A conservative ethics group has asked the attorney general to investigate Florida Senate nominee Angie Nixon for omitting back taxes and student loans from her federal financial disclosure, calling the gaps knowing and willful.
The Washington Free Beacon reported that the National Legal and Policy Center sent a criminal referral this week to Attorney General Todd Blanche seeking a probe of the Florida Democratic Senate nominee.
The complaint alleges Nixon filed a false U.S. Senate financial disclosure in violation of the Ethics in Government Act after leaving off liabilities she had already listed on a state form the same day.
Federal candidate rules require public disclosure of debts above $10,000. The watchdog says Nixon’s Senate paperwork failed that test while her Florida paperwork did not.
Nixon, a state lawmaker and dues-paying Democratic Socialist, is the party’s nominee in the special election for the seat once held by Marco Rubio. She faces incumbent Republican Sen. Ashley Moody.
On August 31, Nixon submitted a State of Florida financial disclosure that reported nearly $14,000 in unpaid taxes owed to the IRS and $17,600 in unpaid federal student loans.
That same day she filed her U.S. Senate financial disclosure. That federal form made no reference to those debts, according to the reporting and the referral described in it.
The National Legal and Policy Center argues the mismatch was deliberate. In its complaint the group wrote:
"It's clear that Nixon’s failure to list the two liabilities was no mere oversight but constitutes a knowing and willful filing of false financial disclosure reports,"
The referral also details financial disclosures and debts already in public view and “demands prompt civil and criminal enforcement against Angie Nixon for her flagrant violations of the Ethics in Government Act's financial disclosure requirements.”
No charging decision from the Justice Department or the attorney general is reported. Nixon’s campaign did not return a request for comment.
The gaps land against a record of Nixon discussing those same obligations in public.
In a July podcast interview she said she was on a plan with the IRS. “Your girl over here is on a payment plan to pay the IRS $12,000 back,” she said, adding she had already paid more than $10,000 and calling the remaining bill “crazy” while contrasting it with billion-dollar fortunes.
On Facebook in October 2024, the month Congress ended the pandemic-era student loan pause, she posted: “Dear Student Loans. It's above me now,” and “I don't wanna pay it back. Education supposed to be free.”
Those statements do not decide a legal case. They do show she knew the debts existed while the Senate form left them out.
In 2025 Nixon earned at least $270,000 from jobs and investments, the Free Beacon reporting states. That income figure sits beside unpaid tax and loan balances she put on the state form and skipped on the Senate form.
She wants a 5 percent annual wealth tax on billionaires, a signature pitch from a candidate who has described education debt as something she does not want to repay.
In August she won the Democratic primary over establishment Democrat Alex Vindman even though she was outspent 16 to 1, a result covered in our earlier look at how Democratic Socialists' Angie Nixon toppled Vindman despite the fundraising gap.
A poll released the day before the referral found her trailing Moody by 7 points. Progressive star power has already started to move her way, including signs that Ocasio-Cortez may campaign for the DSA-aligned nominee in Florida.
Separate reporting has also examined paid staff controversies and past praise for radical causes around the same campaign. Voters weighing her Senate bid have seen coverage of a staffer controversy tied to the Nixon campaign and of statements in which the nominee praised a convicted cop-killer and backed CAIR as a political vehicle.
Financial disclosure exists so voters and the Senate can see conflicts, leverage, and personal stakes before someone writes laws on taxes, debt, and spending.
Listing nearly $14,000 in IRS debt and $17,600 in student loans on a state form, then filing a blank on those lines for the Senate the same day, is the core fact pattern the National Legal and Policy Center put before the attorney general.
Nixon sells higher taxes on the rich and relief for borrowers. Her paperwork and her own posts show unpaid federal taxes, unpaid federal student loans, and a public shrug at repaying the education debt ordinary borrowers are expected to handle.
Lawmakers who want to run the tax code and the student-loan system should clear the same honesty bar they set for everyone else. A referral is not a conviction, but hiding debts on a Senate form while bragging about not wanting to pay them is no way to ask Floridians for a promotion.
