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Friday, May 11, 2012
Congressman David Rivera. By Geniusofdespair
I requested David Rivera's financial disclosure forms with the State of Florida. I never saw a letter quite like this on ANY financial disclosure by ANYONE. I guess maybe they wanted to remove references to the numerous contracts he said he had funded by the federal government's U.S. Agency for International Development (they never heard of him).
Guess who notarized David Rivera's financial disclosures? None other than former wife of Steve Shiver (former County Manager), girlfriend of a previous County Manager and she is current Aide to County Commissioner Steve Bovo: Cirenia Andino. She sure gets around. Speaking of getting around, this Coates Law Firm gets paid by quite a few of the Political Action Committee's. I wrote about Coates before. It figures David Rivera would pick Coates to try and dig out of his mess.
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FBI, FBI, FBI.
To prior Anonymous: Statute of Limitations, Statute of Limitations, Statute of Limitations. So the information on the prior forms for 2003-2007 can't form the basis of a prosecution.
Plus, there is no FEDERAL crime in allegedly failing to make disclosures on STATE forms. Therefore, no FBI jurisdiction for this. So your hopes of a federal frog march for the 2008 and 2009 reports may be forlorn.
As for the notary, all she did was sign after Rivera signed in her presence. She may or may not have administered an oath. That's it. The fact that she's related to someone or works for someone doesn't mean anything.
As for the Coates firm, it makes sense for Rivera to hire a Tallahassee lawyer experienced in these sorts of matters.
Otherwise, no smoking gun. Not even a gun. Maybe a water pistol.
I report the underbelly, that Cire notarized is very important to me. Connections are important. These connections show you a lot.
Cire Andino? Isn't that interesting!
By the way, before she "dated" and married county manager Shiver, Cire Andino was the girlfriend of cigar chomping lobbyist and ex-county manager Sergio Pereira.
Just as with Shiver, Andino began "dating" Pereira while she was a county employee (a secretary) and he was the county manager.
If your readers are unfamiliar with the ethically challenged Periera, here is a NYT article with a good summary of his numerous ethical lapses: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/12/us/anger-in-miami-over-a-resignation.html.
Anger in Miami Over a Resignation
By JON NORDHEIMER, Special to the New York Times
Published: February 12, 1988
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MIAMI, Feb. 11— Cuban-Americans responded with anger and sorrow today to the resignation of Sergio Pereira, the chief administrative officer of Dade County, who is under fire for personal indiscretions.
Late Wednesday night, Mr. Pereira, who is 43 years old, announced that he would resign his $111,000 post, the most powerful administrative post in southern Florida. He made the move as The Miami Herald published an article that alleged he had not included in his Federal income tax report for 1985 the profits from the sale of two houses in the Miami area.
Last month The Herald disclosed that, also in 1985, Mr. Pereira failed to indicate on a state-mandated financial disclosure report that he had made a huge profit from a secret stake in land that was rezoned by the Dade County Commission to allow for construction of a shopping center. He was appointed to his post by the County Comission.
Mr. Pereira has acknowledged that he made $127,000 in a few months after an investor cut him in on the land deal before the rezoning application was filed. 'An Oversight,' He Says
Called before the commission last week, Mr. Pereira said his failure to report the income from the land deal was ''an oversight,'' and accused The Herald of conducting a vendetta against him. The nine commissioners, mindful of the growing voting power of 900,000 Hispanic people in a county of nearly two million residents, did not discipline him.
Mr. Pereira called a news conference at 11 P.M. Wednesday, before The Herald's Thursday issue was published, and said he was quitting.
''Unrelenting and unethical actions of some members of the media have contributed to a serious and unhealthy situation for our community and county government,'' he said.
Mr. Pereira, despite a number of embarrassing disclosures about his personal conduct since he became the county manager two years ago, was a prominent and popular member of the close circle of successful men who are considered leaders of the exile community here. Increase in Tensions
The article and Mr. Pereira's resignation increased tensions between Cubans and the mostly non-Hispanic whites of ''the downtown business establishment.'' They have watched with varying degrees of admiration and concern as the Cubans made their way here in their host city within the span of within one generation to social, cultural and political influence.
The rest of it (love this article):
''The real issue in Miami that everyone keeps missing is about power,'' said Modesto Maidique, a Cuban-American who is president of Florida International University and is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
''Everyone talks about language and ethnic bias and tension but at the base of everything is power,'' Mr. Maidique said. ''In a nutshell what has happened is that the immigrant group that is most visible and vocal in Miami has assumed positions of leadership and power long before it has been homogenized by the American system. It is a very threatening phenomenon to the mainstream culture.'' 'Hounded Out,' a Banker Says
Mr. Pereira, he said, symbolized that ascendancy. Cubans at various social levels here expressed resentment today at The Herald for placing Mr. Pereira's private dealings under close scrutiny, though Mr. Pereira has not said the articles are inaccurate.
''This is a tragic day,'' said Raul Masvidal, a banker who was nearly elected in 1985 as Mayor of Miami. ''Pereira was hounded out of office and then kicked when he was down.''
Yet there was disappointment, even sorrow, that Mr. Pereira had not been able to stand up under such scrutiny. ''I don't think The Herald was necessarily after his hide,'' said Jesus Fortunato, a barber whose S.W. Eighth Street shop is in the heart of Little Havana, where the first exiles settled a generation ago. ''The Herald is criticizing everyone,'' Mr. Fortunato said. ''They just don't see anything good in Cuban-Americans.'' Herald Was Once a Star
That kind of comment makes executives at The Herald wince. The Herald once the unrivaled newspaper giant of its area and the biggest profit-maker of the Knight-Ridder Inc., the newspaper chain, has seen its star fall along with circulation and market penetration. It happened in this decade even as The Herald gained a Pulitizer Prize for its reports on the Iran-Contra affair and recognition of a different sort for reporting on the liaison between Gary Hart and a Miami model, Donna Rice.
In November, at great expense and risk, The Herald introduced El Nuevo Herald, a Spanish-language newspaper with an editorial staff separate from the parent newspaper's.
The Knight-Ridder earnings report for 1987 showed that The Herald, for the first time in memory, had dropped from its ranking of No., 1 profit center for the chain to third place behind The Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Jose Mercury. Protests and Support
Some Spanish-lanaguge radio stations today urged subscribers to drop the paper, but Herald executives said there had been no surge of cancellations. The executive said El Neuvo Herald had received many messages of support from Spanish-speaking callers.
The end of article:
''It's not a happy moment for The Herald or Dade County,'' Janet Chusmir, the Herald's executive editor said in an interview. ''It's tragic when a leader is involved in so many controversial situations, but it's the press's responsibility to report on the questionable conduct of public officials and we will continue to do so.''
Mr. Pereirawas indicted by a MIami grand jury last fall on charges that he had acquired stolen famous-label suits from a discount clothier. He was suspended but reinstated in a month after the charges were dropped on a technicality. Applauded as an Administrator
Earlier, he was criticized for spending nearly $30,000 of public money to redecorate his office, of misrepresenting his college education in a resume and of using a police helicopter to take private flying lessons.
Yet he was also applauded as a skilled administrator who balked at promoting unqualified Hispanic people. Through his ebullient personality, he was considered a perfect match for an upstart metropolitan area of polyglot ethnic groups that responded to his personal style of management.
Miller Dawkins, a city commissioner who is black, once said that Mr. Pereira was a perfect administrator for Miami because ''he's Cuban, he acts black and he looks white.''
You are not kidding when you say Andino gets around. Let's just say she is not known for her intelligence. She also has a rather hard look and a masculine presence, so I really am not sure what the appeal is.
Just before she latched on to Bovo's team, Andino was the legislative aide for State Representative Frank Artiles. Artiles is the rep who introduced legislation that made it against the law for physicians to discuss gun ownership with their patients. Artiles is also the rep who was caught living outside of his district last year.
Artiles' wife Amy was hired to work as the county spokesman in the Miami-Dade Communications Department with Andino while Shiver was Manager and Andino was "dating" Shiver.
It's such a small world in Miami politics and it is always fun to connect the dots.
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