Florida East Coast Industries exec, finance board members meet privately

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By: Lisa Broadt, Treasure Coast Newspapers

Two weeks before All Aboard Florida revealed its new financing plans, a high-ranking railroad official met privately with the newest member of the state board that could issue nearly $2 billion in tax-free bonds for the project.

According to emails obtained by Treasure Coast Newspapers, Florida Development Finance Corp. board member J. Nelson Bradshaw  met Oct. 12 over lunch in Jacksonville with Husein Cumber, executive vice president, corporate development, of Florida East Coast Industries, the parent firm of All Aboard Florida...