{"id":52876,"date":"2023-04-19T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52876"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:03:31","slug":"businessman-guilty-of-bribing-atlanta-and-dekalb-county-officials-to-get-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52876","title":{"rendered":"Businessman Guilty of Bribing Atlanta and DeKalb County Officials to Get Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">The former executive vice president of PRAD Group Inc. pleaded guilty to paying bribes to two City of Atlanta officials in exchange for steering city business worth millions of dollars to his company, to paying bribes to a former DeKalb County, Georgia, official in an attempt to obtain county contracts, and to evading over $1.5 million in taxes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">According to court documents, Lohrasb \u201cJeff\u201d Jafari, 72, of Alpharetta, Georgia, oversaw PRAD Group\u2019s finances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qf2vKqA4D94\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>(2019 News Story)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">From 1984 to 2018, PRAD Group was an architectural, design, and construction management firm headquartered in Atlanta that performed services for the City of Atlanta and DeKalb County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">From January 2003 to February 2017, Adam Smith was the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) for the City of Atlanta and supervised the city\u2019s purchasing activities and its expenditure of billions of dollars of public money. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">From April 2011 to May 2016, Jo Ann Macrina served as the City of Atlanta\u2019s Commissioner of the Department of Watershed Management, a cabinet-level position in which she managed the city\u2019s drinking water and wastewater systems and was responsible for an annual budget exceeding $500 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">Jafari gave Smith and Macrina cash and other items of value to obtain business with the City of Atlanta. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">In exchange for those payments, Smith and Macrina conspired with Jafari to ensure that PRAD Group received city business worth millions of dollars, including by agreeing to replace two evaluators on the selection team for the city\u2019s architectural and engineering contract and to re-score an evaluation so that Jafari\u2019s company would be awarded a contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmCNThIkH7k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">During Smith\u2019s tenure as the CPO, the City of Atlanta awarded contracts worth millions of dollars to PRAD Group and joint venture projects of which PRAD Group was a partner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">For years, Jafari met privately with Smith on multiple occasions, frequently at local restaurants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\"> During these meetings, Jafari and Smith discussed City of Atlanta procurement projects, bids, and solicitations, often while Jafari actively sought additional work and\/or assistance with ongoing city projects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">After most of the meetings, Jafari paid Smith $1,000 in cash in the restaurant&#8217;s bathroom. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">In return for these bribe payments, Jafari expected Smith to use his position and power to assist Jafari with contracting and procurement with the City of Atlanta. From at least 2014 to January 2017, Jafari paid Smith more than $40,000 in cash to influence Smith in his role as the city\u2019s CPO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">In February 2017, Jafari became aware of the federal investigation into his bribe payments to Smith. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">In response, Jafari confronted Smith at City Hall to convince Smith to lie to the FBI by instructing Smith to deny taking bribe money from him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">From at least 2013 through May 2016, Macrina met with Jafari to discuss City of Atlanta procurement projects, bids, and solicitations, often while Jafari actively sought contracts, projects, and work with the City of Atlanta. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">To obtain city work, Jafari promised Macrina a lucrative job with PRAD Group and, directly or through a PRAD Group employee, gave Macrina $10,000 in cash, jewelry, a room at a luxury hotel, and luxury shopping trip in Dubai, and landscaping work at her home. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">Shortly after the City of Atlanta fired her, Macrina began working for Jafari and PRAD Group. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">Between June and September 2016, Jafari and\/or PRAD Group paid Macrina $30,000 in four separate payments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">On April 8 and Aug. 21, 2014, the FBI conducted two undercover operations using a confidential source (who at the time was a high-ranking DeKalb County official).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\"> During the surreptitiously recorded meetings, the confidential source met with Jafari at local restaurants, where Jafari sought assistance from the confidential source to obtain work in DeKalb County. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">After the meetings, Jafari directed the confidential source to the bathroom of the restaurants where Jafari paid the confidential source between $1,000 and $1,500 in cash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">From 2014 to 2016, Jafari neither filed personal tax returns, nor paid any income taxes to the IRS. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">During those years, Jafari withdrew large amounts of cash from corporate bank accounts and took money from the PRAD Group\u2019s corporate accounts to pay for various personal expenses, including several luxury vehicles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">Jafari evaded the payment of at least $1.5 million in taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local-govt--politics\/atlanta-city-hall-probe-seeps-into-dekalb-with-bribery-indictment\/SxVoFffxClhg4HnNW4HP0M\/\">According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>, &#8220;Jafari and his wife, Nancy, were active in DeKalb politics. During the 2012 election year, they donated $5,000 each to incumbent commissioners Lee May, Elaine Boyer and Sharon Barnes Sutton. Jafari also donated $2,500 to the campaign of Edmond Richardson, May&#8217;s then chief of staff who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local\/candidates-begin-challenges-dekalb\/I5xLl9NVkYt1a1aiLavJzO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsuccessfully challenged Commissioner Kathie Gannon.&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">Jafari pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiratorial bribery, substantive bribery, and tax evasion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">Jafari is scheduled to be sentenced on July 19. He faces a statutory maximum of five years in prison for conspiracy to commit bribery, ten years for substantive bribery, and five years for tax evasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">In January 2018, Smith was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndga\/pr\/city-atlanta-s-former-chief-procurement-officer-adam-smith-sentenced-federal-prison\">sentenced<\/a>\u00a0to two years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiratorial bribery. In February 2023, Macrina was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndga\/pr\/former-city-atlanta-official-sentenced-accepting-bribes\">sentenced<\/a>\u00a0to four years and six months in prison after being convicted at trial of conspiratorial and substantive bribery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQvgzDnjHic\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">The FBI Atlanta Field Office and IRS-CI are investigating the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: helvetica;\">Trial Attorney Jolee Porter of the Criminal Division\u2019s Public Integrity Section, Trial Attorney Todd Ellinwood of the Tax Division, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jeffrey W. Davis and Nathan P. 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