The U.S. Treasury Department is examining Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s use of public funds when he flew about 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last month.
The Treasury’s Office of Inspector General has asked Florida for information about its spending as part of ongoing audits of how states have spent federal pandemic relief money.
But it appears to be more than a routine audit.
The office is also looking at whether Florida used interest earnings on pandemic relief money for immigration purposes which includes moving the migrants and whether that’s allowable.
The deputy inspector general of the Treasury, Richard Delmar, described the review in a letter to several members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, who asked last month for an investigation.
At issue is whether millions of dollars in interest earned on State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, disbursed through the American Rescue Plan, was used to facilitate the transport of about 50 Venezuelans from Texas to Massachusetts in mid-September, with a stopover in Florida on the way.
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A watchdog group with the U.S. Treasury Department plans to examine whether Florida’s state government properly used federal pandemic recovery money in connection to last month’s efforts to relocate migrants, a top official with the agency told the Massachusetts congressional delegation last week.