Martha's Vineyard migrant flight company, recruiter, safety czar added to class-action lawsuit ...

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https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/marthas-vineyard-migrant-flight-company-recruiter-safety-czar-added-to-class-action-lawsuit-against-florida/

Martha’s Vineyard migrant flight company, recruiter, safety czar added to class-action lawsuit against Florida

by: Sam Sachs
Posted: Nov 29, 2022 / 01:20 PM EST
Updated: Nov 29, 2022 / 01:21 PM EST

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A class-action lawsuit against the state of Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and other state officials by migrants taken to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. has new developments.

In addition to the state actors already named as defendants, the migrants have now added Vertol, the company contracted by the state for transportation, Vertol CEO James Montgomerie, Perla Huerta, the woman paid to recruit immigrants for the move, and Florida Public Safety Czar Larry Keefe.

In October, Huerta was identified by multiple news outlets as a former military service member living in Tampa, who retired from active duty as a “a former combat medic and U.S. Army counterintelligence agent” in August 2022.

The amended complaint, filed by the attorneys from Lawyers for Civil Rights, added the transportation company, its CEO, Keefe, and Huerta for their roles in the alleged “deceptive recruitment of immigrants,” as well as saying new public records released have painted a “detailed picture of a coordinated scheme at the highest levels of the Florida government.”

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[lark]

1. Death Sentence and his ilk are just despicable!

Hope he and they go down in flames.

[Probatim]

2. Here's hoping DeSantis gets exposed during this lawsuit.

If anyone deserves a kick to the nuts, it's him.

[tavernier]

3. Karma is a bitch.

Perhaps one day his family members will undergo that kind of loss and pain and humiliation and he will remember what he did to those families.

[Major Nikon]

4. It's a safe bet Desantis won't get the criminal investigation he deserves

He paid a company that doesn't even own or manage the planes necessary for the trip $1.6 million. Even if you wanted to charter flights that go from San Antonio to Martha's Vinyard with a stop in Florida for 50 people, there's no way it would even cost a fraction of that amount.

You can charter a 737 for about $17K per hour, and that's a lot more plane than you'd need for this mission. There's about 5 hours of flight time total. Even if you throw in a couple of hours for dead heading, that's still $119K and that's easily on the high side. Florida paid almost 10 times that amount.

I find it hard to believe that doesn't rise to felony level malfeasance even assuming there was no kick back money involved, and it's pretty fucking hard to imagine there was no kick back money involved.