DA Blew Forfeiture Money on Parties, Home Improvement
Let's call it "mad money"
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard has used thousands of dollars from a little-known stash of public money to buy things that did not have much to do with putting crooks behind bars, but that burnished his image, let him hobnob with power brokers and even upgraded his home.
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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news.....ity/nYFjM/
http://www.sfgate.com/news/cri.....587775.php
Hey, at least the money didn't go to waste!
To waist, maybe.
Or below the waist, more likely.
The boys in the county jail will sure give him a warm welcome. Sure he didn't personally prosecute most of them, but he is the prosecutor's boss.