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Following WLRN’s reporting on the Guardianship Program’s sale of its wards' properties to Express Homes — owned by Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez' husband Carlos Morales — officials launched an investigation. Now we have found Gallego Homes, owned by Méndez' mother Margarita, also made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling homes purchased from the nonprofit.
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The county's actions follows a WLRN report that found the Guardianship Program sold properties of people under its care since 2011 to the same realty company.
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For the first time in two decades, South Florida turned red in the 2022 midterm elections, giving Republicans hope — and a playbook — for the presidential election in 2024.
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The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing announcement comes the same month WLRN and Bloomberg Law published stories showing a lack of oversight and accountability in guardianship programs
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A countywide group of churches, synagogues, mosques and religious universities invited Miami-Dade County elected officials to hold their feet to the fire on trees — particularly in under-served communities.
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She directed the county to pause grant funding for the Guardianship Program of Dade County pending an independent investigation of its real estate transactions.
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A WLRN investigation found the nonprofit sold homes of clients to Express Homes — owned by Carlos Morales, husband of Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez — which resold several properties within days.
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Commissioner Eileen Higgins asked the county Inspector General to investigate the non-profit agency following WLRN's reporting on its selling of clients' real estate properties
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A WLRN investigation found the nonprofit sold homes of clients to Express Homes — owned by Carlos Morales, husband of Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez — which resold several properties within days.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came home to South Florida to celebrate the renaming of a street in her honor in the community where she grew up.
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U.S. Housing and Urban Development promised Miami-Dade County a $21 million grant to deal with homelessness
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Mayor Daniella Levine Cava unveiled her plans for 2023, focusing her goals on curbing gun violence, improving public transportation, boosting the affordable housing supply and creating a $9 million fund to help solve pressing community issues.