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Tally grows of questionable purchases using state funds
The Fulton District Attorney’s Office under-counted how much state forfeiture money it spent on galas, dinners, back rent and other bills by some $19,000, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found. These additional expenditures, made in 2011, included $10,000 for past-due rent on a community prosecution office; $1,500 for a Buckhead charity gala; ...
DA’s spending of federal forfeiture money in question
Finances of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office were in such chaos in recent years that even its most basic bills went unpaid. It was slapped with eviction fees for paying rent late for its burglary task force. One of its bank accounts was dangerously close to being overdrawn. A ...
Stricter rules for forfeiture funds gain political momentum
The push for strict limits on how officials can use funds seized from suspected criminals came to a quiet end earlier this year amid opposition from law enforcement. But fresh concerns over potential abuse of those funds has given new life to legislation once left for dead beneath the Gold ...
GBI to examine Fulton DA’s forfeiture spending
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will conduct an independent review into spending by the Fulton County district attorney after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found he used money seized from criminal suspects to buy things that had little to do with putting criminals behind bars. District Attorney Paul Howard requested the investigation ...
Deal wants limits on forfeiture spending
Gov. Nathan Deal is exploring ways to tighten controls on money seized from criminal suspects after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that Fulton County’s district attorney spent tens of thousands of dollars on things have little to do with fighting crime. Paul Howard used state forfeiture funds to buy tickets to ...
DA: Spending on softball, movie screening ‘innovative’
Tens of thousands of dollars that Fulton District Attorney Paul Howard spent on charity events, sports and food may seem to have little to do with law enforcement, but that’s only if you have a shortsighted view of what it means to fight crime, the DA told the AJC. True ...
Fulton DA spent forfeiture funds on charity galas, office parties
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard has used thousands of dollars from a little-known stash of public money to buy things that did not have much to do with putting crooks behind bars, but that burnished his image, let him hobnob with power brokers and even upgraded his home. During ...
Fairness of forfeiture laws in question
Agencies that make seizures say they work hard to be fair. They even return money and cars that state law allows them to keep. “It doesn’t mean that because you can forfeit something, that you have to do it,” Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds said. In practice, though, what a ...
Lax forfeiture law loaded with potential for abuse
Alda Gentile stowed the cash she earned in a plastic cleaning wipes tub, with dreams of buying a condo off Florida’s Atlantic coast. Come Sept. 19, 2012, the New York grandmother was cruising Interstate 95 in southeast Georgia with her son, 1-year-old grandson, and a folder full of condo listings ...
Worshipers claim “Welcome All” church does not live up to its name
Some worshipers at Welcome All Baptist Church said they got the cold shoulder Easter Sunday when they claimed they were locked out of their own sanctuary. Some two dozen attendees stood outside with reporters at 10 a.m. to condemn how the Woodstock church’s disputed pastor Willard Hamrick spent its money. ...
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