Prosecutors drop all charges against Andrew Gillum, former Democratic mayor who lost to Ron DeSantis
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Fox ^
| 5/16/23 | Chris Pandolfo
Federal prosecutors are dropping corruption charges against Andrew Gillum — the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee who narrowly lost to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — after a jury acquitted him on one count and hung on remaining charges that he pocketed campaign cash and illegally receiving gifts, including theater tickets to "Hamilton." Prosecutors
initially said they would retry Gillum after a jury acquitted him on one count of lying to the FBI but failed to reach a verdict on 17 counts of wire fraud and a wire fraud conspiracy count at the conclusion of his May 4 trial. However, on Monday,...
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Federal prosecutors move to dismiss charges against ex-Florida mayor Andrew Gillum [DeSantis opponent in 2018]
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MSN.com ^
| 15 May 2023 | Jeff Burlew & William L. Hatfield
Tallahassee, FL - Federal prosecutors in the Andrew Gillum corruption case are moving to dismiss charges against the former Florida mayor... Charges against Gillum...involved the misuse of campaign funds... Jurors acquitted Gillum on a single count of making false statements but couldn't reach a verdict on 18 other conspiracy and wire fraud
counts... Several jurors later anonymously announced that the 12-person panel voted heavily in favor of acquittal but that two "biased" jurors prevented a unanimous decision.
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Democratic rising star Andrew Gillum found not guilty of lying to the FBI, jury deadlocked on 17 other charges
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Washington Examiner ^
| May 4, 2023 | Barnini Chakraborty
A Florida jury on Thursday found Andrew Gillum, a once-rising star in the Democratic Party, not guilty of lying to the FBI but was deadlocked on 17 other charges against him stemming from allegations he illegally solicited campaign donations and then funneled them into his account. The
former Tallahassee mayor faced 17 counts of wire fraud and a wire fraud conspiracy count, each carrying a maximum of 20 years behind bars. He was also charged with a single count of lying to the FBI, which carries a five-year maximum sentence. He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. The...
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Andrew Gillum, Who Nearly Defeated Ron DeSantis In 2018 Gubernatorial Race, Faces Years In Prison For Alleged Corruption
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Essence ^
| 4/29/23 | Malaika Jabali
After a nearly two-week trial, jurors in Florida began deliberating Friday in a corruption case against former gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum. Federal prosecutors accuse Gillum of funneling “tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money to personal accounts,” as the AP reports. Prosecutors
say “Gillum was struggling financially after quitting his $120,000-a-year job with the People for the American Way group to run for governor.” According to prosecutors, both Gillum and his associate Sharon Lettman-Hicks “conspired to commit wire fraud, by unlawfully soliciting and obtaining funds from various entities and individuals through false and fraudulent promises and representations that the...
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Prosecutors claim former Democratic star Andrew Gillum needed money for lavish lifestyle
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Washington Examiner ^
| 4/19/23 | Barnini Chakraborty
Prosecutors painted former Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum as a greedy politician who illegally solicited campaign donations and pocketed the money to keep up his lavish lifestyle in his race against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). Gillum, a former mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, who came within a percentage point of becoming the
state's first black governor, is on trial for corruption and faces substantial time behind bars if he is convicted on conspiracy and multiple counts of wire fraud. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Milligan told jurors Tuesday that Gillum was making payments on two expensive cars, paying private school tuition...
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Former gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum heads to court on federal corruption charges
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fox13news.com ^
| Published 3 hours agoUpdated 41 mins ago | By Jordan Bowen
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - He almost became Florida's governor, but now, former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum is preparing to go to trial Monday for federal corruption charges. He's
accused of defrauding campaign donors and lying to the FBI. Now, five years later, Gillum faces 17 counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of lying to the FBI.
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Andrew Gillum was almost elected Florida governor. Now he’s on trial in federal court
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Yahoo News ^
| 4/16/23 | Lawrence Mower
Five years ago, Andrew Gillum was one of the brightest stars in Florida politics. The
then-Tallahassee mayor had a national profile. He won the 2018 Democratic nomination for Florida governor. And he nearly defeated Ron DeSantis, losing by fewer than 34,000 votes, or 0.41 percentage points. Then came the fall. In 2020, he was found by police in a South Beach hotel room in the company of a man who appeared to have overdosed on drugs. And last year, he was indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of lying to FBI agents and defrauding campaign mega donors and organizations...
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Judge won't drop charges for former gubernatorial candidate [2018 - Andrew Gillum vs. Ron DeSantis]
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AP (via MSN.com) ^
| 25 December 2022
Gillum and a colleague were indicted earlier this year on federal charges including conspiracy, wire fraud and making false statements to FBI agents. Prosecutors
said Gillum funneled donations through third parties back to himself for personal use....According to prosecutors, Gillum met with undercover FBI agents posing as developers while he was mayor of Tallahassee and during his campaign for governor.
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VIDEO: Reminder that Broward County Almost Made Andrew Gillum Governor
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YouTube ^
| June 23, 2022 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEOWith the indictment of Andrew Gillum today it is easy to forget how close this Corruptocrat came to becoming governor of Florida in 2018 thanks to highly suspect late ballots that kept being "discovered" and counted long after the polls closed in Broward County. Fortunately the then governor of Florida Rick Scott
put a stop to this nonsense and forced the resignation of the Broward County Supervisor of Elections. However Broward County came very very close to making Gillum the governor over Ron DeSantis and might have done so if the very very delayed late vote count had not been...
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Criminal Indictment of Andrew Gillum Who Almost Became Gov of Florida
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Independent Sentinel ^
| June 22, 2022 | M Dowling
Andrew Gillum came within 38,000 votes of winning the gubernatorial election when he ran against Gov. Ron DeSantis. He was under investigation at the time. We
included the filing posted by attorney Harmeet Dhillon. Basically, Gillum lied, cheated, stole, committed fraud, and was generally corrupt according to the indictment. After he lost the gubernatorial, he was caught in a drug-fueled sex orgy with a male escort who almost died from overdosing on drugs. He had an alibi that blew up and appeared very corrupt.Sadly, he has three very young children.He ran on the anti-police, anti-prison platform as most corrupt people...
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Breaking — Andrew Gillum charged with 21 felonies…
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https://citizenfreepress.com ^
| Posted by Kane on June 22, 2022 11:44 am
Gillum claimed in a statement that he was innocent and that the charges were political, even though he is being charged by the Department of Justice, which is overseen by the Biden administration. “The
Indictment alleges that between 2016 and 2019, defendants Gillum and Lettman-Hicks conspired to commit wire fraud, by unlawfully soliciting and obtaining funds from various entities and individuals through false and fraudulent promises and representations that the funds would be used for a legitimate purpose,” the statement says. “The Indictment further alleges the defendants used third parties to divert a portion of those funds to a company...
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Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum indicted
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CBS Miami ^
| 22 June 2022 | CBS Miami Team
MIAMI - Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been indicted on multiple charges connected to campaign contribution fraud during his 2018 run for governor of Florida. A federal grand jury has returned a twenty-one count indictment against Gillum, 42. The
indictment alleges that between 2016 and 2019, Gillum and co-defendant Sharon Janet Lettman-Hicks conspired to commit wire fraud, by unlawfully soliciting and obtaining funds from various entities and individuals through false and fraudulent promises and representations that the funds would be used for a legitimate purpose. The indictment also alleges Gillum and Lettman-Hicks used third parties to divert a...
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Funny...Katie Hill and Andrew Gillum team up
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redstate | me
Funny...Two of the Democrats Crazies teamed up. Andrew
Gillum, last seen in a hotel room drugged with a male hooker, and Katie Hill, last seen in a threesome, started a podcast to tell people that Republicans are crazy.
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Most Consequential GOP Victory This Century Was Ron DeSantis Over Andrew Gillum in 2018. It’s Not Even Close
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Townhall.com ^
| May 3, 2021 | Scott Morefield
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking a small bit of flak from Team Reality for extending the state’s state of emergency order another 60 days on the same day last week that Tennessee’s Bill Lee lifted his and overtly required local mask mandates to end in the few remaining counties where
they still existed, but those critics are missing the bigger picture. It’s not that Florida did everything perfectly according to what most of us would have done. They didn’t, not by a long shot. While a handful of states never shut down at all at the onset of...
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VIDEO: Reactions to Andrew Gillum Revealing the Already Obvious
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YouTube ^
| September 15, 2020 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEO Was anybody the least bit surprised by Andrew Gillum's "revelation?" Perhaps
many in the media PRETENDED to be surprised but everybody already knew. Here are a few of the reactions to Gillum's "revelation." Some are already promoting that he may have a future again in politics. Yeah, that only works if the politician is a liberal but for a conservative to undergo even a much milder scandal? Naw!
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Andrew Gillum: ‘I don’t identify as gay, I identify as bisexual’
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thegrio ^
| Sep 14th 2020 | STEPHANIE GUERILUS, DEMICIA INMAN
Andrew Gillum and his wife addressed the controversy that has surrounded the former gubernatorial candidate since he was found unresponsive in a hotel room and entered rehab on the season 2 premiere of The Tamron Hall Show. “I cried every day,” Gillum told Tamron Hall. Gillum and his wife, R. Jai Gillum,
sat down with Hall for her eponymous talk show for the episode that aired on Monday, Sept. 14. A press release touted that he would “discuss his swift fall from grace, his rehabilitation experience in the face of adversity, and share what life looks like now.” Gillum told...
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Andrew Gillum says he identifies as bisexual
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CNN ^
| 09/14/20 | CNN
I wonder if getting caught passed out in your own vomit, in a hotel room with a male prostitute also passed out, with drugs all over the place along with blood and feces on the bed had anything to do with this announcement....Florida dodged a real bullet....
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Florida Dem Andrew Gillum breaks silence, recalls ‘lying in my own vomit’ after wild night
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Fox News ^
| 9/11/20 | Dom Calicchio
In 2018, Andrew Gillum was a rising star in the Democratic Party as its nominee to be governor of Florida. **SNIP** Nevertheless, Gillum referred to that photo in his conversation with Hall, which was previewed Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “When that photo came out, I didn’t recognize the person on
the floor,” Gillum told Hall in the ABC excerpt. “That was not anything more than a person being at their most vulnerable state, unconscious, having given no consent, and someone decided to use a moment where I was literally lying in my own vomit.” Gillum soon entered a...
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VIDEO: Andrew Gillum Leaves Rehab to Talk About His ALCOHOL ADDICTION
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YouTube ^
| July 21, 2020 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEO Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum just left rehab to reveal that he suffered from ALCOHOL ADDICTION. Got that? ALCOHOL
ADDICTION. And Andrew wants you to know that he had to battle against the shame of his ALCOHOL ADDICTION. Oh, and in case you don't know, Gillum suffered from ALCOHOL ADDICTION which he talked about at length in this video about ALCOHOL ADDICTION and only ALCOHOL ADDICTION.
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Legal fees, consultants continue to eat at remainder of Andrew Gillum PAC money
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5/12/20
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