Meet new Florida congressman David Rivera, "already under investigation by Miami-Dade prosecutors for a $500,000 contract he negotiated and helped carry out for his godmother’s marketing firm.
He claims he received no money for it. Rivera created tremendous ambiguity over his personal income and work history during the campaign that has never been clarified.
At one point, he claimed to have worked for USAID, which the agency denied."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opini...os-who-goody-goodies-rogues-and-gunslingers-0
..."Trouble for Rivera began earlier this week when the Miami CBS affiliate and the Miami Herald uncovered possible allegations of domestic violence from the 1990's and a police report from 2002 showing that Rivera was involved in a traffic accident where he ran into a truck full of his campaign opponent's fliers, allegedly to prevent the driver from getting to the post office in time to mail them.
Rivera put out a statement denying that he is the same David Rivera involved in the domestic dispute...."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014294-503544.html
Rivera also allegedly "literally ran off the road a mail truck carrying unfavorable fliers about his campaign.
...as the mailing deadline neared, Rivera got in his car in an attempt to track down a Liberty Mailing services truck that was set to deliver campaign fliers being produced by his opponent.
Accounts diverge from here.
Rivera stresses that he wanted to get his own fliers which happened to be on the same truck.
But that doesn't explain why the Florida Republican, according to the station, forced "the truck to the shoulder of the Palmetto Expressway right in the middle of evening traffic at 5:50pm, ten minutes before the truck's deadline to get to the post office which was 6:00pm Eastern."
..."And the president of Dodd Printing, which now owns Liberty Mailing, Richard Sierra, told both the Miami Herald and CBS4 that Rivera's version of events is not quite true.
"The company truck's driver did not voluntarily pull off the highway," said Richard Sierra. "We did not remove any fliers. Whatever was on the truck was mailed."
The same FHP report shows the truck's driver told the officer Rivera hit him, forcing the truck to pull over though Rivera denied that to the FHP officer in the same report.
Because of the conflicting statements no charges were filed in the accident."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/david-rivera-gop-candidat_n_686291.html
YouTube - David Rivera - You Say It Wasn't You?
