As Florida Gov. Rick Scott was ramping up his campaign for U.S. Senate, he placed loyal and inexperienced staffers into agencies like the Department of Emergency Management and the Department of Transportation, which might be vulnerable to problems erupting on his watch. Our reporting uncovered how DEM kept a lid on the flow of bad news during hurricanes and DOT worked to suppress its role in a fatal 2018 Miami bridge collapse.

Before Taylor Teepell was named finance director of the New Republican Super PAC by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the governor put him in charge of the state agency overseeing growth management regulation, a position for which Teepell had no experience.

The $5 million project to open the legislative budget to transparency happened because of a no-bid secret contract.

The Florida Department of Revenue kept positions open for months and ousted others to make room for top staffers of the governor's budget office, who will soon be out of a job.

After a landmark court ruling that threw out Florida's congressional redistricting map, we peeled back the evidence in an exclusive report to show how the plaintiffs figured out that Republican operatives had fixed the maps to favor their candidates.

After Gov. Rick Scott appointed a former legislator with no utility experience to the board that regulates Florida utilities, we took a look at how he used his campaign account.

The head of the state's environmental regulatory agency and his wife run a political consulting business on the side, making money off many of the same people who need Gov. Rick Scott's help.

In an exclusive report, we were the first to reveal documents that detailed the Republican effort to circumvent Florida's new redistricting laws and create Republican-leaning maps.