Former Florida commissioner sentenced for taking bribes from strip club owner
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. โ Former North Miami Beach Commissioner Frantz Pierre has been sentenced to two years of community control with a GPS monitor followed by four years of reporting probation for taking bribes from a strip club owner, prosecutors announced on Wednesday. According to the Miami-Dade State Attorneyโs Office, Pierre pleaded guilty to taking $12,500 in bribes from the business owner for his city commission vote to allow extended after-hours liquor sales at the strip club, News 6 partner Local 10 reported. According to his arrest warrant, investigators found that Dean Tyler, the owner of Deanโs Gold strip club, paid Pierre the $12,500 in bribes from December 2013 to September 2014 to vote in his favor. Pierre also pleaded guilty to stealing $2,000 from the city through a fraudulent grant application, prosecutors said. Neither I nor the skilled investigators of my Public Corruption Task Force will ever allow that to happen.โProsecutors said Pierre pleaded guilty to all charges.