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flamingdem

(39,320 posts)
Wed May 22, 2013, 11:42 AM May 2013

Right Wing Political Operative and ex Rep. David Rivera's Pal Found in Nicaragua

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/18/3403369/notoriety-follows-rivera-pal-in.html



GRANADA, Nicaragua -- In this quaint colonial town, vigilant residents who keep close tabs on their neighbors know the enigmatic woman asDoña Anita, a sometime hairdresser with a mean temper.
They describe her as a night owl prone to cursing, buying Coca-Cola by the case and watching dirty movies so loudly the volume has kept them up at night.

The FBI in Miami knows her as Ana Sol Alliegro, a political consultant and potential key witness in a federal corruption investigation into whether former U.S. Rep. David Rivera had ties to an illegally funded congressional campaign.

In Miami, Alliegro has a reputation as an erratic political operative, a three-time failed candidate who describes herself on Twitter as a “Republican Political Guru and Conservative Bad Girl!”
When she became the center of the investigation last fall into long-time friend Rivera, Alliegro disappeared.
She reappeared in Granada, where she has been living for months and only added to her notoriety.
Neighbors, who say they are so frightened of her they asked not to be identified by name, say she smashed an ex-lover’s car windows and tried to set fire to his windshield after accusing him of sexually assaulting her.

Occasionally, locals have spotted her around town with Rivera, whom townspeople readily identified in photographs shown by a Herald reporter: “Ah,Don David!”
Alliegro, 43, denied it all in an interview last week with The Miami Herald, from the disparaging accounts of her behavior to receiving any visits from Rivera.

“Write what you want to write,” she said.

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/05/notoriety-follows-david-rivera-pal-in-nicaragua.html#storylink=cpy
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Right Wing Political Operative and ex Rep. David Rivera's Pal Found in Nicaragua (Original Post) flamingdem May 2013 OP
Did Ana Alliegro double-cross David Rivera, secretly record him in scandal? flamingdem May 2013 #1
How about that gopiscrap May 2013 #2
Yes, and this one is for the books! flamingdem May 2013 #3
It's wierd she denies Rep. Senator David Rivera visits her, Judi Lynn May 2013 #4
I like "Don David"! flamingdem May 2013 #5

flamingdem

(39,320 posts)
1. Did Ana Alliegro double-cross David Rivera, secretly record him in scandal?
Wed May 22, 2013, 11:44 AM
May 2013

A friend of former U.S. Rep. David Rivera who’s implicated in a federal corruption investigation made a recording of the Republican last year — and now prosecutors have the evidence, The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald have learned.

Ana Alliegro made the recording, perhaps secretly, months before the FBI raided her home and seized her computer last year. She later skipped town and was last seen in Nicaragua.

Alliegro played a key role in the ill-fated Democratic congressional campaign of Justin Lamar Sternad, who in February admitted receiving $81,486 in illegal contributions and aid from unnamed “coconspirators.”
Rivera denies wrongdoing.

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“This is my insurance policy against David,” Sternad recalled Alliegro saying about the recording. He also had said last year that Alliegro made the recording in Rivera’s car, which she jokingly called “the gangster mobile.”

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/05/did-ana-alliegro-double-cross-david-rivera-secretly-record-him-in-scandal.html#storylink=cpy

flamingdem

(39,320 posts)
3. Yes, and this one is for the books!
Wed May 22, 2013, 03:07 PM
May 2013

Major meltdown, and not over! She has a child back in Miami. It must be real bad for her to be hanging out in Nicaragua, and why does David Rivera visit her.. hmm. kudos to the Miami team for finding her. Previously there were contests attempting to figure out just where she could be. It is good she wasn't found with concrete shoes in Biscayne as some has suggested.

Judi Lynn

(160,614 posts)
4. It's wierd she denies Rep. Senator David Rivera visits her,
Wed May 22, 2013, 04:32 PM
May 2013

while her maid and townspeople indicate he's been there multiple times, and know him by name!

Another great Republican politician.

This politician junkie, Ana Sol Alliegro, Miami Cuban-American should probably be delivered to the slammer right along with David Rivera. If for no other reason, she has poisoned our minds with the image of herself sitting in her birthday suit at a desk, one foot upside, holding a gun on her beloved of the hour. Gack!

And one-time wife of Miami's Mayor, "Crazy Joe" Arollo! She's just crazy about Cuban-American republican politicans. They apparently are the high profile people in South Florida. She has picked another winner with David Rivera, or "Don David," as he's known to her neighbors, and to her maid.

Thanks for the update.

flamingdem

(39,320 posts)
5. I like "Don David"!
Wed May 22, 2013, 04:48 PM
May 2013

and I like "Don Marco" as in Rubio. I'm guessing that Ana is being compensated very well. She'll have to stay there through the 2016 primaries!

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