{"id":56492,"date":"2023-04-22T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=56492"},"modified":"2023-10-10T17:04:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:04:55","slug":"alpharetta-businessman-pleads-guilty-to-bribing-public-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=56492","title":{"rendered":"Alpharetta Businessman Pleads Guilty to Bribing Public Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;A 72-year-old Alpharetta businessman pleaded guilty in federal court to bribing two Atlanta city officials in exchange for steering millions of dollars of city business to his company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lohrasb &#8220;Jeff&#8221; Jafari, the PRAD Group\u2019s former executive vice president, also pleaded guilty to bribing a former Dekalb County official to try and secure county contracts and evading more than $1.5 million in taxes, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones is scheduled to sentence Jafari on July 19 after the businessman pleaded guilty to conspiratorial bribery, substantive bribery and tax evasion.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;A 72-year-old Alpharetta businessman pleaded guilty in federal court to bribing two Atlanta city officials in exchange for steering millions of dollars of city business to his company. Lohrasb &#8220;Jeff&#8221; Jafari, the PRAD Group\u2019s former executive vice president, also pleaded guilty to bribing a former Dekalb County official to try and secure county contracts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8471,8482,8472],"class_list":["post-56492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-alpharetta","tag-atlanta","tag-fulton-county","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}