developer, she helped him secure $9 million in affordable housing funding
By Dan Christensen and Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
A political action committee that fundraises for Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took $100,000 from companies run by the controversial developer of Sweetwater’s now empty Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. Her PAC accepted the money as she helped the developer obtain $9 million in government funding for his affordable housing project Abner III during her 2024 bid for re-election. -
Huge, $4.6 billion ‘Flagler Center’ to rise on former site of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park
By Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
Sweetwater is the next Florida city to get a major master-planned development. “Flagler Center” will rise on more than 100 acres previously occupied by the defunct Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. The $4.6 billion dollar project will be one of the largest redevelopment sites in Miami-Dade County.
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