Not a good time to be a mayor of a South Florida city.
QuoteMIAMI (AP) — The mayor of Homestead was hauled away from his home Wednesday in handcuffs on corruption charges, including accepting illegal compensation, becoming the third mayor of a Miami-Dade County city to be arrested in the past month.
Steve Bateman, 58, was secretly being paid $125 an hour as a consultant by a health care company seeking city and county approval for a sewer connection so it could build a clinic in Homestead, said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.
Bateman lobbied his own city officials and County Mayor Carlos Gimenez without disclosing his financial arrangement with Community Health Care of South Florida Inc., a non-profit firm known as CHI, said Fernandez Rundle.
full article: http://hosted2.ap.org/FLJAJ/d6fa762983c344c38a1e9b5fe6e142e3/Article_2013-08-28-US-Homestead-Mayor-Arrest/id-1ca250bae7594a1d9a94d88099bfac52
Quote from: thelakelander on August 29, 2013, 06:20:04 AM
Not a good time to be a mayor of a South Florida city.
QuoteMIAMI (AP) — The mayor of Homestead was hauled away from his home Wednesday in handcuffs on corruption charges, including accepting illegal compensation, becoming the third mayor of a Miami-Dade County city to be arrested in the past month.
Steve Bateman, 58, was secretly being paid $125 an hour as a consultant by a health care company seeking city and county approval for a sewer connection so it could build a clinic in Homestead, said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.
Bateman lobbied his own city officials and County Mayor Carlos Gimenez without disclosing his financial arrangement with Community Health Care of South Florida Inc., a non-profit firm known as CHI, said Fernandez Rundle.
full article: http://hosted2.ap.org/FLJAJ/d6fa762983c344c38a1e9b5fe6e142e3/Article_2013-08-28-US-Homestead-Mayor-Arrest/id-1ca250bae7594a1d9a94d88099bfac52
Shame. With all the Sunshine laws and everyone practically expecting corruption among elected officials, I wonder why they continue to attempt it. Can they really believe in this day and age that they'll get away with it?!! Well, I guess this story proves they must.