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Florida Commission Finds Probable Cause to Investigate Gillum for Ethics Violations
National Review ^ | 25 Jan 2019 | Jack Crowe

Posted on 01/26/2019 8:02:52 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

A Florida ethics commission announced Friday that there is sufficient evidence to proceed with an investigation into former Tallahassee mayor and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum’s decision to accept gifts while on a trip with a local lobbyist in 2016.

Gillum’s attorney, Barry Richard, told reporters Friday that an administrative-law judge would likely hear the case in the next 30 to 45 days.

“We’re going to have a full evidentiary hearing before an independent judge. It’ll be open to the public, and everybody can decide for themselves,” Richard said following a closed-door hearing at the Florida First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee. “There for sure will be no settlement.”

Erwin Jackson, the Tallahassee businessman who filed the complaint against Gillum, told reporters that the commission found probable cause to investigate five out of six possible ethics violations, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

“This is a victory for the good ones,” Jackson said.

The complaint focuses on trips Gillum took with long-time friend and lobbyist Adam Corey prior to his run for governor. In 2016, Gillum traveled to New York with Corey and two FBI agents posing as land developers to investigate Tallahassee government corruption. Text messages released by the ethics commission in October show that Gillum was aware that one of the men he believed was a land developer bought his ticket to a Broadway production of Hamilton, as well as paying for a boat tour around the Statue of Liberty.

Gillum, however, maintains that he believed his brother purchased the ticket, the cost of which he later reimbursed.

The ethics commission is also looking into an August 2016 trip Gillum took to Costa Rica with his wife, which was arranged by Corey after he won a week-long stay in a luxury villa.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election2018; florida; gillum

1 posted on 01/26/2019 8:02:52 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

And come to think of it Gillum was less than 1%away from becoming governor of Florida!


2 posted on 01/26/2019 8:14:37 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

They will throw everything they can at Stone. Gillum will get a slap on wrist, after all he’s a democrap.


3 posted on 01/26/2019 8:15:13 PM PST by inchworm
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Gillum is a typical politician... CORRUPT!!


4 posted on 01/26/2019 9:02:43 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: entropy12

Scary, isn’t it. Sadly he represents so many libs winning in other states. We dodged a bullet here, big time. Thank goodness for the panhandle. I wonder how long it will be before they start moving immigrants there to change the voting base.


5 posted on 01/27/2019 12:42:29 AM PST by lilypad
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

This is why Democrats were fighting so hard to win this race. If he was governor this would have all gone away; but now he may go away.


6 posted on 01/27/2019 6:05:32 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: lilypad

Scary is right I couldn’t believe how close it was


7 posted on 01/27/2019 6:10:31 AM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Florida Freeper


8 posted on 01/27/2019 8:24:59 AM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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