MIAMI — CBS News Miami’s Jim DeFede carries on scrutinizing the a few-moreover decades during which Katherine Fernandez Rundle has led the Miami-Dade Point out Attorney’s Office. Not performing plenty of to prosecute public corruption instances has been — in accordance to some — a weak point of Rundle. This 7 days, Jim’s visitor is South Miami Mayor Javier Fernandez.
This is why: All through the 2020 election, Fernandez was functioning for point out senate as a Democrat. At the time, there was a coordinated and effectively-financed effort to choose out Democratic Senate candidates by applying so-called “ghost candidates” as a way of siphoning votes absent from them. The group allegedly violated marketing campaign finance rules by injecting far more than $700,000 in dim dollars into these ghost candidates.
Frank Artiles, a disgraced previous point out senator, was billed with violating campaign finance legislation – prices he denies in advance of his trial later on this calendar year. Fernandez was one of the candidates whom Artiles allegedly focused with a ghost candidate.
Visitor: Mayor Javier Fernandez/Town of South Miami
