For more than a decade, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Luis Corps quietly built a multimillion-dollar private security empire on the same streets he was sworn to protect, flouting conflict-of-interest laws and misleading his superiors about who his private clients were and how much he was making on the side.
His lucrative off-duty work flourished even as he served in the internal affairs unit, and it continued after he was explicitly told to stop doing business in the city. Corps’s activity led to a joint investigation involving Miami Beach Inspector General Joe Centorino. In a lengthy March 3 report, Centorino delivered a scathing warning to city leaders that lax oversight over employees’ side hustles leaves Miami Beach vulnerable to future scandals.
“This is the eighth OIG report on outside employment and is the most serious and significant to date,” Centorino wrote, “revealing a pattern of deceit by Luis Corps and the exploitation of the city’s process vulnerabilities to an unprecedented degree.”…