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DeKalb CEO Lee May’s chief of staff quits

By Mark Niesse
Dec 23, 2015

Interim DeKalb CEO Lee May’s chief of staff, Edmond Richardson, is stepping down amid scrutiny over his involvement in steering county work to a friend.

Richardson has been on medical leave for nearly three months since The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News reported Oct. 1 that he funneled a youth outreach services contract to Jerry Clark, a former member of the DeKalb Zoning Board of Appeals who pleaded guilty to a bribery charge in February.

Clark submitted invoices totaling $24,500 under the contract, and he was later hired as a county employee at Richardson's direction, making $16,000 before he was fired in January when he informed his superiors he was under investigation.

Clark is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 20 for accepting $3,500 in bribes for a November 2012 vote to approve a nightclub’s zoning request.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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