By Mitch Perry
Last month Governor Rick Scott agreed to pay a Tallahassee lawyer $700,000 in taxpayer funds to settle lawsuits alleging he and members of his staff violated state law when they created email accounts to hide their communications from state public records laws and then withheld the documents. As reported by the Miami Herald, the settlement with attorney Steven R. Andrews was precedent-setting in that it was the first time in Florida history that a sitting governor and attorney general have been sued and agreed to settle allegations that they violated Florida’s public records laws.But the governor has said he will use state funds to pay off that settlement.
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