Suspended DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis is now in the state prison system.
According to the Department of Corrections’ web site, Ellis is at Coastal State Prison in Garden City near Savannah, one of two entry points for men coming into Georgia’s prison system.
Ellis was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison to be followed by 3 1/2 years on probation for his attempted extortion and perjury convictions. A jury convicted Ellis of trying to extort a county vendor for a 2012 campaign contribution and of lying to a special purpose grand jury that was looking into corruption when he was asked about his role in county contracting.
He was transferred from the DeKalb County Jail to the state prison system just hours after he was sentenced last week.
Ellis remains the county’s CEO though he is suspended without pay. Lee May will remain interim CEO until Ellis resigns, exhausts his appeals or the term ends next year.
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