Andrew Tate is notably close with tech impresario and DOGE kingpin Elon Musk, who would like to see him lead the United Kingdom as Prime Minister. Uthmeier said the investigation was not a “political persecution,” but a move to protect Floridians from the brothers, who have not been formally convicted of any crime.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking on Andrew Tate. The state attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into the British-American manfluencer and his brother Tristan, both of whom arrived in Florida last week after being released on human trafficking charges in Romania.

The Tate brothers are facing an 'active' criminal investigation in Florida after flying there via private jet amid a human trafficking case in Romania.