The Democrat was a rising star who narrowly lost to DeSantis in the 2018 governor’s race.
“Andrew Gillum had the courage to stand up and say ‘I am innocent,’” Gillum’s legal team of David Oscar Markus, Margot Moss, and Katie Miller said in a statement. “And that is finally being recognized. We want to thank the hard working jury who did their job and explained to the government why it should drop the case. Andrew has endured a lot over the past few years and now can resume his life and public service.
Gillum on Monday afternoon tweeted out a screenshot of the government motion in which he said “But God” and emojis including hands in prayer. After his narrow loss, Gillum planned to harness his star power to help Democrats in his home state, especially in voter registration efforts. But he removed himself from politics and public life in March 2020 after police found him in a Miami Beach hotel room too inebriated to talk with a male who is. Police found three bags of suspected crystal meth, but Gillum said he’d had too much alcohol to drink but did not do any drugs.
The trial began in April and ended with the jury reaching an acquittal on a charge that Gillum had lied to the FBI regarding a 2016 trip he took with his brother to New York that had included a boat tour and tickets to the hit Broadway show “Hamilton.” In 2019, Gillum agreed to pay a $5,000 fine to the state ethics commission to settle allegations surrounding the New York trip and a trip to Costa Rica.
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