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Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 01:28 AM Dec 2018

'He got screwed': Gillum absent from indictment after DeSantis bashed him as corrupt

Source: Politico

Federal authorities unveiled a 44-count, 66-page indictment Wednesday of a Tallahassee politician and a city official that involved six companies, five other players and a bank in a wide-ranging bribery, extortion, fraud and racketeering scheme.

But amid all the detail and alleged corruption in the indictment, one name is conspicuously absent: Andrew Gillum, who was Tallahassee’s mayor at the time and who was accused repeatedly on the gubernatorial campaign trail this year by Republican opponent Ron DeSantis — and even President Donald Trump — of being tied to the suspected wrongdoing the FBI was investigating.

Republicans spent at least $7 million on TV ads — 27 percent of the total $26 million dropped on air in the general election — attacking Gillum in connection with the FBI probe. But the investigation, records indicate, ultimately had little to do with the former mayor.

The campaign, however, took its toll and Gillum lost to DeSantis by the narrowest margin ever for a Florida Democrat running for governor: 0.39 percentage points, or 32,463 votes out of more than 8.2 million cast. It made the Tallahassee mayor collateral damage in the investigation, which resulted in a multi-count indictment against Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Maddox and his former chief of staff, Paige Carter-Smith, the city’s Downtown Improvement Authority executive director who was his alleged partner in crime.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/12/12/he-got-screwed-gillum-absent-from-indictment-after-desantis-bashed-him-as-corrupt-742989



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'He got screwed': Gillum absent from indictment after DeSantis bashed him as corrupt (Original Post) Julian Englis Dec 2018 OP
So pathetic that FL elected Scott, who defrauded Medicare. SunSeeker Dec 2018 #1
Pure racism. KPN Dec 2018 #2
Pretty much. nt SunSeeker Dec 2018 #4
fuck the shitty ass voters in Florida that voted for the 2 shitty ass Republicans over Gillum and JI7 Dec 2018 #3
Link to the DoJ PR nitpicker Dec 2018 #5
Never believe Republicans! denvine Dec 2018 #6
This was expected, but good to see anyway. Hortensis Dec 2018 #7
What strange serendipity under things that make you go hmmmm... Ink Addict Dec 2018 #8

SunSeeker

(51,378 posts)
1. So pathetic that FL elected Scott, who defrauded Medicare.
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 01:50 AM
Dec 2018

Yet shied away from Gillum over nothing more that GOP evidence-free smears.

JI7

(89,182 posts)
3. fuck the shitty ass voters in Florida that voted for the 2 shitty ass Republicans over Gillum and
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 02:17 AM
Dec 2018

Nelson.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. This was expected, but good to see anyway.
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:53 AM
Dec 2018

I'd like the OIG to look into why this FBI investigation stayed open all through the election period instead of closing shortly after, though. And how the FBI became a player in the last two weeks when Republicans put the investigation into the news by releasing new documents that had nothing to do with Gillum. Wittingly involved or unwitting political tool, that's not okay.

Or why Gillum wasn't dismissed long ago after investigation answered all significant questions and failed to find any evidence of corruption.

 

Ink Addict

(36 posts)
8. What strange serendipity under things that make you go hmmmm...
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 12:01 PM
Dec 2018

Just what's in a name, indeed: Paige Carter-Smith versus Carter Page --- Must have driven the FBI nuts deciding when and whether investigators should dot those i's and/or crossing the t's - doncha luv co-in-cee-dences...so weird.

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