Headline: Florida Bulldog, 8/14/2025
Dan Christensen reports on how Sasse continued to live large on the public dime in Florida:
A year later, the stink from Ben Sasse’s spending scandal during his 541-day tenure as president of the University of Florida hasn’t gone away.
Following up on shocking findings by student journalists at The Independent Florida Alligator, the university’s auditor general in February released its operational audit of Sasse’s “expenses and selected activities” that found apparently both unnecessary and unreasonable spending and lax university controls over the president’s spending.
The 2023-2024 fiscal year expenses of the president’s office totaled $14.8 million, “which was $6.2 million or 72 percent more” than the office’s expenses the year before, the audit found.\
Most of that spending was “driven by lucrative contracts with big-name consulting firms and high-salaried, remote positions for Sasse’s former U.S. Senate staff and Republican officials,” the Alligator reported. It also included things like hundreds of thousands of dollars for flights on private jets and $1.3 million for catering events, with one holiday party featuring a $38,000 sushi bar and another a $7,000 liquor tab. [emphasis added]
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