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As the Times<\/em> notes, \u201cProsecutors often continue investigating strands of a criminal case after charges have been brought, and sometimes their efforts go nowhere. But post-indictment investigations can result in additional charges against people who have already been accused of crimes in the case.\u201d<\/p>\n A spokesman for Trump declined the Times<\/em>\u2019 request comment.<\/p>\n It definitely must have just been a happy coincidence that a wealthy Ron DeSantis donor who reportedly<\/strong> lent the Florida governor his private plane<\/strong><\/a> on at least 12 occasions received $92 million from the DeSantis administration for his real estate project, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n Right?? Per The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n The administration of Florida governor\u00a0Ron DeSantis\u00a0steered $92 million last year in leftover federal\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0stimulus money to a controversial highway interchange project that directly benefits a top political donor, according to state records. The decision by the Florida Department of Transportation to use money from the 2021 American Rescue Plan for the I-95 interchange at Pioneer Trail Road near Daytona Beach fulfilled a yearslong effort by Mori Hosseini,<\/strong> a politically connected housing developer who owns two large tracts of largely forested land abutting the planned interchange. The funding through the DeSantis administration, approved shortly after the governor\u2019s reelection, expedited the project by more than a decade, according to state documents.<\/p>\n Hosseini plans to develop the land\u2014which includes a sensitive watershed once targeted for conservation by the state\u2014into approximately 1,300 dwelling units and 650,000 square feet of nonresidential use, including an outdoor village shopping district. He has called the Woodhaven development, which has already begun construction, his \u201cbest project yet\u201d and promised to\u00a0pull out all the stops for its success. \u201cWith or without the interchange, we would have built Woodhaven there, but it certainly helps,\u201d he told The\u00a0Daytona Beach News Journal<\/em> in March 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Before the Post<\/em> story was published, a spokesman for DeSantis posted the outlet\u2019s request for comment on Twitter<\/a>, later writing in an email to the newspaper, \u201cYou are trying to make an accusation to play \u2018gotcha\u2019,\u201d in response to a question about whether DeSantis had discussed the project with Hosseini or advocating for funding it.<\/p>\n Elsewhere!<\/strong><\/p>\n Supreme Court decision a \u201ctravesty of justice\u201d says UNC, Harvard litigator<\/strong><\/p>\n The Hill \u2022\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n Court has \u201cgone out of its way\u201d to unravel basic rights, Biden says<\/strong><\/p>\n NBC News \u2022\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n The End of Affirmative Action Is Only the Beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n Intelligencer \u2022\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n Judge rejects Trump\u2019s \u201cpresidential immunity\u201d defense in second E. Jean Carroll case<\/strong><\/p>\n Politico \u2022\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n Consumers and retailers brace for student loans payment restart<\/strong><\/p>\n Washington Post<\/em> \u2022\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n Prosecutors charge three men with insider trading scheme related to Trump\u2019s media company<\/strong><\/p>\n Politico \u2022\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n Trump, Who Has the Mind of a Child, Still Thinks the Classified Documents He Got Indicted for Keeping Belong to Him: Report<\/strong><\/p>\n Vanity Fair<\/em> \u2022\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n Italian teacher sacked for 20 years of absence vows to defend herself<\/strong><\/p>\n BBC \u2022\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n