In a letter, the Treasury Department said it's trying to determine whether Florida misused federal COVID-19 relief funds to pay for the flights. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Florida RonDeSantis desantishumantrafficker Migrants MarthasVineyard
The Treasury Department is the first federal agency to launch an investigation into DeSantis' migrant flights that left from San Antonio in September.
The Treasury Department is investigating whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis improperly used federal COVID-19 relief funds to pay for his, D-Massachusetts, that it's conducting a probe into Florida's use of those federal funds. In the letter, Treasury Deputy Inspector General Richard K. Delmar said the examination is part of a larger audit into how states, including Florida, made use of federal COVID relief.
News of the probe comes after DeSantis hired private charter planes to carry a group of 50 migrants — mostly Venezuelans — from the Alamo City to the Massachusetts resort community. Those asylum seekers later said they were lured onto the flights withDeSantis reportedly funded the flights via a $12 million pot Florida's legislature created to move"unauthorized aliens" from the state
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