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Governor’s office paid a second law firm $111,000 as Hope Florida grand jury report was fought in secret (opens the original)
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Florida taxpayers paid a second law firm $111,387.50 to represent an unidentified person in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office amid a grand jury investigation into $10 million diverted from the public treasury to Hope Florida that ended up in political committees. The bills show administration-hired lawyers contacting Leon County prosecutors, drafting a motion days after the grand jury’s findings, and preparing a reply in the fight to keep the grand jury’s report sealed. Invoices from the Continental PLL
BREAKING: Public wins access to Ziegler investigation records as appeals court reverses secrecy order (opens the original)
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Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal Wednesday reversed a Sarasota circuit court ruling that had barred the public from seeing records gathered by the Sarasota Police Department during its 2023 criminal investigation of Christian Ziegler, the former chair of the Republican Party of Florida, and had ordered most of those records destroyed. The unanimous decision in Florida Center for Government Accountability, Inc. v. Ziegler, No. 2D2024-1806, is a victory for the Florida Center for Governme
Sealed for seven months: Grand jury found $10 million “misappropriated” to Hope Florida, but no one will be charged (opens the original)
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For seven months, the finding sat in a sealed envelope at the Leon County Clerk of Court’s office in Tallahassee: a state grand jury had concluded that Florida officials misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money and funneled it, through a charity tied to First Lady Case DeSantis, into political committees ran by the appointed Attorney General that spent it on an election. No public docket showed the case. The Second Judicial Circuit told a lawyer for a coalition of news organizations it had
Inside the war room of a dark money campaign for Sarasota County commission seats (opens the original)
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Sixty-six days before Local Government Accountability Inc. (LGAI) filed a corporate charter saying it would not intervene in candidate campaigns as a nonprofit, the operation behind its website had already decided who it wanted voters to choose and assembled a trove of materials inside a file directory labeled “war-room-assets” according to new records obtained by the Florida Trident. A law professor called the electoral advocacy “troubling” and said it likely violates federal law. Hidden files
Anonymous Wyoming corporation targeting Sarasota County commissioners' race (opens the original)
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The most aggressive new voice in Sarasota County’s elections has a Washington, D.C. headquarters that is a rented mailbox, a research team no one can name, seven “active investigations” of which six are empty, and a gallery of outraged citizens who do not exist. It has run at least 11 paid attack ads on Facebook while its website claims it runs none. What it does not have is anyone willing to say who is paying for it. Within hours of a reporter asking Local Government Accountability Inc. (LGAI)
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