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You are judged by the company you keep and Marco has kept some pretty shady company.
Arza was
forced to resign from the Florida legislature in 2006 following two felony
charges related to leaving a racial slur on a fellow representative’s voice
mail. Ralph Arza, the former Florida state lawmaker
turned charter-school lobbyist, campaigned for Rubio in Iowa. Rubio has credited Arza with bringing him
back to Roman Catholicism he was
formally a member of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints
Rivera
has faced a string of ethical issues that investigators from both
the FBI and IRS looked into Senator Rubio’s connection to a company used by
Rivera for what appears to be a scheme to avoid paying taxes on lobbying
income.
The
company, Millennium Marketing, was paid roughly $1 million in consulting fees
by Flagler Dog Track — now known as Magic City Casino — to promote its gambling
interests in the state of Florida. As the Miami Herald
reported in 2011, Millennium Marketing was supposedly led by David
Rivera’s mother and her business partner, but despite the names on paper, the
company was the recipient of income for Rivera’s work on behalf of Magic City
when he served in the Florida legislature.
