Politics & Government

ICYMI: DeKalb Official Wants FBI to Investigate Vaughn Irons

An allegedly spurious document helped the development authority chairman's company receive $1.5 million worth of contracts with the county.

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The federal government may soon be getting involved with the scandal brewing around DeKalb County Development Authority Chairman Vaughn Irons and his company ADP Solutions.

WSB-TV first reported that a questionable document purportedly from the DeKalb County Board of Ethics cleared Irons and ADP of any conflict of interest for $1.5 million of federal redevelopment contracts in 2011, but members of the board are disputing the document’s authenticity.

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The document was not properly witnessed or dated, nor was it ever filed with the county clerk; WSB-TV reports that allegations have arisen that the document was forged by Irons or ADP so that the company could get the contracts.

Irons told WSB-TV that neither he nor ADP were responsible for creating the document, and only became aware of the controversy over it when WSB-TV first aired their story. Irons has volunteered to take a lie detector test and a spokesman said that he will not leave his post at the Development Authority.

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