real election crimes committed by his own party. republicans ran ghost candidates last year. consultants spent more than $1 million on these independent candidates steined to draw votes from democrats. two people including a former state senator now charged with campaign fraud over the scheme. new reporting from the ceptinal reveals dark money came from florida s biggest utility company. joining me now orlando ceptinal senior reporter jason garcia. jason, before we get to your newest reporting i want you to walk us through this. how did the ghost candidates change the outcome of the election? yeah, so what happened here is there were three really intense battleground races that were for the florida senate. the florida senate is 40 seats. these three races were seen as key to deciding which party would control them. and in those races three independent candidates qualified for the ballot who did no exam
real election crimes committed by his own party. republicans ran ghost candidates last year. consultants spent more than $1 million on these independent candidates steined to draw votes from democrats. two people including a former state senator now charged with campaign fraud over the scheme. new reporting from the ceptinal reveals dark money came from florida s biggest utility company. joining me now orlando ceptinal senior reporter jason garcia. jason, before we get to your newest reporting i want you to walk us through this. how did the ghost candidates change the outcome of the election? yeah, so what happened here is there were three really intense battleground races that were for the florida senate. the florida senate is 40 seats. these three races were seen as key to deciding which party