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Orlando Orange County Expressway
Authority - Corruption at it's Best!!
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State
probes X-way deals Investigators question $15M in fees and
a bond salesman's long tenure.
Dan Tracy | Sentinel Staff
Writer July 7, 2007
"The Orange-Osceola State Attorney's
Office is investigating a series of complicated money deals
commissioned by the region's toll-road agency to see whether
any "unlawful financial gains" were made by the participants."
Former
chief of toll agency files to keep grand jury report secret
- January 3, 2008
"The former chairman of the Orlando-Orange
County Expressway Authority has filed an appeal that will keep
secret a grand jury report that's said to criticize political
fundraising at the toll agency during his tenure."
Expressway
report sealed The grand jury's presentment does not include
indictments. What it contains is not public -- yet.
David Damron and Christopher
Sherman | Sentinel Staff Writers October 19, 2007
"Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty
and others involved with the expressway authority confirmed
Thursday that they are named in a sealed grand-jury report criticizing
the political fundraising that went on inside the embattled
agency."
Toll-road
agency ends fight over 1993 bond deal that lost millions in
interest
Jay Hamburg | Sentinel Staff
Writer December 20, 2007
"The Orlando-Orange County Expressway
Authority on Wednesday turned the page on a long legal fight
over a bond deal that could have saved the taxpayers up to $14
million."
Court
thumps road agency's debt-saving plan
Dan Tracy and Jay Hamburg | Sentinel
Staff Writers October 25, 2007
"Orlando's toll-road authority got
more bad news Wednesday when it learned that an appeals court
turned down a plan that could have saved the agency as much
as $14 million."
Toll
revenue paves roads less traveled
Dan Tracy and Jay Hamburg | Sentinel
Staff Writers May 21, 2007
"State Road 408 is the cash cow
of the region's expressway system." "The 22-mile east-west stretch
of asphalt represents little more than 20 percent of the toll-road
system but generates more than 40 percent of its revenue."
Toll
agency to rethink new $24M headquarters
Jay Hamburg and Dan Tracy | Sentinel
Staff Writers March 29, 2007
"The Orlando-Orange County Expressway
Authority might never move into its new $24 million, three-story
headquarters being built along State Road 408". "Stung by criticism
from the public and one of its own board members, the authority
on Wednesday voted to reconsider whether the new office is needed,
and commissioned a study that could lead to selling the building
even before it's completed"
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