To run the state at the time with Chump nut hugging DeSantis as the other option?You trusted him.
Absolutely.
I don't regret my vote, just regret donating to his campaign after learning of everything about dude AFTER he lost the election.
To run the state at the time with Chump nut hugging DeSantis as the other option?You trusted him.
All jokes aside Gillum probably wont mind prison
They came for him no homo.
Guesd that podcast wasn't hitting and he fell from grace, democrats couldn't even use him for influence anymore dude had no stroke no homo.
Straight-up Gay Mafia. They run BGOL too!! The #bootygang will be out in full force telling us to save the midterms for the Democrats and vote for Pete Buttigieg in 2024!
Former Florida Governor Candidate Andrew Gillum Charged With Campaign Fraud
Andrew Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee who came within about 34,000 votes of beating Ron DeSantis in the 2018 race for Florida governor, was indicted and arrested by federal authorities on Wednesday, according to court documents.
The 21-count indictment was unsealed Wednesday following his arrest. Gillum and his political adviser, Sharon Janet Lettman-Hicks, are charged with 19 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, with each count carrying a maximum of 20 years in prison. Gillum is also facing a count of making false statements to the FBI, which carries a maximum of five years in prison.
Federal prosecutors allege that Gillum and Lettman-Hicks diverted money from his political committee to pay Gillum directly, defrauding campaign mega-donors and other organizations that believed they were donating to legitimate political causes.
The indictment also accuses Gillum of lying to the FBI about his infamous 2016 trip to New York.
The indictment confirms that undercover agents, posing as business people looking to get government contracts in Tallahassee, paid for Gillum’s lodging at the Millennium Hilton hotel, his food and drink, a boat ride around New York Harbor and a ticket to the Broadway show “Hamilton.”
Gillum never disclosed the contributions and denied them when he officially met with the FBI in 2017, according to the indictment. He told reporters during his campaign for governor that his brother had given him the ticket to “Hamilton.”
Gillum makes a statement
In a statement Wednesday, Gillum said the case was politically motivated.
“Every campaign I’ve run has been done with integrity. Make no mistake that this case is not legal, it is political,” he said. “There’s been a target on my back ever since I was the mayor of Tallahassee. They found nothing then, and I have full confidence that my legal team will prove my innocence now.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is under Attorney General Merrick Garland, who was selected by President Joe Biden.
Lettman-Hicks did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment on the indictment. Last week, she officially qualified to run for a state House seat in District 8. According to court records, she agreed to surrender to the FBI at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
A hearing in the case is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday in a federal courthouse in Tallahassee.
The indictment alleges that Gillum and Lettman-Hicks diverted campaign donations and donations to other organizations they controlled to their personal accounts, in violation of state and federal law.
More specifically, Gillum and Lettman-Hicks defrauded an unnamed mega-donor of $150,000 of the $250,000 the person donated to Gillum’s campaign for governor, according to the indictment.
Instead of depositing the full $250,000 into Gillum’s campaign accounts, the indictment accuses Gillum and Lettman-Hicks of diverting it to a separate unnamed organization they controlled. Prosecutors say that $100,000 was then sent to Gillum’s campaign account, known as Forward Florida.
The rest was sent to Lettman-Hicks’ marketing company, P&P Communications, via a “fraudulent” agreement with the unnamed organization. The organization paid P&P to provide a “voter education program” that didn’t exist, according to the indictment.
“Pursuant to the fraudulent contract, P&P obtained $132,500 of Individual F’s campaign contribution, which was then disbursed to Lettman-Hicks and Gillum,” the indictment states.
Accused of diverting other campaign funds
The indictment also accuses Gillum and Lettman-Hicks of diverting $60,000 from the Gillum for Governor campaign account to P&P. Although the money was supposed to be used for get-out-the-vote efforts, the indictment states that Lettman-Hicks used it to make six payments of $5,000 each to Gillum’s personal account. Four of the payments were marked as “end of year bonus.”
Prosecutors also allege Gillum personally benefited from another organization he created in 2016: the “Campaign to Defend Local Solutions” which was designed, Gillum said, to combat Republican efforts to preempt local governments.
Gillum told donors he was raising $250,000 to hire an organizer and media firm, with the National Black Justice Coalition, a nonprofit run by Lettman-Hicks, accepting the money.
Two different organizations gave $100,000 each to the Campaign to Defend Local Solutions, but prosecutors said Lettman-Hicks diverted $50,000 of that to her own marketing company and used “most” of it to pay Gillum.
The indictment furthers Gillum’s fall from grace after he became a national progressive darling during his 2018 campaign for Florida governor, when he became the Democratic nominee in a historic upset. But even during that time, news reports had revealed that the FBI was looking into his activities as Tallahassee mayor.
After he lost the governor’s race by a margin small enough to trigger a machine recount, Gillum remained in the public eye, including as a commentator on CNN. But in March 2020, police said they responded to an overdose call and found him in a South Beach hotel room, too inebriated to talk, with two other men and three bags of suspected crystal meth on the bed and the floor. No arrests were made at the time.
Shortly after, Gillum came out as bisexual and announced he would be going to a rehabilitation facility for alcohol abuse. He’s lived a largely private life since.
This is a breaking story that will be updated.
He almost beat DeSantis to be Florida’s governor. Now Andrew Gillum is indicted
Andrew Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee who came within about 34,000 votes of beating Ron DeSantis in the 2018 race for Florida governor, was indicted and arrested by federal authorities on Wednesday, according to court documents.www.yahoo.com
Careful now, you don't want to get called a republican for having an independent thought like that here.Folks saying they coming from him and all Andrew has done it the wrong things. From cheating on his wife, hiring an en escort taking drugs, and committing fraud. Yet somehow they coming for him. Dude is a wolf in sheeps clothing. Dude would of done nothing for Black people.
Wild homoThey came for him no homo.
Guesd that podcast wasn't hitting and he fell from grace, democrats couldn't even use him for influence anymore dude had no stroke no homo.
When Andrew get out of jail
So is he in jail, out on
bond... what's his status?
The maximum terms of imprisonment for the offenses are as follows:
5 years: Making False Statements
20 years: Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud
20 years: Wire Fraud
Not in jail.
Fighting charges that has nothing to do with the hotel thing.
I'm catching up to the latest regarding Fed Charges.
Minimum could be 3 years but maximum for Gillum is 20+ years
The latest
UPDATED DECEMBER 23, 2022 3:59 PM
I notice Biden's DOJ is going after Black officials hard.
To both of them. Why not contest the charges as untruthful? During the trial you will prove you did not do this.
At first, I wondered why Trump stopped at “crackhead”…This mf needs to die in jail too. Old evil dead bastard! Somebody needs to kick this pos down a long flight of stairs!
He don’t give a fuck about no “Horseface”Stormy Daniels.At first, I wondered why Trump stopped at “crackhead”…
“And that’s not all, folks. He was caught in that crack den because he was cheating on his beautiful family with a male hooker! Isn’t that a shame?”
And it was when I imagined how he would say it that I realized why he didn’t. Male or not, the cheating with a hooker attack is too close to home for him!
Bring them all down.Andrew Gillum was almost elected Florida governor. Now he’s on trial in federal court
The former Tallahassee mayor who almost beat Ron DeSantis in the 2018 race for governor faces 17 counts of wire fraud related to campaign finances.www.yahoo.com
At the Waco rally where he mentioned Gillum, Trump denied the affair with Stormy, even though his lawyer has stated it happened as part of his defense. So he cares enough to lie about it.He don’t give a fuck about no “Horseface”Stormy Daniels.
This boy wild!
Andrew Gillum was almost elected Florida governor. Now he’s on trial in federal court
The former Tallahassee mayor who almost beat Ron DeSantis in the 2018 race for governor faces 17 counts of wire fraud related to campaign finances.www.yahoo.com
Two thoughts:The day after he lost the 2018 election, for example, Gillum emailed his campaign staff and said he was assigning Lettman-Hicks to oversee the campaign budgets.
The campaign then transferred $60,000 to Lettman-Hicks’ communications company, called P&P Communications, for expenses relating to get-out-the-vote efforts, federal prosecutors allege. P&P Communications then made four $5,000 transfers, called “bonuses,” to Gillum’s personal account.
The indictment alleges that nearly $57,000 in campaign and other contributions was illegally steered into Gillum’s personal account.
Gillum is also charged with lying to FBI agents.
Imagine the weird depression Andrew is going through. He is happy he beat the case but he can’t celebrate like he really wants too. He gotta be around family and friends while he really wanna meet in a motel and do weird stuff to celebrate. Them images won’t ever go away .
this idiot could of stopped desantis, but he chose dick instead. for fucks sake!