Democratic Florida Mayor arrested on three felonies for alleged illegal voting

North Miami Beach Mayor Anthony DeFillipo (D) has been arrested and charged with three counts of voter fraud as allegations were made that he did not live in the community in which he is mayor. A complaint against him to the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust alleges that DeFillipo lives in Davie, which is in Broward County in violation of the North Miami Beach city charter requiring elected officials live in the city they represent. What a concept.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle claims that cell phone data tracked the mayor on three occasions when he drove from Davie to North Miami Beach to vote in elections in August, October, and November.

“It wasn’t as if, ‘Oops, I forgot once.’ This is three times in rapid succession,” Fernandez Rundle said. She tweeted: 

We in law enforcement take actions which violate our election laws very seriously. They are crimes. Today, we are charging Anthony DeFillipo, the present Mayor ⁦@NorthMiamiBeach⁩, with 3 counts of Unqualified Voters Willfully Voting, 3rd degree felonies. pic.twitter.com/pUICntyegS

— Kathy Rundle (@KathyFndzRundle)

DeFillipo had told WTVJ-TV that his voting trips were an inadvertent mistake.

“I totally forgot, it was an oversight and I had it fixed immediately when I noticed. We’re human, we make mistakes,” he said.

DeFillipo’s attorney Michael Pizzi, disputed the charges against the mayor.

“The mayor has explained over and over again, and under oath, he always intended to and always lived in North Miami Beach,” Pizzi said, according to CBS.

Fernandez Rundle disagrees.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has suspended DeFillipo at this time.

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