County, TEAM to appear before grand jury

Former Santa Rosa County Commissioner Gordon Goodin may have been exonerated of ethics violations stemming from a trip to Navarre real estate mogul Bill Pullum’s island in Honduras, but similar issues resurfaced last week when the county was subpoenaed to appear before a U.S. District Court Grand Jury.

Goodin served as commissioner from 2002-2010 and was ousted by Jim Melvin in the 2010 election.

The Florida Commission on Ethics began investigating Goodin in 2009 after the Board of County Commissioners approved spending $3.1 million to outright purchase property from Pullum in East Milton for an industrial park. In 2005, Goodin traveled to the Pullum home in Guanaja, one of the Bay Islands of Honduras but failed to report the trip to the ethics commission.

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