Ron DeSantis issues zero fines after 6,600 hotels rack up sex trafficking violations

[Demovictory9]

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-trafficking-fines/



Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration has declined to issue fines after over 14,000 violations of a sex trafficking law by Florida hotels and lodging establishments.

An investigation published on Sunday by the Sun Sentinel found that 6,669 hotels and other lodging establishments had received 14,279 citations since a 2019 sex trafficking law required them to make modest changes to protect victims.

In one case, The Plaza Hotel was cited five times after a 17-year-old girl was choked because she would not turn over all her earnings to her sex trafficker.




The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation told the paper that no fines had been issued because the establishment had corrected the problems within a 90-day grace period provided by the law.

State Sen. Lauren Book passed the law and was shocked to find out that state enforcers had required no fines.

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It's not clear why DeSantis has not ordered his government to use the law to crack down on sex trafficking.

[CentralMass]

1. The "moral" majority.

[Bluethroughu]

2. GOP the party of family values strikes again.

[onecaliberal]

3. The real groomers.

[dchill]

4. Sleazy backers?

[Initech]

5. They're probably awaiting their marching orders from Fox on how to blame Dems for this.

Fuck 'em.

[Solly Mack]

6. Sure it's clear. He doesn't care and those hotels bring in money that goes out in political

donations.

The tourist trade pays the bills in Florida.

And with nearly 7K hotels getting over 14K citations, selling sex (rape, because sex trafficking is rape) is definitely part of the tourist trade.

[sheshe2]

7. Matt Gaetz comes to mind.

He was trafficking and solid buddies with DeSantis. I have to wonder about the connection.

Hm.

[ancianita]

16. Palmer Luckey is a CA billionaire donor to Trump; Luckey's sister, Ginger is engaged to Matt Gaetz.

So there's that. Luckey also donated this past election to DeSantis.

Here are DeSantis's other donors. The National Republican Governors Assoc. donated a full 25% of their wealth to him.
It's obscene how many donors DeSantis has.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/563961-ron-desantis-hits-seven-day-spending-record-holds-21-times-more-cash-than-charlie-crist/

[niyad]

8. Does desatan take his cut in cash or trade?

[ancianita]

18. Campaign donations. That's how laundering is often done -- through businesses.

Money laundering flows through Florida like the water through the Everglades. It's all around everyone in the state and no one can even see it. But somehow this no-income tax state can afford what it wants to afford. Just not teachers or working class folk.

[niyad]

19. Yes, of course.

[ancianita]

20. Okay, well

you say 'of course' as if this is common knowledge, and I realize that for you it is. But we have to keep in mind, too, that most Americans don't know this about Florida; rightly so, because they, of course, should assume no state does massive laundering under the watchful eye of state leaders.

David Jolly said a week ago that the rest of the country won't accept anyone from Florida because no one wants the Florida plantation model for their state. He nailed it about DeSantis that day, and he convinced me that despite the obscene amount of billionaire money flowing toward him, he just won't win the popular vote. Doesn't mean he couldn't win battleground state electors, though. That right there is the scary prospect about 2024.

[niyad]

21. Actually, I meant, yes, of course, I should have remembered that, especially

having lived there and spending time just shaking my head at how things operated. When I wasn't glued to the pbone, that is.

[dewsgirl]

9. I bet he gets a good percentage of kickback unfortunately.

[CTyankee]

10. DeSantis reminds me of the character in "A Face in the Crowd."

That is, if DeSantis had not botched the comparison with his Ivy League background: worked his way through Yale, got law degree with honors at Harvard Law.

[sakabatou]

11. He must be a-ok with the trafficking.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Tough on woke curriculm, liberal on venues for pedophiles and pimps.

[tanyev]

13. Huh. And they're so obsessed with human trafficking.

I guess their obsession is not about ending it.

[SoBlueInFL]

14. I'm convinced that they are looking for new & improved r/o

ways to hide their dirty deeds.

They've shown over and over that the Republican party doesn't give a damn about women, children, the elderly, or *anyone* for that matter.

[republianmushroom]

15. just practicing for pro life.

I mean they are republicans

[Wounded Bear]

17. "It's not clear why..." Seriously?

[gratuitous]

22. DeSantis is trafficking refugees

Has his coyotes pick up the refugees in Texas, flies them to Florida, then he flies them to New York or Pennsylvania or Massachusetts. On the taxpayer dime, of cuss. So why should he break his head that a handful of hotels are making a buck sex trafficking minors? It's just spend a buck to make a buck, they don't really give a flying fuck about the people in misery.