{"id":427695,"date":"2026-10-14T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427695\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:38:32","slug":"attorney-general-issues-second-subpoena-to-jta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427695\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney general issues second subpoena to JTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h1012301-p1\">The office of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued a second subpoena to the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, the office\u2019s third overall in its <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/09\/29\/state-ag-subpoenas-jta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inquiry into the authority\u2019s spending<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h1012301-p2\">Those actions came as JTA lays off staff and prepares to cut its services after identifying a <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/10\/13\/council-approves-30m-loan-jta-spiral\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$39 million budget shortfall<\/a> for fiscal year 2027.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h1012301-p3\">The second subpoena requires the authority to produce records related to travel for executives, including interim CEO Cleveland Ferguson and former CEO Nat Ford; contracts between the authority and two companies; W-2 forms for Ferguson and his assistant, Angela Hamilton; JTA sponsorship agreements for entities and events across the city; and communication between city of Jacksonville and JTA leadership, including Mayor Donna Deegan, Chief Administrative Officer Mike Weinstein, Chief of Staff Darnell Smith, Ford, Ferguson and JTA board Chair Aundra Wallace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/oct\/13\/attorney-general-issues-second-subpoena-to-jta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The office of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued a second subpoena to the Jacksonville Transportation Authority,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-427695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427695","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=427695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}