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Florida AG James Uthmeier denies participation in the hope of Florida Skandal

Florida AG James Uthmeier denies participation in the hope of Florida Skandal

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  • Uthmeier said
  • Hope Florida is a state program, the declared goal of which is to help Floridians from state support and services offered by non -profit organizations and faith organizations
  • A donation of 10 million US dollars of Hope Florida came from a complaint of 67 million US dollars with Florida's largest Medicaid contractor Centene

The Attorney General of Florida, James Uthmeier, denied that they were involved in the Hope Florida money transfers, who are reported to be examined and the scandal was held responsible for the interest in the marijuana industry.

“I do not check the decisions of other non -profit organizations,” said Uthmeier. “I was on the board of the non -profit organization, which was designed to defeat the change 3, unrestricted marijuana.”

Uthmeier made the comments during a press conference in Pensacola, where he announced the signing of an agreement with the Florida Ministry of Education with the newly created office for parental rights in the office of the AG.

“I will mention Florida,” said Uthmeier. “It is clear that there are some political attacks.”

Uthmeier said he believes that Florida will be driven by the Marijuana industry for hope.

“I know the large marijuana industry, you have entered over 150 million US dollars (in change 3 campaign), you are not very happy about it,” said Uthmeier. “I know that there are some democratic civil servants and a legislator in this area in this area with this group, and so they want to bring this fight. But at the end of the day we did the right thing. Everything we did was lawful. We won. I am proud that we won, and I am glad that we kept Florida safely, free and open to business business in a healthy way.”

Hope Florida is a state program, the declared goal of which is to help Floridians from state support and services offered by non -profit organizations and by faith -based organizations. Hope Florida has a foundation to collect private money to support the program.

The program was agreed by First Lady Casey Desantis, and the news of the scandal was triggered as speculation in the political press contract for First Lady, which made an offer for governors in 2026 to follow her husband.

At the beginning of this year, the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald reported that a donation of 10 million US dollars of Hope Florida emerged from a complaint of 67 million US dollars with the largest Medicaid contractor in Florida, Centene. According to the report, Centene overlooked taxpayers by 67 million US dollars, and Desantis administration has determined the lawsuit with the company for the same amount.

Instead of all 67 million US dollars that returned to the Medicaid program, 10 million US dollars were sent to Hope Florida. Hope Florida then passed on the 10 million US dollars to political committees, and the money was ultimately supported to support the campaign against the change that Marijuana would have legalized for leisure in Florida.

Pensacola member Alex Andrade, chairman of the subcommittee for the household budget of the House Health Care, stopped hearing to examine the problem, and said that he had found evidence that Uthmeier had the hope of Florida's hope when he was Desantis' chief of staff.

Andrade said he believed that the transmission of $ 10 million was illegal and handed over all of his documents that his committee received to state and federal prosecutors. On May 20, Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald reported that Leon County's public prosecutor could not provide the documents because they were part of an open examination.

Governor Ron Desantis blows Alex Andrade as “Jackass” over the Hope Florida Skandal

Andrade's investigation of the broadcasts made him a persona -grata in the Desantis administration.

He informed the News Journal that state officials had stopped reacting to other legislative work on inquiries, and on May 21, in response to a question about a question about a reported criminal investigation in the hope of Florida Andrade, and Andrade shook during a press conference on May 21.

“They had a one -state representative with a political agenda and he has a political agenda to try to smear hope in Florida – to try to connect people with the administration,” said Desantis. “Even my wife, who, incidentally, did a great job for this state, not only on Hope Florida, which saves taxpayers $ 100 million and receives $ 30,000 from a non-profit well-being. Do you show me someone in this country who could do that?”

Desantis said his wife had worked to start Hope Florida and other initiatives while she was first lady and has never been paid for this work. He said that a person who was clear tried to smear his administration. He never mentioned Andrade's name, but he used other terms.

“She has managed an initiative to help people and they have a donkey in the legislature – I'm sorry, it is true – who tries to smear her, smear good people,” said Desantis.

Desantis repeated the claim that the scandal around Hope Florida is a “produced political operation”.

“How pathetic is it that we have a Republican representative who is committed to legal guidance to try to advance a political agenda?” Said Desantis. “It stinks and everyone knows.”

Andrade presses back against Desantis and Uthmeier

Andrade said Uthmeier's comments in Pensacola On May 23, “more distraction of the chief washing assistant of the state of Florida”.

“Why didn't he just answer the question?” Said Andrade. “If I don't miss anything, his comment means that he used Medicaid funds to combat a ballot initiative.”

After Desantis made his comments on May 21, Andrade replied with a contribution to X, the social media website, which was previously known as Twitter.

“I would like to publicly apologize at @govrondesantis to violate his feelings by handing over the prosecution to evidence of criminal activities … my heart is bleeding for her governor …” wrote Andrade.

Andrade wiped the personal attacks from Desantis when he was asked by the news journal.

“I think it is inappropriate to complain about a criminal investigation,” said Andrade. “I discovered evidence of money laundering and wire fraud, handed it over to the law enforcement authorities. And he is crazy that it is important to me to protect tax money?”

Andrade said he didn't believe that most people in Pensacola pay attention to the press conferences of Desantis, but the voters he heard about gave him positive feedback.

“The only thing I got from the voters is encouragement, what happened to the means to get to the bottom,” said Andrade. “As far as Desantis goes off the rails, most people don't really pay attention to.”

Regardless of the ultimate result of the Hope Florida examination, Andrade said that he is planning to insert laws next year that make it a complete crime of controlling money in a state settlement of state funds, as happened with Hope Florida. He would also like to investigate which type of political activities can resemble the Governeurs' Office employees, similar to the restrictions for employees at the federal level.

“This would not have happened if Desantis did not operate his chief of staff through his presidential campaign and these campaigns would then carry out changes from the governor's office,” said Andrade. “They have the personal, political and public service together, nonstop together.”

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