An elderly Macon couple has accused the county district attorney and a special assistant DA of fabricating evidence to support criminal charges against them in order to illegally seize financial assets to bolster the DA’s discretionary coffers, according to a federal suit filed Tuesday in Atlanta.
The suit by Ronnie Bartlett, 72, and his 75-year-old wife, Lee, claims that their arrests last year on felony racketeering and money-laundering charges and making false reports to the state revenue department have ruined their lives, destroyed their businesses and thrown them into bankruptcy.
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