Fired New College official had history of indecent exposure charges

[Zorro]

A background check failed to turn up Fred Piccolo’s past and pending cases.

On a sunny afternoon in March, Fred Piccolo pulled his car over on a residential street in Manatee County, police say, blocking the path of a woman walking on the side of the road.

Piccolo, New College of Florida’s director of media and marketing, said that he’d just been caught by his girlfriend’s husband and needed help with directions, according to an arrest warrant filed in Manatee Circuit Court last week.

When she looked inside the car, the report said, the unnamed woman saw that Piccolo was completely naked and touching his genitals.

Piccolo was arrested last week and charged with indecent exposure in the wake of the incident. The school terminated his employment the next day, after receiving questions about the incident from the media, according to text messages reviewed by the Tampa Bay Times.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2025/04/25/new-college-fred-piccolo-richard-corcoran-arrest/

A New College (charged with becoming Florida's "Hillsdale College of the South" ) recent hire. Strong Republican, natch. Only the best for the Sarasota community.

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1. In 2021, Piccolo resigned from his role as Gov. Ron DeSantis's communications director after making national headlines f

In 2021, Piccolo resigned from his role as Gov. Ron DeSantis’s communications director after making national headlines for a tweet criticizing news coverage of COVID-19 victims. Piccolo said at the time his decision to leave DeSantis’s office was made prior to his tweet.

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2. Anti-DEI hire.