First Slice 5-19-15: Four Atlanta watershed department employees arrested for stealing equipment

Fort Mac brouhaha continues, Palmetto Pipeline draws critics, president acts on local police militarization

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Four more of the city’s watershed management department employees are facing felony theft charges for stealing thousands of dollars of equipment.

Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves forgot to write in a few things on his financial disclosure like his wife’s Cobb County home and a University of Georgia consulting payment. He apologized for the mistakes and promised to fix the errors.

Veteran Atlanta journalist Maria Saporta continues to blast Mayor Kasim Reed’s decision to sell Fort McPherson to film mogul Tyler Perry. “The most egregious statement has been that the only person who had shown interest in buying land at Fort McPherson has been Tyler Perry,” she writes in an open letter.

Southeast DeKalb County residents, meet your candidates for District 5 commissioner. Who’s in the race? A congressman’s wife, a controversial developer, and several others.

Mike Berlon, former Democratic Party of Georgia chair and Gwinnett County attorney, will spend five years and three months behind bars for stealing more than $2 million from his legal clients. “While offering up his services as an attorney, Mr. Berlon outright stole from his clients,” FBI agent J. Britt Johnson said in a statement. “This sentence now holds him accountable for his senseless and greed based criminal conduct.”

Who’s ready for the fight to build the controversial Palmetto Pipeline?

Is renaming a Downtown street for Ted Turner a “slam dunk” for the city?

One local writer has concerns about not letting “Buckhead become a Waco biker shootout scene.”

President Barack Obama has prohibited some military equipment from being given to local police departments. “It can alienate and intimidate local residents and send the wrong message,” he said at a New Jersey event.






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