Luigi Boria
Venezuelan American politician
Luigi Boria (born April 23, 1958) is a Venezuelan-born American politician who served as mayor of Doral, Florida from 2012 to 2016. Boria defeated former Miami-Dade School Board member Frank Bolaños in the 2012 elections, obtaining 54% of the vote.
Biography
Boria, who is also an evangelical Christian pastor, was born in Caracas in 1958 to Italian parents who emigrated to that country. He studied accounting at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, a private institution, in 1982. In 1989 he left Venezuela to settle in Doral, Florida, where he currently lives. Boria has run various companies in both Venezuela and the United States since the 1980s.
He was elected mayor of Doral in the 2012 elections as a non-partisan, becoming the second Venezuelan to be elected mayor in the US, after Philip Giordano, of Waterbury, Connecticut.
Boria was investigated for corruption in 2015 after renting a campaign office at an extremely high price compared to the market price, but was not charged. Boria gave the key to the city to future President Donald Trump in March 2015, after he brought the Miss Universe 2015 (although it ultimately did not take place) to Doral, and supported his candidacy.
Boria lost reelection to former mayor Juan Carlos Bermúdez in the 2016 elections.
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