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Florida mayor charged with voting in district where he no longer lived
Read full article: Florida mayor charged with voting in district where he no longer livedThe mayor of a South Florida city has been arrested on illegal voting charges following months of accusations that he no longer lived in the city where he served.
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Florida police officer run over while investigating hit-and-run, officials say
Read full article: Florida police officer run over while investigating hit-and-run, officials sayA woman ran over a police officer who was trying to stop her from fleeing, and at least one officer fired shots at her, authorities said.
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Former Florida commissioner sentenced for taking bribes from strip club owner
Read full article: Former Florida commissioner sentenced for taking bribes from strip club ownerNORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. โ Former North Miami Beach Commissioner Frantz Pierre has been sentenced to two years of community control with a GPS monitor followed by four years of reporting probation for taking bribes from a strip club owner, prosecutors announced on Wednesday. According to the Miami-Dade State Attorneyโs Office, Pierre pleaded guilty to taking $12,500 in bribes from the business owner for his city commission vote to allow extended after-hours liquor sales at the strip club, News 6 partner Local 10 reported. According to his arrest warrant, investigators found that Dean Tyler, the owner of Deanโs Gold strip club, paid Pierre the $12,500 in bribes from December 2013 to September 2014 to vote in his favor. Pierre also pleaded guilty to stealing $2,000 from the city through a fraudulent grant application, prosecutors said. Neither I nor the skilled investigators of my Public Corruption Task Force will ever allow that to happen.โProsecutors said Pierre pleaded guilty to all charges.