Prominent Florida Donor Intertwined With DeSantis—and the Law—Found Dead by Suicide

[libertybele]

Prominent Florida Donor Intertwined With DeSantis—and the Law—Found Dead by Suicide

An influential Republican donor and close ally to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who died by suicide was under active investigation by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, officials said.

“This investigation remains ongoing at this time and will continue until its completion. As with all active investigations, there is limited information available to release at this time,” Jacksonville Sheriff T. K. Waters told the Florida Times-Union of Kent Stermon’s death. “However, as soon as this investigation has been completed, all applicable information will be available for release to the public.”

Sources close to the office told the Times-Union the investigation involved alleged sexual misconduct. Stermon was found dead in a truck at an Atlantic Beach, Florida, post office parking lot on Thursday, though foul play is not suspected.

Stermon’s death marked a confounding moment within Florida politics because of his close kinship with a myriad of political figures including DeSantis, whose political operations have received more than $60,000 of his and his family’s funds. When DeSantis was iced out of his congressional district in 2016 after redistricting, he moved into a condo co-owned by Stermon in order to run again, according to a 2018 Politico story. The governor later named Stermon to his transition team.

Stermon, who ran the defense contractor Total Military Management, has spent an overall $140,000 in state political contributions.

“The Governor and First Lady were shocked and saddened to hear of Kent’s passing, and their prayers (and our entire office’s prayers) are with his family during this difficult time,” the governor’s office told Politico, though it said it had no prior knowledge of the investigation.

His connections weren’t limited to the governor’s mansion. An investigation by WJXT found Stermon—a prolific donor to former Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams—had an access card to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters for the last five years despite not working there.

After hundreds of swipes since 2017, it stopped being used on Nov. 15—just after Sheriff T. K. Waters was sworn in as sheriff............

https://www.yahoo.com/news/prominent-florida-donor-intertwined-desantis-185619297.html

[mountaineer]

Weird story! 

[sneakypete]

Weird story! 

 @mountaineer

Not really. We should start suspecting that the left,who own all the prominent media outlets in this country,will try to link ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING involved with criminal activity to any prominent Republican official.

Basically,ALL DeSantis is guilty of is accepting donations for his political campaign,but the left is going to do anything he says or does to ANY and ALL crimes committed by anyone that supports him and/or contributes money to him.

This way he is harmed not only by the implication that he is a crook that uses "dirty money" to buy elections,but that HE is also "guilty by association" to any crime any of his supporters may have committed.

Yeah,it is subtle, but it is a very real technique to damn someone via "guilt by association".

[mountaineer]

When I ran for office in 2012, I accepted a $100 donation from a guy later found guilty of violating the state ethics law (not a criminal matter). If I were on a larger stage, no doubt the left would ascribe his shady dealings to me. 😒

[EdinVA]

Sling that mud...

[aligncare]

The kind of money Stermon was contributing to political campaigns in Florida would be considered insulting in New York politics.  Politicos don’t wish to appear too easily bought off around here. (Hey, politicians got their principles and standards to think of)