TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Mayor Jane Castor is responding to an investigation into a top city staffer. The head of city code enforcement is facing an FDLE investigation for messaging with an employee about improperly collecting lotto winnings.

Keith O'Connor, the husband of former TPD Chief Mary O'Connor, has been suspended with pay until the investigation is complete.

The backstory:

On Wednesday, the mayor weighed in. Castor has already seen her police chief appointee and longtime friend Mary O'Connor resign because of a golf cart traffic stop.

"I'm hoping you'll just let us go tonight," O'Connor was heard saying on an officer's body camera.

Dig deeper:

Now O'Connor's husband Keith, the head of code enforcement and a former TPD deputy chief, is under an FDLE investigation for coordina

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