He 'can resume his life': Case against Andrew Gillum dropped

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Source: Tallahassee Democrat





Jeff Burlew William L. Hatfield May16, 2023



A federal judge overseeing the Andrew Gillum corruption case has granted federal prosecutors' request to dismiss charges against the former Tallahassee mayor and Democratic gubernatorial nominee and his political mentor.

In a Monday morning filing in U.S. District court, the government "respectfully moves that this court dismiss the indictment against the Defendants Andrew Gillum and Sharon Lettman-Hicks."

The government did not comment on the move, which came after the Tallahassee Democrat reported that jurors overwhelmingly favored acquitting the two and urged prosecutors to drop the case.

Judge Allen Winsor issued an order completely dismissing the case making the move official. He canceled a previously scheduled hearing set for Wednesday................



Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/fbi/2023/05/15/andrew-gillum-corruption-case-prosecutors-move-to-drop-charges/70204307007/

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umm. get his life back?? It will be different that is for sure.

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[hlthe2b]

1. He might have spared us all DeSantis. No matter his liabilities, he'd surely have been immeasurably

BETTER.

[speak easy]

16. He would have spared us all DeSantis

if he hadn't decided to run in 2018.

[hay rick]

17. Absolutely.

The FBI investigation was active and had been publicized months before the primary.

He won the primary because Jeff Greene didn't use his millions to attack him and he was the "progressive" in a 5-person Democratic primary.

His campaign was embarrassingly incompetent. I ran a local party office that hosted his campaign locally. We waited a full month after Florida's super-late primary (August 27) for his field organizers to show up. They showed up at the same time as Florida's general election mail ballots were being delivered to voters.

[speak easy]

18. :(

Oh man, some of that stuff is news to me.

[DonCoquixote]

2. The same people that were eager to ditch Gillum

were all too ready to run Charlie Crist again, even though Gillum did far better than that former GOP.

[markie]

3. "resume his life"

easier said than done after all the press

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I am so hoping he can find evidence that this entire investigation was a dirty trick

strategy brought on by Trump.

[malaise]

5. THIS

It was criminal

[onecaliberal]

10. Of course it was. They have to cheat. It is their only means of getting into office.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Twitter followup:

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[riversedge]

21. And the picture was NEVER verified. geez!!

[mcar]

7. He was a dynamic politician with good ideas

and boatloads of charisma. He lost to DS by only 40,000 votes (similar to Bill Nelson loss to Sen Voldemort).

That same election, more than 60% of voters approved a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to returning citizens.

Never made any sense to me.

[FM123]

8. Seems like a hundred years ago...

I remember how excited we all were when we voted for him, thinking what an amazing governor he was going to be. At first we were going to vote for Dem Gwen Graham, barely knew who Gillum was - then we heard Andrew speak. He was amazing. He had us at hello.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Where does one go to get all that back?

[RussBLib]

11. why can't he run for governor again?

Now Gillum has been inoculated, so to speak.

[bottomofthehill]

12. There is still that little incident with the meth and the male prostitute.

I don’t know that he is ready to jump right in to the next race as the front runner. That said, Marion Barry was able to come back.

[RussBLib]

15. oh yeah, that

I have to confess I was unaware of many details of Gillum's misadventure with Dyson until I read some things today. Just had a broad outline of it.

That's gonna be a fairly high hurdle to clear. But this is America, baby, where anything is possible. Just look at Trump!

[live love laugh]

13. Political assassination is a Republican tactic. They damaged him.

[dchill]

14. "Never mind."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. And now all remaining charges have been DISMISSED.

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[SleeplessinSoCal]

20. I read several years ago about a horrible account of him

...at a wedding or something. It was extremely provocative and I wonder if it was all a fabrication.