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Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl HiaasenNine days after the vote, Daoud began receiving the CenTrust corporate checks. Later he made an unusual appearance before the Metro Commission to show his support for Paul's dock application. The structure was approved. This interesting chain of events would never have been connected had not CenTrust gone belly up. That's when investigators got a look at the books. They said the payments to Daoud "are suspected of buying favorable consideration from the mayor with regard to Mr. Paul's attempts to gain variances which would allow him to build a massive dockб БЂ¦б " It will be intriguing to hear Daoud's explanation for his failure to reveal his CenTrust income before the vote. Perhaps it was yet another innocent oversight. And perhaps the mayor has a dream of a kinder, gentler Miami Beach where every citizen with a 94-foot yacht gets a chance to have a teak boat dock. To paraphrase another visionary leader, some men see things as they are and ask why. Others see things that might be and ask: How much? Wanted: Real job for Metro commissioner July 18, 1990 It's rough when even the politicians can't get a job ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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