Boyer’s sentencing for kickback scheme postponed

Former DeKalb County Commissioner Elaine Boyer won’t face punishment for bilking taxpayers out of more than $90,000 until next year. Her sentencing, scheduled Wednesday, has been postponed, according to Bob Page, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. Page said he did not know the reason nor the new sentencing date, though he said it would likely be in February.

Boyer faces about 1 to 2 years in prison for admittedly funneling more than $78,000 to an evangelist posing as a legislative consultant, with him kicking about $58,000 of it back to her. She also admitted running up more than $15,000 in personal purchases on her county Visa card, a scheme exposed by The Atlanta-Journal Constitution in March.