DeSantis ‘Czar' Used Alias, Private Email As Contractor Sought Migrant Flights' Deal
As his former client was seeking the contract to relocate migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “public safety czar” gave Vertol Systems Company CEO James Montgomerie a private “email channel to use,” according to records released Thursday by the governor’s office.
Call sign: Heat 19.
Alias: Clarice Starling.
For three weeks after that Aug. 26 instruction, records show the two men exchanged invoice and proposal language as Vertol was about to win a contract that has so far paid it more than $1.5 million. None of that official state business was included in any of Larry Keefe’s state email records released so far.
Last month, Montgomerie testified in a lawsuit seeking a...
