Prosecutors: Former Hialeah Mayor Robaina kept mistress with secret cash
Source: Miami Herald
Prosecutors: Former Hialeah Mayor Robaina kept mistress with secret cash
Posted on Monday, 03.17.14
By Jay Weaver
jweaver@MiamiHerald.com
Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina had a reason he wanted to be paid in cash secretly on a high-interest loans to a convicted Ponzi schemer: He was spending the money on his mistress and needed to keep it secret from his wife, according to federal prosecutors.
Prosecutors claim that Robaina was paid more than $300,000 in cash by his close friend, Luis Felipe Perez, now in prison after pleading guilty to running a $45 million jewelry-investment scam. But in court papers, the prosecutors don’t identify the alleged mistress on whom Robaina spent the cash payments.
The new evidence — hidden from public view since last month because of a federal court order —surfaced in the criminal tax-evasion case against Robaina and his wife, Raiza, on Monday, after a magistrate judge granted the Miami Herald’s request to unseal certain documents.
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Last May, the Robainas were charged with conspiring to evade paying income taxes, failing to report secret cash payments and lying to federal authorities about their joint business that made more than $1 million in loans to Perez and other friends. They’re also accused of underreporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in income between 2005 and 2007. The Robainas, who share the same criminal defense attorney, face trial on April 10.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/17/4001500/prosecutors-former-hialeah-mayor.html#storylink=cpy
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Mayor Robaina, right,white shirt,left photo,admiring a piece of art
created by mass murderer/airline bomber/former CIA, terrorist,
Luis Posada Carriles, center, grinning, who's holding the photo. [/center]
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