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Alex Diaz de la Portilla got caught at an illegal bar, confronted code officer
When a code enforcement inspector showed up at an illegal after hours club without a liquor license in Allapattah after midnight one recent Sunday, she didn’t expect to find a city commissioner there.
Let alone get into a physical altercation with him.
Miami city commissioners point fingers at each other amid expanding scandals
The Three Amigos are no more.
Miami commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla traded sharp barbs at a commission meeting Thursday — publicly accusing each other of ethical and maybe criminal lapses — in the wake of a scandal about a ghost employee at the Omni CRA who is ADLP’s longtime lackey and bag woman.
Javier Baños tries to get some Vince Lago love in Coral Gables election
Voters in Coral Gables might think that Vice Mayor Vince Lago endorses commission candidate Javier Baños in the Group 3 race. That’s because a mailer arrived in mailboxes Wednesday making it look that way.
But that is not the case. Baños knows Lago is extremely popular and bound to win. He is intentionally misleading voters because he wants some of that Lago love.
Desperate Pat Keon attacks Vince Lago with more dark money in Coral Gables
Pat Keon must be desperate. She must have seen the same poll numbers that many insiders have on the Coral Gables mayoral race, where Vice Mayor Vince Lago beats her by a very comfortable double digits.
Because, this week, she has doubled down on the negative and ludicrous attacks on Lago as a developer’s dreamboat when the truth is quite the opposite. Images of Lago as a puppet or a fox in a henhouse are not only disingenuous but also just plain lies.
Miami ghost employee fired — and then rehired by commissioner ADLP
What does Jenny Nillo have on Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla?
Not only does he give her a job at the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency fresh out of prison, but then — when she is busted as a no-show and he should try to distance himself from her — The Dean provides her with a safety net and a raise.
Waiting for the other shoes to drop from Frank Artiles arrest in sham senate race
There could be money laundering involved here
The news that disgraced former Sen. Frank Artiles was arrested last week on charges of campaign finance fraud has Miami’s political underbelly scurrying for cover. Because he was not alone, dear readers. There’s no way.
Silver Bluff street fight is campaign fodder for Miami’s Crazy Joe Carollo
A real street fight between neighbors erupted earlier this month at an impromptu press conference about the street fight between the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County over the closure of several roads in Silver Bluff.
And it’s all in time for this year’s city elections.
Miami mayor and city commissioner fly to Las Vegas for gamble on tunnel
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla flew to Las Vegas this week to visit Elon Musk and tour the Boring Company which has proposed building a $30 million tunnel under the Miami River connecting Brickell to the downtown.
Talk about gambling with money and lives.
Alex Diaz de la Portilla is investigated on ghost city employee at Omni CRA
Political observers knew it was a bad idea to give Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla the chairmanship of the Omni CRA. Now he is under investigation for having hired a longtime lackey as a ghost employee.
Jenny Nillo, a onetime state senate plantidate and longtime campaign and legislative worker for ADLP, is making around $53,000 as a community liaison. She was hired as soon as The Dean made chairman.
Coral Gables candidates focus on WaWa gas station settlement in schools forum
It’s not a huge surprise that the Wawa gas station and convenience store planned across the street from G.W. Carver Elementary was the focal point of a Coral Gables candidate forum Thursday night organized by a coalition of parent-teacher associations.
And Ladra imagines that nobody’s answers satisfied the group of concerned parents and residents who have sued to stop the development.
