http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-govmemo042005,1,7074615.story?coll=orl-home-specialbreakingPosted April 20, 2005, 3:52 PM EDT
Editor's Note: This is the text of the Governor's order reinstating Buddy Dyer as Mayor of Orlando.
STATE OF FLORIDA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 05-74
(Executive Order of Reinstatement)
WHEREAS, on March 10, 2005, the Orange County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging John Hugh Dyer, Jr., aka Buddy Dyer, with unlawfully providing or offering to provide a pecuniary gain or other benefit to Ezzie Thomas in exchange for Ezzie Thomas distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, delivering, or otherwise physically possessing absentee ballots in the course of the election of the City of Orlando, in violation of Section 104.047(1), Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, on March 11, 2005, John Hugh Dyer, Jr., aka Buddy Dyer was suspended from his position as Mayor of the City of Orlando, Florida; and
WHEREAS, on April 20, 2005, John Hugh Dyer, Jr., aka Buddy Dyer entered into a pre-trial diversion agreement and based on this agreement, the charge in the indictment for offering to provide pecuniary gain for absentee ballot possession or collection was nolle prosequi on April 20, 2005, thereby dismissing the charges upon which he was suspended; and
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