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Mr. Watson,
Pursuant to the DeKalb county
Board of Ethics Rules 4.4
(Probabre cause Report),
{lnitiation of complaints) and 5.6
the encrose1l.l..b,:
as presented to you
the new aregations
as notice of
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the
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add to the compraint Rhea
Johnson against Stan Watson
dated Oecember 14, 2015.
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- Stan Watson
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on May 27
'vic Hartman was appointed as outside investigator to the Board in this matter. since June
of this year' vic Hartman and I have been investlgating
the watson complaint. Three subpoenas
have
been issued in this matter; one to cornerstone
Bank which held the chamber bank
account
receiving
and distributing the funds for the charnber
of comrnerce. A second was sent to the
chamber of
commerce and a third was issued to Mr. watson.
The chamber of commerce and the Bank
have
responded to the subpena requests, however
Mr. watson has not. After numerous interviews
with
the chamber of commerce, cornerstone
Bank as well as DeKarb county employees
and review of
numerous documents, it is my opinion that
there is probable cause to amend the complaint
filed by Mr.
Johnson by adding the following three
allegations to the complaint against Mr.
watson:
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by use
of county resources including ernployee time, computers, printers, outside
vendors and
services from other DeKalb agencies in order to benefit
his political campaign in violation of
o'c'G'A' $21-5-30.2 of the State Ethics code. Upon review of
documentation and
requesting and
for county events from county contractors, vendors and suppliers. soliciting donations
such solicitation of
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