Nate Monroe, a political reporter for the Gannett-owned daily newspaper in Jacksonville, was followed by a consulting firm hired by Florida Power & Light while on vacation with his fiancé in Pensacola three years ago.
Nate Monroe and his fiancé (now wife), Erin Kourkounis, both once worked at Pensacola News Journal. The couple was visiting Pensacola for a friend’s wedding. The FPL consultants continued to surveil the couple at least through 2020, according to documents leaked to the media.
The Orlando Sentinel reported on Friday that while FPL has denied that it authorized or knew about the surveillance, records show employees of Matrix LLC, an Alabama-based consulting firm employed by the utility, shadowed Monroe throughout his critical coverage of a failed $11 billion purchase of a smaller Florida utility.
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