Category: Miami-Dade County
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U.S. Reps. Gimenez, Diaz-Balart snag millions in HUD earmarks for Li’l Abner affordable housing developer, get huge contributions to their PACs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The heart-wrenching ousters and evictions of about 3,000 vulnerable working class and elderly residents of Sweetwater’s Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park played out for months late last year in newspapers and on television screens across South Florida. -
Miami Beach Police sergeant made millions, violated conflict of interest rules providing private security to city’s bars, nightclubs
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For more than a decade, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Luis Corps quietly built a multimillion-dollar private security empire on the same streets he was sworn to police, flouting conflict of interest laws and misleading his superiors about who his private clients were and how much he was making on the side. -
Trump campaign mouthpiece Jason Miller threatens judge in his paternity case
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Jason Miller, the Washington D.C. lobbyist and ex-mouthpiece for Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns, is accused of criminally threatening a state judge who consequently stepped down from presiding over his paternity case in Miami-Dade County. -
SaferWatch CEO’s federal bribery arrest in N.Y. has Florida sheriffs, chiefs and school officials pressing panic button
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Federal bribery charges in New York against the owner and CEO of SaferWatch, whose panic button and emergency mass alert system is popular with police and other public officials, are reverberating across Florida, but most urgently in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. -
Tiny Coral Gables law firm makes big bucks helping President Trump sue media giants for billions
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
President Trump’s strategy of squeezing media companies to obtain fat settlements to pay for a flashy presidential library/museum he wants to build in downtown Miami has also been lucrative for a tiny Coral Gables law firm. -
Cuban-American influencer Alex Otaola facing defamation suit by ex-ally
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Alex Otaola, a popular Trumpian, anti-communist influencer behind a recall petition against Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, allegedly orchestrated and amplified a smear campaign against a former ally who bankrolled his rise to fame.
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