We left off last time discussing the meeting we saw take place in the hallway just outside the Miami Dade County Commission on Ethics offices, take a look at that photo from last weeks post again...
We were able to identify most of the folks in the photo, all but this fellow here...
One of our readers identified this man as Michael Band an ex assistant state attorney that was so ethically and morally challenged that he had to resign in disgrace from his job as a division chief over at the state attorneys office! Take a look at this excerpt from the lawsuit that resulted from his activities over at the sao...
This is an employment discrimination case, which has garnered significant media attention. Plaintiff was formerly employed as a secretary by the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office (hereinafter the "SAO"). In February of 1998, Plaintiff was suspended pending the outcome of an investigation into a highly publicized phone-sex scandal. The incident involved personnel from the Major Crimes Unit of the SAO and an incarcerated felon, who was to testify for the SAO in a murder prosecution.This part is the best...
During the investigation of the phone-sex scandal, Plaintiff alleged that she had been sexually harassed and assaulted by the chief of the Major Crimes Unit, Michael Band. Soon after these allegations became public, Band resigned from the SAO.SWEET! From what I've been able to find out about Mr. Band, he seems to be one of our state attorney's closest allies and has a history of representing her "friends & family". Interesting. I wonder what Mr. Band was doing over at the ethics commission? Think about it for a moment, the ethics commission is run by a former prosecutor and close Katherine Ferndandez Rundle friend, Joe Centorino, then out in the hallway we have two ex prosecutors, Band and Steckel, representing Orlando Martinez de Castro who also claims to be a close family friend of our state attorney, Katherine Rundle. At this point, am I the only one that gets an icky feeling about this whole interaction especially after we heard the deal that Mr. de Castro was given by the ethics commission?
Whatever. The shit is so rigged it's not even funny, like our friend Al Crespo said, even if you were on drugs, you couldn't make this shit up. This makes you really wonder about the full name of Joe Centorino's dog and pony show...
The Miami Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust
Public Trust? LOL!
Does this mean the SM Chief will have to take out another personal loan from the city to pay for his defense team?
ReplyDelete"Fulgencio Batista was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution....
ReplyDeleteAfter finishing his term he lived in the United States, returning to Cuba to run for president in 1952. Facing certain electoral defeat, he led a military coup that preempted the election...
Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive regime then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large multinational American corporations that had invested considerable amounts of money in Cuba.[6][7] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his anti-Communist secret police to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from 1,000 to 20,000 people...." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista
Batista would be proud of South Miami and Miami Dade County SAO...
The patron of Chief Orlando and former city manager Mirabile got his start working for Batista's secret police. TheStrawbuyer has mentioned him before. The same guy raised funds for Valerie Newman & Julio Robaina campaigns. He camped out in the South Miami Police Station until Commissioner Bob Welsh was elected and shone a light on him. That's why Newman & Mirabile went after Welsh so hard.
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