Jacob Ogles
Former state Rep. Anika Omphroy is on probation after pleading no contest to violating campaign finance laws. The Lauderdale Lakes Democrat must complete community service each month as part of her sentence.
Broward County court records show Omphroy in October changed a plea on four charges of false reporting of campaigning expenditures. Her plea shifted them from “not guilty” no “nolo contendere.”
She was sentenced to 12 months of probation and must do four hours of community service each month. The sentence runs through Oct. 9 this year, and she must meet all special conditions of probation by Sept. 9, according to court records.
The records cite Florida campaign finance statute, specifically a section restricting if a candidate “falsely reports or deliberately fails to include any information required by this chapter.”
Omphroy, after serving two terms in the Florida House, opted to run for Congress in 2022. She ultimately lost to now-U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.
The 45-year-old ex-lawmaker has notably been in trouble over campaign finance laws before. She was fined $3,000 by the Florida Elections Commission in August 2022 for actions during her 2018 campaign. She was accused at the time of falsely certifying her final campaign finance report, which was overdrawn by $50 and didn’t contain small contributions of $100 made by herself that were reflected in bank records.
Months before that, she was fined $2,000 by the Commission for a “reckless” disregard of reporting rules during her 2020 state House campaign. At that point, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office signaled an ongoing investigation of her campaign finances.
The charges Omphroy is on probation for now were filed last May, but lists the date of the offense on July 11, 2020.
That year, she ran for re-election to her state House District 95 seat and faced only Democrat Jasmen Rogers-Shaw in an open Democratic Primary. Omphroy ultimately won that election by a narrow 51% to 49% margin.
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Hung Wiil
March 28, 2024 at 6:06 pm
This is total racism! The white supremacy going on is unbelievable. If Omphroy weren’t a person of color, this wouldn’t be happening. She is the victim . . . outrageous. How could Trump do this? Democracy is threatened.
Dont Say FLA
March 29, 2024 at 12:01 pm
Where on earth did you get that, Hung Lil? It’s just politics. Her finances aren’t a real important question. It’s little league stuff.
Rhonda’s finances is the question. It’s Ivy League baseball stuff, definitely not the level of big league, not minor league, but possibly exhibition barnstorming level since that’s all Rhonda’s campaign ever was, a touring joke that failed after its first stop.
Dont Say FLA
March 29, 2024 at 11:53 am
If only Rep Omphroy had been awarded special legal dispensation by Florida’s G0P state legislators same as they did for Rhonda when they exempted Rhonda from Sunshine laws, she would not be under inquiry for campaign finance violations same as Rhonda isn’t under inquiry for campaign finance violations.
Open the windows and let the Sunshine in on the Rhonda Campaign’s expenditures of Florida State Treasury funds collected from Florida’s resident taxpayers and tourists too.
Did Rhonda pull some fast ones like Rep Omphroy is alleged to have? We don’t know. We have no way to know, unless we are in the G0P boys club in Tallahassee in which case we do know, and our knowledge gives us power over Rhonda which the public does not and cannot, due to the Rhonda exemption, know about.
Sometimes you wonder what Trump got on Lindsey Graham or others, right? The way they flip flop? Trump is bad one day, then Trump is our Savior the next day?
When we see Rhonda flip flopping over his remaining 2 years 9 months of Lame Duck status, how are we supposed to know whether Florida’s Legislators tightened Rhonda’s thumb screws to keep his secrets for him or if Rhonda is merely indecisive and incompetent?
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