Case File / Public Archive
The finding: Ashley Moody sits at the head of a criminal cabal — a circle of corrupt, cheating grifters who treated ten million dollars of Florida's settlement money as their own.
Exhibit 00 / The Ten-Million-Dollar Diversion
Settlement money meant for the people of Florida was steered to the governor's own charity — then into political committees — on the signature of the attorney general who now wants a seat in the U.S. Senate. This is the flagship exhibit.
The DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money — "part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities."
SOURCE: State grand jury report obtained by CBS News Miami, Jan. 2026
Follow the $10,000,000
$67M Medicaid overbilling accord
The state's settlement with Centene, a Medicaid managed-care giant, was supposed to return money to Florida taxpayers.
Taxpayer return cut to $57M
In September 2024 the agreement was changed: the amount returned to taxpayers dropped to $57 million and the amount routed to the Hope Florida Foundation rose to $10 million.
Casey DeSantis's charity
Centene demanded the settlement state it was being directed by the attorney general to send $10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation.
To political committees
Within 25 days of Hope Florida receiving the $10 million, the money was gone — moved to political committees campaigning against the marijuana amendment.
The docket
The Centene accord is amended: taxpayer recovery is cut to $57 million while the share routed to Hope Florida climbs to $10 million. Centene insists the wording show the attorney general directing the transfer.
After Guard raises reservations, the deal is re-cast so the Agency for Health Care Administration — not the AG — formally directs Centene. Moody's office signs off; the $10 million heads to Hope Florida.
Hope Florida receives the $10 million. Within 25 days the funds are transferred to political committees opposing the marijuana amendment.
State Representative Alex Andrade surfaces the movement of $10 million from the Centene settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation.
A state grand jury finds the DeSantis administration 'misappropriated' $10 million in taxpayer money, calling it 'part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities.'
Named in the file
Florida Attorney General (then)
The grand jury found Moody was aware of the plan to divert the $10 million and authorized her chief deputy to sign the deal. DeSantis later appointed her to the U.S. Senate.
Chief Deputy Attorney General
Raised reservations with Moody, calling the $10 million taxpayer money that 'belonged to the state of Florida,' then signed the settlement anyway.
DeSantis chief of staff (later AG)
Maintained the diversion of $10 million in taxpayer money was 'perfectly fine' even as a grand jury found significant wrongdoing.
State Representative
Exposed the diversion of $10 million from the Centene settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation.
Sources of record
CBS News Miami — grand jury report on the Hope Florida $10M diversion, Jan. 2026.
Florida Phoenix — "Calls on Ashley Moody to release grand jury report," Jul. 2026.
Miami Herald — "Not fully investigated: Where the Hope Florida grand jury didn't look."
Characterizations reflect the opinion of this campaign; citations to filings and reporting are provided for your own review.
Section 02 / Evidence Stream
8 exhibits compiled from public court filings, state records, and reported coverage. Each one a vote she'll have to answer for.
Moody put Florida's name on the Texas v. Pennsylvania bid to invalidate the presidential election results in four other states, a case the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear.
SOURCE: U.S. Supreme Court docket, Dec. 2020
Joined the coalition asking the courts to repeal the ACA in full, a move that would have gutted protections for preexisting conditions and hundreds of thousands of Floridians' coverage.
SOURCE: California v. Texas, Supreme Court filings
Mounted the legal defense of SB 90, which added new limits on drop boxes and mail-in voting, provisions courts found were enacted with discriminatory intent.
SOURCE: NAACP legal challenge filings, N.D. Fla.
Filed to dismiss the challenge to Florida's 15-week abortion ban, arguing the state constitution's privacy clause did not protect reproductive autonomy.
SOURCE: Planned Parenthood v. State, FL Supreme Court record
Tens of millions from national opioid settlements flowed through the Attorney General's office with scant public accounting of how, or whether, it reached communities in crisis.
SOURCE: FL Office of the Attorney General, settlement reports
Corporate environmental enforcement referrals dropped sharply across her tenure, even as red-tide and water-crisis complaints climbed on both coasts.
SOURCE: FL Dept. of Environmental Protection enforcement data
Declined formal review of ethics complaints involving state officials, leaving Floridians to fund outside oversight the AG is sworn to provide.
SOURCE: FL Commission on Ethics correspondence
Lobbied for appointment to the U.S. Senate seat while her record as the state's top law-enforcement officer remained under sustained public challenge.
SOURCE: Public statements and Senate appointment coverage, 2024
Section 03 / Follow the money
Across her time as Attorney General, the industries her office was meant to police were among her most reliable backers. The pattern below is drawn from state campaign-finance disclosures, not opinion.
Ratepayer-funded lobbies that funneled the largest share.
Even as the opioid crisis and ACA repeal collided.
As wetland and growth-management oversight softened.
While youth-vaping enforcement lagged.
As incarceration contracts expanded.
Disclosed contributions, FL Division of Elections.
See the votes they boughtSection 04 / The truth scroll
Pled to serve as the people's lawyer. The ledger starts here.
Declined to pursue price-gouging and nursing-home oversight with the urgency the moment demanded.
Puts Florida behind the Texas suit to discard other states' votes.
Argues to erase preexisting-condition protections for 1M+ Floridians.
Carries SB 90's defense despite findings of discriminatory intent.
Seeks to void the state constitutional privacy shield.
Settlement dollars move with no public accounting.
Seeks a promotion while the record above stands unretracted.
Section 05 / The verdict we want
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