DO NOT TAKE CREDIT FOR WACKENHUT MAYOR ALVAREZ....UNLESS IT IS BAD CREDIT.
In the Miami Herald report Saturday it says 5 were charged in billing scandal at Wackenhut Security firm. (Couldn't find it on-line even though page one of local section). In the article the Mayor's spokeswoman, Victoria Mallette said: "We were the first to recognize the problem and take action." I THINK NOT VICTORIA!!!!
Your Auditor was stonewalling in April 22, 2008. and April 14th I reported the Mayor and the Manager would not submit to depositions on the matter. You didn't can Wackenhut till April 2009. March 20th 2008 I reported that the County tried to marginalize the whistle-blower. On March 7, 2008 I reported that the county tried to sue itself on this Wackenhut mess. In March 2008 I accused the county of dragging its feet or hiding something, begging for the release of the audit, almost a year after the channel 6 original report.
The audit was FINALLY released May 8th 2008. So don't say you were first! Please don't dare say you were first. The original lawsuit was filed August 4, 2005, claiming up to $22.5 million in overbilling. The expose was aired on Channel 6 in May 2007. Your audit was released 3 years after the lawsuit. And, after all this, Wackenhut is still allowed to do business with the county! The Mayor can't take credit for anything good in this damn mess, the deal was putrid, a giveaway. I, unlike the Mayor's office, do not have a short memory. I wrote 13 posts on Wackenhut.
7 comments:
Is Carlos Alvarez still taking credit for stealing $3.5 Bil from the taxpayers to give to the foreign based Marlins?
100% of all revenues go to the Marlins?
The story in the Miami Herald was outrageous. The County did not undercover the overbilling...it was the work of a whistleblower and her attorney. Then instead of cooperating in the lawsuit, the County did everything in its power to derail and stall it. The County was completely UN-cooperative. Now the County is considering using the law firm that represented Wackenhut in the lawsuit, Ackerman, Senterfitt, for one of its lobbyists. I smell a rat!
Vicky needs to read the Eye more frequently.
Talk about revisionist memory. Burgess messed this one up pretty badly...
to Alpha Male - welcome to the "hood." I will warn you, this place gets addictive. It's my favorite county water cooler place.
Sorry reader, Alpha Male was fishing not a real reader like you.
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