Directory · Edition XIV
Named money
People and entities that already appear in live Old Florida Money casts. Each row links to the story that sourced the dollar and vehicle. This is not an OFM-authored richest list; Forbes ranks appear only as labeled estimates inside linked stories. House, club, and five-metro boards expand when sourced.
Seed rows
| Name | Metro | Vehicle | Dollar | As-of | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Suspended new policies statewide on Oct. 7 for Isaias and lifted the suspension at 5 a.m. ET Oct. 10. If it ran short after a storm, it could surcharge its own policyholders up to 15% of premium, then levy emergency assessments on nearly every property and casualty policy in Florida, auto included. | Panhandle / statewide | State-created insurer; policyholder surcharge and emergency assessments | 9,052 policies and $3,560,176,119 of exposure in eight Panhandle coastal counties (Aug. 31); at least $9.6B claims-paying ability | 2026-10-11 | Open cast |
| Seminole Tribe of Florida (Hard Rock Bet) Holds the sole right to take sports bets in Florida under the compact and pays the State 13.75% of sports-betting net win; sued DraftKings, CEO Jason Robins and GUS III LLC on Oct. 8, 2026. | Statewide | 2021 gaming compact; suit against DraftKings in Broward circuit court | $1.04B compact revenue share from all tribal gaming, FY 2025-26; $5.5M to the Donalds PAC in five checks | 2026-10-08 | Open cast |
| Jason Robins / DraftKings, Inc. The Tribe's complaint alleges an illegal sportsbook and names Robins alone on the racketeering count; these are allegations. DraftKings says its prediction markets follow federal law and Pick6 is not sports betting. | Statewide (defendant) | DraftKings Sports & Casino app; Pick6; DraftKings Predictions (GUS III LLC) | Nearly $6.1B FY2025 revenue, per the complaint; subsidiary DK Crown Holdings gave the Donalds PAC $500,000 | 2026-10-08 | Open cast |
| James Uthmeier / Keep Florida Clean On Oct. 7, 2026, the 1st District Court of Appeal ordered the grand jury report on Hope Florida's $10M from Centene expunged and called the money “never public money”; the ruling is not final. | Tallahassee / statewide | Political committee (closed; chairperson of record) | $8.5M from the two Hope Florida grant recipients, October 2024 (Division of Elections; our sums) | 2026-10-08 | Open cast |
| Brightline parent companies (FIHPNP LLC and 16 affiliates) Entities managed by a Fortress affiliate indirectly own most of the debtors' equity; Judge Mark Edward Hall approved up to $257.7M of financing on an interim basis, $190M available on the interim order, and the trains kept running. | South Florida / Orlando | Chapter 11, D.N.J. No. 26-20876 (MEH); the operating company did not file | About $2.492B of holding-company debt; about $490M of new long-term capital from Assured Guaranty and a mutual-fund group | 2026-10-08 | Open cast |
| Robert J. Guidry / Pointe Mezzanine and Pointe Resort The Board of Trustees took up an option to buy about 4 acres in Okaloosa County from his companies for $83,326,520, or $20,831,630 an acre, on Sept. 30, 2025; Division of Elections records show eight checks from his companies' Harvey, La., address totaling $350,000. | Destin / Okaloosa County | Pointe Mezzanine, Pointe Resort, Superior Waterfront, Okaloosa Island Prime, SE Anderson Orange II | $83,326,520 state price for about 4 acres bought for $7,901,214; at least $350,000 in political checks | 2026-10-07 | Open cast |
| Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (Governor and Cabinet) Approved buying development rights while the owners keep their land, including $6,520,000 for about 1,034.88 acres of Limestone Creek, a ranch formerly owned by Gov. Doyle E. Carlton. | Statewide | Option agreements for conservation easements | More than $72.6M for more than 10,770 acres (the state's figures) | 2026-09-29 | Open cast |
| Florida Realtors / Vote Yes on 3 The largest contributor to Vote Yes on 3; the National Association of Realtors added $2,016,500 on Oct. 9, and the three committees against Amendment 3, including No On 3. Protect Our Homes, which CubaHeadlines reports Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava formed, had raised $1,772,916.68 together through their newest reports, dated Oct. 22 to Oct. 29 (Division of Elections, read Nov. 1; our sum). | Orlando / statewide | Trade association to Vote Yes on 3 | $19,500,000 in seven checks, Sept. 3 to Sept. 30, 2026 | 2026-11-01 | Open cast |
| Jeff Bezos Forbes-estimate Florida #1 on the 400 and No. 2 in the country (Action News Jax). | Miami / statewide residency gravity | Personal residency; Blue Origin Cape adjacency | ~$378B Forbes estimate (FL #1 / No. 2 overall); labeled estimate | 2026-09-15 | Open cast |
| Shahid Khan Jaguars owner named in the same Forbes-Florida gravity read as Bezos. | Jacksonville | Jacksonville Jaguars ownership | ~$16.5B Forbes estimate (FL #8 / No. 70); labeled estimate | 2026-09-17 | Open cast |
| Larry Ellison Paid an MLS-reported $34.4M for the southern 2.15 acres at 1960 S. Ocean Blvd; MacNeil took the northern slice for $32M. | Manalapan / Palm Beach | Personal / entity title; compound assemble | MLS-reported $34.4M for 2.15 acres; $173M estate plus island parcel (June 2022 deed); 24+ south-end acres | 2026-10-18 | Open cast |
| David MacNeil WeatherTech’s MacNeil took the northern slice beside Ellison and has spent $136.32M assembling three properties. | Manalapan / Palm Beach | Personal / entity title | $32M northern slice; $136.32M across three properties | 2026-10-18 | Open cast |
| Ken Griffin Paid Moishe Mana a reported $1.1B for Wynwood land whose value counts toward his $2B Carnegie Mellon Miami campus gift; gave Baptist Health $25M more on Oct. 7; his Miami Beach helipad goes to the Planning Board Nov. 3. | Miami | Citadel founder; Wynwood land purchase, Carnegie Mellon and Baptist Health gifts | $1.1B reported for about 30 Wynwood acres; $3B Carnegie Mellon gift; $75M in all to Baptist Health | 2026-10-12 | Open cast |
| United Group Underwriters LLC Not an insurer: state regulators’ exams call it the auto carrier’s managing general agent and affiliate. Its 2026 checks also went to Attorney General James Uthmeier’s committee and campaign ($33,000), and earlier ones to the committee of Blaise Ingoglia, now the CFO ($55,000). | Miami Gardens / statewide | Managing general agent and affiliate of United Automobile Insurance Co. | $500,000 to Friends of Byron Donalds PAC on Sept. 30, 2026; $653,000 to Donalds since May 2026; $1,068,000 in Florida political checks since January 2025 (our sums) | 2026-10-12 | Open cast |
| The GEO Group (George C. Zoley) Signed and closed the sale of 2,644 beds on Oct. 2 and keeps running them for ICE; says it is in an active process to sell ICE more company-owned facilities, none named. Its 10-K lists the 700-bed Broward Transitional Center in Deerfield Beach as company-owned. | Boca Raton | Sale of the Adelanto, Calif., detention complex to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; continued ICE operating contract | $950,000,000 sale price; about $705M expected net, about $678M of it set to redeem its 8.625% notes; buyback authorization $1.25B through 2029; $1M to the Donalds PAC on Oct. 8 | 2026-10-18 | Open cast |
| NextEra Energy (FPL parent) / the Robo Memo On Oct. 8 Virginia’s chief hearing examiner limited the 2021 memo alleging misconduct tied to Florida political activity to in-person reading at the companies’ attorneys’ offices by commission staff and respondents bound by confidentiality; it does not go out through the case’s electronic system. NextEra says its investigation found no credible evidence of illegal conduct and no employee has been charged. | Juno Beach / Virginia | Virginia SCC Case No. PUR-2026-00112 ($67B merger with Dominion); Davidson v. Silagy settlement | $15.5M from D&O insurers to NextEra and a separately negotiated $5.75M fee award, both subject to court approval (objections by Nov. 30; hearing Dec. 14) | 2026-10-18 | Open cast |
| Byron Donalds / Friends of Byron Donalds PAC PAC war chest is the plot; sports betting gave $2.25M, $1.25M of it from the Sports Betting Alliance. | Statewide | Candidate account + Florida PC | PAC state ledger $131,002,774.70 received and $99,648,955.68 spent through Oct. 9 (our sums, re-read Oct. 18); $35,005,621.21 to the Republican Party of Florida in 11 payments, $24,000,000 of it in September and $4,000,000 on Oct. 5 | 2026-10-18 | Open cast |
| Patrick Zalupski / Florida Baseball Partners Managing partner, co-chair, and MLB control person; the Dale Mabry ballpark is budgeted at $2.361B, with the county CIT/TDT well on the public side. Tampa's council voted 4-3 on Oct. 15 to seek court validation of up to $80M in city bonds; issuing them needs a separate vote. | Tampa / Hillsborough | HoldCo → StadCo equity | $1.37B Rays commitment (Sports Business Journal) vs about $876M local public (about $796M Hillsborough, $80M Tampa) | 2026-10-07 | Open cast |
| Charlie Crist / St. Pete Shines PC Crist leads Welch on combined campaign and committee cash, nearly $411K to just over $41K as of Oct. 2 (Florida Politics; City Clerk G-4). St. Pete Shines has paid All Too Strategic $488,189.41 and Extensive Enterprises $274,797.05 through Oct. 9, both listed at the Florida Politics address (Division of Elections). | St. Petersburg | Candidate + political committee | Nearly $411K available, campaign + PC (Oct. 2) | 2026-10-09 | Open cast |
| Ken Welch / St. Petersburg Progress PC Incumbent cash-poor against Crist; Welch raised $9,650 across both accounts Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, about a tenth of Crist's, and his committee raised nothing Oct. 3 to 9 (Florida Politics; City Clerk; Division of Elections). | St. Petersburg | Incumbent + political committee | Just over $41K, campaign + PC (Oct. 2) | 2026-10-09 | Open cast |
| Glazer family / Tampa Bay Buccaneers Renewal notice due Jan. 31, 2027; the Tampa Sports Authority that runs Raymond James now also reviews the Rays’ ballpark design. | Tampa / Hillsborough | NFL franchise / Raymond James lease | One-third private floated on a roughly $1B renovation; TSA $73.14M capital-subsidy request | 2026-10-07 | Open cast |
Later boards
Trophy houses/compounds, PAC war-chest boards, franchise finance boards, and private-club money ship when INTEREST rows clear Ready-for-site: not as CRE lawnmower directories.