Posted on 04/19/2023 10:04:22 PM PDT by CFW
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 for his children, and living well when he quit his six-figure job at People for the American Way to run for the Democratic nomination.
"This case is not about politics. This case is about deceiving donors and stealing from his own campaign," Milligan said during his opening arguments.
The 43-year-old, who lost the race against DeSantis in 2018, is accused of accepting $57,000 in political contributions that were funneled through the company of his longtime political adviser Sharon Lettman-Hicks and deposited into his personal piggy bank.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
For instance, his actions in the hotel room where he was busted are cleaned up in this manner:
"In 2020, Gillum was found in a Miami Beach hotel room with a man who had apparently overdosed on drugs. Police said Gillum himself was too inebriated to talk about what happened."
The above qualifiers make it sound as if Gillum had had a few beers and had nothing to do with the other man found who had overdosed.
Why is this case just now coming to trial, if that’s what is happening here? Maybe his lawyer requested a delay, wanting to more thoroughly examine all briefs, is my guess.
“Why is this case just now coming to trial, if that’s what is happening here? “
It’s common for cases such as this to take a couple of years to get to trial. Plus, add in the ridiculous extensions in Court cases due to Covid, and it is not really that much of a delay.
In other words, he’s a typical Democrat.
Covid strikes again!
On the other hand, pretty much ALL of them do this. from City Council to President. Some of them make a career out of running for office with no intention of actually being elected.
He was with ‘People for the American Way’?
You’d have trouble finding a more communist group in all of America. They’re truly devils.
He was told that The Steal was "in"...
Gay chaps gillum and his gay dead friend and drugs nothing to see here
Who is this gay dead friend?
Those muscle bound white male prostitutes aren’t cheap I guess?
Typical Democrat. Look at the grifting Biden family.
From last year...
From 2020...
https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/man-busted-with-andrew-gillum-in-hotel-room-with-meth-was-gay-escort/
I guess the DNC didn’t explain to him how to get “ legal” donations.
The other gay DIED??
Simple solution:
Put him in prison.
Nothing to see here, just move along. Everybody wakes up in the morning with a male hooker whom has overdosed in a seedy motel with various bodily fluids about the room. /S
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