Artiles worked with GOP firm Data Targeting on Senate races
The firm agreed to pay Artiles, a former legislator, $90,000 to work on âstate legislative campaign assignments.â
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Frank Artiles leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
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Long before Frank Artiles, a Miami legislator turned lobbyist, became the focus of a public corruption investigation, he got a call from one of Floridaâs most influential Republican consultants on a Monday afternoon in May 2020.
The conversation lasted five minutes.
Three weeks later, on June 9, they jumped on the phone two more times. By the end of the day, Pat Bainter, who runs the prominent GOP research firm Data Targeting Inc., and Artiles, who owns Miami firm Atlas Consultants, had a deal.