![]() The testy hearing has ping-ponged between Miami and Fort Lauderdale since the start. Then when Pertnoy showed Pinilla an email request he made for code enforcement to inspect work being done at Carollo’s Coconut Grove home - for which the commissioner was cited - Martin continued: “We’ve suffered from multiple, multiple, multiple raids,” he said. There, Pinilla and Fuller finally had the opportunity to explain to jurors how their political backing of a Carollo opponent in 2017 led the commissioner to try and destroy their livelihoods. ![]() The business partners outbursts under questioning from their own attorney came as the federal trial against Carollo entered its fifth week in Fort Lauderdale’s federal courthouse. That’s why we’re here, so you can hear the truth. We look good, but we’re barely making it,” said Pinilla’s partner William “Bill” Fuller. He should be abolished from the earth,” Martin Pinilla said Monday - a statement that prompted an immediate call from Carollo’s attorneys for a mistrial, the second request since the trial began in early April. ![]() Finally able to take the stand this week, it only took a few moments for two Little Havana businessmen accusing Joe Carollo of trying to submarine their business ventures as a political vendetta, to vent their disdain for the Miami commissioner. ![]()
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