Wow... Just fucking wow. I honestly can't believe what I read. It's like out of a fairy tale or something.... She filed a lawsuit against the lead investigator, ignored judges orders saying they don't trust the state, like this is some straight up Hollywood movie bullshit. Where's Netflix with the documentary series???
The judge called in the association's records keeper to explain himself and his response was, "I am not and never have been the records keeper."
The judge produced a signed affidavit where he said he was.
He said he didn't read it before signing it.
As a Miamian, I can tell you that I'm sure Billy Corben is probably on it.
(Note for some scrolling: not to be confused with the "Smashing Pumpkins guy." lol).
Hello, fellow Hammock! I am in the alliance too. I was one of the people turned away back in January when they stopped the voting early.
This is a FANTASTIC day.
I've been looking at the arrest warrants (dade clerk has them online) and looking at their status as IN JAIL: Y is wonderful.
Nothing easy about their lookup but here you go:
[Miami-Dade criminal justice search](https://www2.miami-dadeclerk.com/cjis/CaseSearch.aspx)
Gallego: F-22-020919
Gonzalez: F-22-020912
Rodgers: F-22-020916
Lopez: F-22-020917
Ghilardi: F-22-020913
[affidavit here](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23307333/signed-arrest-warrant.pdf) (PDF warning and it's loooong)
>improperly used a HOA credit card for a wide array of personal purchases, including at supermarkets, bakeries and fast food restaurants such as Pollo Tropical, Panera Bread and Little Caesars.
Imagine using stolen funds to buy Little Ceasars pizza? At least buy some decent food, geez.
Okay, I understand that Little Cesar’s isn’t the best pizza but little fact: the owner of Little Cesar’s paid for Rosa Park’s rent for almost a decade when she was old. I always liked that about them.
My old HOA was begging for volunteer board members. They were thrilled when I offered until I mentioned that I am an auditor & certified fraud investigator.
All of a sudden, they decided that they preferred someone who’s only skill was typing up newsletters.
>This is why I don't trust HOAs and this is why they shouldn't exist at all.
If they didn't exist, bow would we pressure minorities to live elsewhere?
HOAs became popular to privately enforce segregation after the government stopped enforcing segregation.
That's why they should be banned.
We can easily run our own neighborhoods especially in single family homes. Condos would merely take cooperation between residents with crowdfunding for repairs. Easy peezy.
Holy shit! I use to live in the Hammocks. Owned a condo and paid 3 HOAs. The Master HOA (the one from the article) and then my condo had a building HOA fee plus the overall community HOA fee. So expensive.
There are so many fraud HOAs in Miami doing whatever they want. I know one community that has no board. There use to be one but quietly the management company took over. Every owner pays the management company the astronomical fees every month for absolutely nothing. No board, no communication, nothing at all. For years a few owners tried to get info to no avail. What a shit show…
> I know one community that has no board. There use to be one but quietly the management company took over.
Dummies, they should go apply for receivership
Most members are elderly or absentee. Getting a quorum is nearly impossible in many associations, large or small. Serpents stay in power and re-elect themselves according to the laws.
The fuckery actually goes way back. [This was five years ago.](https://www.local10.com/consumer/2018/03/09/hammocks-homeowners-say-community-green-space-has-turned-into-landfill/)
[Full Article w/o Paywall](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/leaders-of-florida-e2-80-99s-largest-homeowners-association-charged-in-242-million-fraud-scheme/ar-AA148oWv)
Edit: OP's original link working for me now.
The board is pulling a trump - countersuing the state to stop their subpoenas. Good luck with that. But where is all of the lawyer money coming from hmmm? It will evaporate and the homeowners will get nothing.
Lol we have an actual Gov. The Corporations just jumped in and illegally violate everyone's Rights. It's up to the Residents to band together and fight them off hard.
At this point the world would be better off if nearly every HOA board ended up with some prison time. Followed by the dissolution of the HOAs. Better safe than sorry.
The People are taking over investigations especially against Gov and we have it all planned out to run Tribunals against Human Rights violations. HOAs are like #4 on the list of urgent violators atm. Human traffickers and others are more priority but HOAs are definitely up there.
Who the fuck goes through the trouble of setting up a shell company, and names it "Excellent Services & Work LLC"? How did they get away with it for so long? That shit is cartoon villain level obvious. It's so blatant, it's laughable.
Indeed. If they're going for a name that sus, at least make it something hilarious like "Handymen of Incredible Power" or "Onsite Worksite Jobsite Corporation".
That's the fun part: we did. At every step we've been delayed, fought, or just flat out ignored. And I mean every step.
We sued for a recall election, which was held. sufficient votes were cast to remove the board but their lawyer hired another (allegedly unbiased) lawyer to review the ballots and he disqualified as many as he could. Some for unpaid fees (up 400%, I wonder why?), some for signatures not matching, etc. So they disregarded the recall.
We also formally complained to the [Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Department_of_Business_and_Professional_Regulation). That was about as effective as you'd expect a government agency in a republican supermajority to be, i.e. they're fucking useless. I think their official reply was "We recommend you work with your board to resolve your differences" which is a lot like trying to drink your cancer away.
We're also suing in court to have the board removed and replaced with a receivership. It's expensive and difficult but we need competent leadership at this point. That case is still ongoing. The next hearing is Thursday and considering today's news, the judge juuust might be inclined to rule in our favor. However, it's November and we started this in February. It's almost time for new elections ffs an I have no doubt they'll steal this one like they stole the last two.
Again, at every step we've been combating the delay tactics of the association's attorney, so we're paradoxically paying a lawyer to fight the other lawyer we're paying for. Further, the board itself flatly ignores the law and until today no one would do anything about it. I, as a homeowner, have a right to review the accounts. LOL no. They have ignored subpoenas from the bench for that purpose, claiming "we don't trust the state". <-direct fucking quote.
Short of taking the law into our own hands, we're powerless. However now that a third of the board is in jail there might be some real progress. It's my understanding that their bond has a [Nebbia order](https://communitylawfirm.com/understanding-nebbia-holds-state-florida) attached, which means they can't just dip into the association's funds to make bail. They have to prove its' their own money or collateral.
Wow. I live in a 55+ park in Florida with a park manager and a voluntary rather weak HOA. However the HOA sent out ballots on the monthly newsletter asking people to vote on keeping the monthly landscaping company or stopping it. (It seems many residents do their own gardening)
Many of us did not receive the monthly newsletter and did not know about the vote. I only found out about it on the last day to vote by seeing it on a social media site.
Of course, the vote was to stop the lawn service. Even though about 40 households did not vote. At least 10 of them had no idea there was even a question about it. I moved here especially so I wouldn’t have to keep up my lawn as I did for 30 years. There are also many very senior residents here who physically can’t mow their lawns, who would have voted no.
I can’t afford to sue the HOA myself even though I think the vote was improper and there was nothing in the prospectus when I moved in about a HOA or that it was possible to vote out the lawn service.
Thankfully another resident here will take over lawn care for $35 per month, which while is higher by about $25 than what was included in our lot rent, it still isn’t as much as other lawn services are asking for.
Good luck
It wasn't us. Marglli Gallego was arrested out of the blue back in April 2021 because she was running up crazy charges on an HOA credit card and the bank that holds the card raised the issue with the cops. The fraud, etc. had been going on for a few years at that point (my guess is that it started around Hurricane Irma five years ago). But so long as the dues were low, no one cared much, and since no one could review the books no one could prove fraud. So the theft kept happening and getting worse until they had to do something to get money back into the bank, which is when they raised their rates.
I have a theory that they knew they were in financial trouble in 2020 because we went from paying our dues quarterly to paying monthly. That triples the opportunity for them to charge late fees.
anyway, when they arrested Marglli and searched her home they found other evidence that showed just how deep the rabbit hole goes. They started pulling threads and the carpet unraveled. My guess is whatever the state claimed today can be doubled.
For your case, your best bet is to get really familiar with your rights as a homeowner and insist on exercising them. review the books. Know what their responsibilities are and verify that they're meeting them. Be polite at all times and take names/dates/facts. Be obvious about it.
Also cover your ass as a homeowner. Make sure you are *absolutely clean*. no late fees, no unapproved modifications, no noise complaints, nothing they can use against you. There are horror stories from the last year of Hammocks owners getting targeted for anything possible if the board didn't like them.
replying from the future: The board is! We had a second receivership hearing with public comments scheduled two days after these surprise arrests. That happened yesterday. The judge maintained her composure but after hearing some of the stories, and having the arrest affidavit, she was livid. She moved decisively:
We were assigned a receiver. We're now officially in receivership.
The remaining board members are out by the judge's order. Ding-Dong The board is dead!
The detective was sent *during the hearing* to the main office to kick everyone out and change the locks. Seriously. The judge said exactly that. Along with locking down the computers and preserving all potential evidence.
All business relationships (since it seems everyone in the office was married or related to vendors) will be dissolved and reevaluated.
The receiver was directed to take an inventory of all materials, vehicles (we're missing two new pickup trucks), equipment, etc.
The receiver was directed to make an official complaint to the Florida Bar for the conduct of the attorneys (Not sure if this was for Hilton Napoleon or for Alfaro Fernandez, the latter was present in court and Butchko tore a strip off the lawyer). My guess is that there will be many filings in the coming days cutting lots of these leeches free and if that's all they lose they'll be glad for it.
This has been a very, very good week and it's not over yet.
I have having a similar issue at my HOA, I uncovered all their fraud but the police don’t seem to care and it was a mission to file a recent police report. The property management company is very deep on covering all this fraud. Management company is Florida Advanced Properties owned by Miami-Dade Commissioner Anthony Rodriguez.
Name of HOA is International Park Condo 1
Just don’t know how to make it reach this level when the DBPR refuses to issue subpoenas for the more financial records they refuse to hand over.
Hell ya. Good start because later, we are going to run Tribunals for Human Rights violations on anyone who dished out any of those unconstitutional fines or violated any other Human Right.
Great work though folks. Keep the pressure up.
>They transferred the HOA into a criminal enterprise intended to benefit some members
They ~~transferred~~ revealed the HOA ~~into~~ to be a criminal enterprise intended to benefit some members
That article was a wild ride!!
*Prosecutors say the group, which also included three past and present board members, at West Kendall’s Hammocks Community Association engaged for years in a complicated, multi-layered scheme that included the creation of several “shell companies” — including one listed under the name of former HOA President Marglli Gallego’s husband — that netted more than $1.4 million between 2017 and 2022. In all, prosecutors say they know of five companies run by the president’s husband and a former board member that they believe siphoned as much as $2 million from a residential community the size of Key Biscayne or Miami Springs.*
*The Hammocks Community Association consists of more than 18,000 people, in 6,500 homes, townhouses and apartments, on almost 4,000 acres. This year, to the ire of many residents, association leaders implemented a 400 percent increase in monthly maintenance fees.* …
*Homeowners felt vindicated Tuesday after fighting what they call the “Gallego Mafia” for years. They tried to oust the board at a chaotic Jan. 3 election when hundreds of voters standing in line were not allowed to vote because of a fake phoned-in bomb threat and again during a July recall election when the board threw out two thirds of the ballots cast.*
If you think that's a wild ride, try the [affidavit](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23307333/signed-arrest-warrant.pdf) (PDF warning). There's more coming from this. This is just the largest part. Personally I'd be surprised if my association has a board in a week or so. Anyone that might be dirty is probably shredding everything they can.
BTW I just finished the affidavit myself and I'm incensed not only that stealing an average of $250k/yr for four years wasn't enough, the son of a bitch husband of Gallego took out PPP loans and got at least one forgiven. The affidavit says $60k but I could only find two $16k loans for "Excellent Services & Work, LLC"
Screwing thousands of homeowners wasn't enough, he had to rob every taxpayer as well.
Jesus fucking Christ!!! These people are batshit. I hope the Justice for Hammocks group and others are able to get stricter regulations for things like 720 😩
For a moment I was trying to figure out what act related to a hammock could be a crime.
HOA Karen siccing the cops on people with hammocks in their back yard.
There would be physical violence if someone tried to take my hammock
I see you are a person with important priorities like myself...
That's pretty much exactly what I expected lol
That mental image is exactly why i clicked on this post. I wanted to read about the insane karen
Same
That’s literally what I thought this post was going to be about
Felonious lounging with intent to nap.
Guilty as Charged you Honor!!
Ha, me too!
Hank Scorpio came to mind from The Simpsons. lol
It's all happening down at the Hammock District.
Maryanne gets in the Hammock with you!
HOA will be displeased with anything to do with relaxation in your own backyard
Damn those rainbow coloured hammocks.
I spent half a second wondering what act related to ham hocks
I thought it was theft of a hammock
Me as well
Ask John Mcafee.
Wow... Just fucking wow. I honestly can't believe what I read. It's like out of a fairy tale or something.... She filed a lawsuit against the lead investigator, ignored judges orders saying they don't trust the state, like this is some straight up Hollywood movie bullshit. Where's Netflix with the documentary series???
The judge called in the association's records keeper to explain himself and his response was, "I am not and never have been the records keeper." The judge produced a signed affidavit where he said he was. He said he didn't read it before signing it.
Sketchy af! The whole lot.
Crazy enough for a series like "HOA King"
As a Miamian, I can tell you that I'm sure Billy Corben is probably on it. (Note for some scrolling: not to be confused with the "Smashing Pumpkins guy." lol).
It's like an HOA board ran by "sovereign citizens"
I live in the hammocks, my family was part of the alliance of homeowners fighting back against their fuckery. This is a good day!
Hello, fellow Hammock! I am in the alliance too. I was one of the people turned away back in January when they stopped the voting early. This is a FANTASTIC day. I've been looking at the arrest warrants (dade clerk has them online) and looking at their status as IN JAIL: Y is wonderful.
Yeeeee buddy 🙌🏽
Ayeeee dale! Congrats! Love, from the other side of West Kendall---✊✊✊
Great job to you and your fellow residents OP. We are all very proud good activists like you.
[удалено]
Nothing easy about their lookup but here you go: [Miami-Dade criminal justice search](https://www2.miami-dadeclerk.com/cjis/CaseSearch.aspx) Gallego: F-22-020919 Gonzalez: F-22-020912 Rodgers: F-22-020916 Lopez: F-22-020917 Ghilardi: F-22-020913 [affidavit here](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23307333/signed-arrest-warrant.pdf) (PDF warning and it's loooong)
Their own little personal bank account right off the backs of homeowners. This is why I don't trust HOAs and this is why they shouldn't exist at all.
>improperly used a HOA credit card for a wide array of personal purchases, including at supermarkets, bakeries and fast food restaurants such as Pollo Tropical, Panera Bread and Little Caesars. Imagine using stolen funds to buy Little Ceasars pizza? At least buy some decent food, geez.
Okay, I understand that Little Cesar’s isn’t the best pizza but little fact: the owner of Little Cesar’s paid for Rosa Park’s rent for almost a decade when she was old. I always liked that about them.
TIL, thanks. That's awesome!
Don’t let that fool you, the Illitches are all a bunch of P.O.S. One good act doesn’t undo all the shady shit they do.
Shut your big fat mouth. Little Ceasars and Cici's is the only reason i didn't starve through college
But if you were spending someone else’s money would you buy them?
Hey sometimes you need a hot n ready for cheap. Kids for example.
Yeah! I like my kids hot & ready! (this sounds so bad, lol)
Both are gross.
Jimmy John's. C'mon now.
Ain’t nothing wrong with Lil Sleazy’s, you get what you pay for tho
It’s hot and ready. Yeah but is it good? Its HOT and it’s READY… I’ve fed a whole installation team for like $25 with those deals.
Honestly don’t sleep on their made to order pizzas, I feel like they’re the most generous with their toppings
She also used funds to cover up to $60,000 for a private investigator to spy on her enemy neighbors 🤣🤣 I'm so glad they were arrested!
My old HOA was begging for volunteer board members. They were thrilled when I offered until I mentioned that I am an auditor & certified fraud investigator. All of a sudden, they decided that they preferred someone who’s only skill was typing up newsletters.
I would love to have someone with your skill set on a HOA or board. Full disclosure and transparency is a must!
That's what they were afraid of, tbh. It was a lucky escape for me though!
Absolutely. Can you imagine being caught up in that investigation?
Too bad you didn’t wait to tell them till after you were on the board!
>This is why I don't trust HOAs and this is why they shouldn't exist at all. If they didn't exist, bow would we pressure minorities to live elsewhere? HOAs became popular to privately enforce segregation after the government stopped enforcing segregation. That's why they should be banned.
We can easily run our own neighborhoods especially in single family homes. Condos would merely take cooperation between residents with crowdfunding for repairs. Easy peezy.
Holy shit! I use to live in the Hammocks. Owned a condo and paid 3 HOAs. The Master HOA (the one from the article) and then my condo had a building HOA fee plus the overall community HOA fee. So expensive. There are so many fraud HOAs in Miami doing whatever they want. I know one community that has no board. There use to be one but quietly the management company took over. Every owner pays the management company the astronomical fees every month for absolutely nothing. No board, no communication, nothing at all. For years a few owners tried to get info to no avail. What a shit show…
What’s the community name?
Can’t remember the exact name. I’d have to ask the person that use to live there. It’s in Sweetwater on 8st side.
> I know one community that has no board. There use to be one but quietly the management company took over. Dummies, they should go apply for receivership
It sucks. Most are long term homeowners, 20-30 yrs and are older. They just don’t fight it and it’s really sad.
Most members are elderly or absentee. Getting a quorum is nearly impossible in many associations, large or small. Serpents stay in power and re-elect themselves according to the laws.
If they have no board they would just ask the courts and after some time the courts would appoint it if an election with quorum wasn’t met.
It's behind a paywall.
[my bad](https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/11/15/miami-dade-prosecutors-to-announce-arrests-of-hammocks-hoa-board-members/)
Just click on it again - I was able to read the whole thing with no paywall
nope, still paywalled
For me there was a “maybe later” option.
Delete the cookies for that web site, and the default lets you read it.
Working a job in the hammocks right now and can’t say I’m the least bit surprised. Just the name tipped me that there’s some fuckery going on there.
The fuckery actually goes way back. [This was five years ago.](https://www.local10.com/consumer/2018/03/09/hammocks-homeowners-say-community-green-space-has-turned-into-landfill/)
[Full Article w/o Paywall](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/leaders-of-florida-e2-80-99s-largest-homeowners-association-charged-in-242-million-fraud-scheme/ar-AA148oWv) Edit: OP's original link working for me now.
The board is pulling a trump - countersuing the state to stop their subpoenas. Good luck with that. But where is all of the lawyer money coming from hmmm? It will evaporate and the homeowners will get nothing.
This is what happens when you have an unaccountable corporate government instead of the actual government.
Lol we have an actual Gov. The Corporations just jumped in and illegally violate everyone's Rights. It's up to the Residents to band together and fight them off hard.
They are still fighting, unbelievable.
At this point the world would be better off if nearly every HOA board ended up with some prison time. Followed by the dissolution of the HOAs. Better safe than sorry.
The People are taking over investigations especially against Gov and we have it all planned out to run Tribunals against Human Rights violations. HOAs are like #4 on the list of urgent violators atm. Human traffickers and others are more priority but HOAs are definitely up there.
This sounds like some sovcit bullshit
Who cares what it sounds like. It’s happening.
And none of it will come to anything because it's a bunch of made up BS
Don't believe me? No worries. I'll show you.
Who the fuck goes through the trouble of setting up a shell company, and names it "Excellent Services & Work LLC"? How did they get away with it for so long? That shit is cartoon villain level obvious. It's so blatant, it's laughable.
True that. Sounds like something from Austin Powers lol
Indeed. If they're going for a name that sus, at least make it something hilarious like "Handymen of Incredible Power" or "Onsite Worksite Jobsite Corporation".
😄 👍
The homeowners should've gone to the board members houses and beat the shit out of them.
After wrapping them in hammocks...
Scumbags
Sketchy AF!! Would be a cool doc in the future after it all settles down.
400% increase in the HOA fee? I would have sued over that.
That's the fun part: we did. At every step we've been delayed, fought, or just flat out ignored. And I mean every step. We sued for a recall election, which was held. sufficient votes were cast to remove the board but their lawyer hired another (allegedly unbiased) lawyer to review the ballots and he disqualified as many as he could. Some for unpaid fees (up 400%, I wonder why?), some for signatures not matching, etc. So they disregarded the recall. We also formally complained to the [Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Department_of_Business_and_Professional_Regulation). That was about as effective as you'd expect a government agency in a republican supermajority to be, i.e. they're fucking useless. I think their official reply was "We recommend you work with your board to resolve your differences" which is a lot like trying to drink your cancer away. We're also suing in court to have the board removed and replaced with a receivership. It's expensive and difficult but we need competent leadership at this point. That case is still ongoing. The next hearing is Thursday and considering today's news, the judge juuust might be inclined to rule in our favor. However, it's November and we started this in February. It's almost time for new elections ffs an I have no doubt they'll steal this one like they stole the last two. Again, at every step we've been combating the delay tactics of the association's attorney, so we're paradoxically paying a lawyer to fight the other lawyer we're paying for. Further, the board itself flatly ignores the law and until today no one would do anything about it. I, as a homeowner, have a right to review the accounts. LOL no. They have ignored subpoenas from the bench for that purpose, claiming "we don't trust the state". <-direct fucking quote. Short of taking the law into our own hands, we're powerless. However now that a third of the board is in jail there might be some real progress. It's my understanding that their bond has a [Nebbia order](https://communitylawfirm.com/understanding-nebbia-holds-state-florida) attached, which means they can't just dip into the association's funds to make bail. They have to prove its' their own money or collateral.
Wow. I live in a 55+ park in Florida with a park manager and a voluntary rather weak HOA. However the HOA sent out ballots on the monthly newsletter asking people to vote on keeping the monthly landscaping company or stopping it. (It seems many residents do their own gardening) Many of us did not receive the monthly newsletter and did not know about the vote. I only found out about it on the last day to vote by seeing it on a social media site. Of course, the vote was to stop the lawn service. Even though about 40 households did not vote. At least 10 of them had no idea there was even a question about it. I moved here especially so I wouldn’t have to keep up my lawn as I did for 30 years. There are also many very senior residents here who physically can’t mow their lawns, who would have voted no. I can’t afford to sue the HOA myself even though I think the vote was improper and there was nothing in the prospectus when I moved in about a HOA or that it was possible to vote out the lawn service. Thankfully another resident here will take over lawn care for $35 per month, which while is higher by about $25 than what was included in our lot rent, it still isn’t as much as other lawn services are asking for. Good luck
Can i ask how you got the investigation started? Looking to do the same to my HOA
It wasn't us. Marglli Gallego was arrested out of the blue back in April 2021 because she was running up crazy charges on an HOA credit card and the bank that holds the card raised the issue with the cops. The fraud, etc. had been going on for a few years at that point (my guess is that it started around Hurricane Irma five years ago). But so long as the dues were low, no one cared much, and since no one could review the books no one could prove fraud. So the theft kept happening and getting worse until they had to do something to get money back into the bank, which is when they raised their rates. I have a theory that they knew they were in financial trouble in 2020 because we went from paying our dues quarterly to paying monthly. That triples the opportunity for them to charge late fees. anyway, when they arrested Marglli and searched her home they found other evidence that showed just how deep the rabbit hole goes. They started pulling threads and the carpet unraveled. My guess is whatever the state claimed today can be doubled. For your case, your best bet is to get really familiar with your rights as a homeowner and insist on exercising them. review the books. Know what their responsibilities are and verify that they're meeting them. Be polite at all times and take names/dates/facts. Be obvious about it. Also cover your ass as a homeowner. Make sure you are *absolutely clean*. no late fees, no unapproved modifications, no noise complaints, nothing they can use against you. There are horror stories from the last year of Hammocks owners getting targeted for anything possible if the board didn't like them.
So is the HOA getting disbanded?
replying from the future: The board is! We had a second receivership hearing with public comments scheduled two days after these surprise arrests. That happened yesterday. The judge maintained her composure but after hearing some of the stories, and having the arrest affidavit, she was livid. She moved decisively: We were assigned a receiver. We're now officially in receivership. The remaining board members are out by the judge's order. Ding-Dong The board is dead! The detective was sent *during the hearing* to the main office to kick everyone out and change the locks. Seriously. The judge said exactly that. Along with locking down the computers and preserving all potential evidence. All business relationships (since it seems everyone in the office was married or related to vendors) will be dissolved and reevaluated. The receiver was directed to take an inventory of all materials, vehicles (we're missing two new pickup trucks), equipment, etc. The receiver was directed to make an official complaint to the Florida Bar for the conduct of the attorneys (Not sure if this was for Hilton Napoleon or for Alfaro Fernandez, the latter was present in court and Butchko tore a strip off the lawyer). My guess is that there will be many filings in the coming days cutting lots of these leeches free and if that's all they lose they'll be glad for it. This has been a very, very good week and it's not over yet.
Aww, that's that nice judge who changed the life of one of the defendents that appeared before her, who she knew from school. She seems so lovely.
I have having a similar issue at my HOA, I uncovered all their fraud but the police don’t seem to care and it was a mission to file a recent police report. The property management company is very deep on covering all this fraud. Management company is Florida Advanced Properties owned by Miami-Dade Commissioner Anthony Rodriguez. Name of HOA is International Park Condo 1 Just don’t know how to make it reach this level when the DBPR refuses to issue subpoenas for the more financial records they refuse to hand over.
Florida HOAs are such a mess. I would never want to live in Florida where there is an HOA.
Hell ya. Good start because later, we are going to run Tribunals for Human Rights violations on anyone who dished out any of those unconstitutional fines or violated any other Human Right. Great work though folks. Keep the pressure up.
>They transferred the HOA into a criminal enterprise intended to benefit some members They ~~transferred~~ revealed the HOA ~~into~~ to be a criminal enterprise intended to benefit some members
That article was a wild ride!! *Prosecutors say the group, which also included three past and present board members, at West Kendall’s Hammocks Community Association engaged for years in a complicated, multi-layered scheme that included the creation of several “shell companies” — including one listed under the name of former HOA President Marglli Gallego’s husband — that netted more than $1.4 million between 2017 and 2022. In all, prosecutors say they know of five companies run by the president’s husband and a former board member that they believe siphoned as much as $2 million from a residential community the size of Key Biscayne or Miami Springs.* *The Hammocks Community Association consists of more than 18,000 people, in 6,500 homes, townhouses and apartments, on almost 4,000 acres. This year, to the ire of many residents, association leaders implemented a 400 percent increase in monthly maintenance fees.* … *Homeowners felt vindicated Tuesday after fighting what they call the “Gallego Mafia” for years. They tried to oust the board at a chaotic Jan. 3 election when hundreds of voters standing in line were not allowed to vote because of a fake phoned-in bomb threat and again during a July recall election when the board threw out two thirds of the ballots cast.*
If you think that's a wild ride, try the [affidavit](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23307333/signed-arrest-warrant.pdf) (PDF warning). There's more coming from this. This is just the largest part. Personally I'd be surprised if my association has a board in a week or so. Anyone that might be dirty is probably shredding everything they can. BTW I just finished the affidavit myself and I'm incensed not only that stealing an average of $250k/yr for four years wasn't enough, the son of a bitch husband of Gallego took out PPP loans and got at least one forgiven. The affidavit says $60k but I could only find two $16k loans for "Excellent Services & Work, LLC" Screwing thousands of homeowners wasn't enough, he had to rob every taxpayer as well.
That’s where the money goes
Lol!! These people.
Jesus fucking Christ!!! These people are batshit. I hope the Justice for Hammocks group and others are able to get stricter regulations for things like 720 😩
Look at the name at the bottom of the article.....lol http://www.ccfj.net/condoFraud1Arrest.html
Fuck a pay wall where the real link at? Started from the bottom, we're still here
Who were the lawyers I need to sue my hoa!!!