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 Alex Daoud
The Singing Ex-Jailbird Mayor
Former Miami Beach mayor and ex-jailbird Alex Daoud came back on
the scene this year with his tell-all book, The Sins of South
Beach, in which he wrote about the good old days of Miami
Beach politics when cocaine and cash-filled envelopes fueled City
Hall (though things aren’t so different in the building department
nowadays).
Eventually, Daoud was indicted on 41 counts of bribery and became a
guest of the federal government for 18 months. But what a good
time he had — at least according to his book — helping Miami Beach
cops beat criminals until they were bleeding and half-dead, taking
bribes from bankers and bagging chicks, such as über-lobbyist and
former Miami Beach City Attorney Lucia Dougherty, before the feds
ruined all the fun.
There are a lot of people who wish Daoud had remembered that what
happens in
Miami Beach
City Hall stays there.
Power lobbyist and former Miami Beach Mayor Harold Rosen also had a
starring, albeit fully clothed, role in The Sins of South Beach.
And when David Kelsey, leader of the Tuesday Morning Breakfast
Club, invited Rosen to publicly defend himself against Daoud’s
allegations in December, Rosen not very politely declined.
So far the book hasn’t led to any indictments, but just the fact
that Daoud continues to get the goats of some pretty powerful
people makes him OK with us.
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