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Jacksonville Daily Record 8//1/24

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AUGUST 1 TO AUGUST 7, 2024 | JAXDAILYRECORD.COM

BUSINESS & LEGAL NEWS IN BAKER, CLAY, DUVAL, NASSAU AND ST. JOHNS COUNTIES

‘DECEIT AND GREED:’ ZAHN GETS 4 YEARS

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CITY GOVERNMENT

Downtown condo would be the tallest city building PAGE 6

THE MATHIS REPORT

Dave’s Hot Chicken entering the area market Photo by Ric Anderson

Convicted former JEA CEO Aaron Zahn leaves the Bryan Simpson U.S. Courthouse with his wife, Mary Branan Ennis Zahn, after being sentenced July 30 to four years in prison for wire fraud and conspiracy in the abandoned sale of the city-owned utility.

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The fired JEA CEO convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy in the abandoned effort to sell the city-owned utility faces prison. BY RIC ANDERSON ASSOCIATE EDITOR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

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aron Zahn, whose quick rise to the top leadership position at JEA was followed by his ouster amid accusations of trying to loot the cityowned utility, was sentenced July 30 to four years in prison for his conviction on wire fraud and conspiracy

charges. Senior U.S. District Judge Brian Davis imposed the sentence at 5:33 p.m. in a 12th-floor courtroom in the Bryan Simpson U.S. Courthouse in Downtown Jacksonville, a milestone event in a legal saga that stretches to Zahn’s appointment to the JEA board by former Mayor Lenny Curry in 2018. The former JEA CEO, who faced up to 25 years imprisonment on the charges,

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displayed no visible emotion as Davis delivered the sentence. He left the courthouse a short time later without answering questions from reporters. Davis sentenced Zahn to 48 months imprisonment on each of the two charges, ordering the sentences to run concurrently as opposed to back-to-back. He ruled that Zahn could report to prisSEE ZAHN, PAGE 12

CITY GOVERNMENT

Jaguars owner ‘building a neighborhood’ Shad Khan tells Bloomberg that he hasn’t shelved plans to help create what he calls a “new core” around EverBank Stadium and the Four Seasons Hotel under construction. PAGE 8

THE BASCH REPORT

New effort to harness space Jacksonville-based Star Catcher Industries is dedicated to the creation of an energy grid for space. PAGE 10 DEVELOPMENT

Sprouts OK’d in St. Johns It will be the organic and natural grocer’s third location in Northeast Florida. PAGE 3

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