(AP) — Former Florida Democratic candidate for governor ... was acquitted Thursday of lying to the FBI in a corruption case that also involved illegal use of campaign contributions.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Federal prosecutors in the Andrew Gillum corruption case are moving to dismiss charges against the former Florida mayor and his political mentor. In a Monday morning filing ...

Captain Gabriel Garcia, who has served with the department since 2007, is accused of fraudulently obtaining a 100% VA ...

A North Florida attorney caught in an FBI probe of ... agreeing to help prosecutors make their case against O’Steen. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison, four months less than O’Steen ...

Attorney General James Uthmeier says the state would not sit on the sideline while many hospitals have "extorted patients who have come in with life-or-death cases and left with crippling debt." ...

The newly appointed U.S. attorney for Florida’s Middle District says he wants to fight for the “greater good.” Hopefully that ...

The law regarding “honest services fraud” tends to be used to combat corruption. If ... the state’s attorney general could pursue a fraud case. But that possibility is out with Hope Florida, as it ...

The bribes came from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption in South Florida. The same 2008 investigation resulted in criminal charges against then-Broward School Board member Beverly ...

The Monroe County State Attorney's Office will ask a Key West judge to make a no-contact order with state witnesses part of ...

Genaro Garcia Luna, formerly a high-ranking government official, is serving a 38-year sentence for accepting bribes.

Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since ... Thursday afternoon in the corruption case against former Miami-Dade ...

Then there were the fines against “ghost candidates” who were cynically recruited to hoodwink voters and siphon votes from legitimate contenders, cases deeply reported by the Florida media.