{"id":260708,"date":"2026-05-06T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260708\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:08:10","slug":"settlement-reached-in-ex-employees-suit-against-joe-carollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260708\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlement reached in ex-employees\u2019 suit against Joe Carollo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0May 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM<\/p>\n

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MIAMI \u2014 Former Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo<\/a> has settled a lawsuit<\/a> brought by two former employees of a city agency he ran, according to a federal court filing.<\/p>\n

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Jose Suarez and Jose Canto, former executives with the Bayfront Park Management Trust, claimed Carollo retaliated against them for exposing financial mismanagement, misuse of public funds and corruption.<\/p>\n

Carollo, 71, left office in December after a fourth-place finish in the race for Miami mayor, an office he held on two previous occasions.<\/p>\n

Suarez and Canto alleged that public trust money was spent on Carollo\u2019s political office and allies, including $60,000 to the commissioner\u2019s Little Havana Fridays event and $150,000 to a broadcaster with ties to Carollo.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleged that Carollo pushed Suarez and Canto out of their jobs \u201c(a)fter diligently working to bring transparency and ethics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair \u201cwere attacked, defamed and constructively discharged,\u201d they claimed.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s filing does not indicate how much money they settled for.<\/p>\n

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\"ChrisChris Gothner <\/p>\n

Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n

\"ChristinaChristina Vazquez<\/p>\n

Christina returned to Local 10 in 2019 as a reporter after covering Hurricane Dorian for the station. She is an Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist and previously earned an Emmy Award while at WPLG for her investigative consumer protection segment “Call Christina.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 Former Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo has settled a lawsuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-260708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}