Ex-DeKalb Commissioner Boyer has new sentencing date

Former DeKalb County Commissioner Elaine Boyer’s sentencing for bilking taxpayers out of more than $90,000 has been reset for Feb. 4, according to Bob Page, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta. Her sentencing, by U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans, had originally been scheduled in December, but it was postponed for unclear reasons.

Boyer faces about 1 to 2 years in federal 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.