Category: Opa-locka
Opa-locka, the City of Terminal Stupidity
A City Attorney who can’t comprehend his own municipal charter is a special kind of stupid. Then again, when the city is Opa-locka, and the attorney is Vincent T. Brown, anything is possible. This is…
Is there hope for Opa-locka? Don’t hold your breath.
Opa-locka residents will finally have the chance to clean house on November 6, 2018. But will it end the city’s documented history of corruption? Probably not. Thanks to term limits, which voters passed by referendum…
News Briefs Redux
More trouble for Opa-locka? The Miami Herald reported on Monday that Merritt Stierheim, who was appointed by the state to fix Opa-locka’s financial woes, has given up his advisory position, citing a “deeply rooted culture…
Shades of Frantzie! Opa-locka Code Enforcement Officer under fire for doing his job!
Another South Florida public employee has incurred the wrath of an elected official for daring to issue a code violation citation. Two years ago, North Miami Beach Commissionweasel Frantz Pierre went postal on a code…
Luis Santiago: Guilty is as guilty does
Remember that time former Opa-locka Commissioner Luis Santiago insisted he would not plead guilty to bribery charges? Apparently, he doesn’t either. On December 30, 2017, he surrendered to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in response to…
And another one down! Opa-locka official does the perp walk.
Last month, an Opa-locka commissioner lost his seat on the dais. This month, he lost his freedom. Idiot. In Opa-locka politician is latest to surrender in city’s bribery scandal, the Miami Herald reported that now-former…
News Briefs
FEC to Carline Paul: “Guilty as charged!” On November 16, 2016, the Florida Elections Commission issued its Final Order on the complaint filed against Carline M. Paul. At the Commission’s informal hearing held last month,…
Miami Gardens mayoral race still undecided … thanks to an Opa-locka reject.
Whoa, hold up. Don’t unpack those kittens just yet. Election 2016 is still not over. The wild and crazy Miami Gardens mayoral race won’t be decided until December 6, 2016 … unless there’s a runoff,…
Is this the end of the road for Kelvin Baker?
Lauderdale Lakes commissioners are understandably nervous that their Financial Services Director, Susan Gooding-Liburd, might be doing a perp walk out of City Hall. The Sun-Sentinel reported in Lauderdale Lakes finance director linked to Opa-locka controversy …
I’m not saying it was Kelvin Baker, but…
After the latest breaking news out of Opa-locka, the Lauderdale Lakes commissioners might want to consider a forensic audit of its entire city. As hard as it is to believe, things in Opa-locka just got…
