Billy Corben

: 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.’

: 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.