The state Chief Financial Officer’s (CFO) office has subpoenaed Orange County employees “who may have knowledge of efforts to obstruct the state’s ongoing local government DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] audits” that were initiated early this month, according to an Aug. 27 statement from the state.
The move to subpoena comes from “irregularities in county records [that] were found during on-site visits by state DOGE teams, raising red flags among auditors,” the statement reads.
“Taxpayers have a right to know how their hard-earned dollars are spent,” Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia said in the Wednesday statement. “Today, we have issued subpoenas to ensure that Orange County is accountable to the taxpayers and is transparent with the ways that they use public funds. I will not stand idly by while Floridians are forced to pay higher property taxes to fund wasteful and bloated government budgets.”…