{"id":214242,"date":"2026-04-01T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:19:09","slug":"florida-man-convicted-in-2022-michigan-signature-collection-election-fraud-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214242\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man convicted in 2022 Michigan signature collection election fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

A man in Florida has been sentenced for election fraud in Michigan.<\/p>\n

He was convicted of defrauding gubernatorial candidates James Craig, Perry Johnson, Michael Markey, and Ryan Kelley in the 2022 election.<\/p>\n

Co-defendant Wilmoth was sentenced to 4 to 20 years\u2019 incarceration earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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;<\/p>\n

Two counts of False Pretenses, $100,000 or more;<\/p>\n

One count of False Pretenses, $50,000 to $100,000;<\/p>\n

Three counts of Use of a Computer to Commit a Crime, $20,000 or more;<\/p>\n

One count of Use of a Computer to Commit a Crime, $1,000 to $20,000;<\/p>\n

One count of Larceny by Conversion, $1,000 to $20,000; and<\/p>\n

Three 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.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A man in Florida has been sentenced for election fraud in Michigan. He was convicted of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61469,97761,28,30,29,97760,97762,7642,97759,97757,97763,97758,97764],"class_list":["post-214242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-dana-nessel","tag-election-fraud","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-james-craig","tag-michael-markey","tag-michigan","tag-perry-johnson","tag-ryan-kelley","tag-shawn-wilmoth","tag-willie-reed","tag-wilmoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214242","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=214242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}