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Associated PressMay 5, 2016

A Miami-area mayor won his bid to pay a $4,000 ethics fine with pennies and nickels, but only after he agreed to count and box the coins himself. El Nuevo Herald reports that Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez on Wednesday deposited 140 boxes of pennies, totaling $3,500, and five boxes of nickels, totaling $500, at a South […]

Associated PressNovember 19, 2015

A Miami-area mayor who is feuding with his local commission tried to use 360,000 pennies and nickels – that’s 28 buckets full of coins – to pay a $4,000 ethics fine. Instead of accepting the change, the ethics commission doubled the fine for Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez, saying he intentionally broke the rules because he […]

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Political change: Mayor forced to count pennies to pay fine

That’s a lot of coin: Mayor tries to pay $4K fine with coins