TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s public safety czar Larry Keefe was in San Antonio nearly two weeks before Gov. Ron DeSantis transported 48 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, and he may have traveled back to Florida with the migrants, records released late Friday suggest.
Those records also show Keefe coordinating the flights with DeSantis Chief of Staff James Uthmeier and politically connected contractor Vertol Systems in the weeks leading up to the operation, which is under criminal investigation by Texas and federal authorities.
Keefe, who draws a state salary of $131,725 a year, has already been linked to Vertol Systems, a company he once represented as an attorney. Vertol was hired to do what DeSantis’ critics have decried as a possibly illegal political stunt.
