{"id":54095,"date":"2020-08-27T14:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theaegisalliance.com\/?p=54095"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:36:40","slug":"lee-county-sheriff-carmine-marceno-cover-up-of-state-attorney-amira-fox-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/fr\/2020\/08\/27\/lee-county-sheriff-carmine-marceno-cover-up-of-state-attorney-amira-fox-forgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Carmine Marceno’s Ethics Case Sits in Limbo While Amira Fox’s Alleged Court-Order Forgery Against Scott Huminski Stays Uncharged"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA \u2014<\/strong> Amira Fox will sit as state attorney for a third term without having to debate anyone. Carmine Marceno is still sheriff while a state ethics file about gifts and a consulting contract sits unresolved in Tallahassee. Neither of those facts erases the stack of court paper from June 2017 that activist Scott Huminski says was manufactured so a contempt case could change courthouses. No prosecutor has charged Fox, Clerk of Court Linda Doggett, or Marceno with forgery. They are presumed innocent of any crime that has not been filed. The papers, the docket, and the silence around them are still public.<\/p>\n

Fox locked in that third term the easy way. She filed for reelection on January 5, 2026, and nobody else qualified by the April 20 deadline. The Fort Myers News-Press<\/a> reported on May 29, 2026 that she would serve again unopposed, the same way she did in 2022. She was first elected in 2018, the first woman to hold the job in the 20th Judicial Circuit, which covers Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry, and Glades counties. She started in that office as an assistant state attorney in 1990.<\/p>\n

Marceno\u2019s path was different, and the old description of him as an unelected sheriff is out of date. Then-Governor Rick Scott appointed him in 2018 after Mike Scott stepped aside. Voters have kept him since. What has not gone away is the question of what his office did, and did not do, when Huminski put a forgery complaint in front of it.<\/p>\n

A gag order, then a contempt case<\/h2>\n

Huminski, who fronts the band Scott X and the Constitution Commandos<\/a>, says he was getting death threats traced to Maricopa County, Arizona, from 2013 through 2017. He reported them to then-Sheriff Mike Scott. Instead of a threat investigation he could live with, he got a protective order that turned further contact with the sheriff or the sheriff\u2019s staff into contempt. The motion<\/a> is still online. Reporting a crime, Huminski has argued ever since, was itself treated as the crime.<\/p>\n

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Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott\u2019s gag-order motion against Scott Huminski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The contempt fight was opened in circuit court as case 17-CA-421. Fox\u2019s office wanted it in front of Circuit Judge Elizabeth Krier. Krier recused herself over a conflict. Chief Circuit Judge Michael McHugh was next. Huminski\u2019s account, laid out in filings that later reached the Florida Supreme Court, is that Fox did not want McHugh. She wanted a different building, a different judge, and a misdemeanor docket.<\/p>\n