Daniel Rivero
Investigative ReporterDaniel Rivero is part of WLRN's new investigative reporting team. Before joining WLRN, he was an investigative reporter and producer on the television series "The Naked Truth," and a digital reporter for Fusion.
His work has won honors of the Murrow Awards, Sunshine State Awards and Green Eyeshade Awards. He has also been nominated for a Livingston Award and a GLAAD Award on reporting on the background of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma and on the Orlando nightclub shooting, respectively.
Daniel was born on the outskirts of Washington D.C. to Cuban parents, and moved to Miami full time twenty years ago. He learned to walk with a wiffle ball bat and has been a skateboarder since the age of ten.
He can be reached at drivero@wlrnnews.org
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U.S. Marshals on Friday placed a notice of levy at Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo's Coconut Grove home, stating that they’ll soon be selling it to satisfy the $63.5 million judgment against him in a federal civil rights lawsuit.
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The federal government is currently doing more than ten times the enforcement of existing child labor law compared to Florida, even though Florida law is currently more strict than the federal government. Now, some lawmakers want to weaken Florida child labor law.
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An audio compilation of WLRN News' three-part investigation Unguarded, with funder acknowledgements removed, prepared for contest entries.
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For weeks WLRN has inquired into the status of the program and how it could be impacted by laws limiting how FIU interacts with foreign governments. Then, its website was taken down.
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An Opa-Locka apartment complex has received millions in federal funding while living conditions have only gotten worse, say two federal officials.
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During a local Spanish-language radio show, four former Miami city managers called on an investigation into whether current city manager Art Noriega violated any ethical code or law, after WLRN reported that companies connected to his wife’s family have received over $440,000 in contracts since he was appointed to office in 2020.
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State ethics law prohibits a public official from “directly or indirectly” buying services or goods from a company in which their spouse has a financial interest. Ethics experts say the purchases raise legal questions.
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Starting on New Year’s Day, shell companies and LLCs that do business in the US will have to fully disclose who is behind them and who actually owns the assets.
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If residents of countries including Cuba, Venezuela and China don’t register certain properties by the Jan. 31 deadline, they could be hit with $1,000 per day in property liens — or potentially have their property seized by the state. The controversial law, SB 264, has been celebrated by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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The hiring freeze is due to a Florida law passed earlier this year meant to combat the infiltration of the higher education system by "countries of concern" — including Cuba, Venezuela, China, Russia, Syria, Iran and North Korea.
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Starting immediately, the almost 10,000 volunteers who have helped gather signatures to protect the right to abortions will begin to focus on the next phase: Convincing people to actually show up and vote next November.
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Civilian-run police oversight panels in South Florida and across the state could be at risk under HB 601. Advocates say the prospective ban would betray efforts to foster better relations and trust among police and communities.