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Dan Klepal

Local news reporter, Gwinnett County

Dan Klepal is a county watchdog / enterprise reporter who covers Gwinnett County government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Previously, Dan was a longtime municipal reporter with the Louisville Courier-Journal.

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Larry Gray, photographed in the Atlanta office of Gray & Co. in April 2013. Gray is president of Gray & Co., the Atlanta firm that is paid about $400,000 a year to advise the city's three pensions on the best investments.

Gray resigns as adviser to Atlanta’s largest pension system

Just as the city of Atlanta’s largest pension board began demanding answers from financial adviser Larry Gray, he walked away instead of answering. Gray resigned his firm’s role as adviser to the city’s $1.2 billion General Employees’ pension board Monday, two days before board members expected him to explain why ...

Larry Gray, photographed in the Atlanta office of Gray & Co. in April 2013. Gray is president of Gray & Co., the Atlanta firm that is paid about $400,000 a year to advise the city's three pensions on the best investments.

Financial adviser Larry Gray resigns as adviser to Atlanta’s biggest pension fund

Atlanta financial adviser Larry Gray on Monday resigned his firm’s role as consultant to Atlanta’s largest pension board, just two days before board members expected him to answer questions about why he did not tell them — or regulators — about $425,000 in federal tax liens filed against his Roswell ...

Gwinnett school officials solicited sponsorship from company competing for contract

Gwinnett County school officials solicited a $3,500 donation this year from a traffic safety company while the firm was under consideration for a multimillion-dollar contract to install cameras on school buses, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found. The company, Redflex Traffic Systems, ponied up the money to buy food and ...

Atlanta pension board calls for audit of adviser’s fund

The city of Atlanta’s largest pension board on Thursday called for an audit of $10 million it has sunk into a fund created and managed by its investment adviser, amid an ongoing federal investigation involving that fund.Atlanta General Employees’ pension board also wants Larry Gray, head of the advisory firm ...

Atlanta pension adviser didn’t disclose liens, settlement

Atlanta investment adviser Larry Gray has locked in lucrative revenue by urging public pensions his firm advises to sink millions into its own funds. But while making his pitch, Gray has been paying off $425,000 in federal tax liens and a $1 million settlement of a lawsuit that accused him ...

Gwinnett Planning Commission approves controversial zoning change

The Gwinnett County Planning Commission on Tuesday unanimously recommended approval of a zoning change that would allow a controversial housing development to move forward. Developer David Jenkins’ company, Rocklyn Homes, wants to build 334 houses on a mostly undeveloped 131-acre tract of land in an already crowded portion of the ...

Traffic accidents kill 14 over holiday weekend

Traffic accidents in Georgia caused 14 deaths over the Labor Day weekend period, which ended at midnight Monday. Four of this year’s deaths happened in Metro Atlanta – two in Roswell, one in Cobb County and another in DeKalb County. This year’s number of fatalities is one more than the ...

Gwinnett developer Mark Gary gets bribe sentence cut for cooperation

Gwinnett County developer Mark Gary on Tuesday received a reduced prison sentence for bribing a county commissioner in exchange for his cooperation in the on-going federal corruption probe — help that will lead to the indictment of at least one other person, according to a federal prosecutor.Gary, 40, was sentenced ...

Mark Gary leaves the courthouse following a federal indictment Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012, in front of the Richard B Russell Federal building in downtown Atlanta. Federal authorities charged the  developer with giving a $30,000 bribe to influence then-Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter's vote in 2009 in favor of a solid waste transfer station. Gary has been cooperating with authorities.

Gwinnett developer Mark Gary gets bribe sentence cut for cooperation

Gwinnett County developer Mark Gary on Tuesday received a reduced prison sentence for bribing a county commissioner in exchange for his cooperation in the on-going federal corruption probe — help that will lead to the indictment of at least one other person, according to a federal prosecutor.Gary, 40, was sentenced ...

Gwinnett SPLOST on ballots Nov. 5

Gwinnett County Commissioners approved a resolution Tuesday that places a 1-penny special purpose local option sales tax renewal on ballots Nov. 5. The three-year renewal, if approved by voters, is expected to raise $498 million with about 70 percent of that revenue dedicated to transportation projects. Cities would also get ...