Larry Spring

Al Crespo: Bank robber and justice seeker

Miami Police Union President Wants To Recall Tomas Regalado

Tomas Regalado is no longer an FOP friend.​The police union president who helped Tomas Regalado become Miami mayor in 2009 is now calling on his brothers and sisters in blue to oust the city's embattled leader. Taking his cue from our recent cover story about the mayor's failures, Armando Aguilar ... More >>

Recall Tomas Regalado

Here's A Copy Of The $200,000 Check Made Out To Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito

​When a royal brouhaha erupted last week over Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito's allegations that city officials offered him a "bribe" to resign, Riptide filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy the infamous $200,000 check.Well, the check just landed in our inbox. It shows that Mayo ... More >>

Regalado: Payout Offer To Exposito Was 'Severance,' Not A Bribe

via City of Miami​Hours after the Hoedown in Hadley Park, Riptide caught up with Mayor Tomas Regalado in Little Haiti to press him on the $400,000 "bribe" Chief Miguel Exposito says he was offered to resign. This time Regalado argued the deal was a perfectly legal severance package -- negotiated s ... More >>

Exposito: City Officials Offered $400,000 To Resign As Police Chief

​A story that started yesterday with blogger Al Crespo posting a mysterious, voided city check for $200,000 ended with more ammo fed into the raging firefight between the Miami Police Department and City Hall when Chief Miguel Exposito admitted the check was part of a huge payout he was offered to ... More >>

Exposito and Regalado Tussle In Park Over Payout Offer

​At an anti-gun rally in Charles Hadley Park this morning, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and arch enemy/police chief Miguel Exposito blasted one another before TV cameras.The whole thing started like Sharks vs. Jets about 10 a.m. when Regalado was holding forth to a horde of reporters and a couple do ... More >>

Tony Crapp Jr.'s Severance Package After Bailing As City Manager: $155,000

​When Tony Crapp Jr. walked away from the Miami city manager job on Monday -- leaving unsolved a gaping $40 million budget gap and a troubled police force -- he got a nice parting gift from Magic City taxpayers.Crapp left City Hall with a handsome $155,000 severance package, Riptide has learned. A ... More >>

Tony Crapp Jr. Resigns As Miami City Manager After Six Months on the Job

​After six months of doing exactly nothing about a police department in disarray and a looming $40 million budget gap, Miami City Manager Tony Crapp Jr. is packing up his office this afternoon and bailing for a cushy private-sector job in Broward County.Gee, thanks for all the hard work, Tony. Any ... More >>

Finance director Larry Spring can't keep his own house in order

Miami CFO Larry Spring's House Of Disorder

City of MiamiLarry Spring is a money pit.​No wonder the City of Miami's finances are in the crapper. The man in charge of its purse strings, Chief Financial Officer Larry Spring, lost his mother's house in a foreclosure sale last year. If he couldn't keep up with his mortgage payments, how can any ... More >>

Baby Got Fatback!

Why are so many cities laying off little guys and not cutting executives' porcine salaries?