Billy Corben Instagram – #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.” | Posted on 04/Jun/2024 02:21:10
