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Contractor letter sheds light on Ellis case
A DeKalb County contractor claims that the county took away its business after it refused to make campaign contributions and then awarded the work to a competitor that did make a donation, according to records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The allegations by Power & Energy Services are contained in ...
DeKalb CEO’s calls caught some vendors off guard
DeKalb County had just awarded Joe Konenkamp’s company a $140,000 contract when the call came in. Konenkamp assumed the call from Burrell Ellis, the county’s then-CEO, had something to do with the new contract. Wrong. Ellis wanted money for his reelection campaign. And he wasn’t going away easy. » Ellis ...
DeKalb CEO’s vendor lists surface
DeKalb County commissioners often award millions of dollars in county contracts at their meetings twice a month. The names of the companies that win the contracts are buried amid the governmentspeak and legalese that fill the commission’s agenda. As far back as May 2011 and continuing until April this year, ...
City court dismissed 14,500 cases because officers didn’t show
Atlanta Municipal Court judges have dismissed at least 14,500 cases since 2007 because officers failed to show up in court, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found. One man, an accused ticket scalper, walked free on at least seven separate cases because no officer was in court to testify against him. ...
Insider and broker worked together on state lease
Thad Jackson and Steve Tedder are old fraternity buddies, going back to the mid-1990s at Vanderbilt University. They live in Atlanta now and are still close, bantering in emails about college sports, their kids, family vacations, and grabbing beers together. Both went into real estate, although Jackson eventually became a ...
Police fail to show, court dismisses 1,800 cases
At least 1,800 criminal cases have been dismissed in Fulton County’s Magistrate Court since 2010 because police officers failed to show up in court despite being subpoenaed to testify, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows.The newspaper also found that court officials don’t notify police departments when officers miss court, ...
Gwinnett ex-commissioner’s expenses dwarfed his colleagues’
Former Gwinnett Commissioner Mike Beaudreau, who left office in January after two terms, spent more from his expense account than the eight other county commissioners with whom he served combined, an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows. Beaudreau never exceeded his $5,000 annual limit on expenses. But he routinely failed ...
DeKalb school superintendent addresses Dunwoody concerns
This is what DeKalb school district Interim Superintendent Michael Thurmond signed up for. Standing in front of a room of unhappy people that have an ocean of issues. As Thurmond tries to repair the shipwreck that is the DeKalb school district, he must also deal with the ripple effects that ...
Vendors in DeKalb government probe earned millions
When authorities searched the home of DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis last week, six companies suddenly found themselves sharing an unwanted spotlight. The businesses were identified by name in the search warrants that gave the public its first look – albeit a rough sketch – at where the budding corruption ...
Hunting data reveals tragic, strange accidents
Think you have a good yarn to spin at this year’s Christmas party? That may be. But Hutch Murphey’s is better. While hunting in 2010, Murphey got shot by his dog – in the butt. Incident reports list the shooter as a 3-year-old yellow Labrador named “Buddy.” (The same report ...
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