In its February 21, 2026 article, Feds say former North Miami mayor lived a 30-year lie, move to strip him of citizenship, the Miami Herald found even more dirt on the Ex-Mayor of North Miami, most recently known as “Philippe Bien-Aime.”

You might want to pop some corn before you continue.

The scathing article starts out by reporting:

From the moment Philippe Bien-Aime stepped foot in the United States on July 25, 1995, immigration authorities, say the Haitian native has been living a lie.

The former mayor of North Miami arrived in the U.S. with his photo on someone else’s passport, authorities say in a federal lawsuit seeking to strip Bien-Aime of his citizenship. As part of his naturalization process, they add, Bien-Aime, 60, has lied about who and how many women he’s married and divorced and also about how many children he has had with them.

And it just gets worse from there.

The Herald reported that Jean Philippe Janvier (Bien-Aime’s real name) illegally entered the United States on July 25, 1995 and was ordered to be deported back to Haiti in 2000.  Instead of leaving the country, Janvier fraudulently took on a new identity by the name of “Philippe Bien-Aime” and filed to become a U.S. citizen in 2005, and he has been living here ever since under his assumed name.

But that wasn’t even the beginning of his deception.

“Philippe Bien-Aime’s” chicanery began well over a decade earlier.

As the article stated, “Adding to the intrigue are court documents that say that, under the name Jean Philippe Janvier, he married Sarahjane Ternier, and under the name Philippe Bien-Aime, he married Beatrice Gelin — both on the same date, June 20, 1993, in Port-au-Prince.”

The Haitian government confirmed that his marriage certificate with Sarahjane Ternier was fraudulent, as was his divorce record from Beatrice Gelin.  However, when he applied for a green card here, he married Marie Rose Evelyne Chauvet on May 30, 2001, which we already were aware of and reported here on September 11, 2022.

We also reported that his “marriage” to Chauvet was part of an immigration fraud scheme since they never lived together as husband and wife, and that she had already been living with her common law husband, William Jean-Louis.

Then again, his “marriage” to Chauvet was also fraudulent since “Bien-Aime” was still legally married to his wife in Haiti, Beatrice Gelin.

At least that’s what the U.S. government assumes because no valid Haitian divorce records were ever found.

Oddly, neither the Herald nor the U.S. Attorney’s press release even mentioned the fact that “Bien-Aime” fake wife, Sarahjane Ternier, actually married William Jean-Louis a month earlier on April 16, 2001.

While Sarahjane did divorce William Jean-Louis in Broward County on February 12, 2018, “Philippe Bien-Aime” never divorced Marie Rose Evelyn Chauvet — we assume because we now know that the marriage was never legal to begin with.

Despite his fake identity and fake marriages, the person known as “Philippe Bien-Aime” became a U.S. citizen on September 22, 2006.

According to the Miami Herald:

In his green card application, he did not mention his deportation order and did not list any children. During his green card interview that same year, he mentioned one daughter he said was born in Haiti in 1999. Federal court records say he and Ternier had welcomed a daughter in the United States in August 1999.

Meanwhile, in the application to make his green card permanent he listed one son: Marc Peterson, born August 1988, and no other children, according to the federal complaint. In his subsequent application to become a U.S. citizen, he listed Marc Peterson again, but with a different birthday, June 1987.

Bien-Aime went on to have a third child with Ternier in 2004. Bien-Aime’s campaign website for an unsuccessful run for Miami-Dade county commissioner in 2022 described as “loving husband to Sara and proud father of Saphi, Philjae, and Terphil.”

He applied for naturalization in 2005, once more using his current name. During the interview process to become a naturalized citizen, Bien-Aime did not disclose other names and claimed to not be married to more than one person at a time. He was approved for citizenship on Sept. 11, 2006 and took the naturalization oath 11 days later.

And finally, the Miami Herald summed it all up :

Nearly 13 years after Bien-Aime became a naturalized citizen, a 2019 report out of U.S. immigration offices in Port-Au-Prince determined his marriage to Ternier and divorces to both Ternier and Gelin were fraudulent. It also linked him to the Jean Philippe Janvier identity. At the time of the investigation, he was North Miami’s mayor.

Seven years later, in February 2026, the U.S. government moved to denaturalize him.

And not a moment too soon!

Folks, you really can’t make this stuff up.

Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine just how corrupt “Philippe Bien-Aime” really is.

We really only scratched the surface.

No wonder “Philippe” and his bat-shit crazy army of obsessed, angry women so viciously attacked us to protect his dirty little secrets.

Stephanie