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.
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Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Senate candidate Ana Ceballos and Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald © Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America/TNS A sign points the way to the Miami office of State Senator Frank Artiles, who resigned from the Florida Senate on April 21, 2017.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles made an offer to a recent college graduate last September: He would pay her $1,500 to chair a political committee and in exchange, she would have to do nothing.
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