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Florida mayor arrested for grand theft and fraud related to COVID relief funds

“Public officials do not get to write the rules and then write themselves a check,” said Attorney General James Uthmeier. “The mayor used her position to push a COVID relief grant program, then took $50,000 from it for her family’s business

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Florida mayor arrested for grand theft and fraud related to COVID relief funds
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“Public officials do not get to write the rules and then write themselves a check,” said Attorney General James Uthmeier. “The mayor used her position to push a COVID relief grant program, then took $50,000 from it for her family’s businesses after being warned it was prohibited.

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