A political consultant who was a top aide to former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is the first person set to go to trial in a long-running federal investigation into corruption at City Hall.
Mitzi Bickers helped Reed win election in 2009 and worked as the city’s director of human services. She’s accused, among other things, of taking bribes to use her influence to steer city work to two contractors. Others ensnared in the investigation have pleaded guilty and been sent to prison, but Bickers has maintained her innocence. Her trial is scheduled to start Wednesday.
“This case contains false allegations some of which are more than a decade old,” Bickers’ lawyers, Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg said in a statement. “Despite the age of the case, Pastor Bickers and her defense team are just as confident in her innocence on the brink of trial as we were in the beginning.”
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