It’s official. The Associated Press reports the U.S. Department of Justice is opposing Ana Margarita Martinez’s attempt to make charter companies that book flights from here to Cuba pay a $27 million judgment she won against the Cuban government. In submitting its opposition motion in Miami federal court, the DOJ declared…
Commissioner Marc Sarnoff’s ethics questioned over Mercy condo project
Cuban spy Juan Pablo Roque’s jilted ex-wife won $27 million for his deception
Back in late January, the City of Homestead contracted A&B Paint & Body Shop at 142 SW Fifth Ave. to repair significant damage to the front and rear of a city-owned Ford Expedition driven by Mayor Steve Bateman. Total cost: $1,303.86, which the city paid for.So this past March 24,…
TMZ reports the little-tyke production of Tony Montana’s spiral descent into Miami’s cocaine-fueled underworld is the brilliant work of director Marc Klasfeld and Rockhard Films, which did the video for Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.” It was produced in Los Angeles using child actors. And here I was hoping Miami-Dade County Public…
This is wrong on so many levels. Anyone who can tell me where this little tyke production was staged gets a limited edition DVD of Scarface, a Tony Montana action figure, and a used coke vial. Scarface School Play – Watch more Funny Videos…
Joe Arriola is an arranger, a fixer of sorts. So when Marc Sarnoff was elected to the Miami City Commission, Arriola thought it was a good idea to arrange a sit-down between his pal of 25 years, prominent developer Jorge Perez, and Coconut Grove’s new political capo di tutti. Arriola knew…
In 1962, Willie James Greene opened up his own shoe repair shop on the corner of NW 62nd Street and 6th Avenue in Liberty City. He maintained it despite the bleak economic conditions surrounding him, and when riots engulfed the neighborhood in the 80s, Greene Dreams Shoe Repair was left…
Today, to avoid being formally charged with violating county ethics rules, the South Dade couple settled a complaint brought by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust.An ethics investigation revealed the Forbes did not disclose payments they received from various sources on their 2005, 2006, and 2007 financial disclosure…
Miami Lakes Councilman Richard Pulido can’t stop acting like the town jerk. The part-time college professor continues to pick on town Clerk Marjorie Tejeda.Earlier I reported how Tejeda complained to town Manager Frank Bocanegra that Pulido created a hostile work environment for her.Well at the town council’s last meeting this…
St. Kevin Catholic School students get a deathly lesson
Some students attending St. Kevin Catholic School in Southwest Miami-Dade were given an unexpected introduction to their religion’s death ritual.On the morning of February 10, sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders had to attend the funeral mass for the mother-in-law of school principal Myra Constantino. The “celebration of the life of Josephine…
On July 23, 2004, Steve Shiver plunked down $1.5 million for 4.2 acres in a severely depressed neighborhood of Homestead. The city’s former mayor and ex-county manager had become the proud owner of a laundromat, grocery store, office complex and 44 rundown cinder-block “shotgun” row houses for low-income tenants.It was convenient…
Rumble at the Rock 2Hard Rock Live, HollywoodFriday, March 5, 2010Better Than: A $50 Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino players club card. Dhafir Harris sat near the door to the fighters waiting room just outside the Hard Rock Live’s main staging area. A black hoodie draped over his high-top…
Karl Thompson, accused of scamming victims in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, is sitting in jail awaiting trial on felony counts of grand theft, organized fraud, and resisting arrest without violence.Before his arrest this past October 6,the North Miami Police Department opened an investigation into Thompson after three victims alleged that…
Suspended Miami city commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones is facing more criminal charges. A Miami-Dade grand jury indicted Spence-Jones on one count of bribery. She is accused of soliciting money from MDM Hotel Group, Inc., the developers of the Metropolitan Miami office and residential complex, and the Codina Group Inc., for her…
Two years ago, I profiled Dhafir Harris, aka Dada 5000, backyard fight promoter and one-time member of Kimbo Slice’s entourage. Standing over six feet tall, weighing 275 pounds and sporting a mohawk that resembled a Spartan helmet, Harris cast a pretty menacing figure. But beneath the intimidating profile, Harris demonstrated the marketing…
With all the negative publicity that has engulfed the affluent oceanfront town of Golden Beach, you would think its officials might want to act with a little more caution.First, CBS4 exposed the town’s decision to allow Lt. Robert Barrio to remain on the Golden Beach police force even though he…
North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso cheated the IRS, the bank, and his city
On December 21, 1995, Lynn Hartrick received a sweetheart deal of a lifetime. The Homestead Community Redevelopment Agency gave the city’s code enforcement officer deed to an 11,000-square-foot empty lot at 136 NW First St. Selling price: A buck.Hartrick developed a two-bedroom single story residence on the land, then sold…
So Banana Republican just got word from a friendly political insider who attended Mayor Carlos Alvarez’s state of the county address today that Carlito El Fuerte was introduced to the tune of Superman’s theme music. Bad choice.He’s really more like Superman’s monotone, zombified clone Bizarro — full of superpowers but…
Miami Lakes Councilman Richard Pulido is a petulant bully who thinks state and town laws don’t apply to him, judging from his abrasive behavior with other town officials. Councilman George Lopez and town clerk Marjorie Tejeda claim Pulido has been harassing and threatening them over the past three months. “He…
