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| Government Corruption |
| Ex-Stonecrest mayor gets 57 months in COVID fund fraud case |
| 2022-07-15 |
| [AJC] Jason Lary, founding mayor of Stonecrest, will serve nearly five years in prison for pocketing COVID-19 relief money meant for the businesses, churches and people of the city he helped create. Lary was also ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in restitution. The former mayor will not report to prison until at least Dec. 15, an allowance made so he can continue treatment for his ongoing battle with prostate cancer and a more recent diagnosis of lymphedema. "What he did was deplorable. Absolutely deplorable," United States District Court Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. said. "At the time of the greatest medical and economic catastrophe in generations, Mr. Lary, instead of being the honest and respectable mayor that he was elected to be ... used that as an opportunity to steal." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Interesting Note: Jason Lary (LSD) was sworn in as mayor AFTER the results were certified on March 27 by the DeKalb Board of Elections. Elections director Maxine Daniels said it would happen after they finished counting the provisional ballots. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-07-15 09:08 |
| #1 If he survives his illness, he will probably come out of jail a "rising democrat star." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-07-15 07:43 |