former miami commissioner art teele shoots self in the miami herald bldg. [View All]

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Art Teele reportedly shoots self

Sun-Sentinel
Posted July 27 2005, 6:29 PM EDT


Former Miami commissioner Authur Teele Jr., recently indicted on corruption charges, has reportedly shot himself in the lobby of the Miami Herald building, according to news partner NBC6. He was taken to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, but his condition was not immediately known.

On July 14, Teele surrendered to federal authorities in Miami-Dade County after a grand jury indicted him on multiple counts of fraud and money-laundering charges. Federal prosecutors said Teele and a former vice president of Fisk Electric Corporation, a Texas-based company, used a minority-owned firm as a front to win federal and county-backed construction contracts at Miami International Airport starting in 2001

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In December, Miami-Dade prosecutors filed 10 bribery charges against Teele, who is accused in that case of taking $135,000 in kickbacks from a businessman whose construction company won lucrative contracts to refurbish impoverished Miami neighborhoods. He is scheduled for trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court in October.

A Miami-Dade jury convicted Teele of charges he threatened a Miami-Dade police officer who was part of the corruption investigation. Teele was sentenced to two years' probation.

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my husband just said the t.v. reports that he is alive but has lost a lot of blood


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