Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia said he has heard from “multiple sources” “who work inside local governments” that local officials have deleted or altered information in advance of state audits.

Ingoglia said he was “not at liberty to say” which city or county governments the allegations target.

Those governments, Ingoglia claims, have held “some meetings with the sole purpose of scrubbing the information from public record as we start looking for some of the things that are outlined in our DOGE letters.”

Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia. (Photo credit: Florida Senate) Ingoglia said the scrubbed information could include “certain keywords” from documents, which would make it more difficult for auditors to search electronic records.

“Depending on what we find, we

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