{"id":51697,"date":"2025-11-18T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51697\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:00:13","slug":"attorney-lee-county-sheriff-cleared-in-federal-investigation-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51697\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney: Lee County Sheriff cleared in federal investigation | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">According to his attorney, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno has been cleared of the federal investigation against him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marceno\u2019s attorney confirmed the information to WINK News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Our reporters confirmed that Marceno&#8217;s federal investigation has been closed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The specifics of the investigation were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marceno&#8217;s attorney had forwarded screenshots of the letter, confirming that the sheriff committed no wrongdoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Marceno Screengrab Statements\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Marceno Screengrab Statements\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News is contacting the sheriff\u2019s office regarding the recent updates to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The sheriff&#8217;s office released a statement, saying, &#8220;I believe in the system. The FBI and the US Attorney\u2019s Office investigated and conducted independent investigations. They have found no wrongdoing. It is clear that from the beginning these were politically motivated allegations and completely false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/winknews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to his attorney, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno has been cleared of the federal investigation against him.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":["post-51697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51697","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=51697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}