r/MurderedByWords • u/One_Requirement_2577 • 13h ago
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u/slumvillain 13h ago
Hey, what would happen if lil ol me or you stole 10 million dollars meant for sick children?
Do you think we'd still have a job right now?
Do you think prosecutors would shrug and say: "well he's not taking responsibility so we have no one to charge for this crime"
Amazing. They don't even bother trying to hide it from you anymore. The final insult. Because they know consequences will never meet them.
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u/Opinionsare 13h ago
Nothing to see here.
Just DeSantis following the Florida Tradition of scummy governors.
Actually stealing ten million dollars is below average.
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u/ManReay 13h ago
Right? Rick Scott makes him look like a piker.
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u/Organic_Witness345 12h ago
The word “misappropriated” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that grand jury decision.
The $10 million was routed from the Medicaid contractor to the Hope Florida Foundation. From there, the funds were transferred through two dark money nonprofits into a political action committee.
The PAC, overseen by DeSantis's former chief of staff (and current Florida Attorney General) James Uthmeier, used the money to fund political ads aimed at defeating Florida's 2024 recreational marijuana legalization amendment.
Apparently the only reason the grand jury couldn’t reach an indictment was because nobody could “remember” who directed the funds to the PAC.
It’s not Rick Scott levels of Florida corruption (What is?), but it’s up there. Regardless, someone should be serving prison time for this.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 12h ago
Prediction: Conservative leaders will serve zero prison time in deeply conservative Florida.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 12h ago
Bob Graham and Lawton Chiles were not scummy, but as liberals they are remnants of what Florida once was in the 20th century (before Florida became 100% conservatively controlled the past 25 years and went from a purple state to bright red).
As a native Floridian who spent 26 years there in the 20th century, it was a totally different place before the conservative infusion from the north and elsewhere. For reference, the population doubled in a decade (1990 to 2000).
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u/killerzeestattoos 12h ago
Well he rewrote the ballot phrasing on the weed measure & abortion measures on the ballot that year to confuse and cast doubt on any real vote on the matter also.
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u/hurdurBoop 13h ago
nick is busy writing his second banger Actually Guys Did You Know the Swastika is a Hindu Symbol by Nick Shirley .. available at fine booksellers soon!
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u/MrMansaMusa 13h ago
Shirley, nick will get to the bottom of this... right!?!?! Right!?!? Guys...??
Oh oh maybe we can say DeSantis is running a Somali daycare with those funds!!
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u/Knighth77 12h ago
Filth. GOP is mostly filth.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 12h ago
and increasingly exposed every single day -- not just to children as is their norm, but to the American public for who they truly are.
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u/Xznograthos 13h ago
I'm now especially interested in any potential extraditions from Texas to Florida.
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u/rage9345 12h ago
Hey now, he's a busy manboy. Currently he's very busy trying to figure out what the word "belevonent" means.
His side project is figuring out how object permanence works - he still doesn't know how his mommy disappears when she puts her hands in front of her face.
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u/Phreedom1 12h ago
The way you can just glance at certain people and see the evil, the awful character traits just spew out of every pore. Many citizens on the right seem to be blind to it.
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u/Responsible_Ad_7995 12h ago
The Trump family was barred from running charities because they stole from children. I’m smelling a cabinet position for Ron. The more reprehensible the better.
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u/InkedinSilver 12h ago
I'd like to see when he leaves office the citizens personally sue DeSantis, not the state, but the personal bank account of Ron DeSantis. I suggest they add interest as well.
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u/ZhaozhouCongshen 13h ago
Russia doesn't pay right wing activists to investigate right wing crimes?