NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — There are new details regarding allegations into North Miami Beach Mayor Michael Joseph.
Joseph is accused of asking a city employee to alter a video recording, a political crime, and then lashing out at him when he refused.
In a report, the ALGO Law Firm outlined details of why they wrote Joseph put the city “in substantial legal, financial and ethical risk” while Joseph called the report “political theater.”
The report, which can be read at the bottom of this story, indicated that the “rumors were substantiated by recorded interviews and testimonies.”
Local 10 News has since obtained those records.
Among them, the city’s well-regarded IT chief Ricardo Castillo, known in the report as “Employee C”.
He described Joseph’s response when he refused the mayor’s request to “disconnect recording equipment and edit recordings” of a city manager candidate interview.
“(He said) ’You’re gonna f--- me over,’ and I said, ‘Well, how would I f--- you over if nothing bad happened in the interviews,’” Castillo said.
That video, which Local 10 has obtained, was an interview with the mayor’s preferred candidate for the position who ultimately was not chosen by the other commissioners.
Castillo acknowledged to the investigators that altering the record is a potential crime.
“He did, at the end, he asked me ‘Have I threatened you, do you feel threatened?’ and I did say no, but I felt intimidated, because I know I was doing the right thing but he was making me feel bad about it,” he said.
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