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Mika

(17,751 posts)
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 01:24 PM Apr 2013

Exclusive: Miami New Times Finds David Rivera's Missing Pal Ana Alliegro


Exclusive: Miami New Times Finds David Rivera's Missing Pal Ana Alliegro
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/04/exclusive_miami_new_times_find.php

In the lakeside tourist city of Granada, Nicaragua, visitors strolling along La Calle Libertad come upon a blue Colonial-style building with a small sign reading, "Salon La Libertad." On a recent afternoon, a slim Cuban-American woman with short blond hair and intense blue eyes chats on her cell phone inside. Her business card identifies her as Ana Solá, a professional stylist and the salon's owner.

Tucked between a small store selling handmade bracelets and the home of Granada's Roman Catholic bishop, Solá's salon offers haircuts, dye jobs, and manicures to the tourists enjoying sweeping views of Lake Nicaragua.

What her customers don't know, though, is that Solá is really Ana Sol Alliegro, the most sought-after woman in Miami. Ever since she allegedly skipped out on an FBI interview on September 6, the 43-year-old, self-anointed "Republican bad girl" has not been seen or heard from except by close relatives, her defense attorney, and former U.S. Rep. David Rivera, the man whose career sank with an only-in-South Florida scandal tied to Alliegro.

The feds say she's a key witness in a probe into whether Rivera broke election laws by secretly financing a ringer against his bitter rival, Joe Garcia, in the 2012 Democratic primary. Alliegro, they say, ran that ringer's campaign and ferried envelopes stuffed with unreported cash to a company making promotional materials.


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Exclusive: Miami New Times Finds David Rivera's Missing Pal Ana Alliegro (Original Post) Mika Apr 2013 OP
aha just noticed you posted this - maybe I'll put one in flamingdem Apr 2013 #1
Another great article from Miami New Times. Amazing how twisted these Batistiano relatives Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #2
I posted it minutes after Mika because .. flamingdem Apr 2013 #3
I found it browsing the Miami New Times. Mika Apr 2013 #4
Bet you're right about extradition. The US didn't make too many friends in that country Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #5

flamingdem

(39,303 posts)
1. aha just noticed you posted this - maybe I'll put one in
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 01:29 PM
Apr 2013

Late Breaking News! It's big news for me anyway

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
2. Another great article from Miami New Times. Amazing how twisted these Batistiano relatives
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 03:19 PM
Apr 2013

can get in their little kingdom, the Banana Republic.

If the government doesn't take the time after the New Times has put so much information out there in the public zone already, to go ahead and go after Rivera after this, and drag Ana in to testify, (she, of course, has set up her "defense" in advance, she can't "remember" like Reagan) then something even more serious and twisted has happened. Rivera should be ripe for the taking now!

Amazing what this Batistiano spawn has "accomplished" in her lifetime, as well as her dear old dad, who trained the Contras for Reagan in Nicaragua. She has clearly earned the right to call herself the ""Republican bad girl." She's pretty strange.

It would be nice if she did something clean for once in her lifetime, and helped the government send Rivera to a nice, comfy low-security prison for politicians.

Thank you for posting this article, Mika. It's pretty doubtful any of us would have seen it due to the fact so much about Florida politics, etc. never gets known outside Florida, which seems to be its own little (but politically powerful, unfortunately) world!

flamingdem

(39,303 posts)
3. I posted it minutes after Mika because ..
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 03:59 PM
Apr 2013

I've had Ana Alliegro in my google alerts for months and her name finally triggered an email with the article!

To keep on top of these Bastianos I'll have to make an alert for Otto Reich and the rest.

Can you believe this story? A hairdresser in Nicaragua! Riviera visited her! They must not have an extradition treaty with the USA. She must be so very guilty to have left her daughter and gone to Grenada.. and so great the people are boycotting her business now they know who she is.. I wonder what Ortega thinks.

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
5. Bet you're right about extradition. The US didn't make too many friends in that country
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 04:56 PM
Apr 2013

after what they did with the Contras, et. Jeez. I'll bet many Nicaraguans would be just fine never having to think of this country ever, ever again, after all the hell they've been through because of US designs on their government.

Normally, one would have thought when Otto Reich was targeted in a Congressional hearing and determined to be involved in ILLEGAL propaganda under Reagan, he would have done the right thing and gotten out of sight, and kept a low profile for the rest of his ugly life. But noooooooooo. Sounds as if he's more active now than he was during Iran-Contra.

Sooner or later, you'd think something HAS to erupt which will show the country just how much dirty business has really been going on covertly all this time they've been keeping out of sight, doing what we've heard Republican officials like Nixon, Kissinger, etc. discuss in making sure their hands don't show behind any of it. It's time the whole bunch of criminals somehow got outed! They are like a nest of maggots.

Someone as reckless and nutty as Ana, even D.R. eventually is going to take one incautious step and get in more trouble than he/she can handle. It would be a great time for the New Times to start keeping an even closer eye on these creeps.

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