Jesse Scheckner
CFO Jimmy Patronis wants to make Donald Trump whole, at least in the Sunshine State, so that the former President can fight the “very nasty people coming after” him in court.
Patronis has alerted Trump that he, his family members and businesses have more than $54,000 worth of unclaimed property in Florida — commonly uncashed checks, dormant bank accounts, stocks and dividends — that they should retrieve through Florida’s Treasure Hunt program.
“In Florida, we have a unique unclaimed property program that is designed to return lost or unknown financial assets back to the original owners. … Upon conducting a search for unclaimed property using the term TRUMP, my Division of Unclaimed Property believes their search results have revealed over $54,000 waiting to be claimed by you, your family, and your businesses or properties throughout the state of Florida,” Patronis wrote in a short but effusively praiseful letter Tuesday.
“There are some very, very nasty people coming after you, and every dollar matters in your efforts to fight back against these radical state attorneys who have weaponized the courts. We need you and your team to have every resource possible to get through these BS charges so you can get back to work in Making America Great Again!”
Patronis added that Trump could visit the Treasure Hunt website to claim his property or contact him in person, by phone or on the Truth Social platform he encouraged the former President to launch in Florida three years ago.
“You can even reach me on TRUTH at @JimmyPatronis,” he wrote. “Thank you for your contributions to our state and our country. I am looking forward to hearing back from you and encourage the entire Trump family and all your employees here in Florida to search for their unclaimed property and claim it today!”
According to Patronis, Florida has returned nearly $2.4 billion in unclaimed property to residents since he took office. As of November, however, there remained $2.9 billion still unclaimed, with one in five Floridians still entitled to payment.
There is no statute of limitations on unclaimed property and money in Florida. Account owners — or their heirs — can claim funds indefinitely and free of charge.
Patronis’ letter to Trump came just over a month after Trump gave him a shout-out on Truth Social, commending him for doing a “terrific job” as CFO and saying that Patronis is now leaving office due to term limits. Reporting on the post, Gary Fineout of POLITICO noted that Patronis still has two more years left in office.
Patronis endorsed Trump for President on Jan. 21, the same day Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race.
The letter also came amid major developments in two of Trump’s court cases. On Tuesday, adult film star Stormy Daniels gave opening testimony in Trump’s hush money trial, describing an alleged sexual encounter they had in 2006 and payment his lawyer made to her to keep quiet about the tryst as the 2016 presidential race heated up.
Tuesday also marked a turn in another case concerning Trump’s handling of classified documents when the federal judge in Florida postponed the case indefinitely.
Trump also faces charges in two other criminal cases concerning alleged election interference.
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Editor’s note: This report has been updated to include Patronis’ endorsement of Trump in January.
5 comments
Patrick
May 8, 2024 at 11:10 am
Pathetic. Patronis agrees with election interference in one’s underwear
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Dont Say FLA
May 8, 2024 at 2:04 pm
How did these so-called “radical” state attorneys radicalize the grand juries that adjudicated each case’s evidences as being trial worthy and saying to bring charges?
And then for a weaponized court to be fired as would be a weapon, you’d need a radicalized jury of peers, too. Twelve random people have to say “guilty.” How does that happen?
Obviously one court, the SCOTUS, is weaponized. There’s no juries there. It’s just unelected, politically appointed judges making whatever declarations they want to make, and for whatever reason they want to make their declarations, be their reasons the constitution, legal precedent, delusions of their own grandeur (over previous SCOTUS justices), or even just mega-yacht rides.
SCOTUS can be weaponized and has been weaponized. That was done by Mitch McConnell scheming to steal two extra picks, one from Obama, and one from Biden, and giving them to useful idiot Donald Zzzzzz Trump to select those picks.
Talk about stolen elections is, yet again, by corollary, a confession from the G0P. It’s them admitting they stole two SCOTUS appointments from the Democrats and gave them to the Republicans. Now see, this is the important part. That’s how stealing works. You steal something, you keep it, and you make use of it.
Stealing does not work like the silly stolen election claims Trump makes about how G0P run states stole the election and gave it to the
catDemocrats.Why would G0P governors and secretaries of state have an electoral system than can be rigged, use it to rig an election, but then give it to the
catDemocrats? That claim, even on its face, is totally absurd. “They stole something of great value and handed it to their competitor.” How does anybody believe that? It’s ridiculous!If people donate to Jimmy Patronis, is he going to claim they didn’t and give all the money to Nikki Fried? That is precisely how The Donaldzzzzz “Stolen election” is alleged to have worked.
MarvinM
May 8, 2024 at 6:05 pm
I just went to the website and put in Trump, Donald Trump, Trump in West Palm Beach, Trump Organization, Eric Trump, lots of different permutations, and didn’t find anything close to $54,000.
But I did find other people’s info who are not related to Donald Trump and found out they have Bank of America accounts or whatever. Including addresses.
Maybe Jimmy, promoting this is not a great idea right now. Seems like a huge violation of privacy thing. I can get anyone’s address by just putting a name in, as long as there is some little unclaimed thing attached to it.
Trump Org. $3000 of cashier’s checks from JP Morgan? Donald Trump of West Palm Beach $354.69 misc. checks, Fedex?
Hey everyone, go to the site (link in the article) and see for yourself. And put in “Trump” and see what you get.
KathrynA
May 10, 2024 at 10:37 am
MarvinM, why am I not surprised? Probably, the rest of the money will come from the state of Florida and its taxpayers? I never trust Jimmy Patronis on anything and to think he is CEO of our state. I can only imagine all the other tricky maneuvers he has orchestrated.