Widow: Teele pushed to suicide: Arthur Teele's widow spoke out in an effort to encourage the Third District Court of Appeal to reconsider her late husband's conviction for threatening.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Robert L. Steinback, The Miami Herald

Dec. 16--Stephanie Teele, widow of former Miami Commissioner Arthur Teele, blamed the unverified allegations of a jailed transvestite and the media's eagerness to run with the story for pushing her husband to suicide, in an interview with The Herald news partner WFOR CBS 4.

The publicity-shy Teele, granting limited interviews in an effort to posthumously clear her late husband's name, was referring to claims made...

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