DeKalb County’s criminal case against two former top school officials and others for alleged corruption in construction contracts has complicated the county’s defense of a civil suit by a construction team claiming it was unfairly removed from working on DeKalb school projects.
Three years before last month’s indictments in the corruption case, Heery International Inc. and E.R. Mitchell Co. sued the DeKalb school district for $1.5 million for breach of contract. The companies claimed that Crawford Lewis, then DeKalb’s school superintendent, and Patricia Reid, the school chief operating officer, undermined the companies’ performance reviews so that it would lose the work.
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