Latest Atlanta bribery news tough to interpret, former prosecutor says
“At this point you don’t know that he’s a target,” says Zahra S. Karinshak, a partner at Krevolin & Horst and a former federal prosecutor in Atlanta. “He might just be the guy who has all the papers.”
The Morehouse graduate had been chief procurement officer for the city since 2003, managing hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts, before he was summarily fired Tuesday.
The development came amidst a wide-ranging probe of city contracting, which has so far netted two guilty pleas from contractors. Elvin "E.R." Mitchell and Charles Richards Jr. have pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery and are scheduled for sentencing April 28.
Read the latest developments on myAJC.com.
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Ken Foskett has been an AJC reporter and editor since 1989 and is Senior Editor/Investigations, leading a team of investigative and data journalists who watchdog state and local government. Additionally, Foskett manages the AJC's year-round internship program for collegiate journalists.
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