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Trump and 18 allies charged in Georgia election meddling as former president faces 4th criminal caseDonald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers and other aides of a “criminal enterprise” to keep him in power.
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An investigation began in February 2023, when the Liberty County Tax Collector's Office contacted the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles after learning that a large number of disabled parking placards were applied for and issued to one individual within their county on behalf of multiple persons residing in South Florida.
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Englewood man sentenced for assaulting law enforcement officers during Jan. 6 Capitol breach; Defendant assaulted police and led breach of line that collapsed police perimeter
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One of the vetoed bills (HB 605) would have revised a law that prohibits adults from having criminal records expunged if they had records expunged as juveniles.
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A former Fort Myers man will serve 16 months in prison after he was found guilty of fraudulent voter registration activities.Eugene Florence, 33, now of Moore Haven, was employed by an organization called “Hard Knocks,” a company that claims to mobilize voters to get people to register to vote. Florence worked for the organization in 2021, knowingly submitted voter registrations of individuals who did not swear to the oath or contents.
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The convictions and sentence of Casey David Crowther, 37, of Fort Myers, on fraud charges related to Covid relief funds have been affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta in one of the first federal appeals involving a fraudulent COVID-relief loan case.
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Scam artist committing real estate and property crimes, many in Lee County, gets six years in prisonTabria Josey, along with an accomplice, fraudulently listed underdeveloped plots of land with homebuilding or investment potential in several Florida counties. The case against her accomplice, Kiana Kiara-Alexis Russell, 22, of Loxahatchee, also involves charges of scheming to defraud, money laundering and aggravated white-collar crime and remains pending.The Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution filed the case in Lee County due to the fact that many of the victims and listed properties are in Lee County.
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Christopher John Worrell, a Collier County man facing charges in the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, has been found guilty before U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in Washington D.C.
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Police in both Southwest and South Florida confirmed swatting and false calls of shooters on college and other school campuses on Tuesday.
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Two Florida businessmen pleaded guilty yesterday to tax evasion., did not report over $3 Million in business receipts