For aficionados of the Cuban American Senator David Rivera,"pal"Ana Alliegro & Justin Sternad saga:

[Judi Lynn]

In ‘dirty deal’ linked to ex-Rep. David Rivera, judge reduces convict’s prison sentence

By Marc Caputo -
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09/19/2014 10:21 AM
| Updated: 09/19/2014 7:18 PM

Justin Lamar Sternad wanted to go to Washington, D.C.

Instead, the former congressional candidate took the bus to Miami’s downtown federal courthouse on Friday to get his prison sentence reduced in a campaign-finance scheme tied to former U.S. Rep. David Rivera.

Still dressed in his working clothes after pulling an all-nighter graveyard shift at a local hotel, Sternad said he was thankful that a judge cut his prison sentence from seven months to 30 days with three months’ house arrest. He earned the reduction because of his remorse and substantial cooperation that helped prosecutors nab Rivera’s confidant, Ana Alliegro.

Rivera is the next target for the feds, who have named the former congressman an “unindicted co-conspirator.”

“I hope it’s sooner than later,” Sternad, a 37-year-old father of five, told the Miami Herald when he was asked if he’d like to see Rivera indicted. “I’m going to cooperate fully with the Department of Justice,” Sternad said. Alliegro is also cooperating.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article2164441.html#storylink=cpy

[NBachers]

1. Let's not do that sentence reduction 'till the goods are fully delivered and Rivera's doing time.

[Judi Lynn]

2. He just might get Jeb Bush going to bat for him (Rivera). Jeb Bush is deeply married to the "exiles"

along with his dad, and _{George W.}

It would be a miracle to see David Rivera getting frog-marched off to enjoy the largesse of the U.S. taxpayers in a new way, wouldn't it?

[Judi Lynn]

3. We know where David Rivera is hiding

We know where David Rivera is hiding
Álvaro Fernández • September 16, 2014

MIAMI – David Rivera is running from the law but he’s having a hard time hiding.

Rivera is under federal investigation for a slew of improprieties while he was in the state legislature and as a member of the U.S. Congress. Lately, David the peacock has chosen to become a chameleon as he shuns press interviews – something he loved at one time. He refuses to answer reporters’ questions telling them to email him their queries. Rivera’s defense about allegations against him is to color this whole affair a conspiracy while blaming everyone who sees through his disguised thug veneer as involved in a campaign to undo him.

Still, the noose seems to be tightening around his throat. Several weeks ago, at the time when former gal pal Ana Alliegro admitted to a judge in court that she helped break campaign-finance laws and then lied about it, U.S. Attorney Thomas Mulvihill gave up David Rivera as the co-conspirator in the Alliegro case. For months the federal government had refused to reveal the identity of the person who turned out to be Rivera. But under pressure from U.S. District Judge Robert Scola, Mulivihill was forced to reveal Rivera’s name in front of the judge.

Things got worse a few weeks later. At the sentencing of Alliegro, who received a one-year sentence split between six months she had already spent in jail and six months of house arrest and two-years probation, Judge Scola called out Rivera (not present in the courtroom) and basically questioned his manhood. In a shocking statement, Scola, who was visibly upset, said, “Some people would call it chivalry, some people call it sexism – that the man should come forward and not let the woman do time on his behalf.”

There’s also the fact that Rivera seems to be out of money. In an unrelated case to the Alliegro situation, where he was found in violation of seven instances of Florida’s Code of Ethics for Public Officers and Employees while he served in the state House, including accepting state reimbursement for travel already paid for by campaign accounts and not accurately disclosing his income, Rivera seems to be having a hard time retaining attorneys to defend him. Three have already quit on him and the reason seems to be that he has not paid them.

More:
http://progresoweekly.us/know-david-rivera-hiding/

[Judi Lynn]

4. Fate of former Florida Rep. David Rivera in hands of close friend and consultant

Fate of former Florida Rep. David Rivera in hands of close friend and consultant
AP • August 3, 2014

MIAMI.– After four years of unrelenting investigations, former U.S. Rep. David Rivera’s fate in a criminal campaign finance probe could rest squarely on the shoulders of a woman who was his close friend and longtime Republican political consultant with deep roots in South Florida’s Cuban exile community.

Ana Alliegro, 44, is in a Broward County jail awaiting an Aug. 25 trial on four felony campaign finance charges that each carry maximum five-year prison sentences. She has pleaded not guilty and was denied bail by two separate judges because, in the midst of the FBI investigation, she twice fled to Nicaragua rather than meet with prosecutors and agents.

Alliegro is charged with funneling about $80,000 to an unknown Democratic congressional candidate, Justin Lamar Sternad, who was running in the 2012 primary for the chance to challenge GOP incumbent Rivera in Florida’s 26th congressional district. Prosecutors say Sternad, a low-paid Miami Beach hotel clerk with no political experience, was a ringer candidate intended to smear Democrat Joe Garcia, who is much better known and ultimately toppled Rivera in the general election.

Sternad pleaded guilty, has cooperated with the investigation and on July 10 was sentenced to seven months in federal prison. Although prosecutors have not identified Rivera by name, they refer to Alliegro as working with “co-conspirator A.” Sternad directly implicated Rivera in testimony, and defense lawyers say Rivera is the person prosecutors are referring to.

“I hate to admit that I let Ana Alliegro and David Rivera take advantage of me,” he said in court the day he was sentenced.

More:
http://progresoweekly.us/fate-former-florida-rep-david-rivera-hands-close-friend-consultant/

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Ana Alliegro, Miami tv personality





Ana Alliegro, David Rivera



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