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A complaint filed in late June with the Florida Elections Commission by Collier County sheriff candidate Vinny Angiolillo that accused a fellow candidate of disrupting his campaign and damaging his reputation “appears to be legally insufficient,” the commission reported.

Angiolillo said Monday that he intends to provide additional information to demonstrate the legitimacy of the complaint.

Angiolillo initially filed the complaint on June 27 against fellow sheriff candidate Kevin Rambosk and the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. Rambosk, currently an executive officer with the Sheriff’s Office with no supervisory duties, was the undersheriff until May 2, when he was reassigned to avoid running afoul of an obscure federal election law.

Rambosk said in a prepared statement that he expected to be cleared of any misconduct.

“Complaints like this one are merely politically motivated as a means of attempting to discredit my 30 years of committed public service and my qualifications,” Rambosk wrote. “I think the public recognizes these complaints for what they are and, more importantly, as a waste of taxpayers’ dollars.”

In his complaint, Angiolillo made four charges against Rambosk and the Sheriff’s Office, two of which have to do with Angiolillo’s October 2007 arrest on misdemeanor counts of violating an injunction against repeat or dating violence.

A recording made of Angiolillo by the woman with the injunction against him was made illegally, Angiolillo said. He also said in the complaint that reports that he violated the injunction by coming within 500 feet of a sports bar on Immokalee Road were not true and an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office would have cleared his name.

The charges against Angiolillo were dismissed in Collier County court in June.

Angiolillo, who was arrested one week after announcing his candidacy, argued that Rambosk had a duty to review his case before taking legal action and wrote that “his failure to do so implicates his neglect and willingness to allow the unsubstantiated charges and violations to proceed.”

In the complaint, Angiolillo also argued that the Sheriff’s Office disrupted a town hall meeting he was holding at a local VFW and removed his towing company, AA Auto, from its rotation.

In a July 7 response, Barbara M. Linthicum, executive director of the Florida Elections Commission, wrote to Angiolillo that she had reviewed his complaint and said it “appears to be legally insufficient.”

“Although you allege misconduct on the part of Kevin Rambosk, your complaint does not contain any evidence of misconduct,” Linthicum wrote.

Angiolillo has two weeks from the date of the letter to provide additional information to the commission, which he said he intends to do.

“They stated in there that the complaint was legally insufficient. I totally disagree and am moving forward with it,” Angiolillo said. “Now I will provide pertinent information that should have been divulged and brought up as part of their investigation. I’m going to do their job for them.”