The FBI’s investigation of at least one Walton County transaction has widened to include city employees.
Federal agents issued subpoenas late last month requesting that Freeport Mayor Mickey Marse provide them with the employment file of City Planner Latilda Henninger.
The FBI also ordered Marse to provide any communication between Henninger and himself, members of the City Council and any city official concerning work performed by Henninger “outside the scope of her employment as city planner.”
The Daily News obtained the documents from a Freedom of Information request to Freeport.
The subpoenas specifically sought communication pertaining to Henninger’s “application, approval and/or denial of any request to contract and/or perform professional services.”
Along with her city job, Henninger runs a company called Henninger Development Concepts with her husband.
The Freeport-based company has been registered as a business in Florida since 2005, according to the Florida Division of Corporations. The company was founded the same year Henninger was hired by the city.
Internet listings for Henninger Development Concepts say little other than that it offers “professional, scientific, and technical services.”
Henninger was out of town Wednesday on city business. Efforts to reach her or anyone at the family business were unsuccessful.
Henninger’s name also appeared in an FBI subpoena for Walton County records that was issued in June.
That subpoena sought communication between Walton County commissioners, Jay Odom — who developed the Hammock Bay subdivision in Freeport — and Henninger, among others.
It also sought documents from Freeport 860 and Crystal Beach Development, both Odom business interests, and Henninger Development Concepts.
The Walton County subpoena also sought records “pertaining to any cost-sharing, financing or interlocal agreement between Walton County and the city of Freeport" linked to the development of the 60-acre Freeport Regional Sports Complex.
Odom began developing the Hammock Bay subdivision in 2006. In 2007, he announced he would donate 60 acres (worth an estimated $12 million) to Freeport so the city could partner with Walton County to build the sports complex.
The complex opened in 2008. It offers fields for softball, T-ball, baseball and soccer. It also has basketball and tennis courts, beach volleyball courts, a playground, gardens and nature trails.
The agreement in question called for Walton County, which had already put $5 million toward the sports complex, to clear and construct three baseball fields in Freeport.
Freeport, in return, offered to provide engineering plans, obtain permitting and provide a legal description of the property where the baseball fields would be built.
Also as part of its most recent inquiry, the FBI subpoenaed Freeport City Clerk Robin Haynes.
It ordered her to provide a grand jury with the minutes of City Council meetings since Jan. 1, 2005, and copies of all planning board meetings for the same time period.
Federal agents requested any communication in which Haynes or any city official “issued a valuation or opinion pertaining to the potential usage of any real property located within the city of Freeport.”
It also sought all communications in which Haynes or other city officials discussed the value or use of property within the city “with any private citizen, private corporation or government official.”
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/freeport-52290-include-probe.html#ixzz26L7oFSU2
Federal agents issued subpoenas late last month requesting that Freeport Mayor Mickey Marse provide them with the employment file of City Planner Latilda Henninger.
The FBI also ordered Marse to provide any communication between Henninger and himself, members of the City Council and any city official concerning work performed by Henninger “outside the scope of her employment as city planner.”
The Daily News obtained the documents from a Freedom of Information request to Freeport.
The subpoenas specifically sought communication pertaining to Henninger’s “application, approval and/or denial of any request to contract and/or perform professional services.”
Along with her city job, Henninger runs a company called Henninger Development Concepts with her husband.
The Freeport-based company has been registered as a business in Florida since 2005, according to the Florida Division of Corporations. The company was founded the same year Henninger was hired by the city.
Internet listings for Henninger Development Concepts say little other than that it offers “professional, scientific, and technical services.”
Henninger was out of town Wednesday on city business. Efforts to reach her or anyone at the family business were unsuccessful.
Henninger’s name also appeared in an FBI subpoena for Walton County records that was issued in June.
That subpoena sought communication between Walton County commissioners, Jay Odom — who developed the Hammock Bay subdivision in Freeport — and Henninger, among others.
It also sought documents from Freeport 860 and Crystal Beach Development, both Odom business interests, and Henninger Development Concepts.
The Walton County subpoena also sought records “pertaining to any cost-sharing, financing or interlocal agreement between Walton County and the city of Freeport" linked to the development of the 60-acre Freeport Regional Sports Complex.
Odom began developing the Hammock Bay subdivision in 2006. In 2007, he announced he would donate 60 acres (worth an estimated $12 million) to Freeport so the city could partner with Walton County to build the sports complex.
The complex opened in 2008. It offers fields for softball, T-ball, baseball and soccer. It also has basketball and tennis courts, beach volleyball courts, a playground, gardens and nature trails.
The agreement in question called for Walton County, which had already put $5 million toward the sports complex, to clear and construct three baseball fields in Freeport.
Freeport, in return, offered to provide engineering plans, obtain permitting and provide a legal description of the property where the baseball fields would be built.
Also as part of its most recent inquiry, the FBI subpoenaed Freeport City Clerk Robin Haynes.
It ordered her to provide a grand jury with the minutes of City Council meetings since Jan. 1, 2005, and copies of all planning board meetings for the same time period.
Federal agents requested any communication in which Haynes or any city official “issued a valuation or opinion pertaining to the potential usage of any real property located within the city of Freeport.”
It also sought all communications in which Haynes or other city officials discussed the value or use of property within the city “with any private citizen, private corporation or government official.”
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/freeport-52290-include-probe.html#ixzz26L7oFSU2
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