More on Carrie Meek by Geniusofdespair

The third and final article came out today in the Miami Herald on the Bio-Medical research center farce. Apparently the scam was going on in Opa Locka first. Doesn’t anyone talk to each other in this town? The series might be over but I'm not finished. I decided to look up Carrie's records:

November 12, 2001 a non-profit called the Carrie Meek Foundation was formed. Officers included, Carrie, Cynthia Stafford and Rickart Glasgow.
October 20, 2004 The Carrie Meek Group was formed, another non-profit. Officers: Carrie and Lucia Raiford.
May 31, 2006 a non-profit was formed called The Florida Consortium for Biomedical Research, Inc. the officers of this Corporation are: MIT Graduate Api Rudich (MediVector’s president with the 300 sq. foot office in Mass.), Carrie Meek, Douglas Frank, Eduardo Padron and Winfred Phillips.

Carrie P. Meek is also known as Carrie P. Davis according to a mortgage she paid off on February 08, 2006.

She also owns a condo on Brickell, 990 square feet which she purchased for $139,000 in 2003, on the 12th floor. Other sales, 990 square feet, 2004 on 9th floor: $207,000, 9th floor, 990 square foot, 2003 sale: $187,500. Hard to compare prices, we don’t know the views from the units but I bet she got a good deal.

However, here is an interesting turn of events on the financing. Carrie bought the condo from Southern Skyway Property Corp.(Developer Gary Goldbloom officer) and Skyway wrote Carrie a mortgage for $119,000 at 4 3/4%. The only other mortgage the company wrote that year was to Brickell Bay Entertainment for $1,400,000. Southern Skyway did write a mortgage in 2004 for $2,215,500 to another Corporation. According to public records, between the year 2000 and the present, Southern Skyway gave 3 mortgages total and they wrote only one small mortgage and that was to Carrie Davis/Meek.

Coincidentally, according to campaign finance records:

In June 2005, Goldbloom gave $1,600 to Kendrick Meek’s campaign. And, in 2006 he gave another $500 to Kendrick. George Goldbloom (using the same company address) gave $2,000 to the 2004 Kendrick Meek primary campaign. Gary Goldbloom and wife gave $1,000 each to the Carrie Meek Primary campaign in ‘97. Hmmm. Something is up. Wonder if Southern Skyway Property Corp. ever benefited by any Meek vote?

As far as Kendrick Meek goes, he appears to be taking the advice of Donna Shalala’s dad (as reported on this blog on Father’s Day) who said to his daughter:

“If you get into a ditch, don’t keep digging.”

It is a much better stance to be proactive and stop the funds (as reported today): Rep. Meek urges halt on park than the previous day when Kendrick back-peddled and denied.