JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Transportation Authority paid $65,000 in tuition and fees for a former senior executive’s doctoral program and approved hundreds of thousands of dollars in executive training and consulting agreements, according to records obtained by the News4JAX I-TEAM.
The spending is drawing attention from state investigators as the agency works to address a financial crisis. The I-TEAM obtained records JTA turned over to the Florida Attorney General’s Office in response to a criminal investigative subpoena.
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