The noose tightens
The noose tightens
Álvaro Fernández • March 6, 2015
Pretend it’s a rope cowboys toss to bring down a calf during a rodeo: It’s thrown, it hits the mark, then you pull!
Remind you of a Miami politician? At the end of that cord?
David Rivera comes to mind…
I use the noose allegory because David’s day appears to be nearing. And… is there any Miami politician who deserves it more? This man has done more harm to this area, to the people who’ve helped him, and ended up with more ‘illegal’ money – in his pocket, or in someone else’s, who shilled for him – than most crooked politicians. And Miami specializes in those.cow
But the noose is starting to choke. Less air is being let in.
Judge David Watkins, an administrative law judge in Tallahassee, today (March 6) suggested that Rivera be forced to pay $57,821.96 for breaking Florida ethics rules while he was a state legislator.
“The recommendation will go to the Florida Commission on Ethics, which must then issue a final order. Any penalty would ultimately have to be imposed by House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, a Merritt Island Republican who served with Rivera from 2008-10,” reported the Miami Herald.
Rivera remains defiant. “This is a long way from over and I have not yet begun to fight!” he wrote in an email to the Miami Herald.
I think Rivera has lost it. And by this I don’t mean he ever had it… I’ve written in the past that this guy is a sociopath. To date, he’s never shown me differently.
More:
http://progresoweekly.us/noose-tightens/
For people who don't recall his name, David Rivera is a Cuban-American Republican former Congressman who served earlier in the Florida Legislature.
He's in trouble for trying to bribe a very weak Democratic cqndidate to run for a primary, trying to rig things so the strongest Democrat would be an easy defeat for himself at election time. He has made it all the way to Crew's Most Corrupt list.
http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/mostcorrupt
Rep. David Rivera’s personal finances were already a legal black hole before he conspired to break campaign finance laws to prop up a candidate running in the Democratic primary for his House seat.
The Miami Republican remains under investigation for failing to report income from a consulting firm connected to his family for work related to a pro-slots campaign. In April 2012, state investigators concluded that Rep. Rivera had used campaign funds to pay personal expenses and reward companies connected to his friends and family, among other violations.
In August 2012, reports surfaced that Rep. Rivera had supported a candidate in the four-way Democratic primary for his House seat, allegedly providing envelopes stuffed with cash. Vendors alleged that Rep. Rivera had been involved in illegally paying for his opponent’s mailers.
More
http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/mostcorrupt/entry/david-rivera
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You may recall the posts shared by flamingdem regarding David Rivera's associate in silliness, Ana Alliegro, a former Miami news anchor, and former wife of Former Mayor Joe Carrollo, who was in office during the days of Elian Gonzalez' imprisonment in his granduncle Lazaro's house after he was found floating in an innertube when his mother and her boyfriend drowned trying to sneak into Florida in a boat.
Right Wing Political Operative and ex Rep. David Rivera's Pal Found in Nicaragua
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101664227
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