A day after Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia blasted Palm Beach County as the statewide leader of “waste, fraud and abuse,” County Administrator Joe Abruzzo on Friday struck back, calling the financial chief’s claims “fictitious” and his tactics questionable.

If Ingoglia was really concerned about rooting out waste, the financial chief would have sat down with county staff to discuss the findings of the state’s Elon Musk-styled government efficiency team and worked with them to cut costs, Abruzzo said.

Instead, the Republican gubernatorial appointee, who is up for election next year, invited supporters to a news conference at the Okeechobee Steakhouse in West Palm Beach on Thursday and declared that the team had identified $344 million in wasteful county spending in the fiscal year that

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