Billy Corben

“Little Havana has become a dumping ground”: In addition to being a corrupt racist wifebeating bully, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo also sucks at his job. The streets of Miami’s historic neighborhood — in Carollo’s district — are covered in trash!

“Little Havana has just become a dumping ground for people,” Executive Director of the Dade Heritage Trust Christine Rupp told Local 10’s Louis Aguirre back when the Don’t Trash Our Treasure franchise launched in 2021.

And it hasn’t gotten any better.

“There’s a lot of street litter and unfortunately this area has been neglected when it comes to street sweeping, and maintenance and having enough trash cans, and making sure those trash cans aren’t overflowing,” Program Director of Debris Free Oceans Maddie Kauffman says.

Little Havana may be over 4 miles from Biscayne Bay, but you can see its environmental footprint every time it rains, when all that street trash gets swept up into the stormwater system then outflows into the Miami River, that then dumps it into Biscayne Bay.

Healthy Little Havana Program Director Raissa Fernandez says, “(It’s) shocking to think that a neighborhood in the city of Miami still has this situation.”

Carollo refused to do an interview, but a spokesperson sent this statement:

“This is more of the same bias that you and Channel 10 have against me. You well know that this so called “resident” that you are speaking to is one that is connected to Ball and Chain, and that this is just another hit piece against me. Don’t any of the other districts have illegal dumping, only District 3? Every day my office sends four to six people out into the District looking for illegal dumping. In addition, we have a crew of six employees assigned to my office from Solid Waste that go out every day to pick up illegal dumping. I have worked harder than any commissioner to combat illegal dumping and to create more effective laws against it, along with presenting resolutions to provide the budget with more Solid Waste inspectors.”

A personal note: Our company rakontur is teaming up with old friend (Oscar-winner Adam McKay) and new partner (Rachel Maddow) for our latest documentary, a geopolitical farce about quintessential fellow Florida Man Lev Parnas and his madcap misadventures across the globe — to Ukraine and back again! — that led to the impeachment of an American president.

Via Variety: “Rachel Maddow’s Surprise Inside production company will team up with Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries to work on the Rakontur documentary project ‘From Russia With Lev.’ Maddow and McKay will serve as executive producers on the political farce, which is directed by Billy Corben and produced by Alfred Spellman.”

: Miami Mafia loses in court AGAIN — could cost city $114 million!

According to the Miami Herald, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Thomas Rebull ruled the City of Miami’s 15% parking surcharge UNCONSTITUTIONAL, finding that incompetent and corrupt city attorney/mob lawyer “Tricky” Vicky Mendez wrongly interpreted state law in order to justify the “illegally imposed and collected” tax.

In his ruling, Rebull found EVERY ONE of the city’s arguments flawed: “Simply put, [the] Plaintiffs’ interpretation of the parking surcharge statute is a fair reading of its text,” Rebull wrote. “The City’s interpretations are not.”

The Herald writes: “That’s only one expensive blow facing the city after a judge ruled a long-controversial parking surcharge. Next up, the city faces an injunction seeking to block it from continuing to collect the fee at government-owned parking lots, garages and other facilities. If the judge grants the request, which appears likely in light of his ruling on the legal meaning of the statute, the attorneys hope to win class-action certification for people who have used the lots. That would open the door to collecting tax refunds totaling more than $114 million since November 2018, according to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. That cutoff date is based on a five-year statute of limitations. Unless the city wins on appeal, the plan would be to use credit card receipts or sworn statements from cash users to determine how to divvy up the refunds.”

: Little Havana businessmen and Ball & Chain owners, William Fuller and Martin Pinilla, who won a $63.5 million federal civil corruption judgement against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo for depriving them of their First Amendment free speech rights by weaponizing city government against their properties for political revenge, just filed in county court a “Complaint for Declaration Removing Joe Carollo as a Commissioner of the City of Miami” for violating the U.S. Constitution and the City Charter’s “Citizens’ Bill of Rights”

“Plaintiffs hereby file this action,” the complaint reads, “against the City of Miami and Joe Carollo demanding a declaration, pursuant to the Miami City Charter, that Joe Carollo, as a ‘public official’ who has been found ‘by the court to have willfully violated’ the Citizens’ Bill of Rights, must immediately ‘forfeit his or her office or employment.’

How about a Miami City Hall Celebrity Boxing Match — Commissioner Joe Carollo vs. Commissioner Miguel Gabela — with the purse going to a charity of the winner’s choice? I think we can get sponsors for that if the commissioners agree to participate.

WE’RE #1: Miami is the MOST EXPENSIVE city in America to buy groceries — costing residents $327.89 weekly, about 14% higher than Florida’s statewide average. Florida ranks #5 for the nation’s most expensive states for groceries.*

Miami also has the highest inflation rate of any city in the U.S. (more than DOUBLE the national average), the least affordable housing market (Miamians spend about 80% of our income on housing), and some of the most expensive auto insurance (about 256% higher than the national average).

* According to a study by HelpAdvisor that analyzed the U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey

-4 degrees. 0 chill.

Third World Government, Fourth World Infrastructure: The feds should take over Miami International Airport and put us out of our misery. It’s a matter of national security at this point to have a major airport and “gateway to the Americas” that is so corrupt and dysfunctional.

While the grift and graft at MIA long predate the tenure of current Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, it may not survive the incompetence and corruption of her administration and Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Morales. .buttigieg

: Earlier today, the Federal Court in the Southern District of Florida directed the U.S. Marshal to seize cash, goods and land from Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo (aka Comandante Comemierda) to enforce the $63.5 million civil corruption judgement against him for weaponizing city government to violate the Constitutional rights of Little Havana business owners

The new season of MIAMI’S BEST TELENOVELA starts THIS WEEK!

Miami City Commission meeting on Thursday at 9am is gonna be LIT AF 🔥 🔥 🔥

City Hall is the place to be — come for the chaos, stay for the accountability!

There are some super important issues on the agenda, please come out and speak during public comment including:

Absentee Mayor Ponzi Postalita Francis Suarez’s side hustles — exploiting his public position for private profit!

Comandante Comemierda Carollo weaponizing government to target enemies — including newly elected anti-corruption Commissioner Damian Pardo!

Firing corrupt mob lawyer city attorney “Tricky” Vicky Mendez!

Wifebeater Joe Carollo abusing Bayfront Park Management Trust and Maurice Ferre Park, misappropriating tax dollars!

Auditing crooked city agencies that are used as slush funds for corruption commissioners!

: COVER-UP COWBOYS! Miami Police Department has 4,061 public records about purchases they’ve made from the office furniture company of city manager Art Noriega’s wife — that taxpayers have (over)paid MILLIONS of dollars to since he started working at the city — and wants $2,852 to turn them over. What are they hiding? Not aliens at Bayside.

Más Miami Mafia Mi**da: According to partial records already provided by the city, Miami City Manager Art Noriega has paid over $440,000 in taxpayer money to his wife Michelle Pradere-Noriega’s company for city government office furniture since he became manager in 2020.

According to partial records already provided by the Miami Parking Authority, Noriega spent $1.6 million in taxpayer money at his then future wife Michelle Pradere-Noriega’s overpriced furniture company from 2009 to 2012, when he headed the city’s parking authority.

MPA records custodian Chantal Gonzalez says they are missing 16 years of records — from 2000 to 2008 and 2013 to 2021 (the Noriega’s were married around 2014). Most of the $1,572,296.99 total, including one purchase order for $625,000, was paid by checks signed by Art Noriega himself.

All these contracts with Michelle Pradere-Noriega’s company, Hialeah-based Pradere Manufacturing, were NO BID deals, despite city code requiring purchases above $25,000 be open to bidding. City code also says that all contracts over $50,000 “must be approved by the city commission upon recommendation by the city manager.” No votes were ever taken.

City of Miami taxpayers out here getting great deals on office furniture — when the city manager buys it from his wife’s company