After literally months of trying, I was finally able to get a copy of the email that earned embattled City of South Miami police chief Orlando Martinez de Castro one of the many charges from the Miami Dade County Ethics Commission. From the Ethics Commission press release regarding the chief...
Airways is owned by Ileana Martinez de Castro, the police chief’s wife. She also owns Beck & Lo’s Insurance Agency, Inc. Last April, Chief de Castro used his city e-mail account to solicit business for his wife’s agency. The case will proceed to a public hearing.
That bit about the chief's wife owning the insurance agency isn't exactly correct as this document from Sunbiz shows...
Based on what we see here, the chief himself is an officer of this insurance agency, regardless, let's take a look at that email...
Now this email raises a few interesting points, first we clearly determine that the chief was sending these emails that had nothing to do with his job as police chief during business hours while he was being paid by the tax payers of the City of South Miami, specifically Wednesday April 6th at 4:19 pm. The email is addressed to jrodriguez2813@comcast.net who I presume is someone named Jossie Rodriguez that's got something to do with the insurance business, as well as two others, the chief's wife and someone else that I was unable to identify whose email address is listed as "padcam@aol.com". Any of our readers have any idea who this padcam email belongs to or why the chief copied this person on this email? If you do, drop us a line.
So there you have it, granted this is just one email we found where the chief was conducting business that has nothing to do with the city on city time using his city email and city assets which is clearly a violation of his employment contract. As I said yesterday, if a professional investigator was given the task of going through the last four or so years of the chief's emails and phone records I can only imagine how many other instances like this one they'd find. The question again is why hasn't this been done yet?
padcam = cam-pad = Camilo Padreda:
ReplyDeleteconvicted felon, former president of Latin American Builders Assn., funded political campaigns & legal defense for Valerie Newman ("La Gorda"), tight personal friends with your chief.
Some old history:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2003-01-30/news/a-friend-indeed/
The grammar alone should be grounds for dismissal
ReplyDeleteWhy read the New Times article when when you can read Camilo's sworn testimony under cross examination of Raul Martinez's defense attorneys. Padreda copped a plea to falsifying a HUD financial statement so the Feds would not charge his daughter and under the plea he agreed to spill the beans on everybody. Padreda admitted to bribing County Commissioner Jorge Valdez, bribing City of Miami Commissioner Demetrio Perez (in Al Cardenas's office) missappropriating funds from Jefferson Savings Bank in Texas, hiding a 100K profit from a HUD property (Porta del Sol) in the form of a real estate commission, stiffing subcontractors out of 1.4M when he declared Bankruptcy, only to have his wife buy a 535K medical office weeks later, and falsifying a cost statement to HUD, His daughter was about to get indicted so Camilo copped a plea and agreed to sing on everybody including Raul Martinez so she wouldn't. This is the same "best friend of the (Miami) police who got Hector Mirabile promoted from Lieutennant to Major. Your hard earned tax dollars went to buy carpet from the Gibson Bethyl community center from his wife Janet Padreda's carpet company. Instead of installing padding for the weight room like what was budgeted, every big wig in the PD was getting their office measured for new carpet.
ReplyDeleteOK, you win!
DeleteMike, your blogs shared information continues to inform. The crap that goes on in this city is like something out of a movie, but when I ask about it, I am told this is MDC and thats normal?
ReplyDeleteThe answer to the question is the relationship between the OMG, CAMPAD and the acting manager goes back sometime.
ReplyDeleteYou mean ex-manager.
ReplyDeleteOMG joined LBA (despite not being a B) back when CamPad was boss and OMG was unemployed.
No the current acting manager, not Mirabile. They have a relationship going back over 10 yrs. from the South Miami Kiwanis.
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