Category: Miami-Dade County
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Siblings wage brutal court war for control of Babun clan’s $100 million Miami shipping empire
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
As president and CEO of Antillean Marine Shipping Corp., Sara Babun lords over a Miami River business empire worth at least an estimated $100 million. But a toxic sibling rivalry with her brother, Jose Jesus Babun, threatens to upend the shipping and logistics enterprise that their late father, Jose Babun Selman, co-founded nearly 60 years ago. -
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Dire need for COVID-19 shots adds urgency to Miami homeless advocates’ refrain
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Civil rights lawyers and activists are agitating for Miami police to stop disrupting homeless people by emptying their camps. It’s the same old song, but with a different meaning in a pandemic. -
A big trial’s coming to a pandemic hot spot: Miami. Anybody have a spare ballroom?
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A super-sized jury trial about leaky fire sprinklers in a high-rise will start May 3 somewhere in Miami-Dade County — but not in a courthouse. -
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Miami-Dade public housing tenants face eviction threat amid pandemic
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Local, state and federal moratoriums meant to protect renters from facing threats of eviction throughout the pandemic don’t apply to public housing tenants in Miami-Dade County who miss deadlines to submit proof of their indigent status. -
New El Portal mayor’s messy divorce and questions about his qualifying paperwork threaten term
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
El Portal’s newly elected mayor Omarr Nickerson won his race handily after none of the small village’s 2,400 residents ran against him. But his term could be short-lived amid accusations by El Portal officials that Nickerson submitted false, incomplete and inaccurate information in his qualifying paperwork. -
Cheating on Miami Beach police exams? Nothing to see here, move on, says county ethics boss
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami Beach cop’s year-long effort to get county ethics officials to investigate credible allegations of cheating and other irregularities with the city’s exam process for promoting police officers has been snubbed.
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