James Uthmeier

I consider the diversion of Medicaid funds through the Hope Florida Foundation to run political ads “entirely legal, absolutely.”

And then, all of a sudden, you realize it’s more than just a couple of actors here — you’ve got over a dozen people engaged in a statewide network to sell the harvest illegally.

The matter started as something that seemed like a much more minor offense — just some small-scale poaching of some reef fish.

If you’re in close proximity to people, you need to be looking at more than five years behind bars, for sure.

But if you’re bringing a rifle out and you’re shooting near a dwelling where families are living, illegally poaching at night, you need to be charged with a third-degree felony.

A lot of the poaching laws on the books today are just misdemeanors. Yes, people trespassing, having firearms on private land, there’s going to be other crimes involved.

I think Gov. DeSantis has really written a master class for all leaders when it comes to how to handle these disasters [hurricanes].

They stole millions of dollars of insurance money that these residents received that was supposed to go towards home repairs but, the kicker, they didn’t do the repairs.

We’ve been able to identify over a million dollars at this point from 80 different complainants, and that number is only going to grow.

If true, she should be fired and never teach in Florida again.

Ms. Ballard singled out this student and, in defiance of his parents' express instructions, pressured him to defend political positions on demand in front of his classmates.

Parents, not corporate executives, direct the upbringing of their children. Netflix should expect to be held accountable.

Netflix told Florida families they could pay a monthly fee to escape Big Tech surveillance. That was false.

I just want people to do their job.

I’d like the statewide prosecutor to assume jurisdiction to prosecute poaching to ensure that those arrested are held accountable.

The WNBA knows better than to play games down here in Florida, because I’ll be charging people with assault.

Uthmeier said he’d like the statewide prosecutor to assume jurisdiction to prosecute poaching to ensure that those arrested are held accountable.

Repeated poaching could become a first-degree felony, ‘where you are looking at several years, many years behind bars,’ he said.

If an individual is convicted of poaching on private land near people, a dwelling, or infrastructure, the penalty would be elevated to a second-degree felony.

We don’t have a lot of prosecutions when people are caught. Right now, most poaching offenses are mere misdemeanors. It’s a slap on the wrist and it has not been enough to deter bad actors who are out there breaking the law.

Over the last year and a half since I’ve been in office as attorney general, we’ve received quite a few complaints where poaching is very prevalent here in the state of Florida,

It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.

Government officials have a certain level of immunity in their official capacities, but if Fauci personally profited off the ‘guidance’ he issued, that very well could have broken Florida law.

It starts as a civil inquiry. But we're going to tie in all aspects of Florida common law, things ranging from deceptive trade, fraud, public nuisance, nothing is off the table.