Finally! Some legal accountability in the Florida GOP’s ghost candidate operation. h/t @gal_suburban #FlaPol #GOPElectionFraud #ProtectOurVotes 1/
https://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1529116542574772224
2/ “Jestine Iannotti, one of three ‘ghost’ candidates who ran as independents for Florida Senate seats in 2020, has been arrested on several criminal charges, alongside a political consultant involved in launching her campaign and Seminole County’s Republican Party chairman.”
3/ “The office of Seminole-Brevard State Attorney Phil Archer announced the charges against Iannotti, James ‘Eric’ Foglesong and Benjamin Paris on Tuesday, which the agency said stemmed from an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.”
4/ Here’s a thread I did on three of the Florida GOP’s ghost candidate scams. The indictments today pertain to the state senate race won by Jason Brodeur. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1422067…
5/ From a memo I created to keep track. 
6/ Gaetz is reportedly implicated in the pro-Brodeur scam that resulted in today’s indictments. Naturally, no charges for him. Not yet anyway.
https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1396182647861387275
7/ Brodeur seems tight with DeSantis who will presumably ignore today’s indictments. h/t @gal_suburban
8/ Thanks to @gal_suburban’s killer sleuthing, we know that Brodeur may also have ties to Jacob Engels, Roger Stone’s longtime assistant, who runs the fake news site called the Central Florida Post (CFP).
9/ Brodeur is friendly not only with @RepMattGaetz, but also with @ch_Anderson, the Republican Supervisor of Elections in Seminole County (where Brodeur won his state senate seat > Republicans planted a sham “independent” candidate in the race). #FlaPol
10/ Foglesong, the Republican political consultant arrested re: the Florida ghost candidate scandal tainting Republican state Senator Jason Brodeur’s “win” was involved in another FL ghost candidate scandal too: the one tainting Republican state Senator Ileana Garcia’s “win.”
11/ More incredible work by @gal_suburban.
https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1396182663418028044
12/ Naturally, Florida state Senator Jason Brodeur, who “won” > Republicans planted a ghost candidate in his race, is pals with indicted Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg (Gaetz’s pal who pled guilty to sex trafficking of a minor).
13/ Yes, there is more than a photo to make the point.
https://twitter.com/alisonhoimes/status/1313967562137505792
14/ Wait. Ileana Garcia, the Republican beneficiary of another Republican-planted ghost candidate, previously ran Latinas for Trump???
https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1502488087846436873
15/ It is relevant that Florida state Senator Ileana Garcia (who “won” > Rs planted a ghost candidate to help her) ran Latinas for Trump bc that group was apparently involved in hosting a 2016 Miami rally that Russians reportedly helped fund, per Mueller’s indictment. FFS.
16/ Link to screenshots in post 15. miaminewtimes.com/news/mueller-r…
17/ I highly recommend following @gal_suburban, if you aren’t already. She is making a difference w/ her OSINT investigative skills.
https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1529140444365471745
18/ I also highly recommend subscribing to @orlandosentinel, which has been all over the Florida Republican ghost candidate scandal, demanding accountability when state & county authorities turned a blind eye. orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-…
19/ The GOP is a criminal enterprise. We must support those watch them like a hawk.
21/ .@CordByrd is Florida’s new DeSantis-appointed Secretary of State. He plans to deflect from the GOP’s serious election crimes in FL (including ghost candidates & illegal switching of voter registrations from D to R) by “policing” individual voters. #GOPElectionFraud #FlaPol
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