If Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo really wants to see his bank statements, Commissioner Damian Pardo is ready to prove that he used part of his lifelong savings to self-fund his campaign for the District 2 seat last year.
All Carollo has to do is resign.
Miami City Manager Art Noriega got a pass Thursday after he explained, to use the word loosely, his wife’s business dealings with the city, while City Attorney Victoria Mendez was removed of her position at the commission meeting on the spot. After commissioners voted 4-1 for Mendez to step down — she will still stay on in “a transitionary role” through June — the new Acting City Attorney George Wysong moved into her seat. Only Commissioner Joe Carollo voted against the change.
“I was born in Allapattah, raised in Flagami and lived in Flagami for 44 years,” Mendez said, thanking God, her family and her colleagues — and choking back what some say were crocodile tears.
Jose Suarez has a 1998 arrest for soliciting a prostitute
Commission will consider a review of pending litigation
His Coconut Grove house is safe for now. A judge ruled on Friday that Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo can keep his Morris Lane casa off the auction block until it is determined that it is not a legally homesteaded property.
U.S. Marshals posted a notice of levy on the multi-million house last month in an effort to get part of the $63.5 million judgement a jury awarded last year to two Little Havana businessmen who were targeted and harassed by Carollo, who weaponized the city against them in an effort to shut them down simply because they hosted an event for his political opponent in 2017.
Plaintiffs seek to remove Loco Pollo Carollo from office
You can run, but you can’t hide from the courts.
