Disgraced DeSantis foe Andrew Gillum has chosen the perfect lawyer to represent him on federal fraud charges

Remember Andrew Gillum? He’s the Florida Governor who wasn’t, thanks in no small part to some poor life choices:

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Thanks to Gillum, Ron DeSantis is the current Governor of Florida. So don’t let anyone tell you that Andrew Gillum never did anything good.

Anyway, Gillum is apparently bracing for an indictment today, and he’s doing it like a real champ:

Andrew Gillum, the once-rising Florida Democratic star who narrowly lost his 2018 gubernatorial race against Ron DeSantis, has told associates that he expects to be indicted in federal court as early as today for alleged fraud tied to his campaign, NBC News has learned.

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— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) June 22, 2022

Gillum surrendered at 10 am and expects indictment to be unsealed at 1, associates say

We don’t have specifics but here’s the first full story (working on it since last night but they blasted out a statement this am confirming)https://t.co/YTVnOusr0z

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) June 22, 2022

More from Marc Caputo at NBC News:

The exact charges are unclear and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida would neither confirm nor deny details about the criminal case against Gillum. In a written statement to NBC News, Gillum acknowledged the case but said it is politically motivated without offering specifics.

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The expected indictment would mark a new low for Gillum, a married father of three who withdrew from public life as a political leader and a paid CNN commentator after a March 2020 sex scandal involving a suspected male overdose victim in a South Beach hotel.

At the time, Gillum said he was abusing alcohol as he coped with his loss to DeSantis, but campaign finance records and a leaked criminal subpoena in 2019 showed that Gillum also faced the pressure of an FBI investigation.