Medical college in Chamblee allegedly involved in bribery scheme
Each time a DeKalb County employee sent a student to a college for medical career training, federal prosecutors say he received a $100 bribe from the college's president.
But which college was paying the bribes?
Emails obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution show that Malik College President Rashid Malik said he was blackmailed for the bribes. "No money, no students," Malik wrote in an email to a DeKalb workforce manager.
Malik isn’t facing charges, but his school in Chamblee closed this summer after the former DeKalb employee who received the bribes, Roderick Wyatt, pleaded guilty.
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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.
