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FORT PIERCE — The state Ethics Commission may soon issue penalties to a Fort Pierce city employee in connection with the same allegedly tainted bidding process that led to the arrest of City Manager Nick Mimms earlier this year .
The commission announced Wednesday that it had found probable cause that Vennis Gilmore, an assistant planning director for the city who was its senior city planner at the time of the bid in question, violated Florida’s conflict of interest law…