He almost became Florida's governor, but now, former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum is preparing to go to trial Monday for federal corruption charges.
He's accused of defrauding campaign donors and lying to the FBI. In 2018, Gillum nearly defeated former congressman Ron DeSantis in the Florida gubernatorial race losing by fewer than 34,000 votes.
Now, five years later, Gillum faces 17 counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of lying to the FBI. Prosecutors allege Gillum and his longtime advisor now co-defendant Sharon Lettman-Hicks, defrauded campaign mega-donors by soliciting money from organizations that thought they were donating to legitimate political causes.
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According to the federal indictment, Gillum is accused of pocketing a total of nearly $57,000 in campaign donations.
The charge accusing Gillum of lying to FBI agents stems back to 2016 when prosecutors say undercover FBI agents posing as real-estate developers paid for part of a trip Gillum and his brother took to New York City.
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