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Fritz Scheller is representing the ex-tax collector whose cooperation with DOJ could spell trouble for Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Scheller also defended the wife of the man who killed 49 people in the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.
Well known in Florida legal circles, Scheller has been deemed the lawyer to call when someone s in a bind.
Tyrone Smith was already facing up to 15 years in a federal penitentiary for distributing narcotics when he first met his court-appointed attorney, Fritz Scheller.
As a Black man who had been previously incarcerated, Smith knew that his chances of getting a lesser prison sentence were slim. Still, he asked his new lawyer to try to get the penalty reduced to five years.