Norris denies wrongdoing. He also voted on the separate real estate projects of his developer partners. The elected state attorney investigating Stadium Naples acknowledged eight months after he declined to bring charges that he bought stock in a Stadium Naples partner company during his investigation. D'Alessandro, a Republican, is the elected prosecutor for the 20th Judicial Circuit covering Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades counties. Federal prosecutors reopened a criminal investigation of Stadium Naples in June at the request of Bush, who conducted a review of the case at the request of local GOP leaders.
Federal prosecutors have more tools in the law to fight corruption.
He welcomes a broadening of the state laws covering public corruption. It would have meant the state attorney could have had a statute he could prosecute someone under. Holes in the laws Miami has been plagued in recent years by a series of public corruption scandals. Mary Cagle, a deputy prosecutor for the state attorney's office in Miami, has been in the thick of the public corruption cleanup effort there. Cagle, a member of the Public Corruption Study Commission, said the public corruption laws in place are inadequate.