Read the big news here first
May 15, 2007 at 11:20 am by John F. Sugg in BMF, NewsThe Daily of Drastically Decreasing Circulation reported today about convicted drug kingpin Tremayne Graham, also under investigation for a double murder. Graham also, not so incidentally, is the former son-in-law of Mayor Shirley Franklin.
Of course, savvy Atlantans already know the score — they’ve read CL Senior Writer Mara Shalhoup’s award-winning stories on Graham and the Black Mafia Family.
Mayor Franklin remains consistent and determined not to comment on Graham.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Actually John, I didn’t see where Mara picked up Hackett’s lawyer’s perspective. I think the key here is who was informing on who–also something that Mara doesn’t handle…to mara it’s just “informant” (how many and for which jurisdiction). No fault of Mara’s, she just needs to write about the mis-use (or practices) with informants, coincidenatally the subject of congressional inquiry as we speak.
“No suspects, no motive, no arrestsâ€. How about “no evidenceâ€? What, no microscopic dog hair, no tire tracks in the mud… read: when they want to solve the crime (and not implicate a higher up by arresting the shooters) !!!
Remember, the LOCAL cops had no idea Hackett was involved with Graham or that Graham was the subject of a Federal case AT THE TIME OF THE HACKETT MURDER. The locals could assume the whole thing would “go awayâ€. THEN the inexplicable happened. Their little vengeance killing is noted in an “unfortunate†case in Greenville and that pesky Greenville newspaper mentions it. NOW the Feds have to shove it under a carpet—or their informant ops could get exposed (AGAIN!) So, you “take over†the “investigation†from the Atlanta PD.
Conveniently, the local PD is in a downward tailspin because of …..(you name it). So everyone’s rooting for the supposed good guys (Feds) that are coming in to “clean upâ€.
Damn people—everything in every drug case rolls up to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and its use of prosecutorial power. Which case they go after, and in this instance, which cases (people) they don’t. They (two North Georgia U.S. Attorneys) got their hand in the cookie jar on this one.
Things that went wrong:
(1) The Greenville U.S. Attorney has a jurisdictional dispute with North Georgia (and Greenville doesn’t give a rats ass about North Georgia’s hanky-panky—or protecting Mayor Franklin and the Atlanta power structure’s use of North Georgia drug running). The implications of jurisdictional disputes are explained in the recent book about Eric Rudolph: “Lone Wolfâ€.
(2) Nahmias took over here while this thing was in play—was he caught unaware or just had a “management†problem?
(3) Nahmias was extremely busy with “Mayor Oneâ€: Campbell, Senator Walker and other high profile corruption cases.
(4) Nahmias was planning a fake “meth epidemic†to sell to the public, cocaine news would be incredibly DISTRACTING