General Personal of the Atlanta Inspector refers to 8 criminal investigations to Doj, FBI

The Atlanta Journal Constitution confirmed the preservation of the letter of several members of the Atlanta City Council. Others who are listed as recipients are civil servants from the US public prosecutor's office of the Northern District of Georgia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Inspector General, the Attorney General of Georgia, Chris Carr.

Carr's office confirmed the preservation of the letter, but said that there was no party in one of the investigations. The US public prosecutor's office rejected a comment and the FBI said he had not received the letter from Tuesday afternoon.

“On February 17, 2025, the city council of Atlanta passed a law that only forbids to carry out criminal investigations,” the letter said. “We are a member of the government and we are obliged to report fraud, waste, abuse and corruption.”

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The letter describes eight investigations initiated by the office, which includes all high -ranking consultants in the mayor's office, the department heads and the leaders of public security.

In an explanation that was presented to the AJC, the mayor's office said that it was not aware of the allegations until the letter was sent on Monday and an “attempt and calls not only to affect the names and calls by city workers, but also by private individuals and social service organizations”.

“The allegations of the mayor's office are based on anonymous complaints that have apparently been examined for more than a year and have not found any misconduct,” said a spokesman for the mayor. “In addition, the publication of information about active examinations is dangerous, unethical and possibly illegal.”

“We are still obliged to pursue all the actual unethical behaviors, just as we energetically pursue justice against anyone who decides to spread unfounded claims,” ​​the explanation says.

The allegations in the letter range from misconduct, such as contracts to political donors, up to millions of dollars that merged with organizations associated with the city's employees. The letter also described the applicable pressure on union members during the negotiation talks and the use of contractors for personal projects.

According to the letter, an investigation was initiated in payments via an event location in connection with the city's offer for the Democratic National Convention of 2024.

This investigation focused on a payment to the non -profit organization Atlanta 2024, which helped the city to influence an industry group to move their conference from the Georgia World Congress Center so that it would not be occupied during the DNC data. In the letter it says that you choose Atlanta 2024 a non -profit organization “but no non -profit organization and the donation did not take” purely charitable purposes “, as was permitted by the city code.

“OIG found evidence that the mayor coordinated the payment of over 2 million US dollars (an industry group) via voting from Atlanta 2024, Inc. in order to change the date of its annual workshop so that the city of Atlanta could suggest its offer to align the DNC,” says the letter. “OIG found evidence that the payment was negotiated with income from the recreational authority of Atlanta Fulton County and the guaranteed payment, regardless of the winning of the DNC offer. Oig also found indications that a confidentiality agreement was carried out between the (industry group) and an unknown unit. “

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The OIG office was in an almost years of fight with the administration of Mayor Andre Dickens because of independence. Officials in the mayor's office repeated the claim that the OIG applies unethical and even illegal tactics when examining the city officials.

The legislation originally submitted by the mayor's office would have made it possible for him to appoint members of the OIG Board of Directors and to obtain the office of office in order to examine alleged crimes. The legislation approved by the Council demands that the board members are appointed by law and interest representation organizations. There is a debate about whether the OIG can do criminal investigations.

In the letter, the mayor's office is mentioned in more than one investigation.

In particular, the Senior Policy Adviser of the Mayor Courtney English calls it for his participation in a non-profit Star-C, which received a donation of $ 2 million from the city. And the letter from Monday is not the first time that a relationship was questioned by a city guard. In a letter sent to English in 2023 in 2023, Jabu Sengova, Jabu Sengova, recommended that he trace the Board of Directors from the non -profit organization.

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English delivered the AJC -E -Mail answers to the ethics office, in which he was not an active member of the non -profit organization, and immediately resigned according to the instructions of the office. He referred other questions to his lawyer Michael Sterling.

Sterling forwarded an e -mail that he sent to city council members and the mayor on Monday evening, and beat the general inspector's office for the spread of “unfounded gossip”, which he described as “serious (serious) ethical behaviors”.

“The distribution of non -designated information contradicts the ethical obligation to ensure the accuracy and reliability in the investigative work,” Sterling wrote. “Investigative bodies are bound to ethical guidelines that highlight integrity, objectivity and respect for the rights of the individual. The OIG clearly violated these core principles. “

The staff of the general inspector also sent the letter to all city council members and the mayor. It is signed by the deputy general inspector, the deputy general inspector, two leading investigators and the office manager.

The unprecedented step of the investigation office follows the resignation of the former general inspector Shannon Manigault on the same day when the members of the city council of Atlanta passed the legislative revision of the role of the guard dog.

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In the levels of the town hall last month, Manigault said that she and her employees were “threats, bullying, intimidation and harassment by people who were subjects of our investigations”.

“Pure and simple: it's retribution,” said Manigault. “The attacks were systematic, persistent and wild. Since we have uncovered more corruption, the attacks at the highest sprouts in the town hall have deteriorated again. “

The legislation, which passed the city council of Atlanta, brought the eyebrows to the limitation of the general inspector's authority to investigate criminal activities. Council members argue that the final version does not go that far, however, demands that the office refer to such investigations to external law enforcement authorities.

Followers of the Oig believe something else.

“Due to this letter and the known activities that were discovered during these and other active studies, we hereby request a whistleblower protection for ourselves and the reporters of information to Oig before retribution by city officials of the city of Atlanta,” the letter said.

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The city administration Patrise Perkins-Hooker has accused OIG employees of “saboting” changes to the office, and in the efforts of the administration to confiscate hidden record devices such as “spy sticks”, which were prohibited in the legislation adopted by the council. She also accused her of creating no records that were requested in Georgia according to the law on open records.

“Since the employees are supporters of the former general inspector who tries to do their best, basically everything they can to sabotage what's going on,” said Perkins-Hooker: “You are very caustic in your attitude.”

Perkins-Hooker's comments took place during a news about the news on Friday evening when the city officials announced that the mayor had appointed a preliminary general inspector who, according to criticism, contradicts the political independence of the office.

The Board of Directors of the General Inspector consists of members who have been appointed by legal and civil rights groups and is responsible for the review and hiring of the city inspector of the city. But the body no longer has enough members after a majority has resigned next to Manigault.

The preliminary personnel representative Calvin Blackburn III sent a letter to the mayor on February 19 – two days after Manigault's resignation – in which the concerns of the public prosecutor were repeated.

“I am concerned that the remaining OIG employee is distracted from doing the important and critical work for which the office was created,” he wrote. “Instead, they seem to concentrate on a misguided effort to confirm their former guide and seek retaliation against those they believe that they are abused.”