The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has sent a cease and desist letter to an Orlando Sentinel reporter who has been digging into the Hope Florida scandal.

Jeffrey Schweers , the Sentinel’s Tallahassee bureau reporter, has broken some scoops regarding the embattled charity backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis .

Schweers recently wrote about a woman who made a social media post complimenting Hope Florida who had actually been paid $588 by the organization a few days earlier. Another story covered a woman who had been promoted in Hope Florida’s marketing who was still living in poverty despite receiving assistance from the charity three years ago.

Now, as Schweers is apparently working on his next piece, the DCF is accusing the reporter

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