Sam Stein

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2,053 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 27 Aug

Sam Stein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 5.

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The Bulwark Daily · Sam Stein Used to Be a Thief · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

He's got to get on this one. voice-verified

It's such a convoluted story, and that pretty much summarizes it. voice-verified

But there are a few components. voice-verified

I re-listened to the interview I did with the reporter who broke this story, and it's even crazier in a way. voice-verified

So basically, this Medicaid settlement happened with this company that overcharged states for prescription drugs. voice-verified

And a lot of states trumpeted the fact that they had this settlement. voice-verified

One state that did not trumpet the fact that they had this settlement was Florida. voice-verified

They kept it very quiet. voice-verified

No one knew that Florida had gotten $67 million in this settlement. voice-verified

It was just not there. voice-verified

And then they were talking about separately this Hope Florida initiative, which to summarize more or less is like, we are going to use state administrators to take people who would normally be on food stamps or whatever government assistance programs and send them to churches. voice-verified

That's what Hope Florida does. voice-verified

It was a Casey DeSantis initiative. voice-verified

Somehow Hope Florida got a $10 million infusion and no one really knew where it came from. voice-verified

Well, if you dug into it, what happened was is that they took $10 million from the $67 million settlement that they never announced, sent it to Hope, Florida. voice-verified

But then they didn't just keep it in Hope, Florida. voice-verified

They took that $10 million, as you know, and put it to these anti-marijuana initiatives that they were trying to defeat in the state of Florida. voice-verified

And all this, which is crazy, voice-verified

and undocumented and done basically by executive fiat, had the sign-off of really big players in the DeSantis orbit, including the current state attorney general, apparently, and then Ashley Moody, who is now a senator. voice-verified

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