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  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Michelle Spence-Jones Sued For Allegedly Sabotaging Liberty City Project In Kickback Scheme UPDATED

    ​Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones beat bribery and grand theft charges, and returned to office. Now we'll see if she proves as invincible in civil court. Two former witnesses in the criminal case, who claimed that she used forgery to divert a $25,000 grant that was supposed to go to their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Rev. Gaston Smith, Felonious Pastor, Is Now Hawking Menswear in Liberty City

    ​Rev. Gaston Smith, the hugely-popular but a lil' bit felonious pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Liberty City, is a man of the cloth. Very fine cloth, often tailored into three pieces with a classy handkerchief jutting from a breast pocket and accompanied by some gators on his fee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Video: Activist Lays Into Mayor and Police Chief About Cop's Fatal Overtown Shooting

    ​If you don't understand the raw anger and grief coursing through Overtown this week over Monday's police shooting of an unarmed man at a traffic stop, check out this video.The emotion is palpable inside Overtown's St. John's Baptist Church, where almost 200 gathered last night to demand answers f ... More >>

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    February 4, 2010

    Suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones's Café Soul gets evicted

    ​If you don't understand the raw anger and grief coursing through Overtown this week over Monday's police shooting of an unarmed man at a traffic stop, check out this video.The emotion is palpable inside Overtown's St. John's Baptist Church, where almost 200 gathered last night to demand answers f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    After Eviction, Spence-Jones's Liberty City Cafe Is for Rent

    ​Sometimes Riptide likes to reminisce about our long and circuitous relationship with Michelle Spence-Jones. Like the good ol' days, last June, when she was still Overtown/Liberty City commissioner and we were trying to track her down for comment about her involvement in the case of since-convicte ... More >>

  • News

    December 31, 2009

    Miami 2009: Seven signs the End Times are nigh

    ​Sometimes Riptide likes to reminisce about our long and circuitous relationship with Michelle Spence-Jones. Like the good ol' days, last June, when she was still Overtown/Liberty City commissioner and we were trying to track her down for comment about her involvement in the case of since-convicte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Updated: Turns Out Rev. Gaston Smith's Cup Came Up Empty

    A Miami-Dade jury has convicted Liberty City pastor Gaston Smith on one count of grandby C. StilesRev. Gaston Smith is going to prison​ theft for looting more than $10,000 in grant money intended to help the poor.Yesterday, Banana Republican caught the tail end of closing arguments by Smith's defe ... More >>

  • News

    December 10, 2009

    Assistant State Attorney Richard Scruggs squirms on the stand

    A Miami-Dade jury has convicted Liberty City pastor Gaston Smith on one count of grandby C. StilesRev. Gaston Smith is going to prison​ theft for looting more than $10,000 in grant money intended to help the poor.Yesterday, Banana Republican caught the tail end of closing arguments by Smith's defe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2009

    Rev. Gaston Smith Scores Victory Over Richard Scruggs

    Late Friday, at 9:05 p.m., Miami-Dade Judge Beatrice Butchko dealt a serious blow to stateC. StilesGaston Smith's public corruption trial begins this week, but prosecutors won't be allowed to use incriminating recordings​ prosecutors' case against a popular pastor in Miami's black community.B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Public Corruption Prosecutor Richard Scruggs Takes The Stand

    Richard Scruggs is usually the guy asking people tough questions and getting witnesses to spill the beans. But today Miami-Dade's veteran public corruption prosecutor was on the receiving end of an intense grilling. And he was not enjoying himself.It went down inside the courtroom of Judge Beatrice ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Troubled Miami-Dade Agency Gets Revamped

    Alex Izaguirre​Miami-Dade County commissioners are gearing up to revamp the Miami Metro Action Plan Trust, the social and economic redevelopment agency created in the wake of the racial riots that rocked the county during the '80s.On December 1, the commission will vote to reconstitute the trust i ... More >>

  • News

    November 19, 2009

    Is suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones a victim of racism?

    Alex Izaguirre​Miami-Dade County commissioners are gearing up to revamp the Miami Metro Action Plan Trust, the social and economic redevelopment agency created in the wake of the racial riots that rocked the county during the '80s.On December 1, the commission will vote to reconstitute the trust i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Embattled Pastor Gaston E. Smith in His Element -- Behind the Pulpit

    Say what you will about Rev. Gaston E. Smith, the Liberty City pastor who faces felony theft charges and is the subject of this week's New Times feature, "In the Name of the King". One thing is indisputable: The man can preach. We've received a couple of emails looking for videos of Smith' ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2009

    In the Name of the King

    The leader of a church that's drawn presidential hopefuls and the devout is enveloped in scandal.

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