Interim DeKalb CEO Under Investigation by FBI

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into home repairs performed on the home of DeKalb County’s interim CEO, repairs which may have been paid for by county taxpayers unfairly.

According to WSB-TV, the FBI is looking into accusations that Lee May, then a DeKalb County commissioner, received special treatment when his house backed up with raw sewage in 2010. After county workers came out to his home to stop the initial damage, he contacted a friend who worked with a water removal service company, who pressed the owner to help May out.

Six months after the work was complete, May had yet to pay a bill, WSB-TV said. The water removal company submitted an invoice to the county’s purchasing department and had a check for almost $6,500 the next day.

Normally, the county only reimburses residents after they pay the bills out of their own pockets, and only covers 60 to 70 percent of the cost. The water removal company’s owner told WSB-TV that he was paid in full by the purchasing department.

Furthermore, the WSB-TV and Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation revealed that May didn’t get the required number of estimates to be eligible for the county’s homeowner reimbursement program.

May’s friend at the water removal company allegedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars in county contracts following the incident, the investigation claims.

Read more about the investigation at WSB-TV

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