How Randy Fine Throws His Considerable Weight Around

Did the FBI give him a pass because he's pro-Israel?

Randy Fine on CSPAN / YouTube

Congressman Randy Fine, a former casino executive, is now going after Republican statehouse hopefuls in Virginia like Shelly Arnoldi. Whether this has anything to do with her opposition to gambling expansion in Virginia, and his own personal history in a historically mobbed-up business and demonstrated harmony of views with Miriam Adelson and her Chinese casino cash, is up to the reader to infer.

Fine’s method of politics is fairly typical of the Zionist dual loyalty crowd, in methods and perspective. He has a bullying, gangsterish way about him as befits his former line of work.

Because the national media does not vet people the Israel lobby selects, because as we saw with the Josh Shapiro controversy, to vet a Jew is antisemitism, guys like Randy Fine get in under the wire despite considerable corruption issues.

Let’s start with the one that throws a hypocrisy angle onto the Arnoldi criticism. Here’s the issue with Fine’s statements about all this. Now that he’s weaseled his way into the ear of top party officials, he’s accusing Arnoldi of a failure of party discipline for being concerned about Zionist criminality and undue influence, whereas the party has committed to opposing antisemitism.

However, Fine has his own issues of misrepresentation. The Brevard Republican Committee accused one of the mailers supporting Fine of being “borderline fraudulent,” representing endorsements he didn’t have after a very public falling-out with Ron DeSantis.

He has a record, when it comes to these local politics issues, of engaging in antisemitism accusations with all the restraint and attention to detail of a drive-by shooter. Here’s an example of him doing it in the past in Duval County in 2024, the point of this is to show the playbook. Think about how deranged it is to email the great grandchild of a Holocaust survivor in all caps, “ARE YOU A NAZI?”:

Fine also has said he wants to treat Students for Justice in Palestine like the Ku Klux Klan. He’s been involved in passing statehouse bills that avoid defining antisemitism because he doesn’t really want to get into the business of what the damaging accusation he constantly makes actually consists of. Jewish civil liberties groups opposed HB 741:

Randy Fine is implicated in a major Palm Bay corruption scandal, which resulted in a plea deal for former deputy city manager David Isnardi. Some of the FDLE reports are online. There was allegedly an effort to blackmail local officials using drugs and prostitutes, though Fine distanced himself from Isnardi after he was indicted.

However, the FBI was made aware of all this by the FDLE officer, and Fine was mentioned in connection to it in a fairly serious way. From an interrogation posted by the Space Coast Rocket:

He also attempted to place illegal drugs inside Jeff Bailey’s vehicle and have an officer that was close to him conduct a search on the vehicle. Among the officer’s Isnardi claims to have thought he could use for this set up was current Melbourne City Councilman Paul Alfrey. Alfrey was a former K-9 Police Officer who specialized in such policing.

Holton goes on to say that he doesn’t know why they would be planning this because he wouldn’t be involved in that kind of activity. At this point the investigator says “according to him and others, this was a frequent thing at Representative Fine’s place and different facilities…”

The agent goes on to state that Fine’s office is across the street from the strip club Pin Ups in Palm Bay. Because there are two investigators speaking at once, it is difficult to make out the rest of what is said about Fine and him in the strip club. The audio of this part of the conversation is here for your own interpretation.

That’s a rather serious allegation, made by someone who Fine has credited in fundraising materials. Did the FBI check it out? Did Fine flip? Did they clear him? Given the longstanding love affair, as James Comey has called it, between the Bureau and the ADL, were they prepared to give Randy Fine a pass?