Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he would continue to pursue an investigation against Andrew and Tristan Tate, influencer brothers who were accused of human trafficking in Romania.
“Fleeing our jurisdiction will not stop Florida’s ongoing criminal investigation,” Uthmeier wrote in a Friday statement on X.
“We will continue working with our law enforcement and partners around the world to fight human trafficking and sexual abuse,” he added.
Andrew Tate said Thursday he was leaving the state for Las Vegas after describing Uthmeier’s investigation as “absolute communism.”
He and his brother, who have dual citizenship in the U.S. and UK, deny the criminal allegations which previously carried travel restrictions for the two brothers. The brothers have denied the allegations against them.
“Thank you Florida, you were very welcoming. See you in a few years <3,” Andrew wrote in a post on X.
“The first thing the manager of the hotel in Vegas said: ‘Sorry about Florida treating you that way when you first came home. They let everybody down. Your hotel suite is comped,” he wrote in a separate post.
The two arrived in the Sunshine State to the dismay of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Rep. Bryron Donalds (R-Fla.) who condemned their past behavior.
“Florida is not a place where, where you’re welcome with that, with that type of conduct in the air, and I don’t know how it came to this, we were not involved, we were not notified,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) told reporters last week.
Donalds echoed those sentiments.
“I think those allegations have to be fully investigated, and then we go from — we go from there. The key thing is, we don’t tolerate the trafficking of women, or frankly, the abuse of women. We do not tolerate that,” Donalds said on Tuesday.
