Top DeSantis Aide Used “Clarice Starling” Alias To Help Ex-Client Win Contract To Ship Migrants Out Of State

The Miami Herald reports:

A top aide to Gov. Ron DeSantis used a private email address with the alias “Clarice Starling” — a reference to the Hannibal Lecter serial killer novels — to help his former client win a state contract to operate Florida’s controversial migrant flight program, recently released public records show.

The records suggest that Larry Keefe, DeSantis’ public safety czar, wrote some of the language that the private contractor, Vertol Systems Company, used in its bid proposal to fly migrants from Texas to Democratic states. Keefe, a former U.S. attorney under the Trump administration, represented Vertol for many years in private practice.

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Maybe Floridians will tolerate this type of Republican corruption but the rest of the country won’t. #DraintheFloridaSwamps aka Florida Republicans https://t.co/4Az5QieOpz

— Nikki Fried (@NikkiFried) December 27, 2022

Emails show use of private emails (from “Clarice Starling”) and the encryption app Signal in discussing Florida’s migrant relocations https://t.co/iO3wtNj3gV

— Steven Lemongello (@SteveLemongello) December 27, 2022

NEW: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ public safety czar used the alias Clarice Starling — from “The Silence of the Lambs” — while helping his former client win the bid for the state’s “humanitarian operation” to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard https://t.co/KW2WHSiymt

— Nicholas Nehamas ? (@NickNehamas) December 27, 2022

The email was a private Gmail address that displayed public safety czar Larry Keefe’s name as “Clarice Starling,” a character from The Silence of the Lambs.https://t.co/sau7glnWnj

— Tampa Bay Times (@TB_Times) December 27, 2022