Posted on 06/28/2021 8:26:58 AM PDT by rxsid
Developers of doomed Fla. tower were once accused of paying off officials: report
The developers of the Miami condo tower that collapsed were once accused of paying off local officials to get permits for the site — which needed $15 million in repairs just to bring it to code, a new report says.
Building rivals claimed that the partners behind Surfside Champlain Towers South were receiving preferential treatment when it came to getting through the permit system as the site was being built in 1981, the Washington Post said.
Surfside’s developers had contributed to the campaigns of at least two town council members, then demanded that the donations be returned when the allegations surfaced, according to the outlet.
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All of the principals believed to have been involved in the design and construction of the building are already dead, the outlet said.
The developers behind the project had included Nathan Reiber, a Polish-born Canadian who was also once charged with tax evasion and cited for legal misconduct in Canada, the report said.
Reiber, who died in 2014, had been charged with tax evasion by Canadian authorities in the 1970s when he and his partners were accused of skimming cash from apartment buildings they owned.
They allegedly skimmed tens of thousands of dollars from coin-operated laundry machines in the buildings and pocketed about $120,000 from phony construction checks, the Washington Post said.
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The following year, the Champlain developers asked two local council members to return their campaign contributions amid accusations that the company had paid off officials to get the permits.
Two other firms — consulting engineers Brieterman Jurado & Associates and architects William M. Friedman & Associates — were involved in the construction of the site.
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Developers of doomed Fla. tower were once accused of paying off officials: report (Champlain Towers - Surfside)
Ahhh, so it was DeSantis' fault. /s
Florida Ping!..................
Where are their other buildings?
Anybody else do the same thing?
These kind of garbage articles aren't worth a pinch of Mitt when it come to figuring out what's going on.
Makes you wonder about any other buildings in the area with ties to these developers
Town Council in Miami Dade, good chance they were Dems.
So, they were accused of BRIBING officials, to get the PERMITS needed to bring a property UP TO CODE?!?!?
If anything this is an indictment of the government and zoning officials than the developer....
Seriously why would they need to BRIBE someone to get permits in order to FIX A PROBLEM??
40 YEAR OLD OCEAN FROMT BUILDING
COME ON MAN!
From another post:
Miami is a Dem city, and so you can expect is rife with corruption:
https://www.miamidadeig.org/inspector-general/investigations.page
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-03-28-8701200265-story.html
https://www.miamiherald.com/article199290894.html
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dades-most-corrupt-cities-ranked-10533469
So, have the paid-off officials gotten out of prison yet? < /sarc >
How can a concrete deck building collapse straight down unless all the primary support columns fail at exactly the same moment?
The only way I know that can happen is if the support columns are wired with timed explosives.
Until someone comes up with a more plausible theory, this catastrophe still looks like premeditated terrorism to me.
It Dade County, Jake
“The developers of the Miami condo tower that collapsed were once accused of paying off local officials to get permits for the site — which needed $15 million in repairs just to bring it to code, a new report says.”
The developers paid off officials to get permits to build on a site that needed $15 million in repairs before the condos were built?
Wow those are some repairs, unbelievable or terrible writing but then it’s the Bezo Post.
The condominium board of directors needs to answer for this one. Let’s see the most recent facilities audit.
Maybe it just takes one at the bottom to fail at first, then a pancake-effect happens.
See: World Trade Centers 1 & 2, NYC, 9/11/01.
Deep state CYA to take out John McAffee’s son who lived in the condo and was storing his father’s files there.
Per chatter on the Weaponized Autists social media.
This lines up exactly with what the PE's report stated in 2018. It's not surprising those columns failed.
If it was terrorism, they would have wired ALL the columns, or at least columns in each part of the building. Not just a portion of the building.
“How can a concrete deck building collapse straight down unless all the primary support columns fail at exactly the same moment?”
Your premise is faulty.
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