{"id":2512,"date":"2011-01-13T16:37:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/pro-coal-electric-co-exec-indicted.html"},"modified":"2011-01-13T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:37:13","slug":"pro-coal-electric-co-exec-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/pro-coal-electric-co-exec-indicted.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Coal Electric Co Exec indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2011\/01\/corruption-scandal-casts-shadow-over-georgia-coal-plant-projects.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/dwight_brown_cobb_emc-thumb-250x314.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nSue Sturgis writes in Facing South,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2011\/01\/corruption-scandal-casts-shadow-over-georgia-coal-plant-projects.html\"><br \/>\nCorruption scandal casts shadow over Georgia coal plant projects<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe leader of a metro Atlanta electric co-op was indicted last week on<br \/>\n31 counts of criminal wrongdoing, heightening concerns about planned<br \/>\ncoal-fired power plants that he&#8217;s played a key role in promoting.<\/p>\n<p>\nDwight Brown (in mugshot), president and CEO of Cobb Electric Membership<br \/>\nCorp., faces 16 counts of theft, three counts of racketeering, 10<br \/>\ncounts of making false statements, and one count each of conspiracy to<br \/>\ndefraud the Cobb County government and the Cobb County school district,<br \/>\naccording to the Marietta Daily Journal. Brown&#8217;s attorney says his client<br \/>\nis innocent.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Innocent until proven guilty, and it will be interesting to see how this<br \/>\nplays out.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sue Sturgis writes in Facing South, Corruption scandal casts shadow over Georgia coal plant projects: The leader of a metro Atlanta electric co-op was indicted last week on 31 counts of criminal wrongdoing, heightening concerns about planned coal-fired power plants that he&#8217;s played a key role in promoting. Dwight Brown (in mugshot), president and CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,2,20],"tags":[8753,5171,1153,3429],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal","category-government","category-law","tag-coal","tag-cobb-electric-membership-corp","tag-corruption","tag-dwight-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}