
Eustis woman accused of burning child with hot glue gun arrested on child abuse charges
By Katherine Langford
WFTV Orlando Local
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State Attorney Monique Worrell said she is reviewing whether the disbursement of $10 million in Medicaid settlement funds through Hope Florida amounted to criminal activity.“I am reviewing the information that’s out there and in the event that a crime is discovered, then we will move accordingly,” Worrell said, responding to reporters’ questions about Hope Florida at a press conference on an unrelated matter.Hope Florida is a community-based welfare program that has been championed by First Lady of Florida Casey DeSantis.[WATCH: How the Hope Florida Investigation began and why a grand jury report may have been leaked]A leaked grand jury report obtained and published by CBS Miami in August revealed that grand jurors probed the funneling of $10 million from a settlement with a Medicaid contractor through Hope Florida, to organizations advocating for political causes.The grand jury determined that the $10 million in question was “misappropriated.”“We find that these funds were misappropri
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