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State sues DeKalb County over misspent grant money | ajc.com: "State sues DeKalb County over misspent grant money

By COREY DADE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/13/05
The Georgia attorney general's office is suing DeKalb County to recoup an improperly spent state grant awarded to a friend of DeKalb Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones.
DeKalb, which dispersed the funds on the state's behalf, failed to prevent the Rev. Wiley Jackson Jr. from diverting the majority of the $135,750 intended for inner-city youths to his church and his for-profit company, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in DeKalb Superior Court"