After trying and failing to get the former head of the Florida domestic violence coalition to submit to questions, the Florida House of Representatives took the extraordinary step Thursday and voted to use “any means” to subpoena Tiffany Carr and give her one week to appear.

Florida legislators learned Thursday the cost of their decision to direct millions of taxpayer dollars to a private domestic violence agency and ask few questions. After months of obfuscation, the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence revealed for the first time that for the last three years it compensated its chief executive officer more than $7.5 million from state and federal funds — including nearly $5 million in cash compensation for “paid time off.”

The view from Tiffany Carr’s home in the Blue Ridge Mountains on Sunday offered a crystal clear panorama of six mountaintops and rolling hillsides and, at 4,000 feet in elevation, seemed a world away from the Florida Capitol where she has been the focus of investigation and outrage.

The state of Florida launched two legal actions against the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, its board of directors and three current and former executives, alleging they conspired to defraud the state to pad the compensation package of former CEO Tiffany Carr, and demanding that millions in taxpayer money be repaid.

Few government contractors could orchestrate getting the $7.5 million compensation package the head of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence managed to obtain for three years of work, but Tiffany Carr did it by leveraging connections.

When a Florida House committee reconvenes Thursday to question the two deputies of Tiffany Carr, the former CEO of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the focus will be not just on the salary scandal, but on what lawmakers see as increasing evidence pointing to a cover-up. House lawyers suspect that as the agency stonewalled state officials and may have forged documents — in an attempt to show the agency followed state and federal legal requirements.

Three board chairs for the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence testified under oath before a Florida House committee that they had little intimate knowledge of the decisions made by the coalition and shirked responsibility for former CEO Tiffany Carr’s outsized compensation packages.