A draft agreement of a $67 million settlement between the DeSantis administration and a Medicaid contractor that had overbilled the state sheds new light on how $10 million of that amount was diverted to Hope Florida.

Florida’s top Medicaid regulator on Tuesday sought to explain that a $10 million donation made to a nonprofit associated with first lady Casey DeSantis’ community-based assistance program was not made with Medicaid dollars recouped in a much larger cash settlement.

Uthmeier suggested that the $10 million, which the Tampa Bay Times reports should have solely gone to cover Medicaid overbilling, was a “sweetener” to the settlement, which saw $57 million properly appropriated to the state.