MIAMI (WSVN) — A top aide to a South Florida Congressman has stepped down.

Giancarlo Sopo, the Communications Director for U.S. State Representative Joe Garcia (Dem.-FL), resigned Monday.

Sopo has been at the center of an absentee-ballot fraud investigation and was placed on unpaid administrative leave last month.

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