Federal prosecutors and attorneys for J.T. Burnette, a businessman who was indicted last week in a long-running public corruption probe, are arguing over the production of evidence in the case, including dozens of recordings, some many hours long.

Burnette was arrested in the same investigation that led to federal corruption charges in December against City Commissioner Scott Maddox and former Downtown Improvement Authority Executive Director Paige Carter-Smith. And while their trial is set to begin Nov. 4, Burnette asked for and got a much earlier trial date of June 17.

Government court filings include one revelation suggesting the FBI probe in Tallahassee isn’t over. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Kunz wrote that discovery materials, including nearly 900,000 pages of documents and about 70 recordings, “may relate to ongoing investigations.”

Tim Jansen, a Tallahassee attorney representing Burnette, asked Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Tuesday to order prosecutors to comply with federal rules requiring the government to turn over discovery within seven days of arraignment.

Jansen asked for discovery on May 9, the same day Burnette was arrested by the FBI and arraigned. Hinkle, in an order last week, told the government to produce discovery within seven days of Jansen’s request. But Jansen wrote that prosecutors want Burnette to agree to a broad protective order keeping discovery confidential to everyone except the parties and lawyers in the case and limited others, including witnesses and potential witnesses. Hinkle granted such an order March 29 in the Maddox and Carter-Smith case.

“Such broad protective orders are not the normal procedure in federal court,” Jansen wrote. “The defendant believes such a blanket and broad ranging protective order will hinder the defense and its team from preparing and locating witnesses/evidence for an expedited trial.”

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Kunz, in a motion of his own filed later in the day, noted that Hinkle already granted a protective order in the Maddox and Carter-Smith trial, which was unopposed by their defense attorneys, Stephen Dobson III and Stephen Webster of Tallahassee. He asked Hinkle to extend the order to Burnette and asked for a hearing as soon as possible.

In his request, Kunz wrote that prosecutors are turning over a volume of discovery that exceeds the government’s obligations. The materials include “confidential and sensitive information” regarding “witnesses or other uncharged parties” developed through law enforcement and grand jury investigations.

“Defendant Burnette recently filed a motion to compel discovery; discovery the government has not refused to produce,” Kunz wrote. “Resolution of this motion to extend the previously entered protective order may moot Defendant Burnette’s premature motion to compel.”

Jansen, in his motion, wrote that he emailed Kunz on Friday asking for expedited discovery and volunteered to go to his office to get it. But he said Kunz didn’t respond. On Tuesday, Jansen and co-counsel Greg Kehoe took part in a conference call with federal prosecutors to resolve discovery matters, but Jansen said the government declined to limit the protective order.

“The government acknowledged that portions of the discovery could be overnighted if we acquiesced to the blanket protective order,” Jansen wrote.

Judge Hinkle is expected to rule on the motions and the scheduling of trial for all the defendants in a telephonic hearing set for May 21.

Burnette turned himself in to the FBI on charges including racketeering, extortion, mail fraud and false statements. He was the third person charged in the investigation, which began in 2015 with the arrival of undercover agents posing as developers and medical marijuana entrepreneurs.

He recently married his longtime partner Kim Rivers, who also was named in earlier FBI subpoenas. Rivers is CEO of Trulieve, Florida’s largest purveyor of medical marijuana.

According to the superseding grand jury indictment handed down last week against all three defendants, Burnette acted as a middle man between Maddox and undercover FBI agents representing a fictitious FBI front company.

Maddox and Carter-Smith were charged with running a bribery and extortion ring out of their Governance consulting firm and committing bank fraud in real-estate deals. Burnette allegedly facilitated payments from the agents to Governance.

Maddox, former Tallahassee mayor and former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, was suspended from office after his arrest. Carter-Smith also was forced out as head of the DIA. Maddox, Carter-Smith and Burnette all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Contact Jeff Burlew at jburlew@tallahassee.com or follow @JeffBurlew on Twitter.