Jackie Soffer on Bal Harbour Shops: “They don’t threaten me”

Jackie Soffer responded to allegations that the vice-mayor of Bal Harbour is biased against the proposed expansion of Bal Harbour Shops because of a personal relationship with the Soffer family.

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As The Real Deal reported on Tuesday, the owners of Bal Harbour Shops launched a website that makes public more than 10,500 pages of emails and texts messages from vice-mayor Patricia Cohen’s private cellphone and email accounts. The Whitman family, which owns the shops, is suing against Cohen and the village for allegedly violating Florida’s public records law.

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