Billy Corben Instagram – #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. | Posted on 01/Jun/2024 02:11:00
