Tag: Joe Centorino
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Conservancy rakes in cash at taxpayer-owned Miami Beach Botanical Garden
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org A non-profit group turned the Miami Beach Botanical Garden into a cash cow by obtaining federal pandemic aid funds and charging top dollar for hosting booze-filled events. But the Miami Beach Garden Conservancy fattened up its coffers without giving the city its fair share, and without contributing any money for maintenance…
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Miami Gardens mayor led effort to give city property to a firm owned by woman he later married
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org Call them the ingredients seasoning the latest drama to roil Miami-Dade’s third most populous city: a mayor’s romance, a sweetheart contract and a $12,300 earmark.
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In Hialeah, money meant to feed poor kids pays for Las Vegas trip for city officials
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org Two years ago, Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez signed off on spending $7,621 from a $10,000 corporate grant for feeding poor children. Instead, the money went to pay for airline tickets and posh hotel accommodations for himself, his chief of staff, a police detective and four other city employees to attend a…
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Miami City Attorney’s Office in another fight – this time with the county ethics commission
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org A City of Miami senior assistant city attorney is trying to block the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust from reconsidering its decision six months ago to not sanction her for breaking local ethics rules.