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Martha's Vineyard migrant flight company, recruiter, safety czar added to class-action lawsuit ... [View all]
https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/marthas-vineyard-migrant-flight-company-recruiter-safety-czar-added-to-class-action-lawsuit-against-florida/Martha’s Vineyard migrant flight company, recruiter, safety czar added to class-action lawsuit against Florida
by: Sam Sachs
Posted: Nov 29, 2022 / 01:20 PM EST
Updated: Nov 29, 2022 / 01:21 PM EST
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A class-action lawsuit against the state of Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and other state officials by migrants taken to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. has new developments.
In addition to the state actors already named as defendants, the migrants have now added Vertol, the company contracted by the state for transportation, Vertol CEO James Montgomerie, Perla Huerta, the woman paid to recruit immigrants for the move, and Florida Public Safety Czar Larry Keefe.
In October, Huerta was identified by multiple news outlets as a former military service member living in Tampa, who retired from active duty as a “a former combat medic and U.S. Army counterintelligence agent” in August 2022.
The amended complaint, filed by the attorneys from Lawyers for Civil Rights, added the transportation company, its CEO, Keefe, and Huerta for their roles in the alleged “deceptive recruitment of immigrants,” as well as saying new public records released have painted a “detailed picture of a coordinated scheme at the highest levels of the Florida government.”
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by: Sam Sachs
Posted: Nov 29, 2022 / 01:20 PM EST
Updated: Nov 29, 2022 / 01:21 PM EST
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A class-action lawsuit against the state of Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and other state officials by migrants taken to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. has new developments.
In addition to the state actors already named as defendants, the migrants have now added Vertol, the company contracted by the state for transportation, Vertol CEO James Montgomerie, Perla Huerta, the woman paid to recruit immigrants for the move, and Florida Public Safety Czar Larry Keefe.
In October, Huerta was identified by multiple news outlets as a former military service member living in Tampa, who retired from active duty as a “a former combat medic and U.S. Army counterintelligence agent” in August 2022.
The amended complaint, filed by the attorneys from Lawyers for Civil Rights, added the transportation company, its CEO, Keefe, and Huerta for their roles in the alleged “deceptive recruitment of immigrants,” as well as saying new public records released have painted a “detailed picture of a coordinated scheme at the highest levels of the Florida government.”
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