R. Robin Mcdonald

April 13, 2015 | Daily Report Online

A Marietta construction firm has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims that it secured federal highway construction contracts by submitting false reports that one of its subcontractors qualified as a disadvantaged business, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia announced Monday.

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

April 13, 2015 | Daily Report Online

After Adel Edwards pleaded guilty to burning leaves in his yard without a permit, Pelham police and a private probation firm hired by the city jailed him for several days because he could not afford to make a $250 payment on his fine, according to a complaint filed in federal court in Albany.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

April 13, 2015 | Daily Report Online

A Marietta construction firm has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims that it secured federal highway construction contracts by submitting false reports that one of its subcontractors qualified as a disadvantaged business, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia announced Monday.

By R. Robin McDonald

2 minute read

April 13, 2015 | Daily Report Online

After Adel Edwards pleaded guilty to burning leaves in his yard without a permit, Pelham police and a private probation firm hired by the city jailed him for several days because he could not afford to make a $250 payment on his fine, according to a complaint filed in federal court in Albany.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

April 10, 2015 | Daily Report Online

An attorney with the DeKalb public defender's office has sued a telecommunications firm that provides prison inmate calling services throughout the state, claiming the company routinely defrauds inmates, their families and their attorneys by draining accounts of funds that were intended to pay for inmates' calls.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

April 10, 2015 | Daily Report Online

An attorney with the DeKalb public defender's office has sued a telecommunications firm that provides prison inmate calling services throughout the state, claiming the company routinely defrauds inmates, their families and their attorneys by draining accounts of funds that were intended to pay for inmates' calls.

By R. Robin McDonald

6 minute read

April 08, 2015 | Daily Report Online

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has sued a dozen debt collection agencies, debt payment processors and their agents in Georgia and New York, claiming that they used robocalls to threaten and harass consumers into collectively paying millions of dollars in debts they did not owe.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

April 08, 2015 | Daily Report Online

The city of Atlanta has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by its former fire chief, who lost his job in January after he published and distributed to city employees a book publicizing his religious conviction that same-sex relationships are "vile" and a "perversion."

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read

April 08, 2015 | Daily Report Online

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has sued a dozen debt collection agencies, debt payment processors and their agents in Georgia and New York, claiming that they used robocalls to threaten and harass consumers into collectively paying millions of dollars in debts they did not owe.

By R. Robin McDonald

4 minute read

April 08, 2015 | Daily Report Online

The city of Atlanta has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by its former fire chief, who lost his job in January after he published and distributed to city employees a book publicizing his religious conviction that same-sex relationships are "vile" and a "perversion."

By R. Robin McDonald

5 minute read