By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia has been touring the state and preaching the importance of government fiscal transparency and accountability. But state and local records show Ingoglia has omitted from his public financial disclosure more than a hundred properties tied to him through his companies.
Intentionally leaving off required information from a Form 6 financial disclosure form is a violation of Florida’s ethics laws that carries civil penalties up to $20,000 and sanctions ranging from a public reprimand to removal from office.
Besides being the state’s CFO, a position he was appointed to in 2025 by Gov. Ron DeSantis and for which he is now running for a full term, Ingoglia is a homebuilder with a reported net worth of more than $30 million.
State officials are required by state law and the state’s constitution to file a “full and public disclosure of their financial interests,” including all assets worth more than $1,000. Ingoglia filed his latest financial disclosure form for 2025 in May.
Among the assets Ingoglia listed were his home development company, Hartland Homes Inc., with a value of $8.8 million, as well as Hartland Holdings Inc., with a value of $16.1 million, and Hartland Centre LLC at a declared value of nearly $2.6 million.
But the state’s financial disclosure requirements include clearly identifying all real estate interests owned by certain high-level state officials, such as the CFO.
While Ingoglia’s disclosure shows three properties together worth more than $2 million, state corporate filings and county property records tie him to nearly $9 million dollars more in Hernando County real estate that are not identified in his disclosure.
One such property is located at 13295 Jacqueline Road, Brooksville, Hernando County Property Appraiser records show. The property has a market value of $344,532 and is tied to a building permit categorized as “general office” with a value of $860,000, according to the records. The property, located across the street from a complex of shopping centers, was purchased by Hartland Homes in 2019 for $160,000 and then transferred to a company called Hartland Plaza LLC in 2024.
ALSO AMONG THE MISSING: HARTLAND PLAZA
Ingoglia, 55, is a resident of the Hernando County city of Spring Hill, north of Tampa.
Records filed with the Florida Department of State Division of Corporations identify Ingoglia as the lone manager of Hartland Plaza, but like the Jacqueline Road property, the company’s name doesn’t appear in Ingoglia’s financial disclosure.
The property, however, is one of more than a hundred properties tied to Ingoglia that are not clearly identified in his financial disclosure. For example, Hartland Centre owns a property valued at $2.4 million, while Hartland Holdings owns three properties valued together at nearly $3.5 million, Hernando County Property Appraiser records show. None are clearly identified in Ingoglia’s disclosure.
Hernando property records also show that Hartland Homes owns 50 properties, mostly vacant land, valued at nearly $2.6 million in total. Together with the Jacqueline Road property, the four Hartland companies own $8.8 million in Hernando County real estate that is not listed in Ingoglia’s financial disclosure.
Florida Bulldog reached out to Ingoglia’s office via email to ask about the properties. Ingoglia spokeswoman Sydney Booker did not respond to specific questions about why the real estate doesn’t appear in his financial disclosure form.
“This form was filled out ACCURATELY in accordance with the law,” Booker wrote. She added that Ingoglia’s form was “reviewed and approved by an attorney.”
Asked again to answer detailed questions about the properties, their corporate ownership and their omission from Ingoglia’s required Form 6 disclosure form, Booker said, “I’m not going to go back and forth with someone who clearly lacks basic reading comprehension skills.”
STATE DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS ARE CLEAR
State requirements for completing and filing Form 6 are, however, quite clear. Here’s what the instructions tell public office holders like Ingoglia how to identify or describe their real property assets: “Identify by providing the street address of the property. If the property has no street address, identify by describing the property’s location in a manner sufficient to enable a member of the public to ascertain its location without resorting to any other source of information.”
Because Ingoglia did not provide such addresses or descriptions, Florida Bulldog relied on other public sources of information and found 112 properties tied to him.
In addition to the 55 Hernando County properties owned by Ingoglia connected corporations, there are 57 more properties owned by Hartland Homes in Citrus County that are not identified in the CFO’s disclosure. The Citrus County properties, all vacant land, are valued collectively at $1.3 million, bringing the total value of properties tied to Ingoglia, but not identified in his financial disclosure to more than $10 million.
Ingoglia’s net worth has ballooned in recent years. In his 2023 disclosure form he listed his net worth as $13.7 million, but in 2024 it jumped to $28.3 million.
Spokeswoman Booker pointed to a 2025 Politico Florida report about the doubling of Ingoglia’s net worth. Ingoglia told the outlet that he had previously reported the value of a piece of property at its sale price, but had it reappraised, substantially increasing the value.
But none of his annual financial disclosure forms list an address or description of a property valued anywhere near the amount necessary to explain the more than $14 million increase in his net worth – they only show a sharp increase in the value of Hartland Holdings.
A 2020 ethics case involving politically connected homebuilder Carlos Beruff presents similar facts.
Beruff, as a member of various boards including the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority, was required to file a more limited public disclosure than Ingoglia as CFO. Beruff attempted to list numerous properties in his financial disclosures that he owned directly or through his companies, but an administrative law judge concluded in 2022 that many of the descriptions were insufficient to meet the requirement that members of the public be able to identify the locations of the properties just by looking at the disclosure form. The judge also rejected Beruff’s challenge to the validity of the rule requiring identification of properties by address or a clear description of the properties’ locations.
“No one reviewing the [financial disclosure forms] could discern the location of the properties in which [Beruff] had an interest without extensive follow-up and/or additional research,” the judge wrote.
INGOGLIA’S SPOKESWOMAN DOESN’T LIKE QUESTIONS
The Florida Commission on Ethics adopted the judge’s recommended order and the decision was ultimately upheld by the Second District Court of Appeals. The commission asked the governor to fine Beruff $1,500 along with censuring and reprimanding him.
Unlike Beruff, who at least attempted to identify the properties he owned, though insufficiently, Ingoglia didn’t even try to identify the 100+ properties owned by companies tied to him and his office’s spokeswoman, Bookere, has been defiant in response to questions about the properties.
Under Florida law, the ethics commission has the authority to investigate apparent violations of financial disclosure requirements. But due to recent changes in the law, it can only conduct a probe if someone files a sworn complaint alleging a violation or the governor, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, a State Attorney or a U.S. Attorney refers a case.
Here’s what the commission says about that: “Without a complaint or referral, the Commission is unable to take action, even after learning of alleged misconduct through newspaper reports, letters, or phone calls. The Commission cannot accept anonymous complaints and it must disclose the identity of the complainant to the respondent. A copy of the complaint is mailed to the respondent within five (5) working days after receipt by the Commission.”
The omission of millions of dollars in real estate tied to Ingoglia is not the first time he has faced transparency issues.
A Florida Bulldog analysis published in March revealed 200 contracts, deals totaling more than $342 million in value, awarded by Ingoglia’s agency that were missing public documentation required by the Transparency Florida Act.
Early voting in the Aug. 18 primary election is already underway. Ingoglia’s opponent in the Republican primary is Frank Collige, 45, a businessman and Air Force veteran who resides in Macclenny.
