Tag: Katrina Brown

A.G. GancarskiJune 14, 2018
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Two Jacksonville City Council members, Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown, are dealing with dozens of federal fraud charges. A 61-page indictment dropped in federal court late last month details 38 counts in a scheme to defraud. Federal prosecutors allege the Browns, who are not related, collaborated in a scheme that used shell companies as ways to extract, via transfers and […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 5, 2018
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Just days after Gov. Rick Scott suspended two Jacksonville City Council members who face 38 federal counts in a scheme to defraud local and federal taxpayers, Mayor Lenny Curry said Tuesday his office had no active role or insight into the selection process for their replacements. The replacements for suspended Democrats Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown will be picked by […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 4, 2018
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On Monday, the Jacksonville City Council’s Neighborhoods, Community Development, Public Health, and Safety committee deferred the “Homeless Bill of Rights,” legislation that could codify civil rights for the city’s dispossessed populations. Ordinance 2018-308, filed by currently-suspended Councilwoman Katrina Brown, contends that “the basic rights all people should enjoy must be guaranteed for homeless individuals and families,” […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 4, 2018
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On Thursday, Jacksonville City Council members Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown were indicted on a 38-count conspiracy to defraud, after both allegedly misused city and federal funds intended for economic incentive purposes. Friday saw Gov. Rick Scott suspend the two less than a year before elections, leaving the Jacksonville City Council to scramble in terms of figuring out […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 2, 2018
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Jacksonville City Councilmembers Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown, indicted Thursday on a 38-count scheme to defraud, will have more time to devise a legal defense in the coming weeks. As many expected, Gov. Rick Scott devoted a chunk of his Friday 5 p.m. news dump to the inevitable memo, suspending the Councilmembers, though not naming temporary replacements. The suspension […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 1, 2018
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Jacksonville’s political class is reeling from Thursday’s federal indictment of City Councilors Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown, which saw the two Democrats slammed with a 38-count conspiracy to defraud. Councilwoman Brown was named in 37 counts; Councilman Brown in 32. Per prosecutors, the two misappropriated federal and city money provided to fund an ultimately failed BBQ sauce […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 31, 2018
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Jacksonville hasn’t dealt with a politician’s fraud trial in roughly a year. Perhaps the city was overdue. A 61-page indictment dropped in federal court Thursday for two Jacksonville City Council members, Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown. Their first appearance on Thursday afternoon saw the two Democrats face the court, in the face of charges that […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 22, 2018
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Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown is being sued personally by the city of Jacksonville, the fallout from an economic development deal gone bust. Earlier this month, the city filed suit against Brown, a first-term Democratic member of the Finance Committee, for breach of guaranty, relative to a defaulted loan of $380,000 to the Browns’ family business, CoWealth […]


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