Forget about absentee ballot brokers stealing elections! Forget about county officials stealing from the public till! Forget about the Miami Marlins ball park boondoggle! Irresponsible dog owners are clearly the greatest menace facing our community.A pair of Miami-Dade County commissioners are pushing legislation that would publicly shame assholes who don’t…
Read “Golden Beach Police: Sexual Assault, Kidnapping And Violence.”When Tammy Valdes tried to expose corruption inside the Golden Beach Police Department, town officials responded by firing the ten-year police veteran. One of the excuses the town used to kick her off the small police force on Nov. 30, 2009? That…
Read “Hialeah Gardens Cop Lawrence Perez Shows How Drugs Can Corrupt Police.”A Hialeah Gardens Police detective who was helping his pals rip off marijuana dealers got 151 months in federal prison yesterday. Miami New Times profiled Lawrence Perez in June after a jury found him guilty of two felony counts…
Last week, I wrote a cover story on the slow death of Cuban American news talk radio in Miami. As the Hispanic population in Miami-Dade has gotten more diverse over the past decade, the frequencies for hardline right-wing programming focused on getting rid of the Castro regime has shrunk considerably.After…
Michael Corleone Blanco was charged with trying to buy five kilos from an undercover detective.
Read: “Michael Corleone Blanco lives in the shadow of his cocaine-queen mother””Jon Roberts, Smuggler in Cocaine Cowboys, Dies””Griselda Blanco, Miami’s Cocaine Queen, Assassinated In Medellin Butcher Shop””Cocaine king Max Mermelstein came out of hiding for a screenwriter”The golden years hasn’t turned out so good for most of the retired drug…
Blanco had made a lot of enemies during her reign as Miami’s cocaine queen.
Norman Braman Registers Boat in the Caymans to Avoid U.S. Fees
Cuban Radio Is Dying Because of Aging Hardliners and Miami’s Changing Market
Two years after Miami New Times exposed him as a serial plagiarist, Gerald Posner is still getting gigs as an investigative journalist. Last we heard of the disgraced Miami Babylon author, he was lawyerin’ for Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother Mahmood. That was five months after we exposed numerous instances in which…
Read “Cuban Radio Is Dying Because of Aging Hardliners And Miami’s Changing Market.”On August 17, Roberto Rodríguez Tejera takes the center spot behind the news desk inside TeleMiami’s studio in the Flagami neighborhood of Miami. The veteran Cuban American journalist is flanked by former Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolaños, ex-Hialeah…
For the past couple of years, Norman Braman has carefully crafted his image as a do-gooder billionaire and civic activist by leading the recall of former Miami-Dade mayor Carlos Alvarez and, more recently, financing opponents against four sitting county commissioners because they saddled taxpayers with the Marlins Park boondoggle while…
Imagine you’re an 18-year-old freshman settling into your dorm room two days before you start school at the University of Miami. You hear news reports about a category 4 hurricane barreling toward your new home, but chalk it up to media hysteria. It couldn’t be worse than the monsoons you’d…
Read “Carlos Miller: Freedom For Photographers.”Blogger, photographer, and cop watchdog Carlos Miller is looking for a new home on the Internet. Yesterday, he announced that Pixiq, the web company that hosts his blog Photgraphy Is Not A Crime, informed him that he has a month to move to another homestead…
Rafael Garcia-Toledo, Mayor Gimenez’s Friend, Has Millions in County Construction Contracts
HBO sure got its money’s worth from the Miami Dolphins this past weekend. On Friday night, shortly before kick-off of the first preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team announced that quarterback David Garrard, a free agent pick-up brought in to compete for the starting job, would be…
Norman Braman was no match for the forces backing Miami-Dade County commissioners Bruno Barreiro, Audrey Edmonson, Barbara Jordan, and Dennis Moss. The billionaire car dealership mogul’s slate of Luis Garcia, Alison Austin, Shirley Gibson and Alice Pena produced an epic fail. All four candidates, who benefited from $397,000 worth of…
Anyone who’s followed Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to campaign events the past couple of months has probably noticed Rafael Garcia-Toledo — the guy chauffeuring hizzoner from one stop to another in a white Lincoln Navigator. In fact, he’ll be ferrying Gimenez around today from precinct to precinct. It’s a menial…
Today, Mitt Romney is forgoing a Miami political campaign tradition by skipping over Versailles restaurant in Little Havana. Instead, Mittens will hobnob with a convicted cocaine smuggler. The Republican presidential candidate is holding an afternoon rally at Palacio de los Jugos (7085 Coral Way), which is owned by Reinaldo Bermudez,…
Read “Carlos Gimenez Collects Half-A-Million Bucks In First Round of Fundraising” and “Carlos Gimenez Has Raised Nearly Twice As Much As Challenger Joe Martinez.”With one day left before the primary, we’re going to miss the proliferation of groups with cryptic, yet patriotic, monikers spreading misinformation, collecting bundles of cash and…
Read “Gerardo Silva Jr. Charged $2500 In Clothes And Electronics On His Medley Credit Card”and “Gerardo Silva Jr.’s 911 Call: ‘I am a Councilman!'”Medley Town Councilman Gerrado Silva Jr. has officially resigned. His last day was Aug. 8. But if you think Silva resigned because of all the embarrassing press…
Miami-Dade August 14 Election: A Haters Guide
