From a shooting to shoplifting, David Rivera’s pal in FBI probe has checkered past
Source: Miami Herald
When Justin Lamar Sternad met Ana Sol Alliegro at a Miller’s Miami Falls Ale House, he didn’t know the political consultant would help lead his campaign into the FBI’s crosshairs or that she had prior legal run-ins — including the time she shot at her ex-husband while naked.
Alliegro is a key figure in a federal investigation of Sternad’s campaign finances that focuses on the funneling of tens of thousands in cash tied to U.S. Rep. David Rivera.
Authorities believe Rivera and Alliegro, both Republicans, helped the Democratic Sternad undermine a political rival in his recent congressional primary race.
“Politics is rough and I play like it,” Alliegro, 42, once tweeted on Twitter.
Now she’s missing or has been in hiding for the past two weeks, according to her family and lawyer, who said they’re “worried” about her.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/24/v-fullstory/3019360/from-a-shooting-to-shoplifting.html
The comments are a riot if you can wade through them and you enjoy the carnival of corrupt Miami politics. This caper by Rep. Rivera has opened a worm can that leads to Marco Rubio and the State Attorney among others. Soon to be a bad made for TV movie!
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While the Miami Herald wonders where Ana Alliegro - a key witness in a federal criminal probe of Congressman David Rivera - has disappeared to, The Strawbuyer blogger Mike Hatami has dug up her criminal record. And it appears the self-professed "Republican Political Guru and Conservative Bad Girl" likes to get gangsta.
In 2007, Alliegro was arrested on one felony count of false imprisonment and two misdemeanors of improper display of a firearm and firing said gun in public. The felony was dropped and she was given probation for the misdemeanors. Two years later, she was busted on a petty theft charge, which was subsequently dropped.
UPDATE: Tonight, the Herald has the sordid details on Alliegro's arrests.
According to the newspaper, Alliegro was nabbed for trying to shop lift $29.99 sandals from a Ross Department Store. Two years earlier, she got into a spat wit her ex-husband Moshe Cosicher at his Coconut Grove residence. While naked, she allegedly flashed a .45 pistol she kept at her bed side at Cosicher, comparing the gun to a penis.
Reports from Miami police stated she fired a round into the ceiling when he ignored her command to sit down on the couch, according to the Herald. "You see,it's loaded -- this is business," Alliegro allegedly said.
Over the weekend, the Miami Herald reported that Alliegro is still missing after she failed to show up to an interview with the FBI and federal prosecutors more than two weeks ago. Shortly before that meeting, she allegedly spoke to Rivera on the telephone.
