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Dear readers, as you may recall, yesterday’s posting reported the abrupt end to a telephone interview with Oscar Rivero, the Miami developer revealed by the Miami Herald in a front-page story that morning to have taken millions of dollars of public money to build, among other things, a 11,000-square-foot mansion for his wife and himself instead of housing for the poor.

Well, it seems Mr. Rivero was giving the interview on his cell phone (model not known) while driving his black Mercedes C240 to turn himself in at the “Miami-Dade Public Corruption Investigations Bureau” (I’m not making this up) where the phoner was terminated. Described in the account as “a 36-year-old lawyer and civic leader” you have to wonder, what was he thinking when he decided to give himself up in the black Mercedes? Didn’t he have a Honda Civic parked behind the mansion for just these kind of situations? Maybe he could have borrowed a bike from one of the homeless guys he’s building the country club for. Maybe he had a lot on his mind. In any event he was later charged with two first-degree felonies: grand theft and committing an organized scheme to defraud. If convicted, he could serve a minimum of 21-months in state prison which is probably what he’ll get since he’s a “civic leader.” By that time, with a little creative financing that will allow him to pay back the money he took from the county without totally relinquishing his assets, his “Country Club for the Homeless” should be ready for him to move in. Who says “Crime doesn’t pay?”

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