The Eleventh Circuit has dropped its face mask and social distancing requirements for court visitors who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while planning to resume in-person hearings in June.
Instead, she and her chief of staff used nearly all the money to pay for such things as luxury vacations, galas, NFL games and Beyoncé concert tickets for themselves.
Only $1,200 went to scholarships, the fraud indictment against her charged. As a result, the 12-term Democratic congresswoman lost her bid for re-election in 2016 and stood trial in a federal criminal court in Jacksonville the following year.
This was a slam-dunk case. Her chief of staff pleaded guilty and provided evidence against Brown at her trial. And there was a paper trail.
Prospective jurors in her case were screened carefully about any information they may have heard outside the courtroom and their own “political, religious or moral beliefs” that might hamper them in being impartial jurors.