Democrat State Attorney Jack Campbell spent over a year trying to criminalize DeSantis administration officials for conduct no law actually prohibited.
But a judge just settled the issue.
And a Florida court just wiped out the Democrat Grand Jury that tried to destroy DeSantis officials.
Democrats Named People and Called It a Crime – Then Admitted They Had No Evidence to Charge Anyone
The Leon County grand jury, impaneled by Campbell in August 2025, spent months investigating a $10 million payment from Medicaid contractor Centene that flowed to the Hope Florida Foundation – First Lady Casey DeSantis' charity initiative.
The jury returned no indictments.
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Instead, it issued a 116-page document calling the $10 million a "sophisticated scheme" to fund political activities – and then, in the very same breath, admitted there wasn't enough evidence to charge a single person.
Think about that for a moment.
They convicted people in print and then confessed they couldn't prove it in a courtroom.
Florida's First District Court of Appeal saw exactly what this was.
Judge Lance Neff, writing for the court, laid it out in plain language: "A grand jury may investigate and report, but it may not declare conduct unlawful and then decline to charge it, and it may not condemn people by name without indicting them."
That's not a close legal question.
That's a grand jury that went rogue – and a Democrat state attorney who let it happen.
Campbell Leaked the Sealed Document Before DeSantis Officials Could Fight Back
The court found a second, independent reason to throw out the entire document – and this one lands squarely on Campbell himself.
Florida law gives people named in a grand jury presentment 15 days to challenge it before it becomes public.
Campbell didn't wait.
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On January 28 and 29, before that window had expired, he blasted the sealed document in mass emails to at least 49 recipients – including state Rep. Alex Andrade, the complaining witness who had been pushing the investigation from the beginning, plus two generic intake addresses and at least one recipient who had nothing to do with the case.
The court was blunt: "Transmitting a sealed presentment to such non-concerned recipients was not statutory compliance. It was a disclosure of confidential material beyond what the statute authorizes."
Jeremy Redfern, deputy chief of staff to Attorney General James Uthmeier, called the ruling a "complete and total victory" and said Campbell "violated the law" by sending Andrade a copy.
He's right.
The Court Took a Blowtorch to the Grand Jury's Legal Reasoning
Beyond the procedural demolition, the appeals court torched the grand jury's underlying legal theory.
The report accused DeSantis officials of misappropriating funds – but the court found the $10 million "passed from Centene directly to Hope Florida" and "was never expended or received by the State."
That means the Florida statutes the grand jury cited didn't even apply to the transaction.
The jury's own reliance on a statute's "purpose" and "spirit" – rather than its actual text – was, Neff wrote, "an implicit admission that existing law did not forbid the conduct."
They couldn't find a law that was broken, so they tried to invent one.
Neff didn't stop there, describing the presentment itself as "careless in its grammar, mistaken in its law, and unfaithful to its own record."
A lower court judge had already gutted about 112 of the 116 pages.
The appeals court said that wasn't enough – leaving the misappropriation conclusion standing meant leaving "a report of a wholly different tenor," and the only remedy was expungement of the complete document.
All 116 pages – gone.
This Is What Weaponized Government Looks Like
This is the playbook Democrats run everywhere they still hold institutional power.
You find a Democrat prosecutor in Tallahassee, impanel a friendly grand jury, spend a year producing a report that smears officials by name, and then leak it to your political allies before anyone can respond.
The problem is Florida's appellate courts are not in on the scheme.
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Courts across this country have rejected this kind of grand jury overreach for over a century – you cannot condemn someone in public without charging them; that principle is as old as American jurisprudence itself.
Campbell knew the rules.
He chose to violate them anyway.
Uthmeier, who chaired the Keep Florida Clean political committee at the center of the allegations, denied wrongdoing from the beginning.
The appeals court just confirmed he was right – what Democrats called a "sophisticated scheme" was a private donation that never touched state money, and the people who called it a crime couldn't find a law to prove it.
Jack Campbell has a court ruling on his record saying he broke the law to get there.
Sources:
- Frank Kopylov, "Appeals court orders full expungement of Hope Florida grand jury report," Florida News, October 7, 2026.
- Jeremy Redfern, official statement via X, October 8, 2026.
- Florida First District Court of Appeal, In re Hope Florida Grand Jury Presentment, Opinion by Judge Lance Neff, October 7, 2026.
