REPORT: Lazy Lil’ Jared Moskowitz Exposed for “Gross Oversight” of COVID Relief Funds
A bombshell report exposes that Lazy Lil’ Jared Moskowitz, as Director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, let over $1 million in taxpayer dollars go out the door without required oversight.
This revelation is the latest example of Moskowitz betraying Florida taxpayers. Don’t forget, he even tried to price-gouge his own community just days after Hurricane Irma…
“From completely mismanaging over a billion of their tax dollars to trying to squeeze even more out of them in the wake of a devastating hurricane, corrupt Jared Moskowitz has been callously taking advantage of Florida taxpayers for years. Voters will bring Moskowitz’s career as a corrupt, self-serving bureaucrat to an end in November.”– NRCC Spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole
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Unearthed audit exposes vulnerable Dem’s handling of COVID relief funds: ‘Gross oversight’
Fox News
Leo Briceno
September 29, 2026
During his time as director for the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM), Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., allowed over $1 billion in COVID-19 relief funding to go out the door without required monitoring, records reveal.
The 2022 State of Florida Compliance and Internal Controls over Financial Reporting and Federal Awards flagged the weakness in its annual audit, stating, “FDEM did not monitor the activities of any subrecipients.”
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Moskowitz’s FDEM approved $210,562,500 in funding to 39 local government recipients in the 2020-2021 fiscal year from the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF), according to the audit. The next year, it distributed $1,026,225,200 to 55 locations.
Taken together, the grants add up to $1.23 billion.
“Contrary to Federal regulations, the FDEM did not monitor the activities of CRF subrecipients,” the audit states. “Such monitoring is to include, for example, reviewing subrecipient audit reports and determining whether management decisions are required for any audit findings related to the federal award.”
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“Monitoring of the subrecipient must include reviewing financial and performance reports, following up and ensuring that the subrecipient takes timely and appropriate action on all deficiencies pertaining to the federal award detected through audits, on-site reviews and other means,” the audit states.
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“When Jared Moskowitz ran a state agency, federal regulators and state auditors found that there was a gross lack of oversight of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds, a lack of reporting, a lack of review of where the funds were going,” Singer said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“And that’s unacceptable, especially with public tax dollars. But it’s not surprising.”
Singer argued the audit echoed earlier questions about Moskowitz’s work involving disaster recovery funds.
He pointed to an incident in 2017, when Moskowitz, as an attorney for AshBritt, a disaster-cleanup company, had renegotiated compensation from the City of Parkland after Hurricane Irma. Disclosure reports showed that he was being paid over $400,000 by the company while also serving as a state legislator.
“When Jared was a state representative, he went to his own city and demanded that they pay more for hurricane cleanup that went to a disaster recovery company that paid him millions,” Singer said.
“We can’t afford people who are continuing to do the same thing. A gross oversight of funds and self-dealing.”
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