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Chris Mazzella

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Miami Heat Owe Taxpayers Millions, Dade County Inspector General Finds

    The Miami Heat owe Miami taxpayers millions in cost overruns to capital improvement projects on the American Airlines Arena. So says Miami-Dade Inspector General Chris Mazzella, in an audit report that hasn't been publicly released yet but which sources close to the review have confirmed to Riptide. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Micky Arison and Miami Heat Get Audited by Miami-Dade Inspector General

    Following multiple stories from Riptide about the Miami Heat refusing to share profits from the American Airlines Arena with county taxpayers who subsidize the place, Miami-Dade Inspector General Christopher Mazzella has apparently decided that someone should try to verify how much the team is actua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Marlins Stadium Whistleblower Questions Safety As Inspector General Probes Welding

    ​Sure, the new Marlins Stadium is a taxpayer-draining succubus approved through wholesale lies and deceit -- but is the retractable-roofed ballpark also unsafe? That's what a whistleblowing former contractor says today, with the ominous warning: "I won't go to that stadium. I won't take my kids to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Charles Hankerson, Former Miami Northwestern High Principal, Embroiled In Grade Changing Scandal

    ​A Miami-Dade Public Schools principal credited with turning around a storied inner city high school's academic performance is under investigation for illegally changing student grades. The allegation against Charles Hankerson is the latest black eye for Miami Northwestern High School, which earli ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    That's a Wrap

    A fight brews over Secure Wrap's county contract at MIA.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Inspect no commissioners or the mayor

    This past March 4, the Miami-Dade County Inspector General's Office announced it had nailed a county vendor falsifying his insurance paperwork in order to get a county contract. Thanks to the inspector general's investigation, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office was able to charge Eddy Joe Allen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Secure Monopoly

    Owing to the laziness of Transportation Security Administration and Miami-Dade County Aviation Department bureacrats, a company with a lucrative venture at Miami International Airport won't be getting any competition anytime soon. For the past eight years, Secure Wrap of Miami has held the exclusiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Secure No More?

    Turns out Miami International Airport bureaucrats aren't so lazy, just a bit slow at fostering competition. Earlier today, I wrote about the Miami-Dade Aviation Department's reluctance to competitively bid the baggage-wrapping concession operated by Secure Wrap of Miami, which has held on to the lu ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    Letters from the Issue of September 11, 2008

    "Does it intimidate you that a black man from Queens could be compared to musicians such as Bob Dylan?"

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2006

    Three agencies against a Star Destroyer?

    "Does it intimidate you that a black man from Queens could be compared to musicians such as Bob Dylan?"

  • News

    January 13, 2005

    Kicked Back and in the Green

    "Does it intimidate you that a black man from Queens could be compared to musicians such as Bob Dylan?"

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    The Bitch

    Rave Robbers

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