MIAMI – While former Miami-Dade School Board Vice Chair Lubby Navarro spent an evening in jail following her arrest on grand robbery and fraud fees Thursday, her lawyer stated she’s likely to get out Friday.
That’s a pass judgement on ordered a discount in her bond all through a Friday morning courtroom listening to. Navarro wasn’t bodily provide, however her lawyer, Ben Kuehne, was once.
Navarro, 49, is accused of spending greater than $100,000 on private bills the usage of her district-issued credit playing cards in 2022, simply sooner than she resigned from the board over a brand new state legislation prohibiting lobbyists from preserving elected positions.
Read extra main points — together with the total arrest warrant — right here.
Those purchases, prosecutors stated, ranged from the whole lot from meals, to family items and holidays, to the strange: two silicone being pregnant bellies, all in an effort to win her then-boyfriend again.
A pass judgement on Thursday set Navarro’s bond at $2 million. On Friday, some other pass judgement on decreased it to $100,000.
Kuehne, who seemed on her behalf, advised journalists that implies she’s likely to leave jail below area arrest Friday afternoon.
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“Judge (Carlos) Lopez understood that the purpose of bond is to make sure that somebody especially a community servant, like Lubby Navarro, is here to defend the case,” Kuehne stated. “And he found that the conditions were ripe to set a bond that we had hoped would have been set yesterday.”
Kuehne added, “he also was attentive to the concerns of staying in jail for somebody who should not be in jail and authorized her release today. We expect that to happen this afternoon.”
He stated his consumer will likely be vindicated after all.
“I respect that the state has spent 92 pages explaining its case,” Kuehne stated. “If its case takes 92 pages to explain, I can only suggest that it’s it demonstrates that there is a lot more to this case than meets the eye.”
Before being launched, Navarro can have to turn out, thru a monetary research, that her bond cash was once got thru respectable way. When and if she leaves jail, she’ll even have to give up her passport.
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Navarro was once appointed via Republican Gov. Rick Scott and become a darling at the board amongst native conservatives sooner than her resignation.
She is these days the director of Government Affairs for the Memorial Healthcare System, a part of the South Broward Hospital District.
Navarro was once put on unpaid leave from that place following her arrest, officers stated.
In courtroom, we discovered she was once making $215,000 in keeping with yr from that activity.
July 2022 monetary data additionally confirmed Navarro was once making $46,000 from the varsity board and $42,000 from the Jorge Mas Canosa Freedom Foundation.
Her internet value was once nearly $200,000.
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