Jose Alberto

City of Miami Beach Employee Shunned for Helping FBI

Miami Beach City Employee Claims He Was Punished For Wearing a Wire For the F.B.I.

Twelve months ago, Miami Beach seemed on the verge of a very necessary cleanup. On April 11, 2012, FBI agents arrested six city employees -- four code compliance officers and two firefighters -- and an FBI liaison stayed in city hall to look into more corruption. Beach officials urged employees to c ... More >>

Miami Beach Fire Department Is Aflame With Corruption and Abuse

Jorge Gonzalez, Ex-Miami Beach City Manager, Now Says He Might Run For Mayor

Jorge Gonzalez hasn't been seen or heard from in nearly seven months. That was July 8, when the then Miami Beach city manager stepped down amid public outrage over seemingly rampant corruption on the island.Now, however, Gonzalez is mulling a remarkable return to Miami Beach politics."I may run for ... More >>

Miami Beach Code Inspector in Nightclub Bribery Case to Plead Guilty

Jose L. Alberto, the former lead code compliance inspector for Miami Beach, was scheduled to be honored by the city on April 11. Instead, that same day he found himself behind bars on charges that he had extorted a South Beach nightclub. Now, according to the Miami Herald, Alberto will plead guilty ... More >>

Miami Beach Fire Inspector Chai Footman Pleads Guilty to Nightclub Shakedown

Two months after five Miami Beach code inspectors and two members of the Miami Beach Fire Department were arrested on charges of shaking down a Miami Beach nightclub, Chai Footman, a fire inspector, has plead guilty to charges of corruption.

Miami Beach: Corruption Central

Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez Promises Reforms As He Fights For His Job UPDATE

Miami Beach residents are happy, the city is a well-oiled machine and -- despite a string of embarrassments by the police and a mass FBI corruption bust last month -- the majority of city employees do good work. That was City Manager Jorge Gonzalez's upbeat message, at least, to an angry, packed roo ... More >>

Miami Beach Officials Arrested In Bribery Sting Had Awful Records, Yet Still Made Six Figures

When the FBI swooped into Miami Beach last week to arrest seven city workers for extorting thousands from a South Beach club, the higher-ups in City Hall shouldn't have been shocked. The Miami Herald got their hands on the personnel records of the five code officers and two fire inspectors busted by ... More >>

Seven Miami Beach Code Inspectors and Firefighters (Plus a Dade Cop) Busted for Nightclub and Cocaine Shenanigans

Seven Miami Beach employees and a Miami-Dade cop found themselves hit with public corruption charges today in two separate cases. In the first, code compliance officers and firefighters allegedly accepted cash payoffs from South Beach nightclubs to ignore code issues that might have closed the estab ... More >>

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