Florida grand jury finds DeSantis administration ‘misappropriated’ funds from Medicaid settlement

The grand jury said funds from a Medicaid settlement were transferred to a charity with ties to the wife of the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis (pictured), then ‘funneled’ into two political action committees. Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

A Florida grand jury has found that the administration of the governor, Ron DeSantis, “misappropriated” $10m in taxpayer money from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation, a charity with ties to DeSantis’s wife, before the money was reportedly “funneled” into “two political action committees”.

In the grand jury report, which remains sealed but was obtained and published by CBS News Miami on Wednesday, the grand jurors wrote that “we conclude that these funds were misappropriated as part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities” but said that they found “insufficient evidence to charge anyone criminally”.