A series of personal conversations between Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and the owner of an Atlanta billboard company whose firm won a $17.5 million verdict against the city and others last year were at the heart of the settlement of a nine-year legal battle over allegations that political favoritism governed contracts at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
The federal jury’s verdict last year in favor of Corey Airport Services found that the city; its longtime airport advertising contractor, Clear Channel Outdoor Inc.; and Clear Channel’s minority partner, Beverly Hills businesswoman Barbara Fouch, had stripped Atlanta businessman Billy Corey’s airport billboard company of a fair and impartial bidding process regarding the airport advertising contract.
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