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RayPray writes:

in response to NobodysFool57:

Rony Joel didn't just muddle through a few years of a controversial project. He was a player in the airborne asbestos release during the Collier Blvd. rebuild, the attempted takeover of LCEC's Marco Island assets, and the failed Town Center CRA project. If you think our bonded debt is bad now, he would have driven us into insolvency and beyond. Good riddance.

This may be true.

But again it is unverified accusations.

My point is that if there were a similar story in a serious paper, like the Washington Post, the reporter would not just chronicle accusations, but do serious investigation by researching similar projects from other locales and interviewing independent engineers, not just people with opinions.

Most of the stories in this paper are either just provincial cheer-leading or stories like this with accusations without detailed substantiation.

I knew Rony casually for a couple years. He seemed like a nice guy. But maybe professionally, he was a real villain.

My point is that from reading this long story, however, who can tell?

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