ORLANDO, Fla. – Once more, Florida’s chief financial officer is charging Orange County with “playing games” regarding the state’s DOGE audit of the county.
CFO Blaise Ingoglia was in Lake Mary on Wednesday when he was asked about the effort to subpoena more than a dozen county employees.
According to the copy of the subpoena News 6 received, which was sent to the Orange County attorney, the state needed a response by 9 a.m. on Monday.
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However, Ingoglia said they just finished delivering those subpoenas on Wednesday.
“I’m a little frustrated with Orange County,” Ingoglia said.
Ingoglia has alleged that Orange County attempted to conceal budget details from the DOGE team back in August, and made employees respond to inquiries using scripted replies.
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Ingoglia mentioned there were six grants connected to DEI issued by the county, which have missing emails. These grants are purportedly valued at just over $500,000.
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The state subpoenaed 16 county employees as part of the investigation, including the county attorney, two weeks ago.
An Orange County spokesperson sent this statement to News 6:
“In answer to your question, on August 28, 2025, the County Attorney was given a subpoena for himself and acknowledged receipt by signing it. Along with the County Attorney’s subpoena was a document listing 15 other individuals also served with subpoenas.
The County Attorney informed state agents that he lacks the authority to accept subpoenas on behalf of county employees or any others listed.”
“The County Attorney then assisted the agents in determining where the county employees who were listed could be located.”
Ingoglia says that is not how it works in other counties.
“Orange County made us chase down every single employee and subcontractor to deliver those subpoenas,” Ingoglia said.
Now that the subpoenas have been served, investigators will sit down with those employees.
“We’re gonna have some frank conversations with them and we’re gonna ask, ‘did you do what we think could have been done?’” Ingoglia said.
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Last month, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings stated that there was no evidence to back the state’s claims and dismissed Ingoglia’s attack as politically driven.
“There has not been any direction from myself or any senior leadership to our employees to hide information or any of that,” Demings said.
“This whole process has been tainted at this point, because they’ve already tried and convicted Orange County before they’ve ever completed their investigation,” Demings added. “When that happens, you know this is politically motivated. Something else is motivating that.”
The CFO says he wants to now change the law to force government employees to accept subpoenas on behalf of other government employees.
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