Former DeKalb County schools chief operating officer Patricia Reid hired a new attorney to represent her in her criminal case.
Defense attorney Tony Axam confirmed that he is now representing Reid. Axam represented the man who accepted a plea deal last year in the beating of an Army reservist inside a Morrow Cracker Barrel restaurant.
It’s unclear if Reid’s previous defense attorney BJ Bernstein is still on the case. Bernstein, who also represents the plaintiffs in the Rev. Eddie Long sex abuse suits, did not return calls Tuesday. Reid hung up on a reporter.
A DeKalb grand jury indicted Reid, former superintendent Crawford Lewis, Reid’s former husband and her former secretary last year on charges they ran a criminal enterprise. Reid is charged with racketeering, theft by a government employee, bribery and falsifying public documents.
She faces up to 115 years in prison. No trial date has been set.
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