ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Attorney General James Uthmeier\u2019s time as the top prosecutor of the state may have only been for a short time thus far, but it has certainly been an impactful one. <\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n The attorney general joined \u201cOrlando\u2019s Morning News with Scott Anez\u201d on Monday morning as he continues his race for the seat he was assigned to back in February of 2025. Uthmeier tackled a range of topics, but it started off with a question about Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell. <\/p>\n READ: Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell pursuing criminal investigation of Hope Florida<\/a><\/p>\n Worrell had previously announced her intentions to open her own investigation into the Hope Florida scandal. Uthmeier was chief of staff of the DeSantis administration at the time and was also named the head of one of the PAC\u2019s that received the funds.<\/p>\n Uthmeier characterized the investigation as a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and claims \u201cthey\u2019re (democrats) looking for any opportunity to try and smear Governor DeSantis, first lady DeSantis, and his team.\u201d He went on to say that he and the governor want Worrell to do her job but referenced back to when she was removed from office by the governor and said, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be shocked if it happened again one day.\u201d<\/p>\n READ: Grand jury report details handling of $10 million tied to Hope Florida investigation<\/a><\/p>\n The attorney general also answered questions about the recent settlement by Meta with a series of states regarding their role in creating addictive habits on social media, a new lawsuit that was filed by the state against the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, regarding the aftereffects and warnings surrounding their Covid-19 vaccinations, and more. To listen back to the full conversation, find the player at the top of this article.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Attorney General James Uthmeier\u2019s time as the top prosecutor of the state may have only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[166442,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-421711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida-gov-ron-desantis-and-attorney-general-james-uthmeier","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}