Kate Payne

Editor's note: This story was originally published by The Florida Trib Byron and Erika Donalds are a Florida power couple if ever there was one.

The committee backing Crist has received tens of thousands of dollars more from a daisy-chain of opaque political committees, including one whose registered address is a University of Florida fraternity house.

From the jump, Donalds was the Republican favorite to succeed term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis, who declined to endorse in the race. Donalds consistently led in polling and fundraising, far outstripping his competitors and pulling in a staggering haul, more than $110 million.

Though appointed and not elected to his current position as CFO, Ingoglia has not shied away from using his post to publicly ridicule the spending decisions of local governments.

Data centers have become a political lightning rod across the country, galvanizing a bipartisan outpouring of opposition from residents alarmed by the sheer scale of the energy and water needed to run the facilities, which are used to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing. In calls with investors,

The case before Florida’s Public Service Commission is weighing whether Duke Energy plans to do enough to shield customers from the costs of data centers.

Despite finding the $10 million was misappropriated, the grand jury said there was “insufficient evidence” to charge anyone criminally – because no one would admit to orchestrating the scheme.

An explosive grand jury report found officials in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “misappropriated” $10 million from a state Medicaid settlement “as part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” according