Who’s at fault in this situation? ⬇️ There are two major factors to why this keeps happening. 1. The duration of the build-out period granted by landlords 2. The City of Miami’s permitting process dragging on indefinitely. Landlords can offer a rent-free period to allow tenants to complete their build-outs and obtain necessary permits. But in the City of Miami, six months is nothing. People are now waiting up to two years due to the new regulations and new permitting processes implemented by DERM. Landlords, aware of these constraints, should logically extend the rent-free period, right? I rarely see that happening. Moreover, the City of Miami is demonstrating its lack of concern for restaurateurs by changing grease trap regulations and mandating that every restaurant update their grease traps simultaneously, under threat of closure. Meanwhile, they can’t keep up with new approval requests. You’d think they would put a system in place to streamline this process. Nope. The permitting process is a mess, causing significant delays and financial strain on new businesses. Additionally, reaching the final inspection is like a never-ending ordeal. Every step of the process needs to be inspected, and the city is slow to show up while constantly changing codes. You may complete a step, but by the time they inspect, a new code could be in place, forcing you to redo the work. Their lack of urgency further shows how little they care about the well-being of businesses. These factors combined create the perfect storm, leading to lost cash and delayed openings, or never opening at all. So, who is at fault here? The landlord or the city? Should landlords provide more time to these restaurants to navigate the permitting hell we’re experiencing, or should the City of Miami take responsibility and streamline this permitting process? Are landlords setting short time periods, knowing the permitting process is slow, to get free money and a freshly built-out space? Does the City of Miami genuinely care about restaurateurs, or are they benefiting from this situation? Who do you think is at fault? Let me know in the comments. ⬇️
“When you politicize every single thing, you can’t get anything done. I just got tired of yelling at the TV.” Senate candidate @stanleyforflorida tells #BecauseMiami that he wants to get D.C. out of his race to beat the “crook” Rick Scott 🗳️🇺🇸🗳️ 📺 YouTube.com/LebatardAndFriends
According to Florida Bulldog, a few months after Tony promoted Reyes to colonel in 2019, Reyes greenlit the “purchase of ‘Stop the Bleed’ stations and bleeding control kits from North American Rescue, a company where Tony previously worked and later peddled its products out of his own company.” North American got a $392,386 contract that mysteriously became $500,000 and then Reyes got a memo requesting his approval “in the amount of $750,000. Reyes approved the deal the next day, apparently no questions asked about how a $392,386 purchase had swelled so much.” In June 2022, Miami FBI chief and Tony pal George Piro was forced to retire after a complaint alleged he helped cover up the bid rigging scandal by improperly transferring the criminal investigation out of state to South Carolina. “The case returned to Miami — but word later got out that the investigation had ended again, for reasons unknown.” Reyes is the unqualified Miami-Dade sheriff’s candidate endorsed by Mayor Levine Cava, who desperately promoted him to county public safety chief in order to beef up his law enforcement credentials after her endorsed candidate, former Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez shot his own eye out while attempting to commit suicide during an argument with his wife last year. Tony donated $50,000 from his political committee to Reyes’ political committee, “the largest received by Reyes tied with another $50,000 from Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava’s PAC.” Tony’s wealthy donors, including convicted felon and Broward Sheriff’s Advisory Council member Lewis Stahl have “kicked in an additional $69,000. Plus contributions of more than $11,000 from BSO brass have pushed the total from Tony’s associates to more than $129,000 – over 25% of the Reyes PAC’s entire reported haul to date of $504,000.” Tony “awaits a final determination from Florida’s Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission on whether to revoke his license to be a cop for lying and yet another hearing before an administrative judge in Tallahassee.”
According to Florida Bulldog, a few months after Tony promoted Reyes to colonel in 2019, Reyes greenlit the “purchase of ‘Stop the Bleed’ stations and bleeding control kits from North American Rescue, a company where Tony previously worked and later peddled its products out of his own company.” North American got a $392,386 contract that mysteriously became $500,000 and then Reyes got a memo requesting his approval “in the amount of $750,000. Reyes approved the deal the next day, apparently no questions asked about how a $392,386 purchase had swelled so much.” In June 2022, Miami FBI chief and Tony pal George Piro was forced to retire after a complaint alleged he helped cover up the bid rigging scandal by improperly transferring the criminal investigation out of state to South Carolina. “The case returned to Miami — but word later got out that the investigation had ended again, for reasons unknown.” Reyes is the unqualified Miami-Dade sheriff’s candidate endorsed by Mayor Levine Cava, who desperately promoted him to county public safety chief in order to beef up his law enforcement credentials after her endorsed candidate, former Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez shot his own eye out while attempting to commit suicide during an argument with his wife last year. Tony donated $50,000 from his political committee to Reyes’ political committee, “the largest received by Reyes tied with another $50,000 from Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava’s PAC.” Tony’s wealthy donors, including convicted felon and Broward Sheriff’s Advisory Council member Lewis Stahl have “kicked in an additional $69,000. Plus contributions of more than $11,000 from BSO brass have pushed the total from Tony’s associates to more than $129,000 – over 25% of the Reyes PAC’s entire reported haul to date of $504,000.” Tony “awaits a final determination from Florida’s Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission on whether to revoke his license to be a cop for lying and yet another hearing before an administrative judge in Tallahassee.”
According to Florida Bulldog, a few months after Tony promoted Reyes to colonel in 2019, Reyes greenlit the “purchase of ‘Stop the Bleed’ stations and bleeding control kits from North American Rescue, a company where Tony previously worked and later peddled its products out of his own company.” North American got a $392,386 contract that mysteriously became $500,000 and then Reyes got a memo requesting his approval “in the amount of $750,000. Reyes approved the deal the next day, apparently no questions asked about how a $392,386 purchase had swelled so much.” In June 2022, Miami FBI chief and Tony pal George Piro was forced to retire after a complaint alleged he helped cover up the bid rigging scandal by improperly transferring the criminal investigation out of state to South Carolina. “The case returned to Miami — but word later got out that the investigation had ended again, for reasons unknown.” Reyes is the unqualified Miami-Dade sheriff’s candidate endorsed by Mayor Levine Cava, who desperately promoted him to county public safety chief in order to beef up his law enforcement credentials after her endorsed candidate, former Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez shot his own eye out while attempting to commit suicide during an argument with his wife last year. Tony donated $50,000 from his political committee to Reyes’ political committee, “the largest received by Reyes tied with another $50,000 from Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava’s PAC.” Tony’s wealthy donors, including convicted felon and Broward Sheriff’s Advisory Council member Lewis Stahl have “kicked in an additional $69,000. Plus contributions of more than $11,000 from BSO brass have pushed the total from Tony’s associates to more than $129,000 – over 25% of the Reyes PAC’s entire reported haul to date of $504,000.” Tony “awaits a final determination from Florida’s Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission on whether to revoke his license to be a cop for lying and yet another hearing before an administrative judge in Tallahassee.”
While Miami Beach was hit by a 1-in-200 year flood, Mayor Steven Meiner and interim city manager Rickelle Williams were missing in action. It turns out, Williams has been on a taxpayer subsidized junket (read: vacation) to Art Basel in Switzerland with Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, Meiner’s chief of staff Veronica Paysee, and economic development director Heather Shaw. Nero fiddled while Rome burned — Rickelle Williams partied while Miami Beach drowned. Residents whose houses and cars were underwater have complained of the city government’s sloppy emergency response and little to no communication via text, email or social media: City officials ignored the forecast, began distributing sandbags the day AFTER the flood! Mayor Meiner — the subject of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission HR investigation into sexual harassment allegations by three women in the SEC’s Miami office where he works — has been radio silent until an email on Friday night, days after the storm hit. It took @MiamiBeachPD FIVE HOURS to respond and redirect traffic on Alton Road where dozens of cars were stuck, people were fishing for tarpon in the street, and walking their dogs on kayaks! Despite piles of debris, there are no bulk trash pickups available until late next week! One resident told me: “During a historic flash flood emergency, emergency response has been ad hoc at best. Everyone in the government seems to be on vacation while we’re here suffering. Leadership has abandoned us.” @davidsuarezmb
While Miami Beach was hit by a 1-in-200 year flood, Mayor Steven Meiner and interim city manager Rickelle Williams were missing in action. It turns out, Williams has been on a taxpayer subsidized junket (read: vacation) to Art Basel in Switzerland with Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, Meiner’s chief of staff Veronica Paysee, and economic development director Heather Shaw. Nero fiddled while Rome burned — Rickelle Williams partied while Miami Beach drowned. Residents whose houses and cars were underwater have complained of the city government’s sloppy emergency response and little to no communication via text, email or social media: City officials ignored the forecast, began distributing sandbags the day AFTER the flood! Mayor Meiner — the subject of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission HR investigation into sexual harassment allegations by three women in the SEC’s Miami office where he works — has been radio silent until an email on Friday night, days after the storm hit. It took @MiamiBeachPD FIVE HOURS to respond and redirect traffic on Alton Road where dozens of cars were stuck, people were fishing for tarpon in the street, and walking their dogs on kayaks! Despite piles of debris, there are no bulk trash pickups available until late next week! One resident told me: “During a historic flash flood emergency, emergency response has been ad hoc at best. Everyone in the government seems to be on vacation while we’re here suffering. Leadership has abandoned us.” @davidsuarezmb
While Miami Beach was hit by a 1-in-200 year flood, Mayor Steven Meiner and interim city manager Rickelle Williams were missing in action. It turns out, Williams has been on a taxpayer subsidized junket (read: vacation) to Art Basel in Switzerland with Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, Meiner’s chief of staff Veronica Paysee, and economic development director Heather Shaw. Nero fiddled while Rome burned — Rickelle Williams partied while Miami Beach drowned. Residents whose houses and cars were underwater have complained of the city government’s sloppy emergency response and little to no communication via text, email or social media: City officials ignored the forecast, began distributing sandbags the day AFTER the flood! Mayor Meiner — the subject of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission HR investigation into sexual harassment allegations by three women in the SEC’s Miami office where he works — has been radio silent until an email on Friday night, days after the storm hit. It took @MiamiBeachPD FIVE HOURS to respond and redirect traffic on Alton Road where dozens of cars were stuck, people were fishing for tarpon in the street, and walking their dogs on kayaks! Despite piles of debris, there are no bulk trash pickups available until late next week! One resident told me: “During a historic flash flood emergency, emergency response has been ad hoc at best. Everyone in the government seems to be on vacation while we’re here suffering. Leadership has abandoned us.” @davidsuarezmb
According to a new study, Miami is among the worst U.S. cities to bring up a family, ranking 156 out of 182. #BecauseMiami WalletHub rated cities using 40 key metrics across five categories: “family fun,” “health and safety,” “education and child care,” “affordability,” and “socioeconomics.” Out of the 182 cities, Miami ranks at 181 for affordability and 161 for socioeconomics. But we are not alone among South Florida cities at the bottom of the list: Fort Lauderdale ranked 161 and Hialeah at 168. “Fremont, California topped the overall rankings with Overland Park, Kansas, and Irvine, California rounding out the top three for best cities to raise the fam. Pembroke Pines is Florida’s highest ranked city at 40 on the list, with Tampa and Orlando not far behind,” according to Miami New Times. Pero ¡Tranquilo, bro! Miami Mayor Ponzi Postalita (aka Francis Suarez) has a plan: STOP BEING POOR!
#BREAKING: Miami Mafia FAILS to get all counts dismissed in new federal lawsuit that could bankrupt the city — filed by Little Havana businessmen and Ball & Chain owners who already won $63.5 million corruption judgment against Commissioner Joe Carollo last year. #BecauseMiami U.S. Judge Federico Moreno has ordered at least 9 counts to move forward — including the Civil Conspiracy Claim Against Defendant City of Miami (aka “The Vile Little Plan”) that alleges the city government behaved like a criminal racketeering organization, weaponizing city agencies to violate constitutional rights of free speech and private property for political revenge. Moreno says plaintiffs “satisfy the pleading requirement” to move ahead with their claim that government officials — including Carollo, city manager Art Noriega, disgraced fired city attorney “Tricky” Vicky Mendez, assistant city attorney Rachel Dooley, then building director “Ace” Marrero (promoted this year to assistant city manager of infrastructure), chief of unsafe structures Rene Diaz, fire marshal Adrian Plasencia, zoning director Daniel Goldberg, and Carollo’s chief of staff William Ortiz — “agreed to participate in the Civil Conspiracy” against the beloved Calle Ocho property owners and destroy their businesses in retaliation for their support of Carollo’s opponent in the 2017 commission election. This is the case in which Miami taxpayers are paying 23 (!!!) outside attorneys to defend the city and 11 individual officials. Gotta pay the corruption tax! Judge Moreno has yet to file orders on the additional 127 counts in the complaint. @iamchristineking
#BREAKING: Miami Mafia FAILS to get all counts dismissed in new federal lawsuit that could bankrupt the city — filed by Little Havana businessmen and Ball & Chain owners who already won $63.5 million corruption judgment against Commissioner Joe Carollo last year. #BecauseMiami U.S. Judge Federico Moreno has ordered at least 9 counts to move forward — including the Civil Conspiracy Claim Against Defendant City of Miami (aka “The Vile Little Plan”) that alleges the city government behaved like a criminal racketeering organization, weaponizing city agencies to violate constitutional rights of free speech and private property for political revenge. Moreno says plaintiffs “satisfy the pleading requirement” to move ahead with their claim that government officials — including Carollo, city manager Art Noriega, disgraced fired city attorney “Tricky” Vicky Mendez, assistant city attorney Rachel Dooley, then building director “Ace” Marrero (promoted this year to assistant city manager of infrastructure), chief of unsafe structures Rene Diaz, fire marshal Adrian Plasencia, zoning director Daniel Goldberg, and Carollo’s chief of staff William Ortiz — “agreed to participate in the Civil Conspiracy” against the beloved Calle Ocho property owners and destroy their businesses in retaliation for their support of Carollo’s opponent in the 2017 commission election. This is the case in which Miami taxpayers are paying 23 (!!!) outside attorneys to defend the city and 11 individual officials. Gotta pay the corruption tax! Judge Moreno has yet to file orders on the additional 127 counts in the complaint. @iamchristineking
#BREAKING: Miami Mafia FAILS to get all counts dismissed in new federal lawsuit that could bankrupt the city — filed by Little Havana businessmen and Ball & Chain owners who already won $63.5 million corruption judgment against Commissioner Joe Carollo last year. #BecauseMiami U.S. Judge Federico Moreno has ordered at least 9 counts to move forward — including the Civil Conspiracy Claim Against Defendant City of Miami (aka “The Vile Little Plan”) that alleges the city government behaved like a criminal racketeering organization, weaponizing city agencies to violate constitutional rights of free speech and private property for political revenge. Moreno says plaintiffs “satisfy the pleading requirement” to move ahead with their claim that government officials — including Carollo, city manager Art Noriega, disgraced fired city attorney “Tricky” Vicky Mendez, assistant city attorney Rachel Dooley, then building director “Ace” Marrero (promoted this year to assistant city manager of infrastructure), chief of unsafe structures Rene Diaz, fire marshal Adrian Plasencia, zoning director Daniel Goldberg, and Carollo’s chief of staff William Ortiz — “agreed to participate in the Civil Conspiracy” against the beloved Calle Ocho property owners and destroy their businesses in retaliation for their support of Carollo’s opponent in the 2017 commission election. This is the case in which Miami taxpayers are paying 23 (!!!) outside attorneys to defend the city and 11 individual officials. Gotta pay the corruption tax! Judge Moreno has yet to file orders on the additional 127 counts in the complaint. @iamchristineking
#BREAKING: Miami Mafia FAILS to get all counts dismissed in new federal lawsuit that could bankrupt the city — filed by Little Havana businessmen and Ball & Chain owners who already won $63.5 million corruption judgment against Commissioner Joe Carollo last year. #BecauseMiami U.S. Judge Federico Moreno has ordered at least 9 counts to move forward — including the Civil Conspiracy Claim Against Defendant City of Miami (aka “The Vile Little Plan”) that alleges the city government behaved like a criminal racketeering organization, weaponizing city agencies to violate constitutional rights of free speech and private property for political revenge. Moreno says plaintiffs “satisfy the pleading requirement” to move ahead with their claim that government officials — including Carollo, city manager Art Noriega, disgraced fired city attorney “Tricky” Vicky Mendez, assistant city attorney Rachel Dooley, then building director “Ace” Marrero (promoted this year to assistant city manager of infrastructure), chief of unsafe structures Rene Diaz, fire marshal Adrian Plasencia, zoning director Daniel Goldberg, and Carollo’s chief of staff William Ortiz — “agreed to participate in the Civil Conspiracy” against the beloved Calle Ocho property owners and destroy their businesses in retaliation for their support of Carollo’s opponent in the 2017 commission election. This is the case in which Miami taxpayers are paying 23 (!!!) outside attorneys to defend the city and 11 individual officials. Gotta pay the corruption tax! Judge Moreno has yet to file orders on the additional 127 counts in the complaint. @iamchristineking
#BREAKING: Miami Mafia FAILS to get all counts dismissed in new federal lawsuit that could bankrupt the city — filed by Little Havana businessmen and Ball & Chain owners who already won $63.5 million corruption judgment against Commissioner Joe Carollo last year. #BecauseMiami U.S. Judge Federico Moreno has ordered at least 9 counts to move forward — including the Civil Conspiracy Claim Against Defendant City of Miami (aka “The Vile Little Plan”) that alleges the city government behaved like a criminal racketeering organization, weaponizing city agencies to violate constitutional rights of free speech and private property for political revenge. Moreno says plaintiffs “satisfy the pleading requirement” to move ahead with their claim that government officials — including Carollo, city manager Art Noriega, disgraced fired city attorney “Tricky” Vicky Mendez, assistant city attorney Rachel Dooley, then building director “Ace” Marrero (promoted this year to assistant city manager of infrastructure), chief of unsafe structures Rene Diaz, fire marshal Adrian Plasencia, zoning director Daniel Goldberg, and Carollo’s chief of staff William Ortiz — “agreed to participate in the Civil Conspiracy” against the beloved Calle Ocho property owners and destroy their businesses in retaliation for their support of Carollo’s opponent in the 2017 commission election. This is the case in which Miami taxpayers are paying 23 (!!!) outside attorneys to defend the city and 11 individual officials. Gotta pay the corruption tax! Judge Moreno has yet to file orders on the additional 127 counts in the complaint. @iamchristineking
#BREAKING: Miami Mafia FAILS to get all counts dismissed in new federal lawsuit that could bankrupt the city — filed by Little Havana businessmen and Ball & Chain owners who already won $63.5 million corruption judgment against Commissioner Joe Carollo last year. #BecauseMiami U.S. Judge Federico Moreno has ordered at least 9 counts to move forward — including the Civil Conspiracy Claim Against Defendant City of Miami (aka “The Vile Little Plan”) that alleges the city government behaved like a criminal racketeering organization, weaponizing city agencies to violate constitutional rights of free speech and private property for political revenge. Moreno says plaintiffs “satisfy the pleading requirement” to move ahead with their claim that government officials — including Carollo, city manager Art Noriega, disgraced fired city attorney “Tricky” Vicky Mendez, assistant city attorney Rachel Dooley, then building director “Ace” Marrero (promoted this year to assistant city manager of infrastructure), chief of unsafe structures Rene Diaz, fire marshal Adrian Plasencia, zoning director Daniel Goldberg, and Carollo’s chief of staff William Ortiz — “agreed to participate in the Civil Conspiracy” against the beloved Calle Ocho property owners and destroy their businesses in retaliation for their support of Carollo’s opponent in the 2017 commission election. This is the case in which Miami taxpayers are paying 23 (!!!) outside attorneys to defend the city and 11 individual officials. Gotta pay the corruption tax! Judge Moreno has yet to file orders on the additional 127 counts in the complaint. @iamchristineking
#BREAKING: Miami Mafia FAILS to get all counts dismissed in new federal lawsuit that could bankrupt the city — filed by Little Havana businessmen and Ball & Chain owners who already won $63.5 million corruption judgment against Commissioner Joe Carollo last year. #BecauseMiami U.S. Judge Federico Moreno has ordered at least 9 counts to move forward — including the Civil Conspiracy Claim Against Defendant City of Miami (aka “The Vile Little Plan”) that alleges the city government behaved like a criminal racketeering organization, weaponizing city agencies to violate constitutional rights of free speech and private property for political revenge. Moreno says plaintiffs “satisfy the pleading requirement” to move ahead with their claim that government officials — including Carollo, city manager Art Noriega, disgraced fired city attorney “Tricky” Vicky Mendez, assistant city attorney Rachel Dooley, then building director “Ace” Marrero (promoted this year to assistant city manager of infrastructure), chief of unsafe structures Rene Diaz, fire marshal Adrian Plasencia, zoning director Daniel Goldberg, and Carollo’s chief of staff William Ortiz — “agreed to participate in the Civil Conspiracy” against the beloved Calle Ocho property owners and destroy their businesses in retaliation for their support of Carollo’s opponent in the 2017 commission election. This is the case in which Miami taxpayers are paying 23 (!!!) outside attorneys to defend the city and 11 individual officials. Gotta pay the corruption tax! Judge Moreno has yet to file orders on the additional 127 counts in the complaint. @iamchristineking
Meanwhile in Miami… Hope everyone is safe and dry! #BecauseMiami
Evergreen Headline: “Drug money laundering fuels Miami real estate buying spree…and nobody was charged with a crime” #BecauseMiami Miami-based real estate investment firm Sefira Capital was accused by federal prosecutors in a January 2021 civil forfeiture complaint of accepting millions of dollars in drug trafficking proceeds to fund investments in Florida commercial real estate between 2016 and 2019. “In the civil forfeiture complaint, prosecutors alleged that money invested by Sefira had been laundered through the Black Market Peso Exchange, a shadow financial system used by drug traffickers in Mexico and other countries to convert tainted U.S. dollars obtained from drug sales into clean currency in their native countries. In an undercover operation, agents for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency were directed by money laundering brokers from the black market exchange to deposit millions of dollars in various accounts related to different Sefira properties in 2018 and 2019.” Three days after filing the complaint, prosecutors reached a settlement with Sefira. The company agreed to forfeit $22.5 million and pay $6.5 million in lieu of giving up several properties. Prosecutors didn’t bring any criminal charges against Sefira or its co-founders. Under the settlement, the company and its employees didn’t admit any “liability, fault, guilt or wrongdoing.” — via The Miami Herald
Third World Government, Fourth World Infrastructure: “Need to get to our broken airport? Take a broken bus! (That will block traffic from trying to get to our broken airport!)” #BecauseMiami
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is campaigning against two state constitutional amendments on November’s ballot — but both are more popular than he is. #BecauseFlorida According to Fox News, both legalized cannabis and reproductive rights are polling higher than DeSantis. FloridaPolitics.com says,”While DeSantis is above water, with 52% approval against 47% disapproval among the 1,075 registered voters surveyed earlier this month, what’s notable is that he’s 35 points underwater with independent voters (31% approval; 66% disapproval).” The same Fox News poll indicates Amendment 3, the Adult Personal Use of Marijuana citizen initiative, “that would allow people to hold three ounces of flower or 5 grams of concentrate” has 66% approval against 32% disapproval.” Among Republicans, it has 57% approval and 41% disapproval, and polls over 70% with independents and Democrats. Amendment 4, to Limit Government Interference with Abortion, “which would stop the state from being able to restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health,” is at 69% support — with 50% of Republicans in support and 45% against. Both Amendments require at least 60% voter approval to pass.
In Miami we don’t recycle our trash, we re-elect it! Daniella Levine Cava @mayordlc — incompetent and indecisive on her best day — is the second worst Miami-Dade mayor in history. Her tenure has been a comedy of errors marred by dirty deals by her consultant cartel puppeteer and corruption from her highest ranking appointees. Nothing she says Monday matters by Friday. Her hypocrisy and reckless mismanagement of our $12 billion county with over 30,000 employees has been nothing short of an embarrassment. And we’re going to re-elect her. #BecauseMiami LINK IN BIO FOR FULL POD
#BREAKING: Federal Judge Federico Moreno DENIES Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s Motion to Dismiss new lawsuit against him by Little Havana business owners William Fuller and Martin Pinilla — whose properties include historic Calle Ocho nightclub Ball & Chain — for continuing to violate their constitutional rights since they won a $63.5 million corruption judgment against him last year #BecauseMiami @iamchristineking
#BREAKING: Federal Judge Federico Moreno DENIES Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s Motion to Dismiss new lawsuit against him by Little Havana business owners William Fuller and Martin Pinilla — whose properties include historic Calle Ocho nightclub Ball & Chain — for continuing to violate their constitutional rights since they won a $63.5 million corruption judgment against him last year #BecauseMiami @iamchristineking
Money truck makes it rain on Miami International Airport tarmac yesterday (maybe we can use that cash to fix the escalators, moving walkways, SkyTrain, bathrooms, parking lots, etc.) #BecauseMiami
