FBI Opens Second Investigation of Rep. Rivera
More bad news for U.S. Rep. David Rivera (Florida’s 25th Congressional District), as the FBI opened a second criminal investigation into undisclosed payments from a Miami gambling firm to a company closely tied to the Republican congressman.
According to the Miami Herald, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service have begun interviews with witnesses in the know, about a $1 million consulting contract between Flagler Dog Track–now know as Magic City Casino–and Millennium Marketing, a company co-owned by Rivera’s 70-year-old mother and his god-mother, her business partner, formed just weeks before the contract was executed in October 2006.
The involvement of the IRS and the questions being asked, suggest that Rivera might have evaded paying taxes.
