Monday, November 16, 2009
Politicians - Miami commissioner Spence-Jones
Another elected official is on the ropes.
It's all too common these days...
It's all too common these days...
At Sun-Sentinel.com, David Ovalle and Charles Rabin of the Miami Herald report:
"Miami-Dade prosecutors say Spence-Jones forged letters, including one in the name of former Miami-Dade Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler, to steer $50,000 in county grants to a family business in 2004 and 2005, before she was first elected.
Some of that grant money later went to Spence-Jones and her brother personally, or was used to pay credit-card bills for travel, clothes, satellite television and other expenses, according to an arrest warrant signed late Thursday.
She turned herself in just one day after she was sworn in for her second term and delivered a fiery speech alluding to a 'public lynching.' On Friday, she called the grand theft charge 'the result of a witch hunt.'"
