JEA was served a federal grand jury subpoena this week that requests documents from both the utility’s senior leadership team and related to a 2018 innovation summit, City Council member Rory Diamond said April 23.
Diamond said city General Counsel Jason Gabriel told him April 22 that JEA received the subpoena.
Diamond said he has not read the subpoena documentation, but said what was read to him was “broad-based” and that federal investigators “seem to have a very good idea what they’re looking for.”
The Daily Record filed record requests with JEA and the city Office of General Counsel for the subpoena documents.
The story was first reported April 23 by The Florida Times-Union.
Diamond, who chairs the Council’s Special Investigatory Committee into JEA, said the subpoena appears to parallel the committee’s probe into events and actions that pushed JEA’s toward privatization in 2019.
State Attorney Melissa Nelson announced in a Jan. 13 email that she turned over her investigation of JEA to federal officials.
