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Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Senate candidate


Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Senate candidate
Ana Ceballos and Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald
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A sign points the way to the Miami office of State Senator Frank Artiles, who resigned from the Florida Senate on April 21, 2017.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles made an offer to a recent college graduate last September: He would pay her $1,500 to chair a political committee and in exchange, she would have to do nothing.

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Probe into sham Senate candidacy reveals financial links


Updated July 24
Probe into sham Senate candidacy reveals financial links
Documents released late Friday provide new details about a former Florida state senator's alleged attempt to sway an election.
By Ana Ceballos and Mary Ellen KlasTribune News Service
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles made an offer to a recent college graduate last September: He would pay her $1,500 to chair a political committee and in exchange, she would have to do nothing.
At the time, 25-year-old Hailey DeFilippis, of Palm Harbor, had just found out she was pregnant and was “freaking out about money.”

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Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Florida state Senate candidate


Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Florida state Senate candidate
Ana Ceballos and Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald
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Frank Artiles leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, Florida, on March 18, 2021.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles made an offer to a recent college graduate last September: He would pay her $1,500 to chair a political committee and in exchange, she would have to do nothing.
At the time, 25-year-old Hailey DeFilippis, of Palm Harbor, had just found out she was pregnant and was “freaking out about money.”

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Records provide more details in sham 2020 Florida candidate probe


Records provide more details in sham 2020 Florida candidate probe
Records show a Palm Harbor woman was paid to chair a political committee.
 
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TALLAHASSEE — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank Artiles made an offer to a recent college graduate last September: He would pay her $1,500 to chair a political committee and in exchange, she would have to do nothing.
At the time, 25-year-old Hailey DeFilippis, of Palm Harbor, had just found out she was pregnant and was “freaking out about money.”
So, she took up Alex Alvarado on the offer. And put her name down as chair of The Truth, a dark money-funded political committee that spent $180,000 on political mail advertisements promoting sham candidates in key 2020 state Senate elections — two in Miami-Dade and one in Central Florida.

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Dark money details emerge as former Florida state senator and no-party candidate head to court


Dark money details emerge as former Florida state senator and no-party candidate head to court
Ana Ceballos and Samantha J. Gross, Miami Herald
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Frank Artiles leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
An alleged election scheme that stumped Florida’s political world for over half a year is about to spill into court, as former Republican Senator Frank Artiles is set to plead not guilty and ask for a jury trial in a high-profile public corruption case.
Artiles, who will be arraigned Friday in the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami, is facing several felony charges for allegedly recruiting and paying Alexis Pedro Rodriguez, an auto-parts dealer and longtime acquaintance, to run as a no-party candidate in Miami-Dade’s Senate District 37 race to sway the outcome of the election. In a court filing from March uploaded to the hearing docket Friday, he revealed his intention to enter a not-guilty plea, ask for the jury trial and request discovery evidence held by the state attorney’s office.

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Dark money details emerge as former Florida state senator and no-party candidate head to court

Dark money details emerge as former Florida state senator and no-party candidate head to court
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Trial may expose Florida's dark money behind spoiler candidates

Trial may expose Florida's dark money behind spoiler candidates
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