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City gives FBI 90,000 pages to replace grand jury hearing

City of Tallahassee hands five years of information to FBI agent
City of Tallahassee hands five years of information to FBI agent
Posted at 4:16 PM, Jul 11, 2017
and last updated 2017-11-09 10:04:17-05

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - A grand jury hearing was scheduled Tuesday for the City of Tallahassee to testify and hand over requested information about development.

The FBI subpoenaed five years of information from the city and Community Redevelopment Agency.

The subpoena did require the city to go before a grand jury but it also provided another option to replace it.

And that's what the city did. It handed over around 90,000 pages to an FBI special agent.

The city attorney's office has been working with the FBI to hand over all requested information to special agent Evan Hurley.

WTXL spoke with him over the phone Tuesday morning. He declined to comment on any part of the investigation.

There's been no indication of what the information will be used for or who prosecutors are going after.

"People pretty much say that you can indict a ham sandwich, because most of the time when prosecutors convene a grand jury, they always find an indictment. It's pretty much what the prosecutors present and what they want to come out of it," said Mutaqee Akbar, an attorney at Akbar Law Firm. "It's too early to guess and try to figure out what's going on. We just have to look at the information, follow it, and see what comes out of it."

Grand jury proceedings are done in secret, but to our knowledge, nothing additional has been scheduled or requested regarding this investigation.

WTXL will continue to follow these developments and bring you the latest as soon as we get more information.