Sometimes it is important to remember we are more than our petty concerns about Miami Dade prosecutors who hide discovery, coordinate witness testimony, and put innocent people in jail.
Well, actually we are not more than that. That is what we have devoted our working life towards- protecting our clients from the claws of devious prosecutors.
But there is more wrong with our legal system. A whole lot more.
Case in point and submitted for your review- a Miami Dade Inspector General's report (Miami has an Inspector General? Who knew?) that the Guardianship program engaged in troubling conflict of issue transactions where guardians sold the property of those they were entrusted to care for, to colleagues at lower than market prices. A sweetheart deal. Otherwise known as FRAUD.
Taking advantage of elderly people and depleting their savings is as low as ....we don't know...maybe playing chess with discovery and coordinating witness testimony in murder cases and then lying to a judge about it. But that's just us.
Here are a few reports about the mess.
Miami Mayor Wants to Change The Guardianship Program.
Guardian Staff Violated The Law In Property Sales
Now where was the Miami SAO in all of this? Busy in court on resisting without violence cases saying "victim wants max" and asking for statutory maximum sentences on all guilty verdicts while denying there is a trial tax.
Scene: Miami State Attorneys Office Public Corruption Unit
(ASA 1 is in their office watching Netflix. ASA2 is at lunch at Chik- Fil-a. They are texting each other).
ASA1: There's an issue with guardianship and probate court.
ASA2: I've been reading. We should really get involved.
ASA1: Yes, my thoughts exactly. We should head to probate court and poke around.
ASA2: Um...yeah but like there could be an issue.
ASA1: What? I have vacation scheduled for the next three weeks. Then two weeks back, before I go back on annual leave for the end of the year. Let's go when I am back.
ASA2" Have you ever been to probate court?
ASA1: No.
ASA2: Me either. Do you know how to get there?
ASA1: No. Do you?
ASA2: Nope. Reminds me of the old joke- do you know how to get to probate court? Become a circuit judge who wants to hide. LOL
ASA1: LMFAO. I am going to post that on my IG. Anyway, maybe I can write an interoffice memo asking for help in finding probate court.
ASA2: Great idea. Oh damn..its almost 1. I have to go to that sentencing on that felony that came back petit theft. First offense. Gonna ask for 364. But we don't punish people for going to trial do we?
ASA1: Nope...lmfao....good luck.
And what about the Miami Inspector Generals Office?
First a Rumpole "Well done! Well done indeed!" for their work.
But we can imagine what they have done in the past.
"IG investigation finds some cafes skimped on sugar when making coladas."
"Arroz con pollo scandal heats up. 'Arroz con mango says one investigator'."
Anyway, maybe someone will get arrested here. But don't hold your breath. There are petit theft and resisting without cases to prosecute.
Public corruption Unit is absolutely useless. It’s only there to go after Kathy’s political opponents.
ReplyDeleteThere’s actually a connection between some of the corruption at the Guardianship program and the SAO according to one of the articles: former City Atty Vicky Mendez was an ASA at the SAO before she went to the City of Miami from where she is alleged to have assisted or orchestrated (jury still out on the extent of her involvement) her family’s abuse of the program. So all corruption leads to SAO. Here are the relevant excerpts:
ReplyDeleteOne of the main buyers of guardianship properties was the real estate firm Express Homes, which is owned by Carlos Morales, husband of former Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez. The program also sold incapacitated people’s properties to Gallego Homes, a now-dissolved company owned by Méndez mother, Margarita Méndez. In total, the two companies and their officers bought 33 properties originating from the Guardianship Program, one of which is the home where the Méndez family lives.
Proceeds from the sale of an incapacitated person’s property goes toward their long-term care, but profits made on resales do not. Express Homes and Gallego Homes sold Guardianship properties for tens of thousands of dollars more than they were bought for, sometimes within weeks or a few months.
Victoria Méndez was ousted from her position as Miami City Attorney earlier this year following a series of scandals including media coverage of her husband's transactions with the Guardianship Program.
How about all of the city of Miami cases/prosecutions where facial recognition has been used for years to make cases or exclude and never ever disclosed on pending cases that it was used. More of the same, hide the ball and let’s see who figures it all out. It’s becoming an embarrassment. Oh wait, it already is.
ReplyDeleteSome of us ASA's are just ugly and do not use excessive fillers. Stop being bitchy. You want to continue the ridiculous attacks where we are ALL corrupt? Hey, it is your right to be as grossly ignorant as you want. God Bless 'Merica!! But attacking ASA's for how they look is weird and creepy.
DeleteLol some of us is just plain ugly
DeleteOk JD Vance that’s weird
DeleteImagine this… what if ASAs spent more time working and less time on their cosmetically overworked, over botoxed, faces. Ladies you look ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteI can certainly think of a few crazy looking mugs!
DeleteFor giggles can you name some?
DeleteBM ; LA
DeleteLA=terrible, everyone agrees. BM ?? Who
DeleteIs that??
Probate courts have always been bastions of favoritism and outright fraud. Every years there are thousands of cases where someone dies intestate with a sizable (and not so sizable) estate that needs to be probated. Back in the day, the legal fees for a guardian ad litem was a % of the estate's value. Does not take a hardened gumshoe to figure out what happens next. Judge appionts his buddies to whom he owes favors, approves the legal fees, the public fisc is unaffected, and life goes on. I would love to see an audit of which lawyers got the lion's share of the work. My suspicion tells me this was a private pension system for retired judges.
ReplyDeleteYikes. ‘Nother slow day for the InJustice blog. More fan fiction from the bottom of the criminal defense barrel.
ReplyDeleteNo more chants? Hey hey! Ho Ho! Witness tampering is now in vogue! Hey hey! Ho Ho! PD’s are guilty, now you know! The trial’s done, the verdict’s in, justice served, let truth begin!
You’re way too gung-ho about a case that was won through misconduct and trickery. “Win at all costs”
DeleteShare the details for those not catching the reference.
DeleteHey hey, ho ho, “Win at all costs” is just for show! Hey hey, ho ho, it’s just a phrase that’s used for show!
DeleteThe State is trying to “win at all costs” by having APDs and their investigator tamper with a witness?… You mean the scattershot defense that was illogical? Seriously, when is an SAO conviction ever going to be legitimate to you people? I won’t hold my breath.
Legitimate convictions happen weekly. THIS ain’t the one.
Delete11:04pm what are you talking about? You sound like a child?
DeleteI think you missed the point. Clearly you’re a young immature attorney who can’t comprehend ethics.
DeleteThere’s nothing injustice here. Truth prevails.
DeleteDeduction here is that the pd's that were accused of witness tampering in a case, that case went to trial, and the ASA known as "frat boy" got a guilty verdict? Is that what happened?
DeleteYes, and frat boy is actually the one who tampered. Ironic, huh?
Delete10:25…Frat boy wasn’t the one canvassing the neighborhood with the witness’s mugshot, telling neighbors she’s a rat.
DeleteWhile that sound inappropriate, it’s not tampering 🤣🤣🤣
DeleteFrat boy, or frat boy secret admirer, at 10:57 pm, misunderstood. The word in the hood was not “she’s a rat”….more like “be careful with the (f)rat”. 😂
DeleteHas Kathy taken a cognitive test?
ReplyDeleteSome are as ugly on the outside as they are on the inside. Sesspool it is.
ReplyDeleteWho Female ASA’s ?
DeleteYou guys are teaching young ASAs that it’s ok to threaten to arrest lawyers and investigators right before trials or hearings. Same thing van Zamft and Mitchell did in Corey smith. Wolfson made note of it in her order
ReplyDeleteThat’s right and they are doubling down.
Delete8:40:30 am - the word is spelled "cesspool.' Your "wha wha I lost again so they must be corrupt" insults fall short when you CANNOT SPELL THEM. Fool.
ReplyDeleteYou, guys are not helping your prosecutors with these comments and you’re certainly not helping Rundle. Look at what you’re teaching them, and allowing them to read on this blog, have some humility.
DeleteOh that face as you say those words…
DeleteIt was done intentionally you dumb filler filled fool; we are trying to make a point here and you guys keep doubling down in a way that looks so crazy and that the Herald is going to run with it yet again.. but thank you!
DeleteDOJ take note
DeleteHow many dumb and self promoting trips does Stevie T take and gets paid for on taxpayer money?? That’s a story!
ReplyDeleteHe must be a Clarence Thomas fan
DeleteThey carpool to the federalist society meetings
DeleteThe Judges have lost faith in a long list of ASAs and when they walk into a courtroom they start from a place of low credibility.
ReplyDeleteHe’s a fan of doing superficial work but telling Rundle he works 70 hours a week.
ReplyDeleteYes and they all talk shit about him to Rundle behind his back. That place is known for trashing people privately and denying it to their face. Really bizarre and potentially hostile work environment.
DeleteThey trash everyone. And I’ve realized it’s just a reflection of how they feel about themselves.
DeleteCoffee Cigar
DeleteWhat the SAO it’s probably the most hostile working environment in Florida.
DeleteIt might go a long way if Rundle made a public statement denouncing all of the withheld evidence in Von Zamfts cases. If she took back her statement calling him a hero with a legacy. If she admitted she inappropriately spoke with Judge Miller during the entirety of the Corey smith hearing when the sequestration rule was invoked and contrary representations were being made in court. If she admits the inappropriateness in Taji Pearson that resulted in a reduced sentence/plea. And on and on and on
ReplyDeleteShe won’t because the FACDL leadership will continue to play Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake with her and the press will continue to protect her.
DeleteBut doing that would admit fault. And there are SO MANY more cases this behavior was done on. The only way to be accountable is an INDEPENDENT REVIEW of MVZ convictions. Period. Full stop.
DeleteDOJ take note
DeleteDOJ take note.
ReplyDeleteMalicious Persecution miami. Disgusting. Despicable Collusion. 33months & counting. 312 468 3794. LAWSUIT revenge
ReplyDeleteHi everyone.
ReplyDeleteSince my boss fired our ethics trainer because he wouldn’t base a character off her in his upcoming novel, I’ve been a little lost.
To stay up to date on my obligations, I watched this CLE called “Presumed Innocent.” I heard a couple of defense attorneys mention the term and I wanted to learn what it meant. It was on Apple TV and opened my eyes about how ASAs can be wrongfully prosecuted.
Can you all help me with some other phrases? What is Brady’s evidence? I only know three Officer Bradys and they don’t even collect evidence. Most of the time, they just come to my office so we can make up witness statements together.
Thanks in advance for all the help everyone and see ya in court! Don’t forget to remind everyone that I’m “presumed innocent.”