Action News Jax’s Ben Becker is exposing a potential conflict of interest at the highest levels of JEA and its ties to a powerful lobbying firm that includes former Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry.
Internal emails raise new concerns
Action News Jax has obtained internal JEA emails that suggest two former leaders may have used their positions to direct business to the City of Jacksonville while they were at the utility and were offered a personal financial stake in the deal.
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The investigation uncovered new questions about Kurt Wilson’s outside business activities while employed at JEA as the utility’s Chief of Staff before having a fallout with CEO Vickie Cavey.
Internal emails starting in 2022 reveal that Wilson and former JEA board chair Bobby Stein helped a private telehealth company, RightSite Health, secure a contract with the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.
According to its website, RightSite, based in San Antonio, Texas, is a health care service that partners with 911/EMS to provide on-scene, on-demand telehealth with emergency room doctors and patient navigators for non-emergency patients…