Ex-DeSantis Spox Charged With Indecent Exposure

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports:

A New College of Florida marketing director was arrested Tuesday night for exposing his sexual organs, Manatee County officials say. The incident marks one of four arrests for indecent exposure in Sarasota and Manatee Counties related to 47-year-old Frederick Piccolo Jr. He previously worked as the spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis and the director of marketing, media and strategic communication at NCF.

During an incident at a UTC Banana Republic on Aug. 22, Piccolo was being assisted by the store manager when he allegedly began stroking his penis as he looked at the woman through the open fitting room, deputies wrote in an arrest affidavit. He quickly got dressed and left the store without buying anything. While at a UTC Dillard’s on Sept. 3, Piccolo allegedly approached another store employee completely naked with no effort to cover or conceal himself, deputies wrote in an affidavit.

Read the full article. Piccolo resigned from DeSantis’s team in December 2020 after an X post ridiculing the number of people who had died of COVID.