Author: Daniel Ducassi
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Millions of Dollars in Real Estate Absent from Florida CFO Ingoglia’s Financial Disclosure
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia has been touring the state and preaching the importance of government fiscal transparency and accountability. But other state and local records show Ingoglia has omitted from his public financial disclosure more than a hundred properties tied to him through his companies. -
Florida CFO Ingoglia talks transparency, accountability but fails to deliver as $342 million in CFO contracts remain hidden
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia has been touring the state touting the importance of fiscal transparency and accountability, but his own agency has been violating a key fiscal transparency law that helps the public hold the government accountable. -
More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared that “transparency is no longer optional,” and vowed to expose any government entity misusing taxpayer dollars. But his own administration has been repeatedly violating a state transparency law, awarding companies billions of dollars in “emergency” contracts while failing to publicly post copies of the agreements as the law requires. -
New College, Rufo dodge trial as watchdog gives up records hunt, calls for criminal investigation
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
The watchdog group that pursued a two-year long public records lawsuit against New College of Florida and various trustees appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis has abandoned its effort to extract records documenting the ideological takeover of the school in January 2023, now claiming there are no records left to pursue. -
Rufo, New College trustees headed to trial for hiding public records
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Militant anti-DEI activist Christopher Rufo is on the path to a trial in Florida state court over allegations he and other board members of New College of Florida illegally withheld records documenting their ideological takeover of the school in 2023. -
Florida kept paying millions for a contact tracing app after DeSantis said contact tracing doesn’t work
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Months after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said contact tracing doesn’t work, his administration has continued to pay millions of dollars in no-bid deals for a COVID-19 contact tracing app made by a company with ties to a prominent, billionaire Republican donor and represented by an influential Tallahassee lobbyist.
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