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Hope Florida releases tax information; executive director stepping down
wcjb ^ | April 16, 2025 | Cody Butler

Posted on 04/16/2025 5:37:23 PM PDT by backpacker_c

Officials revealed more answers about donations to Hope Florida ahead of their board meeting Thursday. The Hope Florida Foundation posted drafts of unfiled tax documents online.

The draft tax form is for the previous fiscal year, before a $10 million donation from a Medicaid settlement was made. But it shows no other donation has come close.

Members of the House Health Budget subcommittee are looking into a $10 million donation that found its way to political committees opposing last year’s recreational marijuana amendment.

Members of the subcommittee were visibly frustrated that information in the document wasn’t available during Tuesday’s hearing.

Meanwhile, Hope Florida’s executive director, Erik Dellenback, is stepping down at the end of the month.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: desantis; fraud; hopeflorida
Article says hope florida, a charity, hasn't been filing it's required 990's, hiding donations and spending....

Earlier thread today on hope florida issues....

‘Mistakes were made.’ Hope Florida Foundation chairman acknowledges charity’s issues

It looks like desantis set up hope florida to funnel state government funds to his own interest, and the charity, hope florida, that casey founded, doesn't file information so people don't find out what is happening

1 posted on 04/16/2025 5:37:23 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

Not sure what he was thinking, other than I’m glad this is coming out now, and not in, say, October, 2028.


2 posted on 04/16/2025 5:49:07 PM PDT by BobL
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To: backpacker_c

I hope they do, too.


3 posted on 04/16/2025 6:02:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: backpacker_c

Come on now, everybody is doing it... greatest governor since the Garden Party!!!


4 posted on 04/16/2025 6:08:47 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: backpacker_c

When is the FLA AG going to open a Criminal Investigation?


5 posted on 04/16/2025 6:16:29 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: backpacker_c

The GOP legislators supporting a marijuana monopoly for their major donor via a state constitutional amendment are now biting back at DeSantis for opposing it.


6 posted on 04/16/2025 6:31:57 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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So, you're saying neither ron, nor casey, is responsible for ron directing $10 million from part of a state settlement, to a charity founded by casey....

Where the charity then directed the $5 million to a political action commitee against a marijuanna, and the other $5 million to something run by the florida chamber of commerce?

And neither ron or casey are responsible for the charity not filing state or federal required documents?

Because... what? The sponsor of the marijuanna initiative made the desantis' do it so they could get in trouble now?

7 posted on 04/16/2025 7:28:22 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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Trump has had numerous issues with his charities, with their projects diverting cash to him personally that he had to cough up in a settlement. Hope’s accounting issues are no big deal. Legal marijuana is rightly the nemesis of any movement to get the downtrodden back on their feet. That it had accounting problems is merely a detail, and nothing like Trump putting charity cash in his own pocket.

https://apnews.com/general-news-united-states-government-7b8d0f5ce9cb4cadad948c2c414afd57


8 posted on 04/16/2025 8:08:03 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: backpacker_c

Yeah sure. More likely your girlfriend Debbie Wasserman Schultz.


9 posted on 04/16/2025 8:19:49 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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The irregularities seem so obvious and amateurish they certainly have the appearance of a political hit and/or payback.

Politics itself should very nearly be illegal lol


10 posted on 04/16/2025 9:50:16 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: backpacker_c

STACEY ADAMS DOESN’T FILL OUT & FILE 990’s, EITHER


11 posted on 04/16/2025 11:38:21 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: backpacker_c

Ron and Casey DeSantis have blundered badly. The revelations are likely to get worse and mark the end of Casey DeSantis’s bid for governor and of Ron DeSantis’s political career unless trump rescues him.


12 posted on 04/16/2025 11:48:00 PM PDT by Rockingham
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