![]() ![]() ![]() “This is a circumstantial-evidence case,” Milligan said. Prosecutors urged jurors to look at the evidence in its totality, and they suggested that Gillum and Lettman-Hicks schemed during their numerous phone conversations. Attorney Gary Milligan told jurors on Friday.īut the government had no direct evidence of Gillum and Lettman-Hicks scheming. “The fraud is saying all of this is going to get out the vote,” Assistant U.S. ![]() Gillum, who was on P&P’s payroll, then received four $5,000 payments from the company marked “end of year bonus.” The government alleged that Lettman-Hicks never performed the get-out-the-vote efforts. Prosecutors showed that Gillum’s campaign within weeks paid $60,000 to Lettman-Hicks’ company, P&P Communications, for get-out-the-vote efforts. Prosecutors described a complicated web of financial transactions that they said showed Gillum and Lettman-Hicks “cheating” donors and their campaign out of money.Īfter Gillum lost to DeSantis, for example, he appointed Lettman-Hicks as campaign treasurer. Prosecutors told jurors that Gillum was desperate to make up $120,000 in income he lost when he resigned from his job with a liberal nonprofit to run for governor. ![]() The federal government accused Gillum, 43, and Hicks of illegally steering political contributions to their personal accounts during his 2018 run for governor. Charges stem from 2018 campaign for governor Former Tallahassee mayor and 2018 Democratic nominee for Florida governor, Andrew Gillum arrives at the Federal Courthouse for jury selection for his corruption trial Monday, April 17, 2023. ![]()
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