Friday, November 15, 2013

Part 2: County Commissioner Lynda Bell Saga. By Geniusofdespair

Yesterday, I wrote an investigative report on County Commission Lynda Bell and a fence company at her home owned by her daughter.  The Miami Herald picked up the story and ran with it, I thank you Patricia Mazzei.

But there is more.

When Lynda Bell was Mayor in Homestead, just like with the chain link fence company that came out of left field, Lynda came up with legislation to get a new towing company. The towing company hired had ties/was owned by arrested Sweetwater Mayor Marono, another T Party friend of Lynda's I would suppose.


A few months later Lynda Bell's daughter (the one who owns the fence company) got a job with the Sweetwater Police Department. That was after she was fired from Homestead for pulling a gun on a boyfriend.  How did she get that Homestead job anyway?  I was told her training was a special deal that they had discontinued but reinstated for Jenna. But I don't know if that is true. Rumors fly.

Anyway now the fence company is working with the towing company:


Is the fencing company getting jobs because of the Lynda Bell connection around town? Let's hope the El Nuevo Herald and Miami Herald will sort it out. From the Fence Assured Website it looks like the new company has very big jobs and that they are doing a lot of chain link fencing.

You can see it in the photo above from her website.
The building in this photo taken this morning is in the background on Lynda Bell's Daughter's Fence Assured website.


Here is an enormous fence Lynda's daughter's company installed in Sweetwater. She did the fencing around where the police park the helicopters and the swat team truck.  She also did fencing around the city of Sweetwater Building and Zoning Dept. Can a police officer do work for the police dept.? I guess only in Sweetwater.
In any event, Jenna, with a fencing company and a police officer job, got some public assistance to buy her home FROM US TAXPAYERS just like her dad did with his CRA grant.  You would think with all the benefit that Lynda Bell gets from local government that she would have donated her excess $800 from her Mayoral campaign locally, instead of sending it up to Almonte Springs to the Right to Life Group. Here is the information on Jenna's 2nd mortgage subsidy Okay I got this today 11/18 CORRECTION from Greg Fortner:

Jenny Mendez does not receive a 2nd mortgage from Miami-Dade County Public Housing and Community Development.  Ms. Mendez applied for our 2nd mortgage program thru the Neighborhood Stabilization Program in early 2011.  Her application was withdrawn in late spring 2012.  Let me know if you wish to continue this request so we can notify you of the record review process and any fees for copies…..


 Expect the reporters to tie this all together.  I think it does but I don't know how to do it.


Lynda, in my last post, said on the video that chain link fences look good in the front of houses and that was one of the reasons why she filed the legislation to allow it. This is from the Fence Assured website of the before and after:



All I can say is woof! Where is your taste Lynda? You think that looks good?


SEE PART 3

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah it ties together. County government is a communal feeding trough for family and friends. I wonder where Pepe Diaz fits in all this Bell/ Sweetwater connection. Maybe Morono will flip to the feds on that one.

Anonymous said...

Embarrassment for Rebecca Sosa who made Bell her vice chair. Do the right thing, Rebecca; yank her.

Anonymous said...

All Lynda Bell's out of left field legislation benefits someone she knows, likes or needs something from. Dump her.

Anonymous said...

Wetlands … fences … mortgages … for Bell being a county commissioner is like running a candy store.

Anonymous said...

In my opinion, she thinks she is untouchable. As a woman and one who claims to be a Christian.
(actions speak louder than words, biotch)she thinks she is shielded from real scrutiny. After all, if she says it, it must be true and we should not concern ourselves with the real facts or her personal agenda. How dare anyone question her "pure motives." Get over yourself, this time next year you will be the nobody you really are.

Anonymous said...

Great work g.o.d. Loved how honey boo boo called the story you broke, 'ridiculous'.

Anonymous said...

On the Fence Assured site it even displays a project that was done for the City of Sweetwater! Morono not only loaned them equipment from the towing company, he authorized contracts to his Employee's Fencing Company. Doing direct business with the government that employs you is just slightly unethical. I wonder how many other municipal contracts Morono engineered for his sweetie's company?

Out of sight said...

I would love to see the details of the program Jenna benefitted from. I would be surprised that her household income level qualified her for help, unless she is the cop using one of the federal programs.

Also, is she the sweetwater employee? Did she file all the required second job notices?

Anonymous said...

We needs the Feds investigating.

Anonymous said...

G.O.D...You missed something. Bell's other daughter was laid off from FPL when their extra
work folded and is now working for 311 at the County...Wonder how she got that job?

Check it out...bet there is some hanky-panky there also.

Wonders never cease...falling from her heavenly perch, husband dissed by Homestead after spending an obscene $112,000 compared to the new mayor’s paltry $30 something trying to buy the seat and now this.

Is it any wonder she cannot keep credible staff? She always has multiple openings in her office. Who would want their name attached to her?

Even Johanna Faddis left. Has anyone checked out the real reason?

This woman has hurt so many people...those who know the real Lynda Bell thrown under the bus because they are honest and incorruptible.

Watch...she will try to manipulate herself out of this but facts are facts...time for her to realize there is no such thing as a free lunch. In politics it always catches up with you especially when you don’t have a clue of how politics work...

Great work G.O.D. The citizens thank you for bringing out this mess.

Barbara said...

I think Jenna and the Mayor were having an affair.

WOOF said...

G.O.D is The Man.

Anonymous said...

How can the Mayor make a motion while running the meeting?

That's just NOT allowed. Never heard of it happening in any city, county in Florida.

Bell would have had to turn over the gavel to someone else.

See, we DO read the supporting documents you post!

Best of the Web said...

Let's hear it for Miami's Best News/Politics Blog!!!!

Way to go, Eye on Miami!!

Anonymous said...

FBI, FBI, FBI!

Anonymous said...

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!

Anonymous said...

I tried to vote in the poll, but it wouldn't accept it, claiming that I have already voted in this poll via absentee.

Anonymous said...

Manny, Manny, Manny!

Anonymous said...

Bell is running the fence company, the daughter and husband are too stupid.

Anonymous said...

I'm confused. Are your last pictures of the front of someone's house? Where's the gate? It looks like the front is facing the driveway, not the street? Do we have houses here that face sideways to the street? Or is this the side entrance to an illegally modified house somewhere in Sweetwater?

Anonymous said...

Ugly chain link fences. Now we hear Pepe Diaz, a commissioner from the far west part of Miami-Dade County, is proposing massive illegal LED billboards to be installed at the Port of Miami. Yup, these ugly billboards will be aimed at tourists driving on the MacArthur Causeway. Pepe Diaz. Remember the name.

Anonymous said...

This is perhaps the finest example yet of the lowest common denominator running local government. Don't forget, this is the level of government that Republicans most favor. Why? Because it is easiest to control. Just give them some wire mesh and a fence contract.

Anonymous said...

Where's the barbed wire?

Anonymous said...

And the most important question:
Since we know our local government is severely corrupt, WHAT will the citizens of this county DO?
Words without ACTIONS = nothing