Florida
Katie Strickland
Chief of staff to Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia; earlier deputy chief of staff to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The governor's office paid nearly $200,000 for her lawyers during the Hope Florida grand jury investigation.
Offices and candidacies
- 2025 Deputy chief of staff in the Executive Office of the Governor (organization chart of March 3, 2025). (Executive Office of the Governor, “Organization chart”, March 3, 2025)
- Sept. 2024 A Department of Health official testified that Strickland asked her to sign the Centene settlement at the state Emergency Operations Center; the grand jury report found Strickland not credible. (Florida Trident via WGCU, “Exclusive: Taxpayers paid nearly $200,000 in legal fees for a witness the Hope Florida grand jury found 'not credible'”, Sept. 19, 2026)
- 2025 Became chief of staff to CFO Blaise Ingoglia, about two months before the governor's office hired lawyers for her (Oct. 30, 2025). (Florida Trident via WGCU, “Exclusive: Taxpayers paid nearly $200,000 in legal fees for a witness the Hope Florida grand jury found 'not credible'”, Sept. 19, 2026)
- 2026 Represented by Boies Schiller Flexner, paid by the governor's office, in the motions and appeal that ended in the Oct. 7, 2026, order expunging the grand jury report. (Florida First District Court of Appeal, “In re: Leon County Grand Jury Presentment, Fall of 2025, No. 1D2026-2435 (copy via WFLA)”, Oct. 7, 2026)