Tampa will pay legal fees of former City Council member Orlando Gudes
A former aide sued him in a case that rocked Tampa’s political scene. It was dismissed.
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A former aide sued him in a case that rocked Tampa’s political scene. It was dismissed.
TAMPA — Two years after the release of a monthslong investigation that found Orlando Gudes made a litany of sexual and crude comments to his former aide while he was a Tampa City Council member, he is seeking more than $45,000 to pay his legal expenses from defending himself. That’s because while the investigation — conducted by a private law firm at the city’s direction and on taxpayers’ dime ...
Just one of the four current applicants lives in Hillsborough County — and he’s thinking of withdrawing.