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DeSantis defends $10 million donation from state agency settlement to charity linked to his wife
apnews ^ | April 10, 2025 | Stephany Matat

Posted on 04/11/2025 1:22:37 PM PDT by backpacker_c

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday defended a state agency’s involvement with a $10 million donation to a charity founded by his wife as a “cherry on top” deal using funds from a settlement between the agency and the state’s largest Medicaid contractor.

State law mandates that money from the settlement be put in a trust fund or a general fund under legislative oversight.

DeSantis called the settlement “100% appropriate”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahca; alexandrade; caseydesantis; centenecorporation; charity; corruption; crony; danielperez; desantis; graft; hopeflorida; sketchy
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State government analysis says charity is out of compliance and the state is missing required docs....
1 posted on 04/11/2025 1:22:38 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

Still obsessed with DeSantis, I see


2 posted on 04/11/2025 1:24:30 PM PDT by digger48
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To: backpacker_c

Not a good look in the era of corruption.


3 posted on 04/11/2025 1:29:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: backpacker_c

The appearance of impropriety.


4 posted on 04/11/2025 1:30:53 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: backpacker_c

Money is a test of honesty few winners around now days.


5 posted on 04/11/2025 1:34:17 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: backpacker_c

Oh how they ALL play the game!


6 posted on 04/11/2025 1:44:13 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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To: MtnClimber

FNGO now means two things, yet the same.


7 posted on 04/11/2025 2:09:35 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: kosciusko51

Sniff, sniff..... there’s a foul odor in the air from Florida.


8 posted on 04/11/2025 2:27:40 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: digger48
Just showing desanctimonious is still as corrupt, as he ever was....
9 posted on 04/11/2025 2:31:01 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

Bookmark


10 posted on 04/11/2025 2:37:09 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: kosciusko51

Absolutely. But it’s always the cover up that gets you, saw the press conference after the hearing. Not a good look. If DeSantis cares about this country he’d clear this up NOW!


11 posted on 04/11/2025 2:37:14 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: backpacker_c

Audit where the money went. If there’s a problem then there’s a problem, if there ain’t then there ain’t.


12 posted on 04/11/2025 2:59:14 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: backpacker_c
you see the difference here??...

It is assumed foul play between Desantis and his wife and it makes major headlines. On our side, there is Billions worth of fraud and we wait for "Concrete Evidence" before a single person is named...

smmfh...

13 posted on 04/11/2025 3:06:06 PM PDT by sit-rep
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We know every Democrat member of Congress is corrupt.

If you want to name all of them go for it!


14 posted on 04/11/2025 3:08:46 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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nice cop out...


15 posted on 04/11/2025 3:10:47 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: backpacker_c

Just showing your a** again

You’re obsessed with the man

And the reason I seldom come here anymore after 25 years


16 posted on 04/11/2025 3:11:33 PM PDT by digger48
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To: backpacker_c

yup! somehow extra money paid, and, instead of doing proper with it, it just so happened to go to his wife’s supposed charity. interesting how that happens, and everyone’s just supposed to think its a magical “cherry on top”.


17 posted on 04/11/2025 3:13:01 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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After living most of my life in a blue state with corrupt and incompetent governors, I love living in Florida with DeSantis as governor. On the other hand, it is my feeling that his wife is bad news. She may have been the person who pressed him to run for president which ended any future plans he may have had.

Now this.


18 posted on 04/11/2025 3:36:09 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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If he can eliminate my property taxes - and I think he can - I don’t care what else he or his wife do.


19 posted on 04/11/2025 4:00:21 PM PDT by FLNittany
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To: backpacker_c
I'm not going to denounce or defend until more information comes out but read this excerpt from the end of the article and ask yourself if it makes sense:

Casey DeSantis is not listed as an officer of the nonprofit, according to state records. Website records from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, where nonprofits are required to report financial information, do not include any documents from the Hope Florida Foundation.

20 posted on 04/11/2025 4:09:50 PM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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