Attorney's Office has spent the past week questioning FBI agents and campaign donors to present its case that Gillum pocketed illegal campaign contributions because he was having a hard time paying for his lifestyle after quitting his job to run for governor. The trial against Gillum began last Monday and was scheduled to run for three weeks. Vince Evans, who served as Gillum's political director for north Florida and helped oversee get-out-the-vote efforts, testified Tuesday that he didn't know what specific role P&P played but said the company was used to pay get-out-the-vote workers. He said that after the primary, the campaign didn’t have the luxury of time to build a perfect operation because it had to move so quickly to staff up and raise money. Under cross-examination, Davis said the campaign raised about $56 million. Davis testified he didn’t recall P&P working for the campaign but also said he wouldn't have necessarily been aware of it. Prosecutors have alleged that $60,000 of the campaign’s get-out-the-vote money went to P&P Communications before ultimately going to Gillum, who they said used it for expenses unrelated to the campaign. Ron DeSantis in 2018 testified Tuesday that he didn’t recall whether a public relations company accused of illegally funneling campaign funds to the candidate was working as a vendor for the campaign.įederal prosecutors called Brandon Davis, who served as campaign manager for former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum when he ran for governor, to testify about the campaign's get-out-the-vote efforts, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. – The former campaign manager for the Florida Democrat who nearly beat Republican Gov.
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