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A Time To Pay
There is one thing most residents of the City of Miami love about their public officials. And that one thing is that 90 percent of them are privately corrupt. Corrupt politicians are nothing new to the City of Miami.
The great news is that although the Feds will allow them to breed untouched for a while, they occasionally tap them on the shoulder. And remind them there is a time to steal, plunder the taxpayers’ coffers, take bribes, and reap the benefits of a free jail cell: three meals daily, no rent to pay, and no wife to obey.
As Joe Biden once said, “That’s a big f**king deal.”
Since before the days of Miami Commissioner Miller Dawkins in the early 1990s, Miami public corruption was the order of the day. In 1994, nothing changed when the Feds collared City Manager Cesar Odio on embezzlement charges, siphoning off city money into his pocket and leaving the city’s coffers in a hole — nothing has changed.
It is a way of life. Today, in 2024, the Feds are looking sideways at a new Miami City manager — Arturo Noriega. It’s a new set of Miami officials. Still, they use the same old playbook with learned sophistication.
Noriega’s wife Michelle Pradere-Noriega’s “family company has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in city contracts since Noriega was appointed city manager in 2020.” In October 2021, City Manager Noriega fired newly hired Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo.
Then Chief Acevedo ran into a City built brick wall when he began to talk about the entrenched public corruption that permeates the City of Miami Commission. Commissioner Joe Carollo (Joker Rollo) has long been the head of the rotating snakes.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is also under investigation by the state. Mayor Suarez’s wealth jumped from $300,000 to over three million dollars in three years of becoming mayor.
In 1995, the late Commissioner Miller Dawkins only demanded $200,000 from a company negotiating a contract with the city. He ended up accepting $30,000.
A pittance of what the new group demands. For 15 years, Commissioner Dawkins held what they called the “Black” seat on the commission. At his sentencing, one of his character witnesses told the sentencing judge that Dawkins gave more to the city than he had taken.
The Federal agents have warrants to seize up to sixty-three million dollars worth of (Joker Rollo) Joe Carollo assets to satisfy a judgment issued against him for using the City of Miami Police Department personnel as his personal crime enforcers against his political foes and business people.
Clinton Franklin is a formally trained Computer Scientist and a writer at heart. Clinton is an avid observer of nature and a lover of people and diverse cultures. He adheres to the adage, “Think globally, but act locally.”
It is crucial to be forward-thinking but not a forward person. “Be kind to everyone you meet because each carries his heavy burden…” Plato.
Embrace the three Constants: Change, Justice, and Rightness.
The thought police are busy at work trying to suppress free speech — if allowed their march to madness — they will arrest your very thoughts.
