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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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
Not sure what he was thinking, other than I’m glad this is coming out now, and not in, say, October, 2028.
I hope they do, too.
Come on now, everybody is doing it... greatest governor since the Garden Party!!!
When is the FLA AG going to open a Criminal Investigation?
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.
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?
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
Yeah sure. More likely your girlfriend Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
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
STACEY ADAMS DOESN’T FILL OUT & FILE 990’s, EITHER
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.
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