U.S. Attorney Byung J. "BJay" Pak of the Northern District of GA and attorney Scott Grubman, of Atlanta's Chilivis Grubman Dalbey & Warner

Former City CFO Asks Judge to Disqualify US Attorney From Investigation

U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak said that a temporary restraining order disqualifying him from the investigating former City of Atlanta CFO Jim Beard would slow down the City Hall corruption investigation, which has been ongoing since at least 2017.

April 23, 2020 at 08:27 PM

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R. Robin McDonald
Reporter

Former city of Atlanta Chief Financial Officer Jim Beard is asking a federal judge to disqualify U.S. Attorney Byung J. "BJay" Pak from participating in any ongoing or future investigation of him, citing a multiyear "campaign of harassment and intimidation."

Beard counsel Scott Grubman, a partner at Atlanta's Chilivis, Grubman, Dalbey & Warner, filed the motion for an injunction that would bar Pak, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and his entire office from investigating Beard, who served as the city's chief financial officer from 2011-2018.

The motion also asks that Pak's lawyers and federal agents currently investigating Beard be blocked from further review of thousands of seized personal emails they subpoenaed from Beard's personal AOL email account this month.