Anti-fraud groups are slamming a budget-cutting scenario put out by Florida Department of Financial Services that would eliminate all seven of the state's insurance fraud prosecutors.
Jayme O'Rourke, a Department of Financial Services spokesperson, said all agencies were asked to submit plans to the Senate General Appropriations Committee on how they would reduce 20 percent of their budgets to see what shape the agencies would be in after the cuts.
She noted the department does not want to make such cuts, and that the legislative committee's request was not part of any final plan.
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