http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com 1990s 60 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:23:07 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/455810.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/455810.html Sun, 04 Mar 1990 20:09 EST A lengthy Miami Herald investigation reveals that Dade Circuit Judge John Galardi Gale -- a judge since 1972, head of the bustling civil division since 1977 -- has doled out lucrative court appointments to friends, issued favorable rulings to select attorneys and declined to remove himself when his impartiality could be questioned. He enjoys a life style well beyond his public salary. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/446660.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/446660.html Sun, 09 Dec 1990 15:02 EST The Florida Legislature gave away more than $100 million this past year -- public giveaways with little oversight and virtually no accountability for how the money was spent. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/455769.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/455769.html Sun, 14 Apr 1991 19:24 EDT At a time when Miami's oldest inner-city social service agency could not make its payroll, two top executives cashed more than $100,000 in agency checks they wrote to themselves. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/455661.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/455661.html Sun, 12 Apr 1992 18:19 EDT A group of private lawyers has run up six-figure incomes by repeatedly billing Dade County taxpayers for hours they did not work. Many times, the attorneys billed for more than 24 hours of legal work in a single day. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/455651.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/455651.html Sun, 07 Jun 1992 18:14 EDT The robberies were part of a terrifying crime wave in Broward County two years ago -- and most of it was monitored and financed by a squad of sheriff's deputies secretly operating outside the department's theft and robbery units. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/447899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/447899.html Fri, 27 Nov 1992 11:54 EST Essie Weaver, dead from bedsores and infection, lived the last of her 83 years mostly in a wheelchair in a vermin-infested crack den where authorities believed she was raped. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/456039.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/456039.html Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:05 EDT A prominent South Dade farmer, paid millions by Metro to landscape county roadways, charged taxpayers for towering royal palms while planting shorter, cheaper trees, a survey by The Herald shows. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/453909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/453909.html Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:20 EDT Cops call it "Collars for Dollars." It's how they turn arrests on the streets into money in their pockets. Until now, it has been a courthouse secret. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/446714.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/446714.html Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:27 EDT Miami's tourism industry is threatened by politicians who run the airport for the benefit of cronies - not millions of passengers. Miami International Airport, rated among America's worst for passengers, is being used by Miami-Dade politicians as a billion-dollar piggy bank to enrich their friends and campaign contributors. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/446705.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/446705.html Sat, 06 Jan 1996 15:25 EST The Miami Herald profiled a local cult leader, his followers and their links to several area murders. http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/456937.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1359/story/456937.html Sun, 11 Jan 1998 14:03 EST The Miami Herald revealed voter fraud in a city mayoral election, which was later overturned.