Big shout out to @billycorben , for having me on his podcast! We had an insightful conversation about the ongoing Restaurant Armageddon in Miami. The prediction was spot on—145 closures in the Miami core, not even counting cities like Doral, Kendall, and Hialeah. Since recording, the number of closures has only increased. Demand still outweighs inventory, with ten new ventures ready to take over each closed space. This is why you aren’t seeing vacant restaurants everywhere you look. I’m grateful for the community’s support amidst the pushback I’ve been receiving from landlords and developers who do not want the truth of this narrative out there. At the end of the day, being honest with my clients and the community to further support their success is what I care about most. Follow along in my stories for daily updates on the latest restaurant closures and openings. Stay tuned for more insights on the truth behind Restaurant Armageddon. 🔥
#BREAKING: Police were called after Miami-Dade’s second greasiest mayor, Coral Gables’ real estate huckster and corrupt bully Vince Lago reportedly got into a confrontation with City Manager Amos Rojas at city hall on Tuesday. Via Political Cortadito: “According to several sources, @mayorvincelago and Rojas were at a meeting at City Hall when there was an exchange of words, and the mayor suddenly pulled off his jacket, threw it on the floor, rolled up his sleeves and, apparently, got into a fighting stance. Rojas felt threatened enough to call police.” Rojas, who previously served as the U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Florida, was appointed @cityofcoralgables manager by a 3-2 vote in February by Lago’s political enemies on the commission who removed the previous manager. Lago’s attorney is Ben Kuehne — who has billed Miami taxpayers and the city’s insurance company millions of dollars for his failed defense of corrupt commissioner Joe Carollo and is also representing disgraced ex Miami Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla arrested for bribery and money laundering — says “The report is completely and maliciously false. Mayor Lago categorically refutes any allegation regarding an altercation at City Hall.” @coralgablespd Chief Ed Hudak: “The Coral Gables Internal Affairs Section was directed to preliminarily document the incident. As is our protocol, our Internal Affairs Section will work as the point of contact in collaboration with outside agencies who will conduct any further investigations. This is an open and active investigation by the Department’s Internal Affairs Section. No further comments will be made until the conclusion of the investigation by this office, or other investigative agencies, at this time.”
Disgraced former Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez, suspended from office after public corruption arrest, plans to run for county sheriff before his felony criminal trial #BecauseMiami
#BREAKING: Disgraced ex-Miami commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla under investigation for alleged witness tampering in the bribery case and money laundering case against him that led to his removal from office by the Florida Governor #BecauseMiami Díaz de la Portilla’s former chief of staff, Karla Fortuny, has accused him of sending “unsolicited and unwanted text communications” that are “intimidating and obviously meant to tamper with my presentation of complete and truthful testimony regarding my time as an employee of the City of Miami,” according to a prosecutors’ motion. “This conduct is extremely intimidating,” Fortuny wrote in a petition. “The respondent knows that I am listed as a prosecution witness in [the case] in which he is a named defendant. He also knows that I am represented by counsel. Regardless, he stalks me via texts and now has used a ‘burner phone’ to text my supervisor at my current job.” According to the Miami Herald, “on May 20, Fortuny’s current boss received a text message from an unknown number, alleging that Fortuny received thousands of dollars from another witness in the case. ‘… More to come in depositions,’ the text said, according to a screenshot included in the filing. Ben Kuehne — who has billed Miami taxpayers and the city’s insurance company millions of dollars for his failed defense of corrupt commissioner Joe Carollo — is also representing Díaz de la Portilla. He calls the allegations “unfounded” and part of “The State’s ongoing effort to weaponize the criminal justice system against the Defendant in defiance of the facts and law.” In a text message to the Herald today, Díaz de la Portilla wrote: “The only tampering is the State’s tampering.”
At last night’s Ponzi Postalita Party, the “First Annual Mayor’s Ball,” at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami, corrupt Commissioner Joe Carollo, sitting alone with his wife, clumsily attempted to secretly record Commissioner Damian Pardo chatting with Steve Miro, a former Carollo staffer who testified against him — and settled a wrongful termination whistleblower lawsuit with Carollo and the city for $120,000 in 2019 — and now works as a special advisor to Commissioner Miguel Gabela. #BecauseMiami
#BREAKING: Federal Judge Roy Altman strikes or denies 33 out of 42 of the City of Miami’s affirmative defenses in the latest Ball & Chain civil corruption case that could bankrupt the city. Altman called most of their defenses “ridiculous” and “improperly pled…because, as any first-year lawyer would have known, they weren’t affirmative defenses at all.” #BecauseMiami Judge Altman says Miami city attorneys and their outside lawyers from firms Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney and @DentonsGlobal “wasted an enormous amount of the Court’s-not to mention the parties’ —time advancing positions that border on (and sometimes cross over into) frivolity.” Corruption Tax: This is the inevitable result of @mayorofmiami Francis Suarez, commissioners Manolo Reyes @manolo_4_miami Joe Carollo and Christine King @iamchristineking and city attorneys recklessly handing over a blank check with NO OVERSIGHT to lawyers with perverse incentives who are playing with the house’s (read: the taxpayers’) money. It’s a multimillion dollar grift. Quintessential taxation without representation and the antithesis of fiscal conservatism.
#BREAKING: Federal Judge Roy Altman strikes or denies 33 out of 42 of the City of Miami’s affirmative defenses in the latest Ball & Chain civil corruption case that could bankrupt the city. Altman called most of their defenses “ridiculous” and “improperly pled…because, as any first-year lawyer would have known, they weren’t affirmative defenses at all.” #BecauseMiami Judge Altman says Miami city attorneys and their outside lawyers from firms Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney and @DentonsGlobal “wasted an enormous amount of the Court’s-not to mention the parties’ —time advancing positions that border on (and sometimes cross over into) frivolity.” Corruption Tax: This is the inevitable result of @mayorofmiami Francis Suarez, commissioners Manolo Reyes @manolo_4_miami Joe Carollo and Christine King @iamchristineking and city attorneys recklessly handing over a blank check with NO OVERSIGHT to lawyers with perverse incentives who are playing with the house’s (read: the taxpayers’) money. It’s a multimillion dollar grift. Quintessential taxation without representation and the antithesis of fiscal conservatism.
So proud of my Grandpa who I was surprised to learn is against the ridiculous illegal LED billboards in Downtown Miami. He spent his career as a developer and, while a Board Member of the Arsht Performing Arts Foundation for 10 years, advocated for the removal of the Sears Tower you see on Biscayne Boulevard and 13th Street, because he felt it was not worthy of historic preservation and would detract from the arts center’s unique architecture. On those same grounds, he spoke at city hall last week against the billboards — and we won the vote 4-1! Thank you for listening and considering what we had to say, Commissioner @gabela4miami.
#BREAKING: Women DO NOT have the right to choose in Daniella Levine Cava’s office Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava, her political puppeteer Christian Ulvert, and chief of staff Johanna Cervone forced candidate JennyLee Molina to drop out of Florida State House race in District 113 by bullying her and threatening her job as mayor’s digital strategist, campaign sources say. The week of May 13th began with communications expert and 305 Cafecito and 305 Day founder Molina CONFIRMING with her boss Levine Cava and the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission that she could run against Republican incumbent @vickilynnlopez — without resigning from her job as the mayor’s digital strategist. After all, Levine Cava’s endorsed candidate for sheriff, the grossly unqualified James Reyes, has not resigned as Miami-Dade Chief of Public Safety — a position the mayor politically promoted him to ahead of the election in order to beef up his weak law enforcement credentials. Double standard? The week ended with Molina FILING to run — Democrats have a 12% advantage in HD113, making it one of the party’s ONLY flippable Miami-Dade state house seat — and then, following a dizzying series of calls between Cava, consultant cartel boss Ulvert, and Cervone, WITHDRAWING from the race a day later. With Levine Cava, it’s always a different story on Friday than it was on Monday. She’s indecisive and incompetent — at best. Cava, Ulvert and Cervone threatened Molina’s livelihood, insisting she’d have to quit her job (the opposite of what the mayor and ethics commission originally said) — but more pointedly, they claimed her race would harm the mayor politically so she should not run, sources involved in Molina’s short lived campaign say. High-profile Dems including Minority Leader @FentriceDriskell and Miami-Dade Commission Chair Oliver Gilbert ogilbert3 @chairmangilbertsoffice made a DEAL with Republicans to NOT challenge Lopez and proactively DISCOURAGE potential challengers, FORFEITING one of the ONLY contested partisan race the local party can win this cycle. Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. @nikkifriedfl
#BREAKING: Women DO NOT have the right to choose in Daniella Levine Cava’s office Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava, her political puppeteer Christian Ulvert, and chief of staff Johanna Cervone forced candidate JennyLee Molina to drop out of Florida State House race in District 113 by bullying her and threatening her job as mayor’s digital strategist, campaign sources say. The week of May 13th began with communications expert and 305 Cafecito and 305 Day founder Molina CONFIRMING with her boss Levine Cava and the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission that she could run against Republican incumbent @vickilynnlopez — without resigning from her job as the mayor’s digital strategist. After all, Levine Cava’s endorsed candidate for sheriff, the grossly unqualified James Reyes, has not resigned as Miami-Dade Chief of Public Safety — a position the mayor politically promoted him to ahead of the election in order to beef up his weak law enforcement credentials. Double standard? The week ended with Molina FILING to run — Democrats have a 12% advantage in HD113, making it one of the party’s ONLY flippable Miami-Dade state house seat — and then, following a dizzying series of calls between Cava, consultant cartel boss Ulvert, and Cervone, WITHDRAWING from the race a day later. With Levine Cava, it’s always a different story on Friday than it was on Monday. She’s indecisive and incompetent — at best. Cava, Ulvert and Cervone threatened Molina’s livelihood, insisting she’d have to quit her job (the opposite of what the mayor and ethics commission originally said) — but more pointedly, they claimed her race would harm the mayor politically so she should not run, sources involved in Molina’s short lived campaign say. High-profile Dems including Minority Leader @FentriceDriskell and Miami-Dade Commission Chair Oliver Gilbert ogilbert3 @chairmangilbertsoffice made a DEAL with Republicans to NOT challenge Lopez and proactively DISCOURAGE potential challengers, FORFEITING one of the ONLY contested partisan race the local party can win this cycle. Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. @nikkifriedfl
#BREAKING: Women DO NOT have the right to choose in Daniella Levine Cava’s office Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava, her political puppeteer Christian Ulvert, and chief of staff Johanna Cervone forced candidate JennyLee Molina to drop out of Florida State House race in District 113 by bullying her and threatening her job as mayor’s digital strategist, campaign sources say. The week of May 13th began with communications expert and 305 Cafecito and 305 Day founder Molina CONFIRMING with her boss Levine Cava and the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission that she could run against Republican incumbent @vickilynnlopez — without resigning from her job as the mayor’s digital strategist. After all, Levine Cava’s endorsed candidate for sheriff, the grossly unqualified James Reyes, has not resigned as Miami-Dade Chief of Public Safety — a position the mayor politically promoted him to ahead of the election in order to beef up his weak law enforcement credentials. Double standard? The week ended with Molina FILING to run — Democrats have a 12% advantage in HD113, making it one of the party’s ONLY flippable Miami-Dade state house seat — and then, following a dizzying series of calls between Cava, consultant cartel boss Ulvert, and Cervone, WITHDRAWING from the race a day later. With Levine Cava, it’s always a different story on Friday than it was on Monday. She’s indecisive and incompetent — at best. Cava, Ulvert and Cervone threatened Molina’s livelihood, insisting she’d have to quit her job (the opposite of what the mayor and ethics commission originally said) — but more pointedly, they claimed her race would harm the mayor politically so she should not run, sources involved in Molina’s short lived campaign say. High-profile Dems including Minority Leader @FentriceDriskell and Miami-Dade Commission Chair Oliver Gilbert ogilbert3 @chairmangilbertsoffice made a DEAL with Republicans to NOT challenge Lopez and proactively DISCOURAGE potential challengers, FORFEITING one of the ONLY contested partisan race the local party can win this cycle. Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. @nikkifriedfl
#BREAKING: Women DO NOT have the right to choose in Daniella Levine Cava’s office Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava, her political puppeteer Christian Ulvert, and chief of staff Johanna Cervone forced candidate JennyLee Molina to drop out of Florida State House race in District 113 by bullying her and threatening her job as mayor’s digital strategist, campaign sources say. The week of May 13th began with communications expert and 305 Cafecito and 305 Day founder Molina CONFIRMING with her boss Levine Cava and the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission that she could run against Republican incumbent @vickilynnlopez — without resigning from her job as the mayor’s digital strategist. After all, Levine Cava’s endorsed candidate for sheriff, the grossly unqualified James Reyes, has not resigned as Miami-Dade Chief of Public Safety — a position the mayor politically promoted him to ahead of the election in order to beef up his weak law enforcement credentials. Double standard? The week ended with Molina FILING to run — Democrats have a 12% advantage in HD113, making it one of the party’s ONLY flippable Miami-Dade state house seat — and then, following a dizzying series of calls between Cava, consultant cartel boss Ulvert, and Cervone, WITHDRAWING from the race a day later. With Levine Cava, it’s always a different story on Friday than it was on Monday. She’s indecisive and incompetent — at best. Cava, Ulvert and Cervone threatened Molina’s livelihood, insisting she’d have to quit her job (the opposite of what the mayor and ethics commission originally said) — but more pointedly, they claimed her race would harm the mayor politically so she should not run, sources involved in Molina’s short lived campaign say. High-profile Dems including Minority Leader @FentriceDriskell and Miami-Dade Commission Chair Oliver Gilbert ogilbert3 @chairmangilbertsoffice made a DEAL with Republicans to NOT challenge Lopez and proactively DISCOURAGE potential challengers, FORFEITING one of the ONLY contested partisan race the local party can win this cycle. Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. @nikkifriedfl
#BREAKING: Women DO NOT have the right to choose in Daniella Levine Cava’s office Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava, her political puppeteer Christian Ulvert, and chief of staff Johanna Cervone forced candidate JennyLee Molina to drop out of Florida State House race in District 113 by bullying her and threatening her job as mayor’s digital strategist, campaign sources say. The week of May 13th began with communications expert and 305 Cafecito and 305 Day founder Molina CONFIRMING with her boss Levine Cava and the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission that she could run against Republican incumbent @vickilynnlopez — without resigning from her job as the mayor’s digital strategist. After all, Levine Cava’s endorsed candidate for sheriff, the grossly unqualified James Reyes, has not resigned as Miami-Dade Chief of Public Safety — a position the mayor politically promoted him to ahead of the election in order to beef up his weak law enforcement credentials. Double standard? The week ended with Molina FILING to run — Democrats have a 12% advantage in HD113, making it one of the party’s ONLY flippable Miami-Dade state house seat — and then, following a dizzying series of calls between Cava, consultant cartel boss Ulvert, and Cervone, WITHDRAWING from the race a day later. With Levine Cava, it’s always a different story on Friday than it was on Monday. She’s indecisive and incompetent — at best. Cava, Ulvert and Cervone threatened Molina’s livelihood, insisting she’d have to quit her job (the opposite of what the mayor and ethics commission originally said) — but more pointedly, they claimed her race would harm the mayor politically so she should not run, sources involved in Molina’s short lived campaign say. High-profile Dems including Minority Leader @FentriceDriskell and Miami-Dade Commission Chair Oliver Gilbert ogilbert3 @chairmangilbertsoffice made a DEAL with Republicans to NOT challenge Lopez and proactively DISCOURAGE potential challengers, FORFEITING one of the ONLY contested partisan race the local party can win this cycle. Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. @nikkifriedfl
#BREAKING: Women DO NOT have the right to choose in Daniella Levine Cava’s office Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava, her political puppeteer Christian Ulvert, and chief of staff Johanna Cervone forced candidate JennyLee Molina to drop out of Florida State House race in District 113 by bullying her and threatening her job as mayor’s digital strategist, campaign sources say. The week of May 13th began with communications expert and 305 Cafecito and 305 Day founder Molina CONFIRMING with her boss Levine Cava and the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission that she could run against Republican incumbent @vickilynnlopez — without resigning from her job as the mayor’s digital strategist. After all, Levine Cava’s endorsed candidate for sheriff, the grossly unqualified James Reyes, has not resigned as Miami-Dade Chief of Public Safety — a position the mayor politically promoted him to ahead of the election in order to beef up his weak law enforcement credentials. Double standard? The week ended with Molina FILING to run — Democrats have a 12% advantage in HD113, making it one of the party’s ONLY flippable Miami-Dade state house seat — and then, following a dizzying series of calls between Cava, consultant cartel boss Ulvert, and Cervone, WITHDRAWING from the race a day later. With Levine Cava, it’s always a different story on Friday than it was on Monday. She’s indecisive and incompetent — at best. Cava, Ulvert and Cervone threatened Molina’s livelihood, insisting she’d have to quit her job (the opposite of what the mayor and ethics commission originally said) — but more pointedly, they claimed her race would harm the mayor politically so she should not run, sources involved in Molina’s short lived campaign say. High-profile Dems including Minority Leader @FentriceDriskell and Miami-Dade Commission Chair Oliver Gilbert ogilbert3 @chairmangilbertsoffice made a DEAL with Republicans to NOT challenge Lopez and proactively DISCOURAGE potential challengers, FORFEITING one of the ONLY contested partisan race the local party can win this cycle. Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. @nikkifriedfl
#BREAKING: Florida Appeals Court DENIES disgraced fired Miami city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez’s motion to dismiss fraud case against her for allegedly exploiting her public position to help her husband’s house flipping hustle that reportedly preys on sick elderly homeowners to force them out of their homes, purchase them below market value (in some cases before they’re ever listed publicly), and then sell for huge profits (sometimes within days) #BecauseMiami The Third District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court that the plaintiff Jose R. Alvarez’s “Complaint contains sufficient allegations to survive a motion to dismiss asserting sovereign immunity.” The Complaint specifically alleges that “Mendez acted in bad faith, with malicious purpose, and in willful disregard to [Alvarez’s] property rights when she made this referral with intent to personally profit, through her husband’s company, from the sale of [Alvarez’s dead mother’s] home.” “The Complaint does more than merely copy and paste language from the statute. It contains factual allegations that Mendez was involved in a conspiracy with her husband to defraud Alvarez…” “Because the Complaint sufficiently alleges that Mendez acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of Alvarez’s property, we affirm the trial court’s order denying Mendez’s motion to dismiss.”
#BREAKING: Florida Appeals Court DENIES disgraced fired Miami city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez’s motion to dismiss fraud case against her for allegedly exploiting her public position to help her husband’s house flipping hustle that reportedly preys on sick elderly homeowners to force them out of their homes, purchase them below market value (in some cases before they’re ever listed publicly), and then sell for huge profits (sometimes within days) #BecauseMiami The Third District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court that the plaintiff Jose R. Alvarez’s “Complaint contains sufficient allegations to survive a motion to dismiss asserting sovereign immunity.” The Complaint specifically alleges that “Mendez acted in bad faith, with malicious purpose, and in willful disregard to [Alvarez’s] property rights when she made this referral with intent to personally profit, through her husband’s company, from the sale of [Alvarez’s dead mother’s] home.” “The Complaint does more than merely copy and paste language from the statute. It contains factual allegations that Mendez was involved in a conspiracy with her husband to defraud Alvarez…” “Because the Complaint sufficiently alleges that Mendez acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of Alvarez’s property, we affirm the trial court’s order denying Mendez’s motion to dismiss.”
#BREAKING: Florida Appeals Court DENIES disgraced fired Miami city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez’s motion to dismiss fraud case against her for allegedly exploiting her public position to help her husband’s house flipping hustle that reportedly preys on sick elderly homeowners to force them out of their homes, purchase them below market value (in some cases before they’re ever listed publicly), and then sell for huge profits (sometimes within days) #BecauseMiami The Third District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court that the plaintiff Jose R. Alvarez’s “Complaint contains sufficient allegations to survive a motion to dismiss asserting sovereign immunity.” The Complaint specifically alleges that “Mendez acted in bad faith, with malicious purpose, and in willful disregard to [Alvarez’s] property rights when she made this referral with intent to personally profit, through her husband’s company, from the sale of [Alvarez’s dead mother’s] home.” “The Complaint does more than merely copy and paste language from the statute. It contains factual allegations that Mendez was involved in a conspiracy with her husband to defraud Alvarez…” “Because the Complaint sufficiently alleges that Mendez acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of Alvarez’s property, we affirm the trial court’s order denying Mendez’s motion to dismiss.”
#BREAKING: Florida Appeals Court DENIES disgraced fired Miami city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez’s motion to dismiss fraud case against her for allegedly exploiting her public position to help her husband’s house flipping hustle that reportedly preys on sick elderly homeowners to force them out of their homes, purchase them below market value (in some cases before they’re ever listed publicly), and then sell for huge profits (sometimes within days) #BecauseMiami The Third District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court that the plaintiff Jose R. Alvarez’s “Complaint contains sufficient allegations to survive a motion to dismiss asserting sovereign immunity.” The Complaint specifically alleges that “Mendez acted in bad faith, with malicious purpose, and in willful disregard to [Alvarez’s] property rights when she made this referral with intent to personally profit, through her husband’s company, from the sale of [Alvarez’s dead mother’s] home.” “The Complaint does more than merely copy and paste language from the statute. It contains factual allegations that Mendez was involved in a conspiracy with her husband to defraud Alvarez…” “Because the Complaint sufficiently alleges that Mendez acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of Alvarez’s property, we affirm the trial court’s order denying Mendez’s motion to dismiss.”
#BREAKING: Florida Appeals Court DENIES disgraced fired Miami city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez’s motion to dismiss fraud case against her for allegedly exploiting her public position to help her husband’s house flipping hustle that reportedly preys on sick elderly homeowners to force them out of their homes, purchase them below market value (in some cases before they’re ever listed publicly), and then sell for huge profits (sometimes within days) #BecauseMiami The Third District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court that the plaintiff Jose R. Alvarez’s “Complaint contains sufficient allegations to survive a motion to dismiss asserting sovereign immunity.” The Complaint specifically alleges that “Mendez acted in bad faith, with malicious purpose, and in willful disregard to [Alvarez’s] property rights when she made this referral with intent to personally profit, through her husband’s company, from the sale of [Alvarez’s dead mother’s] home.” “The Complaint does more than merely copy and paste language from the statute. It contains factual allegations that Mendez was involved in a conspiracy with her husband to defraud Alvarez…” “Because the Complaint sufficiently alleges that Mendez acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of Alvarez’s property, we affirm the trial court’s order denying Mendez’s motion to dismiss.”
#BREAKING: Florida Appeals Court DENIES disgraced fired Miami city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez’s motion to dismiss fraud case against her for allegedly exploiting her public position to help her husband’s house flipping hustle that reportedly preys on sick elderly homeowners to force them out of their homes, purchase them below market value (in some cases before they’re ever listed publicly), and then sell for huge profits (sometimes within days) #BecauseMiami The Third District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court that the plaintiff Jose R. Alvarez’s “Complaint contains sufficient allegations to survive a motion to dismiss asserting sovereign immunity.” The Complaint specifically alleges that “Mendez acted in bad faith, with malicious purpose, and in willful disregard to [Alvarez’s] property rights when she made this referral with intent to personally profit, through her husband’s company, from the sale of [Alvarez’s dead mother’s] home.” “The Complaint does more than merely copy and paste language from the statute. It contains factual allegations that Mendez was involved in a conspiracy with her husband to defraud Alvarez…” “Because the Complaint sufficiently alleges that Mendez acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of Alvarez’s property, we affirm the trial court’s order denying Mendez’s motion to dismiss.”
#BREAKING: Florida Appeals Court DENIES disgraced fired Miami city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez’s motion to dismiss fraud case against her for allegedly exploiting her public position to help her husband’s house flipping hustle that reportedly preys on sick elderly homeowners to force them out of their homes, purchase them below market value (in some cases before they’re ever listed publicly), and then sell for huge profits (sometimes within days) #BecauseMiami The Third District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court that the plaintiff Jose R. Alvarez’s “Complaint contains sufficient allegations to survive a motion to dismiss asserting sovereign immunity.” The Complaint specifically alleges that “Mendez acted in bad faith, with malicious purpose, and in willful disregard to [Alvarez’s] property rights when she made this referral with intent to personally profit, through her husband’s company, from the sale of [Alvarez’s dead mother’s] home.” “The Complaint does more than merely copy and paste language from the statute. It contains factual allegations that Mendez was involved in a conspiracy with her husband to defraud Alvarez…” “Because the Complaint sufficiently alleges that Mendez acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of Alvarez’s property, we affirm the trial court’s order denying Mendez’s motion to dismiss.”
#BREAKING: Florida Appeals Court DENIES disgraced fired Miami city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez’s motion to dismiss fraud case against her for allegedly exploiting her public position to help her husband’s house flipping hustle that reportedly preys on sick elderly homeowners to force them out of their homes, purchase them below market value (in some cases before they’re ever listed publicly), and then sell for huge profits (sometimes within days) #BecauseMiami The Third District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court that the plaintiff Jose R. Alvarez’s “Complaint contains sufficient allegations to survive a motion to dismiss asserting sovereign immunity.” The Complaint specifically alleges that “Mendez acted in bad faith, with malicious purpose, and in willful disregard to [Alvarez’s] property rights when she made this referral with intent to personally profit, through her husband’s company, from the sale of [Alvarez’s dead mother’s] home.” “The Complaint does more than merely copy and paste language from the statute. It contains factual allegations that Mendez was involved in a conspiracy with her husband to defraud Alvarez…” “Because the Complaint sufficiently alleges that Mendez acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of Alvarez’s property, we affirm the trial court’s order denying Mendez’s motion to dismiss.”
“Joe Carollo and the horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day at Miami City Hall” is what PoliticalCortadito.com called last week’s commission meeting. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Commissioner “Crazy Joe” (aka “The Wifebeater”), with the public and his own fellow commissioners calling him out, losing multiple votes 4-1. #BecauseMiami He seemed tired, disoriented, defeated, and it looks as though his 40 year reign of terror is finally coming to an ignominious end. It was almost sad. Watching this once proud gladiator pathetically wobbling on his last legs.
Last week’s Miami commission meeting was a rare day at city hall where the people spoke (truth to power) and our government listened. BOTH of the items I addressed at public comment PASSED 4-1! (At the end, I still had to remind Joe Carollo what time it was…) Thank you Commissioners Damian Pardo @damianpardod2 and Miguel Gabela @gabela4miami for your leadership and thoughtful deliberation on crucial quality of life issues impacting all taxpayers, residents, visitors, business owners and stakeholders.
