A lawsuit over cashier’s checks has led to the disqualification of incumbent North Miami Mayor Alix Desulme from next month’s election, effectively handing victory to his sole opponent.
That opponent is George Morgan, who filed an emergency complaint in Miami-Dade County court on Oct. 8 alleging Desulme was ineligible to run because he paid his candidate qualifying fees with two cashier’s checks from TD Bank rather than from his “candidate campaign account.”
The mayor disputed the premise of the lawsuit, saying the check was drawn from his campaign account.