Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is facing multiple investigations and calls to resign due to his alleged involvement in various scandals. He is under FBI and state bribery investigations, a state ethics investigation, and accused of being an unregistered foreign agent for Saudi Arabia. The scandals also involve City Commissioner Joe Carollo and City Hall's engulfment in political turmoil. The Miami Herald's investigative series, #ShakedownCity, sheds light on the extensive controversies, including Suarez's undisclosed incomes, international travels, and potential illegal work for the Saudi regime.
The recent scandals rocking Miami government have engulfed two scions of local political dynasties and a third politician who has been a proud chaos agent for 40-plus years. #ShakedownCity https://t.co/gE17dngeaT
The involvement of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez appears to be part of the Saudis’ “grand influence scheme to shape American perceptions by appealing to Americans' pocketbooks.” https://t.co/VTE6UmObHy
After Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was implicated in an absentee ballot scheme for his father’s 1997 mayoral campaign, his own mayoral campaign in 2013 was raided by police due to ANOTHER absentee ballot fraud investigation. He dropped out of that race. https://t.co/cgtk4GYEGT https://t.co/dyMHSnPCqo https://t.co/z2SgScIVV2
City Commissioner Joe Carollo has been in and out of office for so long it’s hard to remember Miami without him. But it’s a time of reckoning for the city. Will Carollo survive it? https://t.co/gCb1yh36ug
Miami has a history of crooked governance, highlighted by a mayoral election overturned in court due to ballot fraud, a parade of perp-walked officials and a police chief-turned-manager who was imprisoned for looting a children’s charity. https://t.co/wlOyKC5Pk8
Miami Herald’s @Blaskey_S on all the investigations targeting Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. They include an FBI and state bribery investigations and state ethics investigation into his acceptance of high dollar gifts from lobbyists that have projects before City of Miami. https://t.co/pvfNIEVRC3
See how the scandals swirling around Mayor Francis Suarez and commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Díaz de la Portilla embroiled City Hall in our new interactive report, #ShakedownCity. https://t.co/gE17dngeaT
The recent scandals rocking Miami government have engulfed two scions of local political dynasties and a third politician who has been a proud chaos agent for 40-plus years. #ShakedownCity https://t.co/gE17dngeaT
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s apparent work benefiting the Saudis “is a national security concern,” according to the former assistant director of counterintelligence for the FBI. https://t.co/VTE6UmNDS0
“His passion is destroying people.” Now in his fourth decade as godfather of Miami’s political soap opera, Joe Carollo is destroying the city, too, say his critics. Read the story: https://t.co/gCb1yh3EjO
A Miami Herald series called “Shakedown City” explored Mayor Francis Suarez’s extensive international travel, his secrecy about his legal clients and more than a dozen side jobs, and his potentially illegal work on behalf of the regime in Saudi Arabia. https://t.co/Pb8XIjopn4
This coming from a Florida legend 😳 https://t.co/MdlC8S8Jid
NEW: Shakedown City: Investigations, lawsuits and the anatomy of Miami’s political scandals An interactive breakdown of political scandals based on the @MiamiHerald's reporting from this past year. ✍️:@Blaskey_S, @joeflech, @tessriski https://t.co/G6j4LFIBUl
Shakedown City: Investigations, lawsuits and the anatomy of Miami’s political scandals https://t.co/6XDi5V4BtW
Conflict is his cafecito. Bad blood nourishes him. It’s baffled Miamians for decades. How has Joe Carollo remained in power despite the messy state of Miami government? 🧵 https://t.co/gCb1yh3EjO
A Miami story you will not forget - for its impeccable window into a city’s corruption and its vindictive political godfather Joe Carollo.Elected by 4,001 votes, his power is damaging, and unchecked, by master storyteller @lrobertsonmiami https://t.co/tpV1PuGM6z https://t.co/bPX1YSh8ko
Now in @MiamiHerald’s #ShakedownCity series: Joe Carollo, godfather of Miami politics, unfazed by $63.5 million judgment, can’t wait for his next fight. https://t.co/4ooITPimeb
Miami’s political godfather Joe Carollo, unfazed by $63M beating, can’t wait for next fight #ReadLocal @lrobertsonmiami on @JoeCarolloNow. More than worth your time. https://t.co/THfds2s5M9 https://t.co/MQJSC1JmuA
Miami is in crisis. Again. Its leaders are being investigated, sued, charged with crimes. But Joe Carollo, the city’s most pugnacious and powerful politician still runs the show at City Hall. #Miami #ShakedownCity https://t.co/4ooITPhOoD
In #Florida, Miami’s political godfather, unfazed by his $63M beating, can’t wait for next fight https://t.co/lLmLiXuTki via @lrobertsonmiami
Miami’s political godfather Joe Carollo, unfazed by $63M beating, can’t wait for next fight https://t.co/4nIAUfQBmR
NEW: The latest installment of our series #ShakedownCity is about Miami’s political godfather Joe Carollo. Unfazed by a $63M beating, he can’t wait for the next fight ✍️ @lrobertsonmiami https://t.co/neaWdJ9Kif
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is facing calls to resign after reports on his work for Saudi Arabia as an unregistered foreign agent, his taxpayer-funded security detail during his campaign, private and mayoral travels, and an FBI bribery investigation. https://t.co/PBQ1Ixdws8
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is under a FBI bribery investigation, a state ethics investigation for accepting high dollar gifts from lobbyists, was caught as a unregistered foreign agent for Saudi Arabia, and has a dozen undisclosed incomes. Time to resign.
The first three parts of a new @MiamiHerald investigative series, #ShakedownCity, that takes a deep dive into the scandals that have engulfed Miami City Hall are now live. Here's a quick recap: 🧵
When Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was found to be under FBI investigation after secretly taking $170,000 in payments from a developer who thanked him for fast-tracking luxury projects, Suarez went on Telemundo to claim City Attorney Vicky Mendez told him it was ethical to do that.
A Cuban American who condemns repressive regimes in Latin America, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has developed an increasingly cozy relationship with the Saudi regime, known for executing internal dissenters. Read more at: https://t.co/Dm7yLsbab5