City Council President Terrance Freeman decides to open investigation of council member LeAnna Cumber while she is running for mayor.
Daniel Nunn, an attorney who supports Cumber in the mayor's race, said the investigation is politically driven by Mayor Lenny Curry and JAX Chamber President Daniel Davis, who is running for mayor.
During the Special Investigatory Committee's probe in 2020, the committee issued subpoenas to the bidders asking them to list lobbyists, attorneys and consultants they employed in connection with JEA's invitation to submit offers for the utility. The Special Investigative Committee later requested all council members to voluntarily list any interactions their immediate family members, including spouses, had with people or entities connected in any way with the JEA process.Emails obtained by the Florida Times-Union show Husein Cumber assisted a private equity firm when it was assembling the consortium of companies called JEA Public Power Partners. Freeman's announcement also makes reference to text messages.
Unlike other proposals for JEA in 2019, JEA Public Power Partners would have paid a large concession fee for the right to manage JEA but the utility would have remained city-owned.
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