The Miami New Times wrote about Barbara Carey Shuler airport contract crap in 2005. Today in the Miami Herald they said that the State Attorney's office had plenty of testimony by her confidant, Antonio Junior, that could have nailed her BUT the Statute of Limitations has run out. HUH? What is with the State Attorney's office? They also couldn't get Commissioner Pepe Diaz after two years of investigation.Did you ever go to a car dealer and they write what they will sell you the car for on a little piece of paper and push it in front of you? Well apparently Carey-Schuler liked that system, that is how Junior said she solicited the bribe money from him (can't audio tape her). What happened to that stack of little pieces of paper?
This is an ICK story for sure. And, shame on you State Attorney's office for letting the Statute of Limitations run out. According to the Herald, Junior:
• Junior, a longtime Miami International Airport businessman, admitted to repeatedly accepting cash from late developer Lowell Dunn starting in 1997, with instructions to pay Carey-Schuler for her support of Dunn's projects. Junior said he gave the commissioner much of the cash -- including part of $30,000 Dunn gave him in the restroom of a Design District restaurant.
• Junior also said he funneled money to the commissioner after he landed -- with her help -- a piece of a controversial $25 million county contract to build the Martin Luther King county office building in the heart of Liberty City in 1999. The payments continued until about 2003, he said.
• Junior said his payments from the MLK deal to Carey-Shuler started when she began scribbling dollar amounts on small notes. Junior said he purchased so many money orders for Carey-Shuler that postal employees knew him on sight.
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If Alvarez would take the initiative, we should bring in an outside prosecutor because Fernandez Rundle is too in bed with the Public Officials she's supposed to be investigating and prosecuting. The system is terribly flawed and I'm sure this story is just a small piece of what is really going on, being swept under the rug.
Agree. And Alvarez, as a former Police Chief, definitely knows what is going on in his County Hall.
Alvarez is termed out. He could leave a huge legacy of fighting public corruption if he took the lead on this. He has nothing to lose and it would be great PR with the JQP who's dealing with all the bad decisions the unreformable majority have made. I'd personally pick up the cost to prosecute VNS - though I'm sure if we had a fundraiser, we'd collect more than needed!
Our State Attorney has always kowtowed to our crooked politicians. I have been complaining about her for a few years. It is time we got rid of her. She is of no value. I guess she uses her good looks to keep her bosses happy.
I have bad news for all of you. She's rumored to be considering a run for Miami-Dade Mayor. Considering her escalating public appearances, I think it is likely true. Us stupid voters like to support her . . .
What laws on public corruption would be needed, to indefinitely extend the statute of limitations?
And could a new law be designed to hold county commissioners individually liable if the growth plans they approve increase roadway levels of service to "Level F"? Something along the lines of requiring commissioners in affected districts to surrender 10 percent of personal assets to a community trust fund when those assets are held in their own, their wife's or a trust, to be applied each year that the level of service "F" designation persists.
In other words, everything they own would be confiscated if level of service "F" designation persisted for 10 years.
Barbara "Cash and Carry" Shuler was always accused of stealing money from the taxpayers. Anyone wonder how she could afford a $800,000 condo with a $1,400 monthly maintenance fee on Biscayne Bay? On a $6,000 per year salary from Miami-Dade County?
Watch her protege City of Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones. Spence-Jones has been accused of following in the same footprints... S-J burns through the taxpayers money as she desperately fights to get re-elected.
FYI - Alvarez has no power over the state attorney's office so all you Carlito acolytes please stop trying.
There may be as many as four county commissioners who would not accept bribes. Since that leaves nine that would, let's not have any more crimes running out of the limited time allowed by statute. On more than one occasion this county commission has defied the will of the majority of residents and voted for developers and others to move boundaries, rezone, condemn, annex and mitigate parcels and recalibrate redevelopment areas. Enough already, when Rolle, Jordan and Edmonson gave their blessing to the Marlins it was not for a few autographed baseballs. City of Miami Commissioner Spence-Jones and Carey-Shuler acolyte hinted she was against it and then caved, and the name Carey-Shuler carries a hyphen as well, maybe it's just a coincidence or maybe it was a little piece of paper, with a number scribbled on it?
Let's not forget that Audrey Edmonson is a Carey-Shuler Protégé
What is the relationship between Kathrine Fernandez-Rundle and Joe Arriola. Why did she drop the charges against 'The Firm'? Did the investigation get too close to Arriola?
Unbelievable!
Let's invite Sansom killer Willie Meggs to move south and dump the most useless State Attorney in Florida. We live in a cesspool in Miami-Dade and all Fernandez-Rundle can produce are cases against ministers (Rev. Gaston Smith, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church) and high school principals (Dwight Bernard, Northwestern).
Meggs might have brought down Sansom's mentor, Marco Rubio.
Carlos was the Police Director. He knew then what he knows now. He didn't do what he should have then. Why would he now?
Of course, he has his own skeletons that he would want not flaunted about. But, then I guess we all do.
How do Carey Shuler and Carrrie Meek and Spence-Jones avoid handcuffs?
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