Current, former JEA, city officials to testify at hearing for former JEA executives.
. Dykes is also on the witness list for the hearing, along with Joe Orfano, who served as interim CFO during the leadership shakeups, and is now JEA’s vice president of financial services.
Several former members of the JEA board are expected to testify during the Kastigar hearing. They include April Green, who was the board’s chair when the JEA sale was scuttled and Zahn was removed. She. Another board member who resigned that day, Fred Newbill, is also slated to testify, as well as Kelly Flanagan, whose term expired Feb. 28 of that year. Andy Allen, who resigned from the board in December 2019 is on the witness list.
, is on the witness list, along with current council auditor Kim Taylor, and the city’s former general counsel, Jason Gabriel. Two city council members, Ron Salem and Rory Diamond, are also expected to be called to testify. Diamond and Salem were both on the council’s Special Investigative Committee looking into the JEA sale, and called the December 2019 hearing where Wannemacher was questioned.
The Kastigar hearing is scheduled to begin May 15, with court in session for much of that week, and possibly into the following week. Currently, portions of the hearing may be closed to the public, following a judge’s order. Defense attorneys asked that the hearing be closed when the “protected statements” may be discussed, in order to prevent them from being disseminated further.
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