Only in Florida...a conflict of interest is not really...

[GoodWitch58]

Gov. Rick Scott, Solantic and conflict of interest: What's the deal? - St. Petersburg Times

If you have a $62 million investment, representing the biggest single chunk of your $218 million in wealth, and you put it in a trust under your wife's name, does that mean you're no longer involved in the company?

Florida Gov. Rick Scott says it does.

Scott has aggressively pursued policies like testing state workers and welfare recipients for drugs, switching Medicaid patients to private HMOs and shrinking public health clinics. All these changes could benefit that $62 million investment, but Scott sees no legal conflict between his public role and private investments.

And, experts say, under Florida law he is correct.

Scott appoints the heads of the Agency for Health Care Administration and Department of Health, which license, inspect and investigate complaints against providers such as Solantic. Herron, the ethics lawyer, said it's legal.

"It's counterintuitive to our understanding of how the world works, but that's the law, strictly construed," he said.

This is the kind of law that gets passed when the only people paying attention are the ones who will benefit from the law...

 

[Bob Wells]

Funny how that works. May be legal but doesn't pass the smell test.