Miami-Dade's mayor and state attorney announced Friday statutory changes they say are aimed at providing protection to residents of homeowners associations and owners of condominiums.
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Long-time Hammocks Resident and CCFJ Member Ana Danton speaks at the press-conference. She successfully led the fight against the now arrested board members. |
Fernandez Rundle spoke
out last year after residents in the Hammocks Community
Association were victimized.
In November, board members were charged with stealing more
than $2 million from the homeowners association. Five people
in leadership with the HOA were arrested on charges from
racketeering, to grand theft, to money laundering.
“It is an incredible injustice," said Miami-Dade County
commissioner Robert Gonzalez. "I could tell you from
experience to have put everything forward to purchase your
own home and then be taken advantage of.”
Fernandez Rundle said those arrested allegedly set up shell
companies, stealing millions of dollars from the association
over a period of several years.
"We are working to try to protect our homeowners from well,
basically from governments, really small governments that
are making critical decisions on their behalf," Levine Cava
said. "And there hasn't been adequate access to that
information and transparency."