"North Miami Beach Mayor Anthony DeFillipo walks out of jail after bonding out on Wednesday afternoon."
Posted on 06/03/2023 4:49:56 PM PDT by simpson96
MIAMI -- North Miami Beach Mayor Anthony DeFillipo was arrested Wednesday and has been charged with three felony counts of voting in a North Miami Beach district even though he no longer lived in the area for which he cast a ballot.
Each count carries a possible five-year-prison sentence.
Later in the day, CBS News Miami's cameras captured DeFillipo as he left jail, refusing to answer questions from reporters.
DeFillipo's attorney Michael Pizzi, calls the arrest politically motivated.
"The mayor has explained over and over again, and under oath, he always intended to and always lived in North Miami Beach."
Speaking during an afternoon news conference, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle detailed the three third-degree felony counts her office has filed against the mayor.
"We believe the evidence shows (DeFillipo) voted illegally three times," she said.
According to Fernandez Rundle, the mayor moved from his Miami-Dade home to relocate to a new residence in Davie. Despite that, she said DeFillipo still cast ballots on August, October and November 2022 in elections for a district he was no longer legally qualified to vote in.
Fernandez Rundle said cell phone data was used to track DeFillipo's location on the days where he voted, showing where he was phone before he traveled to Miami-Dade to cast a ballot.
"Our voting laws apply to everyone," she said. "There are no unwritten exceptions."
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"North Miami Beach Mayor Anthony DeFillipo walks out of jail after bonding out on Wednesday afternoon."
Too bad he won’t do much jail time probably.
DeFillipo: A Democrat cheating on an election is now illegal? Since when? Nobody gave me that memo. Sheesh.
He will be lucky to do 30 days.
CBS - the Criminals’ Best Supporter
There aren’t enough cells to jaill ALL VOTE FRAUD DEMOCRATS!!
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