It's about who you know...

There's no doubt, down here in Miami, it's all about who you know.  For those of you that have been following our Airways Auto Tag agency story, it's blatantly obvious that if the owner of the tag agency was anyone other than the wife of of a police chief, things would have gone down completely differently.  Think about it, when the shit hit the fan, is there any doubt that the chief made a few phone calls and pushed the investigation along?  Does anyone believe that the cops that came out and investigated the case weren't in one way shape or form biased because the alleged victim of the theft was none other than a sitting police chief's wife?  Not to mention a police chief that had long standing personal ties with our own state attorney?  Did the poor tellers that were charged have a shot at getting their stories heard or was their fate sealed before the detectives asked them a single question?  We all know the answer to that, obviously being married to a police chief has it's advantages, especially when the cops (even from an unrelated jurisdiction) are investigating your business.

Bernardo Barrera

So what's the point here other than stating the obvious?  We all know it pays to have friend or family in high places, especially when the cops are looking at you under the microscope, it's these kinds of connections that can ultimately keep you out of harms way.  This brings us back to the first story we covered on our blog, the Bernardo Barrera mortgage fraud case.  Years ago we picked apart just about every claim that Mr. Barrera made about his identity being stolen, we even went so far as to hire our own handwriting expert who proved that Mr. Barrera's actual signature was all over the fraudulent loan documents therefore making him an indispensable member of the organized scheme to defraud, you have to ask yourself though, with the overwhelming mountain of evidence that we compiled against this man who claimed his identity was stolen, how the hell did the cops and the state attorneys office buy his story hook line and sinker?  I could never understand how they ate up every word Mr. Barrera fed them and even after he was proven to be a liar, the state still refuses to go after him, how could this be?  Simple, Mr. Barrera himself tells us how he was able to pull all this off literally in the first page of his deposition from the criminal trial that arose from the alleged theft of his identity...

There you have it!  According to Mr. Barrera his brother is the attorney general of Panama!  How many times do you think he told the police and the state attorney that through the course of the investigation and the subsequent criminal case?  Any doubt that "my brother is the attorney general of Panama" somehow changed the states perception of the case against Mr. Barrera no matter how much evidence there was against him?  


Like I said before, it's all about who you know...