Miami-Dade condo manager took $21,000 in kickbacks, sheriff’s office says
A Miami-Dade community association manager was arrested Thursday and accused of taking around $21,000 in kickbacks, according to the sheriff’s office.
The investigation started in February, when officers went to Greynolds Park Club Condominium, 17890 W. Dixie Highway, to speak with a board member from the condo association, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.
The board member told officers there were concerns about the mismanagement of association funds by certain board members and the on-site building manager, according to an arrest affidavit.
There were concerns about Maria Del Alvarez-Concepcion, 57, having “exclusive control over multimillion-dollar contracts, lack of financial transparency, questionable fees, missing records and the exclusion of certain board members from major association decisions,” the affidavit said.
Another witness, who was a contracted vendor, told officers he was forced to pay kickbacks to Alvarez-Concepcion in order to provide services at the condo, the affidavit said.
To avoid losing business, he paid Alvarez-Concepcion $20,910 in cash and through bank transfers from March 2025 to March 2026, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.
When she was arrested Thursday, she provided “a self-serving” recorded statement in which she admitted to accepting kickbacks while acting as on-site manager, the sheriff’s office said in the affidavit.
Alvarez-Concepcion is facing 39 charges, including kickbacks and/or solicitation, organized scheme to defraud and second-degree grand theft, Miami-Dade court records show. She didn’t have an attorney listed as of Thursday evening.
“This arrest reflects our commitment to protecting residents and holding accountable those who exploit positions of trust, and we will continue to aggressively combat association fraud in our community,” Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said in a statement.
Alvarez-Concepcion was being held Thursday, with bond still to be set, at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, jail records show.
