The former top lawyer for the Florida Department of Transportation, who admitted to forging the signatures of other agency staffers on official state documents without their consent, accepted a consent judgment with the state’s disciplinary board.
The bad news for Erik Fenniman, 45, ex-general counsel for the FDOT, largely began when the agency’s inspector general released a report in June 2020 that focused on the respondent’s execution of letters dated in March 2020, on which he signed the names of his subordinate employees.
Erik Fenniman, former general counsel for the Florida Department of Transportation. (Credit: The Florida Bar)