Family business of Jacksonville City Councilwoman raided

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The saga of Jerome Brown BBQ, the family business of Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown, took a turn for the legalistic Tuesday.

Action News Jax and News4Jax report that the BBQ company’s warehouse on Jacksonville’s Westside was raided Tuesday morning.

The raid appears to be multi-jurisdictional, involving the FBI, the IRS, HUD, the Small Business Administration and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Councilwoman Brown told us earlier this year that she owns a “very small percentage” of Cowealth, the parent company of Jerome Brown BBQ that faces delinquent property taxes and a drop-dead date of Dec. 31 regarding a city disbursement of $640,000 in loans and grants for job creation that never materialized.

Cowealth is attempting to sell the building; however, despite the $1.5 million asking price for the industrial space in an area of town with a lot of unemployment and a lot of vacant space, a sale even at that price would not satisfy Cowealth’s obligations, which include a primary mortgage of $2.65 million.

A raid of the building with those parties seems to go beyond the company’s failure to come through on an economic development deal, however.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski



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