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Old 01-14-2019, 04:51 AM
 
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Katrina Taylor-Parks, the deputy chief of staff for former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday afternoon in federal court after pleading guilty last year to accepting $4,000 in bribes.

Taylor-Parks is the fifth person so far to plead guilty in the long-running corruption probe of City Hall. Taylor-Parks admitted in August that she accepted payments from an unidentified vendor that was awarded about $100,000 in city business..."

FULL STORY: https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt-...HFsefwOmKm91I/

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Old 01-14-2019, 02:45 PM
 
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Default Former top Reed aide to be sentence in City Hall corruption case

Paraphrasing a bit of commonly use phraseology, "....her 'collapse' is complete."

https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt-...HFsefwOmKm91I/
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Old 01-14-2019, 03:24 PM
 
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It's all so dumb. I can't imagine going to jail for 2 years for $4000. What was she thinking?
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Old 01-14-2019, 04:12 PM
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Location: St Simons Island, GA
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It's all so dumb. I can't imagine going to jail for 2 years for $4000. What was she thinking?
Since this has been SOP in the Mayor's Office for 40+ years, that she would get away with it.
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Old 01-14-2019, 04:59 PM
 
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It's all so dumb. I can't imagine going to jail for 2 years for $4000. What was she thinking?
Prosecutors today said it was actually $15,000 or even more. She won’t be the last one from that administration to get jail time.
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