Miami mayoral candidates have heap of explaining to do
Categories: Front Page, In The News
hiWeek of July 2, 2009
Voters should dissect four matters just unveiled by Miami Today as they weigh the two leading contenders for Miami mayor.
Commissioners Joe Sanchez and Tom·s Regalado both need to explain:
•How 14 staffers got no jail and light fines after fanfare about fraud and racketeering charges that carried 23- to 95-year terms. The 14 did private design and construction jobs in city offices while $38.8 million in project delays and overruns swamped a department where most of them worked.
•Why the city must pay Washington almost $1 million after it gave federal funds to a nonprofit for apartments for AIDS patients yet a for-profit firm got the apartments and evicted most AIDS patients.
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