Florida CFO alerts Trump to $54K in unclaimed property: 'Every dollar matters' against 'radical' attorneys

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Florida's equivalent of a authorities treasurer wrote a missive to former President Trump, urging him to recoup an estimated $54,000 done the state's unclaimed spot programme to assistance support against the "very, precise nasty people" coming aft him.

Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis told Trump in the letter that the authorities is arrogant to big respective Trump properties and number him arsenic a nonmigratory and that helium admires the existent property mogul arsenic a erstwhile tiny concern proprietor for his attraction to the customer.

Patronis said helium conducted a hunt of the state's nationalist unclaimed spot program's database and recovered respective assets the erstwhile president, his household members oregon his businesses could reclaim. He urged Trump to instrumentality enactment truthful that the erstwhile president tin further money his ineligible defenses successful the aggregate ongoing tribunal cases helium is facing.

The independently elected authorities authoritative lambasted the prosecutions of the erstwhile president, offering to assistance personally process unclaimed spot requests done his office's fltreasurehunt.gov portal.

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"There are immoderate very, precise nasty radical coming aft you, and each dollar matters successful your efforts to combat backmost against these extremist authorities attorneys who person weaponized the courts," Patronis wrote.

"We request you and your squad to person each assets imaginable to get done these BS charges truthful you tin get backmost to enactment successful Making America Great Again."

He defined "unclaimed property" arsenic fiscal assets that are unknown, lost, inactive oregon abandoned, saying that the astir communal examples are dormant slope accounts oregon stocks and dividends. Typically, the spot is held by the disbursing entity for respective years earlier being handed implicit to the state.

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A presumption    of erstwhile  U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort

This presumption shows erstwhile President Trump's Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Palm Beach, Florida, connected March 31, 2023. (Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo)

The authoritative besides thanked Trump for his contributions to Florida and the federation writ-large, adding that helium hopes to perceive backmost from the erstwhile president connected the matter.

A hunt by Fox News Digital of the Florida Department of Financial Services web portal returned 1 effect for the Trump Organization totaling $3,000 successful cashiers checks from JPMorganChase, and Trump's sanction revealed astir $10,000 successful assets divided betwixt an code successful Volusia County, an code abutting the Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach, and an unstated address.

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Trump and Jimmy Patronis

Former President Trump and Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis (Getty Images/File)

There were besides respective entries nether the sanction Ivana Trump, the erstwhile president's precocious ex-wife, arsenic good arsenic galore others nether the names of Trump's assorted properties, specified arsenic Trump National Doral arsenic good arsenic a edifice successful Sunny Isles Beach, upon which his sanction is licensed.

The erstwhile president faces respective lawsuits against him, including successful New York, Atlanta and South Florida, each of which helium has characterized arsenic "witch hunts" brought upon him done the machinations of President Biden.

He has besides been held successful contempt of tribunal and fined $1,000 for each of 10 gag bid violations by Judge Juan Merchan successful the ongoing NY v. Trump trial.

Patronis' bureau told Fox News Digital it has returned $34 cardinal successful unclaimed spot successful April unsocial and $2.4 cardinal since Patronis was elected successful 2017.

Charles Creitz is simply a newsman for Fox News Digital. 

He joined Fox News successful 2013 arsenic a writer and accumulation assistant. 

Charles covers media, politics and civilization for Fox News Digital.

Charles is simply a Pennsylvania autochthonal and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. successful Broadcast Journalism. Story tips tin beryllium sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.

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