First off, Florida, like pretty much every other GOP state, has been manipulating the data to try to downplay how bad the virus is.
Believe it or not, there is absolutely nothing illegal about it. Nothing.
Everybody has known that was going on all along. Nobody cared because the CDC broadcasts all the real facts and figures in real time that the States are required to send them. So the idea that DeSantis (or any other GOP governor) is somehow breaking the law is completely false.
She on the other hand, did. (According to what we know so far.)
She is just like Reality Winner: a person seeking fame and fortune. Nothing more. She got fired for not doing what she was told to do. There was nothing illegal about that either.
She then took it upon herself to start posting her own data.
Nobody cared.
So then she got some of the people still working in that department to give her raw data that she had no legal right to have. Eventually, they apparently gave her access or a way to access the messaging system of their private network.
That is against the law. It is, in fact, a felony.
She "claims" she didn't do anything wrong, but they traced the IP of the unauthorized access directly to her house. When they showed up to serve the warrant to obtain computers, drives, etc., she knew she was busted.
So she then staged a scene to make it look like the police were being overzealous. They were not. They showed up around 8:30 that morning and knocked on the door. They identified themselves, told her why they were there, etc. She refused to open the door.
They then called her on the phone and did the same thing. Told them who they were, why they were there, that they had a warrant, all of that jazz. She strung them along for a bit and then hung up on them.
While all of that was going on, she turned off the lights, sent her husband and kids upstairs and set up a video camera. You've seen the rest. Let me tell you something, that woman set the cops up. She knew what they would be REQUIRED to do. And that's exactly what they did.
Do a Google on "cop shot while serving warrant". The cases are endless. Most times it's the same thing; they knock on the door, there's some delay, they try to talk them out and diffuse the situation, and then all hell brakes loose. What she did was textbook "she's going to shoot the kids and husband and then shoot herself" material.
And at the end of the day it all boils down to: She didn't tell anybody anything they didn't already know. She was so pissed off she got fired she got her friends to give her ILLEGAL access to things she had no business having access to. And in the end when she got caught, she acted just like most guilty people do.
She's going to prison. She's probably going to have several of her ex-friends joining her there.
Unless of course she does what I'm absolutely positive she's going to do: Cop a plea deal, throw all her friends under the bus, send them all to prison and walk.
You heard it here first.