Andre Pierre

Which Loser Will Replace North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre?

It's not gonna be easy to follow the dictatorial footsteps of North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre. Throughout his tenure as the city's head cheese, Pierre had done just about everything to attract the kind of attention usually reserved for a small nation's despot. His campaign manager was arrested for al ... More >>

Whole Foods Market North Miami Opens Today, Many Events Planned

North Miami, please welcome your newest neighbor -- Whole Foods Market. The grocery chain, which features organic foods, prepared goodies, a killer salad bar, and really cheap (but good) wine, opened its newest store today at 9 a.m. Hundreds of people are expected to show up for the opening day fes ... More >>

Meet the North Miami Mayoral Candidate Who Says She's Under a Voodoo Attack

North Miami mayoral candidate Anna Pierre needs your prayers because someone has opened a can of voodoo on her ass. On Easter Sunday, Pierre says, she discovered what appeared to be your typical "Voodoo Starter Kit" in front of her campaign headquarters' doors. Over the past few months, this twisted ... More >>

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Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff Facing Ethics Charge For Trip To Brazil

The Miami-Dade Ethics Commission is accusing Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff of failing to report a pretty sweet trip to Brazil earlier this year as a gift. Back in April, the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau covered all of Sarnoff's traveling expenses when he and his wife Teresa ... More >>

Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo Called Police Chief to Get out of a Traffic Ticket

A City Commissioner calling the chief of police to get out of a traffic ticket is that kind of trite, light public corruption people joke about, but you never actually hear anyone getting punished for it. Well today, the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust found probably cause th ... More >>

North Miami Gives Hundreds of Thousands to a Racketeering Suspect

Mayor Andre Pierre, Ex-Mayor Joe Celestin Supported Racketeering Suspect's $270K Contract

On Tuesday, Faustin Denis, general manager of IMECO, Inc., got a $270,000 contract from North Miami despite an ongoing felony racketeering and fraud case against him over a bribery scandal in Opa-locka. It was his fourth contract from the city in just over a year despite questions over whether his f ... More >>

North Miami Nearly Gave Racketeering Suspect's Company $99K To Clean Three Blocks Of Sidewalk

Need a quick infusion of cash? Don't bother signing up to sell cheap knives door-to-door or be part of dodgy medical study. Instead, head up to North Miami and bid for a city contract. Because as one company learned, you can quite easily bankroll yourself through the North Miami City Council. Last w ... More >>

North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's Bus Bench Blunder

Andre Pierre Took The Same Free Ads That Got Myron Rosner Arrested, Complaint Alleges

On September 20, former North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner did the perp walk. His crime: allegedly accepting thousands in free campaign ads on bus benches from a company whose owner told prosecutors he had pressured them with promises to renew their contract.Rosner is in big trouble, with three f ... More >>

G5ive Monday Nights Will "Put Your Pussy to the Taste Test"

"Honey, I'm just going to pop out to catch some stand-up comedy, live funk music, and spoken-word poetry." "Are you sure you're not going to the strip club again?" "Does that sound like the sort of thing that would happen in a strip club?" "So you're not going to be hanging out in the VIP room of ... More >>

North Miami City Council Overturns Ban on Booze in Strip Clubs

A proposed strip club in North Miami has been given the green light to serve liquor with its lap dances after a squeaker of a vote by the North Miami City Council. By a margin of 3-2, the council voted late Tuesday night to overturn a ban on selling alcohol in fully nude adult establishments.Council ... More >>

Al Lorenzo Wins Elections, but Will His History Hurt the State Attorney's Latest Bid?

North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's Nephew Ricardo Brutus Arrested Again

If you follow North Miami politics, you should recognize the name Ricardo Brutus from the ongoing corruption scandal linked to his uncle -- the city's mayor, Andre Pierre. Brutus was caught on tape collecting an envelope of cash in exchange for promises to influence city council votes. The arrest se ... More >>

Andre Pierre, Whose House Is In Foreclosure, Presents "Foreclosure Prevention" Class

Attention residents of North Miami: Would you like to learn how to prevent your home from going into foreclosure? Your esteemed mayor, Andre Pierre, would like to teach you how to avoid the pain and mounting legal costs of fighting a bank trying to take away your home, so he's presenting a seminar o ... More >>

North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre Played $29,000 of Soccer For Free on City Field

Anyone who plays soccer in Miami knows how frustrating it is to find a good game; fields are scarce, so either you pony up the cash for an organized game or you play free pickup on some forlorn, lumpy turf that hasn't been mowed since the Carter Administration. As mayor of North Miami, Andre Pierre ... More >>

Andre Pierre Caught On Tape Talking Shady Vote With Landlord Tied To Corruption Probe

How is Andre Pierre still running North Miami and not awaiting trial on corruption charges? State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has some splainin' to do after a Miami Herald report this morning ties Pierre even more closely to the corruption charges filed against his nephew last year.The new t ... More >>

North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's House Is In Foreclosure

​North Miami's embattled mayor, Andre Pierre, has already survived enough scandals to knock five or six normal politicos off their perch -- from the wacky (driving a luxury car gifted from a mysterious "friend") to the sinister (accusations of wiretapping his enemies offices, corruption probes by ... More >>

Dramatic North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre Now in Public Feud With His Kid's Science Teacher

Controversy seems to follow North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre wherever he goes. So, naturally, now he's managed to get himself in a public feud with his kid's science teacher.Laurie Futterman, a science teacher at the David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Center, showed up last week at a city council meeting to speak ... More >>

Stephanie Kienzle: Northern exposure

Miami's Top 10 Political Bloggers Rank Dade's Worst Politicians

Miche Ratto​This week, Miami New Times profiled the ten hardest-hitting blogs that make life miserable for public officials in South Florida. At a time when the Miami Herald and other media outlets are shaving back coverage of civic and public affairs, bloggers are filling the void to investigate ... More >>

North Miami City Clerk Calls Councilman "Bigot;" Mayor Calls His Daughter A "Prostitute" UPDATE

​All the racial tension simmering beneath North Miami's political surface -- where the Haitian-born mayor has faced corruption probes and blamed the accusations in part on white enmity -- came to a head on Tuesday night in the city council. Mayor Andre Pierre exploded at Commissioner Michael Blynn ... More >>

Miami locals' New Year's resolutions

The Ten Biggest Miami Losers of 2011

​Two thousand eleven is almost over, and some of us had better years than others. For most, this year seemed like a downer. But, hey, at least you didn't accidentally spend almost $20K at a strip club, get recalled from office, or embarrass yourself on national television. It really could have bee ... More >>

Reader mail: "Andre Pierre made the mistake of being a clean-cut black dude"

Marc Elias Jr., North Miami's New Police Chief, Was Canned Over Sexual Harassment Claims

Andre Pierre's got a new police chief.​In this week's New Times, we laid out the case for indicting North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre. Now, Pierre's administration has just named Marc Elias Jr. as acting chief.Yes, the one and same Marc Elias Jr. who was fired as chief in Florida City a couple years ... More >>

Indict North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre

Andre Pierre Wins Reelection In North Miami, Proving That Accountability Is Already Passé

Andre Pierre: unbelievably, still North Miami mayor​What a difference two months makes. In March, members of the Miami Heat were crying in their locker room; now they're poised to kick the Celtics out of the post-season. Back then, Donald Trump was flying high. Now everyone knows his presidential ... More >>

South Florida politicans' most memorable racial slurs

A Short History Of Ignorant Bigotry In South Florida Politics

The Reid Report blogDavid Leven in his car before he hurls slurs.​After North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's wife caught unhinged activist David Leven on camera calling her the politically incorrect words for -- excuse our French -- African-American, female dog, and the feminine sexual organ, Banana R ... More >>

Andre Pierre Video: Opponent's Supporter Yells Racial Slurs At North Miami Mayor's Wife

​When North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's wife spotted a man stealing campaign signs off their front lawn this weekend, she hopped into her car and followed him. A few blocks later, when Bernadette Pierre pulled alongside his Jeep, 65-year-old David Leven hollered racist, sexist slurs at her -- appar ... More >>

North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's Campaign Manager Took $4,000 To Get Council Item Pulled

Andre Pierre​North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's campaign manager, Ricardo Brutus, took an envelope stuffed with $4,000 in cash in exchange for asking "his people" to take an item off the city council's agenda earlier this year, prosecutors say. A police report obtained by New Times detailing Brutus' ... More >>

North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre Has A Message About Those Missing Badges

Andre Pierre​Banana Republican just got an exclusive video from North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre responding to the outrage from Councilman Scott Galvin and city residents over his ordering 43 police-style badges for his three full-time staffers and his "volunteers." The Haitian American politician w ... More >>

Why the Hell Did North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre Need 43 Fake Police-like Badges?

​North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre seems to have some secretive and flashy quirks, which would be fine if it didn't involve public money and shady ethics. A few months after being forced to return a borrowed Porsche he was driving around town and never reporting who lent him the car, he's now under f ... More >>

Letters from the issue of January 6, 2011

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Photos: Waka Flocka Flame, Trina, and Others at Rick Ross' Be Out Day

City of North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre presents Rick Ross (and Trina!) with an official "Rick Ross Day" proclamation.​Rick Ross' annual Be Out Day returned last week to the North Miami Athletic Stadium for its third year, and we just got our mitts on some photos of the star-studded charity event. ... More >>

Solar Mountain Partner Uses Copyrighted Footage Without Permission

​This past June 16, during a workshop where he pitched the Biscayne Landings site, lawyer Marc Douthit showed North Miami city council members and residents a 14-minute Discovery Channel film about Ski Dubai, an indoor snow resort in the United Arab Emirates. When a resident asked Douthit if he ha ... More >>

Andre Pierre Needs To Put The Brakes On Biscayne Landing Ski Slope

Andre PierreIt's time for North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre to tell his former law partner Marc Douthit and his ex-campaign manager Willis Howard to come up with a better deal.The two insiders and their partners are buying the mortgage note on the foreclosed Biscayne Landing site, which they intend to ... More >>

Ski slopes and mayoral sleaze in North Miami

Biscayne Landings In North Miami To Become An Indoor Ski Slope?

North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's friends want to build a snow park in the cityThe buyers of the failed Biscayne Landings project in North Miami have a novel idea for what ​to build on the city-owned 193-acre site: a ski and snow-sports mountain park that would include a 550'-tall slope.In addition ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalThe City is trying to squeeze out the under-the-Tuttle sex offenders by citing a nearby island as a park, but since there's no playground on the island the State doesn't really care. [Herald]Andre Pierre is now the mayor of North Miami. Haitian Americans also regained their majority o ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalA racial slur was spray panted on a poster for North Miami mayoral candidate Andre Pierre. [Herald]More details on the MDC cuts. [Herald]A Bal Harbor police officer has allegedly confessed to sex crimes involving a seven year-old girl. [CBS4]The state is calling in Boba Fett, Dog, and other bou ... More >>

Andre Pierre is Not a Clucker

This past April 30, I wrote about North Miami mayoral candidate Frank Wolland calling out opponent Andre Pierre for supposedly refusing to answer questions about his 4.9 percent ownership interest in North Miami Housing Ltd. The partnership was established by the developers of Biscayne Landing, a c ... More >>

Worth Clucking About

This week, North Miami mayoral candidate Frank Wolland went on the offensive for the city's upcoming May 12 municipal election by having a volunteer dress up in a chicken suit and tail opponent Andre Pierre at this past Tuesday's city council meeting and at yesterday's mayoral candidate forum.Wolla ... More >>

There's Something Fowl in North Miami

Local campaign strategist Michael Caputo likes to employ some fowl play in his election day tactics.  In the mid-1990s, Caputo busted out his patent-pending tactic of using a man-in-a-chicken-suit-to-tail-opponents when he worked for Russian President Boris Yeltsin's campaign. Back ... More >>

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