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Articles

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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