Miami Herald: Governor suspends North Miami mayor over mortgage fraud charges

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WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF FILE--North Miami Mayor Lucie M. Tondreau speaks at a press conference to discuss their next steps in the lawsuit filed against them by the Museum of Contemporary Art Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Federal agents were searching early Monday, May 19, 2014, for North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau to charge her with mortgage fraud.
WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
FILE–North Miami Mayor Lucie M. Tondreau speaks at a press conference to discuss their next steps in the lawsuit filed against them by the Museum of Contemporary Art Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Federal agents were searching early Monday, May 19, 2014, for North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau to charge her with mortgage fraud.

Governor suspends North Miami mayor over mortgage fraud charges

By Nadege Green
The Miami Herald

Gov. Rick Scott suspended North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau on Tuesday, just hours after she appeared in federal court to face mortgage-fraud charges.Tondreau was granted a $50,000 bond by a magistrate judge earlier in the day after cutting her city-sponsored trip to Las Vegas short and returning to surrender to FBI agents.Tondreau, the city’s first female-Haitian born mayor, was expected to be released from custody late Tuesday afternoon. The now-suspended mayor, 54, is scheduled to be arraigned on June 30 on charges of conspiring with three others to recruit straw borrowers to purchase 20 South Florida homes while defrauding $8 million from various mortgage lenders.
Tondreau’s attorney Ben Kuehne declared her innocence in front of the federal courthouse Monday afternoon.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/20/v-print/4126465/haitian-radio-rallies-support.html#storylink=cpy

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