Former Atlanta Mayor sentenced to 30 months in prison

[Charlie Brown]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0613metcampbell.html

Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell was sentenced today to 30 months in prison on charges of tax evasion. He will also serve a year on probation, pay a $6,000 fine, and pay more than $60,000 in back taxes.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Story went beyond the findings of the jury and said the former two-term mayor obstructed justice and took bribes. The jury had acquitted Campbell of the bribery charge at trial, where the government's burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt. During sentencing, the government burden of proof is lower.

Immediately after learning his fate, Campbell labelled the sentence an "abomination."

"This is not justice, we will appeal," he told reporters outside the federal courthouse. "I never betrayed the public trust and the jury found that way. I think what we saw today was an attempt to undo what the jury had done."

The judge said there was enough evidence to find that Campbell, Atlanta's mayor from 1994-2002, accepted more than $50,000 in bribes in 1999 from his longtime friend and golfing buddy Dan DeBardelaben. In exchange, DeBardelaben and an associate wanted a lucrative deal to prepare the city's computers for Y2K.

[BooScout]

1. Good....

He screwed Atlanta royally.

Shirley Franklin has had to clean up so much of the crap he left behind it's unbelievable.