Corruption within the GOP is rampant throughout the country. DeSantis appears to have stepped in it ...

[aggiesal]

With all the corruption in DC, this got ignored. I didn't see anything
in Latest Breaking News from a couple of days ago about this story

Follow the DeSantis Medicaid money

1. Centene Corp. overbilled Florida by at least $67 million in federal Medicaid dollars.

2. In the settlement with Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), DeSantis officials "directed" them to pay $10 million of the $67m to the charity Casey oversees, Hope Florida Foundation.

3. The charity then awards phony $5m "grants" to two dark-money groups, one operated by Florida Chamber of Commerce.

4. Within days, the dark-money groups send $8.5m to a PAC controlled by DeSantis' then-chief of staff, Attorney General James Uthmeier.

5. Over the next two months, that PAC sends $10.5m to the Florida GOP,, which campaigned against
Amendment 3. Another $1.1 million went to DeSantis' own PAC.

Read more here:
Here’s where $10 million donation to DeSantis’ Hope Florida effort went
The money to the Hope Florida Foundation went to two organizations that later gave to a political committee, records show.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/04/11/desantis-charity-hope-florida-casey-uthmeier-legislature/

[Baitball Blogger]

1. And, yet. Since Florida is controlled by Republicans, who is left to get back that money?

[DENVERPOPS]

11. His actions

are NOTHING compared to their Senator Scott?, who when CEO of a health organization in Florida committed 1.4 Billion in Medicare Fraud....

[dem4decades]

2. Do you think DOJ cares?

[Sneederbunk]

3. Step in it? He lives in it.

[Marcuse]

5. His feet are well protected. The rest not so much.

[William769]

4. Desantis is the 2nd crime lord under trump.

[Timeflyer]

6. This is business as usual under FL DeSantis. Gov't is run by and for the donors and their paid politicians.

[BoRaGard]

7. Free clue for the G.O.P.: Jesus does not approve of grifting

leads to roasting in Hell for eternity, and shit like that...

[Exp]

8. There is your Waste, Fraud and Abuse, Leon. nt

[erronis]

9. Of course, Tim Scott set the bar for fraud. DeSantis wants to beat that record and then some.

https://www.newsweek.com/rick-scotts-connection-massive-medicare-fraud-scandal-resurfaces-1780279

Scott's post resurfaced backlash for the Republican's connection to one of the largest health-care fraud settlements in U.S. history, from his time as CEO of Columbia/HCA. According to PolitiFact, the company was fined after federal prosecutors discovered it was committing Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

In 2000, Columbia/HCA agreed to more than $840 million in criminal fines and damages over unlawful billing practices, according to a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). The company later faced an additional $881 million fine in 2002, bringing its total settlement to $1.7 billion.

"While Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA Hospital, he oversaw the biggest Medicare fraud in US history and was fined $1.7 billion, which was the largest healthcare fraud fine ever levied by the DOJ," tweeted political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen in response to Scott's post. "Maybe don't listen to this guy when it comes to protecting earned benefits."

[Ford_Prefect]

10. So who is going to prosecute, and when?