Dark money details emerge as former Florida state senator and no-party candidate head to court Ana Ceballos and Samantha J. Gross, Miami Herald © MATIAS J. OCNER/TNS Frank Artiles leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
An alleged election scheme that stumped Florida’s political world for over half a year is about to spill into court, as former Republican Senator Frank Artiles is set to plead not guilty and ask for a jury trial in a high-profile public corruption case.
Artiles, who will be arraigned Friday in the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami, is facing several felony charges for allegedly recruiting and paying Alexis Pedro Rodriguez, an auto-parts dealer and longtime acquaintance, to run as a no-party candidate in Miami-Dade’s Senate District 37 race to sway the outcome of the election. In a court filing from March uploaded to the hearing docket Friday, he revealed his intention to enter a no
Dark money details emerge as former Florida state senator and no-party candidate head to court
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Search warrant: Former Florida state senator had paperwork for no-party candidate in second Miami state Senate race Samantha J. Gross and Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald © Pedro Portal, TNS/The Daytona Beach News-Journal/TNS Frank Artiles in Palmetto Bay, Fla., on March 17, 2021.
MIAMI Former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles was in possession of campaign documents of two spoiler no-party candidates who ran in separate, competitive Miami-Dade state Senate races in 2020, according to a 38-page search warrant obtained Thursday by the Miami Herald.
Artiles, 47, is facing multiple felony campaign finance related charges in connection with recruiting and paying an alleged spoiler candidate with the goal of swaying the outcome of Miami-Dade’s Senate District 37 race.
Former Senator Frank Artiles faces new charges in alleged shill candidate scheme
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Former Senator Frank Artiles and Alexis Rodriguez, his alleged accomplice in a plot to manipulate Miami-Dade County’s Senate District 37 race, were facing new criminal charges on Thursday in Miami-Dade.
The charges stem from new evidence investigators found during a March 17 raid at Artiles’ home. Prosecutors accuse Artiles, now a lobbyist, of paying Rodriguez about $50,000 to run as an independent.
Ileana Garcia, the Republican candidate, won the Senate District 37 race against the Democratic incumbent, Jose Javier Rodriguez, by just over 30 votes. More than 6,000 voted for Alex Rodriguez.