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New details tonight about a story we broke back in April of 2010.

That�s when we first learned the FBI was asking questions about a state budget deal with GEO Group, a private prison corporation. Now the feds are taking action, seizing a government computer in Santa Rosa County where GEO runs the Backwater prison. Matt Puckett, a spokesman with the Florida Police Benevolent Association says the 140 million taxpayer dollars spent on the private prison wasn�t vetted by the public and was put in the budget in the 11th hour.

�This thing was given away in a 72 hour period really. We think it stinks, we�ve always though it stinks and we hope maybe we can put this thing to rest,� said Puckett.

The FBI rarely talks about its investigations, so it�s hard to know exactly who is the subject of their inquiries. Former House Speaker Ray Sansom is a possible target, because he is responsible for putting the money for the prison into the state budget in 2008.