1. Henry Jude Radel III was born on April 20,1976 and is an American radio personality, political commentator, author, actor, and former member of the United States House of Representatives.
20 Facts About Trey Radel
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Trey Radel's show airs on the Florida-based station WFSX-FM, a Fox News Radio affiliate.
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Trey Radel was born in 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Kathleen and Henry Jude Trey Radel, Jr.
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Trey Radel majored in communications and minored in Italian at Loyola University Chicago.
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Trey Radel began his career as a journalist, working as both an anchor and a reporter.
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Trey Radel interned for CNN at its headquarters in Atlanta.
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Trey Radel then worked for CBS affiliates KHOU in Houston, WBBM in Chicago, and WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida.
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In 2007, after selling the Journal, Trey Radel returned to WINK, leaving in 2009 to host a live, 4-hour long morning radio show on WFSX-FM.
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Trey Radel was trained as an actor and a comedian and performed improvisational work at Second City in Chicago.
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In 2016, Trey Radel started what would become a recurring role as a TV news anchor on the show StartUp, which debuted on the Sony-owned app Crackle and was later purchased and streamed on Netflix.
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Trey Radel played the lead, starring as a detective, in the series Truth is Stranger than Florida on the Investigation Discovery network.
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Trey Radel represented Florida's 19th congressional district from January 3,2013 through January 27,2014, sworn into the 113th United States Congress.
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Trey Radel decided to run in the open seat, which had been renumbered as the 19th District.
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Trey Radel was heavily favored to win because 19th has long been reckoned as one of the most Republican districts in Florida.
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On October 29,2013, Trey Radel was arrested in the District of Columbia after attempting to buy 3.5 grams of cocaine from an undercover federal officer.
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Less than a month later, Trey Radel pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of possession of cocaine and was sentenced to one year of supervised probation.
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On January 27,2014, Trey Radel announced he would resign from Congress.
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Trey Radel had not voted in Congress after November 15,2013 in the wake of the conviction.
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In late January 2014, Trey Radel officially tendered his resignation in a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner.
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Trey Radel completed all conditions of his probation in October 2014, and he successfully petitioned the court to expunge his criminal record.