From the very first time Ex-Mayor/CONVICTED FELON Myron Rosner’s fake Happy Holidays bus benches started popping up all over North Miami Beach in December of 2010, I knew something was very, very wrong.

Thus began my very first investigation for VotersOpinion.com.  I scrutinized his 2011 re-election Campaign Treasurers Reports and also examined Myron’s travel expenses during his one term as mayor.

When I discovered that he spent hundreds of taxpayer dollars to stay in local hotels with his wife, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE SARAH ZABEL, and then blogged it, the ultra-thin skinned Myron sicced Code Enforcement on me.

Because that’s what all mayors do when criticized, right?

On April 12, 2011, I was thrilled to discover evidence that Myron Rosner bullied a city vendor out of approximately $20,000.00 worth of bus bench advertising for FREE when he reported it on February 1, 2011 as a $500.00 “in-kind” donation.

I blogged that, too, and gleefully wrote these now-prophetic words, “Seriously, Myron?  Did you REALLY think you’d get away with this blatant violation of Florida Campaign Finance Laws?  Seriously?  HA HA HA HA HA!”

Within two hours of the blog post, those bus bench ads started disappearing from the streets of North Miami Beach.

Myron then also scrambled to cover up his CRIME.

He gave the vendor, Martin Outdoor Media, a check predated for January 25, 2011 in the amount of $4,500.00, and then covered that check on April 13, 2011 with a personal loan to his campaign.

Unfortunately for Myron, he screwed himself by predating the check.  It’s illegal to write campaign account checks without having sufficient funds in the account.  Myron didn’t have the entire $4,500.00 in his campaign account on January 25, 2011, the date written on the check that he had to hastily cough up.  (Yes, he is that stupid.)

Even worse, in addition to Myron’s strong-arming a city vendor into giving him free advertising, he only gave Martin the $4,500.00 check under the condition that Martin “donate” $4,500.00 to Myron’s political action committee.  (Yes, he is that despicable.)

Once I gathered my evidence, I filed a complaint with the Florida Elections Commission, which in turn, notified the Miami-Dade County State Attorneys Office.  The investigation eventually led to Myron’s arrest on September 20, 2012 for four felonies and five misdemeanors, all related to campaign finance fraud.

We patiently waited nearly three and a half years for justice to be served, while 19 trial dates were set and continued.

Just five days before his scheduled trial was to begin, Myron pleaded guilty to only one of the counts, unlawful compensation, which is a 3rd degree felony.  As the Miami Herald reported on Wednesday, Myron agreed to a three year probation sentence, which may be shortened to two years “if he follows all the rules.”

Other than his having to report to his probation officer and pee in a cup once or twice a month, I can’t imagine what other rules he’s supposed to follow.  I’m sure, however, he won’t be required to be pleasant because Myron doesn’t have a decent bone in his entire body.

The scary thing is that Myron will be able to run again for public office once he completes his probation period.  I’ll be ready just in case.

In court, Myron told Judge Martin Bidwell that taking the plea deal is “in my best interest.”

Which translates to, “I had no choice.”

According to his CRIMINAL lawyer Benedict P. Kuehne, who achieved local fame by defending corrupt politicians and keeping them out of prison (most of them anyway), Myron accepted responsibility for his CRIMES in order “to put the long-ago matter behind him to focus on his health, rebuilding his business and attending to his family.”

Which translates to, “Now I can continue to exploit my position as the husband of a CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE and force my children to campaign for me so I can run again.”

Kuehne also had the chutzpah to claim that this was “a complicated case,” and that his client’s acceptance of a plea deal “does not in any way undermine the extensive good work that Mr. Rosner has done.”

I’m not sure what was so complicated.

Myron lied, cheated, strong-armed a city vendor, stole his money and then got caught.

He blatantly committed four felonies and five misdemeanors.

There’s nothing complicated about it!

But … but … what about all the “extensive good work” that Myron has done?

Let me count the ways!

• Myron constantly sought revenge on anyone who disagreed with him.
• Myron filed a bogus complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics against the former incumbent mayor Ray Marin, after beating him in the 2009 election.
• Myron bullied and threatened city employees to approve illegal variances for his home property.
• Myron reported everyone in North Miami Beach to Code Enforcement to create an “everyone else does it” defense for his own code violations.
• Myron posted FAKE Notices of Violations on residents’ doors in retaliation for his losing the 2011 election to George Vallejo.
• Myron created his own website called citynmb.info for the purposes of (a) building a bogus defense for his many code violations, (b) “helping” residents file code violation complaints against their neighbors, (c) personally attacking me for “libel,” and (d) retaliating against two city employees for blowing the whistle on him.
• Myron got himself appointed to the Miami-Dade Board of Rules and Appeals just so he could help his $10,000.00 campaign donor Russell Galbut win an appeal against the City of Miami Beach.

Those are just a few examples of the “extensive good work” that Ben Kuehne must have been talking about.

Ben Kuehne was able to score this sweetheart of a plea deal because Myron’s victim, Scott Martin of Martin Outdoor Media, allegedly  “gave two disparate statements to detectives,” according to the Miami Herald.

The closeout memo noted, “Mr. Martin indicated that he was not truthful in his first statement because he had been in contact with Mr. Rosner and feared losing his contract with the city if he told the truth. Once Rosner lost his reelection bid, Mr. Martin felt safe in coming forward since Rosner could no longer have an impact on his city contract.”

In other words, Scott Martin gave in to Myron’s bullying and threats in order to save his business.  He lived in fear of Myron’s possible re-election, and he wasn’t about to risk saying no to him.

Instead of using this as further evidence that Myron terrorized his victims, Ben Keuhne somehow convinced the prosecutor that Martin’s “flip-flopping” was a weak link in the state’s case.

Then again, this was a slam dunk case that State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle didn’t want to prosecute in the first place.  I bet she was only too happy to drop eight charges in exchange for keeping the peace with Myron’s wife, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE SARAH ZABEL.

After all, Kathy is running for re-election this year.

Backs must be scratched!

Nevertheless, a conviction is a conviction.

Myron will forever be a CONVICTED FELON.

And his wife, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE SARAH ZABEL, is now married to one.

Guess who got the last laugh?

Stephanie Kienzle
“Spreading the Wealth”