Hope Florida
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Oct 4, 2026
Angie NixonGUEST
And that's because Ashley Moody voted to end health care for 440,000 people here in the state of Florida.
Angie NixonGUEST
In addition to that, She stole $10 million and allowed that money to be redirected to two political PACs to defeat two citizen led ballot initiatives based in the Hope Florida scandal.
Angie NixonGUEST
That money was supposed to go towards sick kids for Medicaid.
Angie NixonGUEST
And I really have a problem with that because my daughter was on Medicaid when I was a single mom.
Bill MickHOST
Now that Tim Bobanek has succeeded her, that is pretty much the same story.
Bill MickHOST
We've got Hope Florida stories, if we can get to them, and the baby Pope and back to school.
Bill MickHOST
Baby Pope, of course, being Attorney General James Uthmeyer.
Bill MickHOST
And we'll see where it all goes.
46 MINS LATER
Bill MickHOST
She has an office that makes her opinion valid, but she wasn't smart enough not to offer it in an office that requires you at least appear to act in a nonpartisan way.
Bill MickHOST
We will kick that around as we get into our number two.
Bill MickHOST
The Hope Florida thing is out there, and it's...
Bill MickHOST
I think the Hope Florida thing at some point is going to take a lot of time.
Bill MickHOST
And when you have officials who support that and want that idiot elected to an office, like supervisor of elections, who's not being true to their integrity now? I've been very consistent on that issue.
Bill MickHOST
I've been very consistent on the Hope Florida thing, which we've got some stories about we're gonna get to eventually here on the show, because Hope Florida was nothing but a scam from the beginning the way I'm reading it.
Bill MickHOST
Not gonna go there today.
Bill MickHOST
The troll frames all of this in a prod- provocative manner.
Jim ColbertHOST
We're still owed $1.2 billion for this facility from the federal government, and we have not seen a dime of it.
Jack BradshawHOST
Can Hope Florida cover the rest?
Jim ColbertHOST
Yeah, that's a good question.
Jim ColbertHOST
What would a billion could have done for the state outside of Alligator Alcatraz that ran for, what, a year? Not even.
Nikki FriedGUEST
That's how we hold them accountable.
Nikki FriedGUEST
And then, when we can have independent investigations and have grand juries pulled, not here in Leon County, because you saw what happened in Leon County, that the grand jury of the Hope Florida scandal didn't hold anybody accountable.
Nikki FriedGUEST
So we're going to have to do their job too.
Nikki FriedGUEST
But you got to give us the keys, guys.
David JollyGUEST
Sure
Aaron ParnasHOST
... whether it's the misappropriation of funds as it relates to Hope Florida or, uh, the, um, Alligator Alcatraz funding.
David JollyGUEST
Mm.
Aaron ParnasHOST
How do you get accountability, uh, when you are governor?
David JollyGUEST
If you wanna drain the swamp, drain Tallahassee.
David JollyGUEST
We basically allow unlimited money to come into political committees controlled by incumbents.
David JollyGUEST
That's how you got Hope Florida, right? $10 million was basically, uh, siphoned out of or laundered from the Medicaid program through the first lady's nonprofit into a political committee fully controlled by the governor, and it happened because arguably it was legal.
David JollyGUEST
What the-
Scott MaxwellGUEST
This is what you read about in dictator-type countries because this is not the first one.
Scott MaxwellGUEST
Don't forget that when Hope Florida first started and that whole scandal, one of our reporters said, just wanted to understand what Hope Florida was supposed to...
Scott MaxwellGUEST
Remember, it was a charity that was supposedly funded up and started asking questions.
Scott MaxwellGUEST
The state of Florida sent our newspaper a cease and desist order to stop reporting on that scandal.
1 HR 39 MINS LATER
speaker_31AUDIENCE
And it's $200 million.
speaker_31AUDIENCE
Go claim yours if you have an old phone.
speaker_32AUDIENCE
Well, it's just like big oil raking us over to coals, insurance ripping us off big time, and the Hope Florida scandal.
speaker_32AUDIENCE
Ain't nobody going to do anything, so what the hell? And
Mike DeasonHOST
Oh, I believe in them a lot.
Mike DeasonHOST
They did a lot with the Hope Florida $10 million.
Mike DeasonHOST
Okay.
Ian CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All right, Mike.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
Here we go.
Jim DeFedeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There have been some important developments surrounding the revelations contained in the grand jury investigation of Hope Florida that CBS Miami published 10 days ago.
Jim DeFedeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
As you know, the grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million of taxpayer money from a Medicaid settlement.
Jim DeFedeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That money should have been used to help, in the words of the grand jury, sick, poor children.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
And they kept it.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
Okay, this is what the grand jury said after looking at all the evidence.
Jim DeFedeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But instead, it was diverted to the Hope Florida Foundation before quickly making its way into a political action committee controlled by the man who was the governor's chief of staff at the time, James Uthmeyer.
Jim DeFedeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
From there, the millions were then rerouted into the bank account of the Republican Party of Florida.
Katie PhangGUEST
How typical.
Katie PhangGUEST
But I did this episode the other day about this crazy Hope Florida scandal, about the $10 million that got re-diverted through Casey DeSantis' foundation that related to her charity and how the current attorney general, who's trying to defend his seat now, has his fingerprints all over directing where the money was going to go.
Katie PhangGUEST
And then a grand jury was like, this is a misappropriation of $10 million and it involves DeSantis, the wife, the attorney general.
Katie PhangGUEST
Ashley Moody, who's now a U.S. senator, trying to defend her seat.
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