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."While Fox News Digital is not aware of fraud that may have been committed with those funds, the resurfaced audit casts an unflattering light on Moskowitz as he pursues re-election in one of the country’s most competitive districts and raises questions about oversight efforts for state-level allocations for government funds — an issue Republicans have signaled merits more attention.COVID CASH MEANT TO GET KIDS BACK ON TRACK TOOK SURPRISING DETOUR IN BLUE-STATE SCHOOL DISTRICTRepresentative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, speaks to members of the media following a vote at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, June 23, 2025.
President Donald Trump's tax-and-spending agenda is nearing a climactic vote in the Senate this week in the wake of air strikes on Iran, which risk embroiling the US in a prolonged Middle East conflict.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)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."According to the report, an acceptable level of oversight would ...