According to text messages uncovered by the "Tampa Bay Times", Gillum accepted tickets to the Broadway musical "Hamilton" from his brother, Marcus Gillum, who got them through an undercover FBI agent conducting a corruption investigation. The agent was posing as a real estate developer. Gillum responded to the "Tampa Bay Times" story, "These messages only confirm what we have said all along. We did go to see "Hamilton". I did get my ticket to "Hamilton" from my brother. At the time, we believed that they were reserved by friends of Adam's, Mike Miller. And when I got there after work, got my ticket, we went in there and saw it, assumed my brother paid for it, and so far as I know, that was the deal."