Mystery flight to New Jersey and Florida's $1 million payment

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/regional/florida/mystery-migrant-flight-florida-1-million-payment/67-259389cf-8ebc-4ebc-af2e-76c4241e154f

FLORIDA, USA — Public records showed the state of Florida made another payment to the aviation company that flew migrants last week from Texas to Martha's Vineyard.

Tuesday afternoon, a flight departing from San Antonio, Texas was originally intended to land in President Biden's home state of Delaware.

State leaders in Delaware started preparing a response but the plane instead landed in New Jersey.

MYSTERY FLIGHT

The mystery continues surrounding who was on the flight, where it was going, and what eventually happened after it landed in Teterboro, New Jersey.

One thing we do know is the state paid $950,000 to Vertol Systems Company Inc., the same transportation company the state paid $615,000 to last week. However, Tuesday in Bradenton, Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis would not confirm if the money was for another migrant flight.

10 Tampa Bay has asked the state what the payment went toward and requested the contract with Vertol Systems.

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[TheRealNorth]

1. Somebody's making bank with these stunts....

[scarletlib]

8. Looks like some type of pay off with state money.

[TheRealNorth]

10. Yup

Follow the money.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Defrauding the taxpayers as well as defrauding the migrants.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Yes, taxpayer money for a criminal RepubliCON political stunt. Still criminal & tax money. . nt

[Walleye]

3. This should be investigated, who's getting kickbacks. Who is related to the CEO?

[JHB]

5. A better question is "who does he donate to?"

Both directly and via organizations that support DeSantis and allies.

[Walleye]

7. I think I already read somewhere that this company donates to Republicans

[Nevilledog]

23. Ron DeSantis charted planes from a GOP-allied donor to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

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Ron DeSantis charted planes from a GOP-allied donor to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

Recipients of the firm’s donations include the appropriations chief responsible for funding Florida’s migrant relocation program.

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Ron DeSantis Chartered Planes From GOP-Allied Donor to Fly Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard
Recipients of the firm’s donations include the appropriations chief responsible for funding Florida’s migrant relocation program.
12:27 PM · Sep 21, 2022

[grumpyduck]

4. Money laundering, maybe?

[DFW]

26. More like outright theft

Money laundering involves taking dirty money, like drug profits, e.g., and making it nice, clean, and openly spendable. What DeSade is doing is taking Florida taxpayer money and deliberately vastly overpaying a Russian-connected company out of Oregon to make flights that in no way whatsoever render any service to the people or the state of Florida. Conducting the flights listed do not cost a tenth of what the government of Florida paid to have them flown. The Oregon company will vastly inflate their expenses incurred to operate the flights, pay the going corporate tax rate on what is left over, and then kick back, with perfectly legal money, whatever agreed-upon sums to the previously-designated recipients. I hear that Rubio's campaign to re-elect him to the Senate was in desperate need of a cash infusion, for example.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. What the fuck. One million dollars ro fly 50 people, who

will have to find their own way back to the point of origination to finish the immigration vetting process.

De Santis has to go.

[Nevilledog]

14. $950k was for the flight yesterday. Empty planes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. $18,000 per person. They could have gone around the world first class for that kind of money

Florida tax money,
Republicon political theater,
Criminal kidnapping & neglect of duty of care to lie to people and then dump them.


$18,000 per person.

Did they get peanuts on the plane? The company people get a lot more than peanuts.

[halfulglas]

11. Remember the thread on DU a few weeks ago about Abbott's cost for the busing stunt?

Someone here on DU said it would be a lot cheaper to fly them. Probably someone reported this to DeSantis and someone said, depends on what airline and this. Somebody's making a lot of money.

[dchill]

12. Hey! You know what? I bet something crooked might be going on!

[Skittles]

13. RON DeFASCIST

FUCKING INHUMANE ASSHOLE

[Gore1FL]

15. I'm liking Ron DeSadist and Ron DeStuntis, too. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

16. I had heard these were all paid for by Covid Relief monies to FL. Is that accurate? Despicable if

confirmed.

[Nevilledog]

20. Interest from COVID funds

[Evolve Dammit]

27. So they are just sitting on that relief money and skimming interest? Can't Feds get it back?

[hay rick]

17. Maybe they are being flown to Bedminster.

If the problem is that they are undocumented, maybe they can find some documents there- classified, of course.

[forgotmylogin]

18. Wouldn't a million dollars take care of a planeload of people seeking asylum? n/t

[Heather MC]

19. Ron us just giving money to his buddies

it would have cost $394 per person to fly those Human beings to Martha's vineyard.

Ron paid someone $12,300 per person

Hmmmmm...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. I smell kickbacks.

[Mr. Ected]

25. What's sad is that so many Floridians will be good with this

They no longer view government's role as one of governing, rather, it's devolved into political theater with the librul being the antagonist. Owning the libs for a million dollars? That's a deal!

Sick. The mental conditioning of the American electorate by the right wing media over the past 3 or 4 decades has led to this.

[Hotler]

28. Cocaine has to get through some how. nt