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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....

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”