After campaign donations, Gov. DeSantis reappoints old foe to Citizens Insurance board
For a while there, relations between Gov. Ron DeSantis and homebuilding executive Carlos Beruff weren’t great.
It started when the two men traded barbs during opposing bids for the U.S. Senate in 2016. DeSantis called Beruff a “shady businessman” for accusations that Beruff’s company, Medallion Home Gulf Coast, used contaminated Chinese drywall in projects and then refused to replace it.
Beruff fired back by calling DeSantis, then a Congressman, a “Washington insider” who was “looking for his next promotion.”
In January 2019, shortly after taking over as Governor, DeSantis yanked Beruff from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission alongside dozens of other last-minute appointments by outgoi...
