Late night Martha's Vineyard document dump from State of Florida including pictures, texts from Larry Keefe (DeSantis immigration czar), maps other items.
Of course the vendor is Vertol Systems, Mr. Keefe's former client.
These appear to be photos from San Antonio, Texas when the folks seeking asylum were boarding. They landed in Martha's Vineyard later that day.
And has been paid $1.565 million so far for 2 flights with 48 Venezuelans seeking asylum and one empty plane.
Based on these texts seems as though Larry Keefe was actually on one of the flights.
He’s been quite busy. He also was one who told Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren he was suspended and helped escort him out of his office. Not sure how this fits in public safety czar position.
“Keefe’s presence on the ground in Texas could open him to potential criminal liability. The Democratic sheriff of Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, has launched a criminal investigation into whether Vertol recruiters broke laws against “unlawful restraint” by deceiving
Texts between Keefe and DeSantis Chief of Staff Uthmeier repeatedly reference talking by phone likely to avoid have any written record subject to disclosure under Florida sunshine law.
Keefe repeatedly begs for phone calls with Uthmeier on weekend and days leading up to flights asking to have his former client and vendor Vertol on phone.
They are both lawyers.
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“Top aides to Gov. Ron DeSantis played key roles in planning and executing Florida’s controversial migrant flight program, according to public records released late Friday.
While the program was carried out by a private contractor, the new records show the deep involvement.
of Larry Keefe, DeSantis’ public safety czar, and James Uthmeier, his chief of staff, in an operation that has led to at least one criminal investigation, a separate U.S. Treasury Department probe and several lawsuits —
If it's true he's departing from Chicago, Illinois wouldn't make much sense since it's a sanctuary city unless he's picking states governed by potential Presidential candidate opponents. (Abbott & now Pritzer).
Florida is home of sunshine law requiring state entities to promptly & fully respond to public record requests. It took 22 days for DeSantis's office & his Department of Transportation to respond to our request for documents related to his "relocation program."
We finally received 81 pages yesterday & the sparse documents show state selected highest bidder who also is former Governor's Immigration czar's longtime client & GOP donor to perform the work until June, 2023 on ongoing month-to-month basis. The approval moved through FDOT in a
matter of days & included advance payment of $615k. The "voluntary" program was called a humanitarian effort for unauthorized aliens "found in Florida" to be coordinated w/ appropriate agencies. It isn't humanitarian, wasn't coordinated with any agencies, folks weren't "found in
Florida Governor's contract to transport immigrants to Martha's Vineyard eliminated key safeguards, chose high bidder grantstern.substack.com/p/florida-gove…
“The documents in this request for quotes outline a procedure that was not followed,” says attorney Daniel W. Uhlfelder who assisted in obtaining the records from FDOT. “Contractor responsibilities are very detailed but do not appear to have been followed.”
“It is clear, based on these documents, that there was little effort to ensure proper entity was hired for this project,” concluded Uhlfelder. “It is characterized as a humanitarian project including requirements to coordinate with various government agencies.
"Perla Haydee Huerta served as a Combat Medic Specialist (68W) and Counterintelligence Agent (35L) in the regular Army from April 2002 to August 2022. She deployed to Iraq from May 2003 to July 2004 and October 2008 to October 2009; Afghanistan from amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/10/02…
December 2010 to July 2011, September 2014 to January 2015, August 2018 to November 2018 and January 2019 to February 2019; and Djibouti from August 2013 to October 2013," Bonzo said. "She held the rank of master sergeant at the end of service.
Huerta was discharged in August, the Times reported, citing military records.”
Now that "cat is out of the bag" on Perla, here is some more information we confirmed after we found her:
-Perla Haydee Wilbur maiden name
-Married to Justin Marc Wilbur until divorced Okaloosa County, Florida 2/6/18
-Former Soldier, US Army, Eglin AFB
-One child
-43 years old
-Formerly lived in Niceville, FL
-Formerly lived in San Antonio
-Appears to live in Tampa now