MIAMI — Former Miami-Dade College Board member Lubby Navarro was predicted to commit one more evening in the county jail next her arrest for alleged thieving from the district.
Whilst her lawyer was in a position to get her $2 million bond decreased to $100,000 on Friday, the former board vice chair was requested to continue to be on residence arrest, which requires that she be equipped with a GPS tracking device.
A spokesman for the Miami-Dade Correction Office stated the fitting wouldn’t come about right until Saturday at the earliest.
Navarro, 49, was not existing in the course of her bond hearing, but the allegations against her took center phase as state prosecutors once once more outlined the theft fees from her
Prosecutors have explained Navarro utilized her district-issued credit score playing cards for her own expenses and journey excursions to the Dominican Republic with her mother and Las Vegas with a previous boyfriend.
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“This defendant betrayed the general public belief,” said Assistant State Attorney Annette Rasco. “She invested in excess of $100,000 in public money. She was amassing wealth since when standard individuals go to buy groceries they use their wage. She was using dollars from the college board.”
An legal professional for Navarro disputed the state’s allegations.
“There’s a lot extra to this case,” said her legal professional Ben Kuehne. “Ms. Navarro is not a general public servant but will be exonerated.”
Navarro is a compensated lobbyist for the South Broward Hospital District, which set her on unpaid depart next her arrest.
She vacated her board seat at the stop of 2022 soon after a new point out legislation kicked in prohibiting lobbyists from serving in elected positions.
When the expenditures arrived due in 2023 for her district-issued card, faculty directors grew suspicious of charges that provided refrigerators, Halloween costumes and a number of reward playing cards. District officers then alerted investigators.
Prosecutors puzzled why Navarro did what she did contemplating that she was earning a superior living.
“She was earning $179,000 a 12 months as well as $36,000 in bonuses (and) her school board work paid $46,000,” Rasco reported.
Her attorney claimed all of that will be explained, at some point.
Navarro is allowed to go away jail at least right up until Tuesday when her attorney will have to encourage the court that her bond funds is legit
” The bond dollars is coming from her household she’s owned a lot of a long time,” Kuehne explained. “It is homesteaded.”
