HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – The ex-boyfriend of former Miami-Dade School Board Vice Chair Lubby Navarro was one of a number of people prosecutors said benefitted from her lavish personal spending on a district credit card, leading to her arrest Thursday.
While he hasn’t been charged in the case, he had very little to say when Local 10 News showed up at his business Friday.
Read more details — including the full arrest warrant — here.
Prosecutors allege that a portion of goods obtained in Navarro’s 2022 spending spree ended up in Broward County, at the smoothie and juice bar owned by her then-boyfriend, who Local 10 News has learned is David Mor.
Records show Mor owns Shook Smoothies & Juices at 2613 Stirling Road in Hollywood.
“A lot of the stuff here belongs to the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County,” Local 10 News reporter Jeff Weinsier reminded Mor when he stopped by Shook on Friday.
Items bought on Navarro’s district credit card, according to a warrant, included a commercial refrigerator, two wine chillers, an espresso machine, ninja blenders, a chest freezer, fake turf, an Android cellphone, a 40-inch TV, wine glasses, an outdoor table and chairs, mulch and shelving.
Mor didn’t want to speak to Weinsier about any of it.
“Go and ask the police, not me,” he told Weinsier.
Weinsier replied, “Go and ask the police? I’d rather ask you, because you’re the one benefitting from it.”
Weinsier also asked: “You never asked her (Navarro) where the money was coming from to buy this stuff?”
Mor remained silent.
“Why won’t you talk to me?” Weinsier asked him.
“What do you want?” Mor replied. “Go ask her.”
“You benefitted from stuff she put on her credit card,” Weinsier said. “What do I want from you? Don’t you owe the taxpayers in Miami-Dade County an explanation?”
“I don’t say nothing,” Mor said.
The warrant states that Navarro, 49, also expensed $900 in groceries for Mor’s family, rented them a car and bought tickets to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida — and paid for hotels.
Investigators were at Shook in July and Mor cooperated with them, claiming a friendship with Navarro turned into a brief romantic relationship. He called it off for religious reasons.
The warrant states Navarro used her school-issued credit card to buy Apple AirTag trackers to place on Mor’s car and two artificial silicone pregnancy bellies, with cotton filling, in order to trick Mor into thinking she was pregnant when he broke up with her.
“Who knows about it, knows about it,” Mor told Local 10 News, regarding the purchases.
“Whoever knows about it, knows about it?” Weinsier asked. “The money is supposed to be used for education.”
Mor asked Weinsier to leave the store.
“Nothing to say?” Weinsier asked.
While Mor wouldn’t say if he knew where the money was coming from, will he get to keep the alleged ill-gotten goods?
There’s no answer right now.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office referred Local 10 News to the county’s Office of the Inspector General Friday, who then referred us back to the SAO.
After a bond reduction, Navarro appeared set to leave jail Friday as she awaits trial.