By Daniel Ricker With the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Andrew fast approaching Friday anyone that was here in South Florida on that Aug. 24 evening will never forget the terror of the night and the sound of a freight train next to your pillow, if you had one. As trees snapped as if tooth picks [...]
By Daniel A Ricker Watchdog Report 180 Giant Sheets of Hurricane Proof Glass for Art Museum a Challenge, Science Wants Extra $30 Million Next Year The senior staff of the Perez Art Museum and the Frost Science Museum that have new buildings going up on Museum Park in Miami’s Bicentennial Park and receiving a good [...]
By Daniel Ricker A long time observer of Miami Beach politics and the commission predicted long serving Manager Jorge Gonzalez, 45, would be gone in the months ahead and any chance of building a world-class convention center “was over,” he said at the end of the week. Gonzalez’s future came up suddenly at a public [...]
By Daniel A. Ricker, Special to the SunPost CITY OF MIAMI “Disturbing,” is how one long time neutral observer of Miami City Hall described last week, that opened up with suspended Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito being fired Monday by a 3-2 commission vote, a budget workshop on Wednesday that had a sharp exchange with [...]
By Daniel A. Ricker Special to the SunPost CITY OF MIAMI BEACH The Watchdog Report contacted the mayor and commissioners last week asking about the city’s upcoming budget and the Memorial Day Urban Beach Weekend debate and only Commissioners Deede Weithorn and Michael Gongora emailed back by my deadline Sunday. Weithorn, up for reelection in [...]
By Daniel A. Ricker Special to the SunPost Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Carlos Noriega, Chief, Miami Beach Police Department, and Michael Shea, Deputy Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s [...]
Father, Son Concealed More Than $150 million in Assets By Daniel A. Ricker Special to the SunPost Mauricio Cohen Assor, 77, and his son, Leon Cohen-Levy, 46, each with residences in Miami Beach, Fla., were sentenced today after having been convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States and filing false tax returns. U.S. District [...]
