| Dear readers, as you may recall, yesterday's | | | | he could have borrowed a bike from one of the |
| posting reported the abrupt end to a telephone | | | | homeless guys he's building the country club for. |
| interview with Oscar Rivero, the Miami developer | | | | Maybe he had a lot on his mind. In any event he |
| revealed by the Miami Herald in a front-page | | | | was later charged with two first-degree felonies: |
| story that morning to have taken millions of | | | | grand theft and committing an organized scheme |
| dollars of public money to build, among other | | | | to defraud. If convicted, he could serve a |
| things, a 11,000-square-foot mansion for his wife | | | | minimum of 21-months in state prison which is |
| and himself instead of housing for the poor.Well, it | | | | probably what he'll get since he's a "civic leader." |
| seems Mr. Rivero was giving the interview on his | | | | By that time, with a little creative financing that |
| cell phone (model not known) while driving his | | | | will allow him to pay back the money he took |
| black Mercedes C240 to turn himself in at the | | | | from the county without totally relinquishing his |
| "Miami-Dade Public Corruption Investigations | | | | assets, his "Country Club for the Homeless" should |
| Bureau" (I'm not making this up) where the | | | | be ready for him to move in. Who says "Crime |
| phoner was terminated. Described in the account | | | | doesn't pay?"D.C. Copeland is a writer and |
| as "a 36-year-old lawyer and civic leader" you | | | | award-winning artist. When visiting Copeland's |
| have to wonder, what was he thinking when he | | | | personal website and blog you will discover that |
| decided to give himself up in the black Mercedes? | | | | Wayne Cochran is the Patron Saint and that |
| Didn't he have a Honda Civic parked behind the | | | | many people consider it to be "The Rodney |
| mansion for just these kind of situations? Maybe | | | | Dangerfield of Blogs. |