JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Attorney General has served the Jacksonville Transportation Authority with a third subpoena as part of its investigation into the financial crisis at the agency.<\/p>\n
The scope of the subpoena covers a wide array of JTA business, and some communications involving Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n This includes text messages and emails between former CEO Nat Ford, interim CEO Cleveland Ferguson, and Deegan.<\/p>\n Plus, contracts between JTA and a consulting company called WSP.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Ford\u2019s wife Janet Walker Ford is a senior vice president with that company. <\/p>\n The firm had $1.6 million worth of contracts with JTA and sponsorship agreements for more than two dozen entities, including the Donna Foundation<\/a>, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the University of North Florida.<\/p>\n Action News Jax first told you about two previous subpoenas in the JTA investigation. This includes vendor contracts<\/a> and notes from a meeting<\/a> between Deegan and former JTA board member Megan Hayward.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n We obtained those notes<\/a> that show possible cost issues with the U2C autonomous vehicle program were discussed.<\/p>\n In response to the new subpoena, the Mayor\u2019s Office said in part, \u201cwe reiterate that JTA is a regional state transportation agency with a majority of board members appointed by the Governor, and a budget that is reviewed an approved by the Jacksonville City Council.\u201d<\/p>\n For its part, a JTA spokesperson said, \u201cThe JTA remains committed to transparency and accountability and will provide information as requested throughout this process.\u201d<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Florida Attorney General has served the Jacksonville Transportation Authority with a third subpoena as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[168065,7840,9322,5829,56464,1376,168063,87513,28,8580,116,118,117,18638,16009,168062,799,634,56465,9327,7842,9328,168064,168061,51459],"class_list":["post-427477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_acts","tag-ben_becker","tag-ceo","tag-cleveland","tag-deegan","tag-donna_deegan","tag-donna_foundation","tag-ferguson","tag-florida","tag-ford","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville_city_council","tag-jags","tag-janet_walker_ford","tag-jta","tag-local","tag-mayor_deegan","tag-nat_ford","tag-tanika_hughes","tag-u2c","tag-unf-_action_acts","tag-wsp","tag-yona_gvino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}