Atlanta criminal defense attorney Steve Murrin said Tuesday that human frailty—not any alleged pay-to-play corruption scheme at Atlanta City Hall—led to client Larry Scott’s two-year prison sentence for failing to pay taxes or notify the city he had an outside job.
Scott, who directed the city’s Office of Contract Compliance and is a longtime friend of former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s brother, “got no money from anyone,” Murrin said. “This is about the frailty of one man who got greedy and didn’t pay his taxes. Game over.”
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