LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) – A Florida man has been sentenced to 2\u201320 years in prison after being convicted of election fraud in Michigan.<\/p>\n
Big picture view:<\/p>\n
Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that Willie Reed of Pompano Beach, Florida was sentenced to 24 months to 240 months\u2019 after being convicted by a Macomb County jury of defrauding gubernatorial candidates James Craig, Perry Johnson, Michael Markey, and Ryan Kelley in the 2022 election.<\/p>\n
Reed was ordered to pay $333,817 in restitution to the victims.<\/p>\n
Nessel said in 2022, the candidates contracted with businesses owned and operated by Reed and Shawn Wilmoth, a co-defendant, for the fulfillment of their nomination signature requirements to appear on the primary ballots.<\/p>\n
Reed charged the campaigns around $350,000 for valid signature collection, then delivered tens of thousands of forged signatures on nomination petitions to the campaigns.<\/p>\n
Co-defendant Wilmoth was sentenced to 4 to 20 years\u2019 incarceration earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n Reed was found guilty of:<\/p>\n One count of Conducting a Criminal Enterprise;Two counts of False Pretenses, $100,000 or more;One count of False Pretenses, $50,000 to $100,000;Three counts of Use of a Computer to Commit a Crime, $20,000 or more;One count of Use of a Computer to Commit a Crime, $1,000 to $20,000;One count of Larceny by Conversion, $1,000 to $20,000; andThree counts of Election Law Forgery <\/p>\n The Michigan Bureau of Elections detected the forgeries, and the Department of State referred the matter to the Department of Attorney General for investigation in June 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The actions of the defendants deliberately undermined our electoral process and denied voters their choices in our primary,” said Nessel. “I hope this outcome serves as a deterrent to others who attempt to subvert our system.”<\/p>\n Nessel charged Reed and Wilmoth in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Michigan<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) – A Florida man has been sentenced to 2\u201320 years in prison after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,28,30,29,338,115,628],"class_list":["post-213931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-mi","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}