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When Miami city commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was arrested on corruption charges in September, the Miami Herald reported on the $175,000 he had allocated to a non-profit whose director once chaired his political action committee.
The same organization, Legal Foundation, Inc., also got an appropriations request this year for $300,000 from the state of Florida budget thanks to Sen.
Ana Maria Rodriguez and State Rep.
Ana Maria Rodriguez, who is now running for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections.
Yesenia Collazo is the former chairwoman of the ADLP's Proven Leadership for Miami-Dade PAC, which gave $1,000 to Diaz de la Portilla's judicial campaign in 2022, and owns Research Associates of Miami, which was paid $7,500 by judicial candidate Robert Watson, who Renier was reportedly helping before he decided to run for his own bench.
Diaz de la Portilla was arrested for allegedly giving away a public park in exchange for more than $245,000 in campaign contributions and thousands more in gifts, meals, drinks, and accommodations.
But about six months before he was arrested, the Legal Foundation was awarded a grant from the city to "locate, educate, consult, and represent disadvantaged City of Miami residents with their legal needs," according to the request for the funds the city's Office of
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