Exterior of Atlanta City Hall in Atlanta, Georgia. — Photo: Warren LeMay, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0

City Contracts, Cash Only: More Than $40,000 Buys Atlanta Work

Sold by Atlanta's chief procurement officer. Delivery: 2014 to January 2017. Seller stays unnamed.

Sold2014–2017Local

more than $40,000≈ €35.8KAs stated in the source: more than $40,000 in cash

Already sold, in 2014–2017. Nothing on Lobay is for sale.

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Seller

Role: city chief procurement officer (also a watershed commissioner and a county official received benefits)
Institution: City of Atlanta; DeKalb County
Place: Atlanta and DeKalb County, Georgia
Country: United States

Item specifics

Condition	Guilty plea, U.S. District Court (N.D. Georgia), 2023-04-19
Location	Atlanta and DeKalb County, Georgia, US
Seller	City chief procurement officer (name withheld)
Winning bidder	Former executive VP of an Atlanta architecture and engineering firm (name withheld)
Category	Construction
Sold	2014–2017
Payment method	Cash, jewellery, landscaping, hotel room, Dubai shopping trip, promised job

Description

What the bribe bought

The payments were meant to get City of Atlanta contracts for the executive's firm, plus help getting county work. The record gives no exact contract value.

What happened

A former executive vice president of an Atlanta architecture and engineering firm paid the city's chief procurement officer more than $40,000 in cash from 2014 to January 2017, prosecutors said. The benefits also included jewellery, landscaping at an official's home, a luxury hotel room, a shopping trip in Dubai and a promised job. A watershed commissioner and a county official also received benefits. The executive pleaded guilty on 2023-04-19 in federal court. The firm was not charged.