$10M Alleged DeSantis Scam Gets Criminal Probe

May 20, 2025 Republicans, Scandal

The Miami Herald reports:

Tallahassee Leon County prosecutors say there is an open criminal investigation relating to information a lawmaker provided concerning the Hope Florida Foundation. In response to a request by the Herald/Times for Hope Florida Foundation-related records that prosecutors received from state Rep. Alex Andrade, the records custodian for State Attorney Jack Campbell said the information couldn’t be released because it was “part of an open, on-going investigation.”

The response is the first confirmation of any law enforcement investigation related to the foundation, which was set up to support the Hope Florida program championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife, first lady Casey DeSantis. Earlier this year, House Republicans alleged that the DeSantis administration illegally diverted $10 million from a settlement with a Medicaid contractor to a political committee controlled by the governor’s then-chief of staff.

Florida Politics reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis is slamming an investigation into his wife’s Hope Florida charity as “pure politics’ following a Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald report that Leon County prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into the embattled charity. “Based on what?” DeSantis responded when a reporter asked him about the investigation during a press conference in Tampa.

“Everything that’s been thrown at it is pure politics. And I don’t think it’s appropriate to be doing politics, whether it’s a congressional or a state committee or any of these other things,” DeSantis added. “I believe in this program deeply, and I stand by it 100%.”

The above-cited chief of staff is now Florida’s attorney general. DeSantis used that $10 million to buy ads against legal weed, which itself was illegal because the state is not supposed to weigh in on ballot measures.



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