Thursday, August 01, 2024

ANNALS OF DeSANTISTAN; Ethics commission drops probe into Mori Hosseni's donation of golf simulator to DeSantis. (Mark Harper, DBNJ)

Anyone find it surprising that an influential billionaire and generous GQC campaign contributor gets away with it in Florida's deplorably dpwmgraded ethics enforcement?  

Ethics commission drops probe into Mori Hosseni's donation of golf simulator to DeSantis


Mark Harper
Daytona Beach News-Journal

July 31 2024

Gov. Ron DeSantis will not face a Florida Ethics Commission sanction over a golf simulator donated to the Governor's Mansion.

The Ethics Commission announced that it found no probable cause to pursue further investigation of the simulator provided by Ormond Beach mega-donor Mori Hosseini in 2019, the year DeSantis − who previously represented the Daytona Beach area in Congress − took office in Tallahassee.

During a closed-door session Friday, the panel also found no probable cause that DeSantis failed to report as a gift free air travel provided by Hosseini. The Ethics Commission did not explain its findings.

Last year, when DeSantis was a presidential candidate, news stories emerged about Hossieni's generosity to the governor and his wife Casey DeSantis. Hosseini maintained the gifts were legal, telling Reuters the simulator "was provided to the residence gym, as things have been in the past, for the use of the family, guests, and staff, during this and subsequent administrations."

1 comment:

Lenny said...

Give the guy a mink coat and a diamond ring while you're at it. What did he do to deserve that? Declared a few hurricane emergencies, put on phoney baloney political theater for the lowest common intellectual denominator, and protected the rich in Florida. Also, championed a man who wracked up dozens of felonies.. Donald J Election Interference.