State pardons gym owners over facemask violations
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Mike Carnevale was charged with three misdemeanors after allowing patrons to workout last summer without facemasks.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Clemency Board pardoned a husband and wife Wednesday on charges they violated local emergency orders in Broward County last year.
Their crime: refusing to require their 2,000 patrons to wear masks while working out. The business, owned by Mike and Jillian Carnevale, was seized and closed. Mike Carnevale was hit with three misdemeanor charges.
DeSantis called the arrests an overreach.
“So they declined to put people’s health at risk and basically, I think, exercised common sense,” DeSantis said.
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