In response to questions from the Daily Report about Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens’ decision not to release a controversial ethics commission memo during prior wrongful termination litigation against the state, a noted law and ethics professor is calling on Olens to be more transparent.
The memo, written by the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission executive secretary, alleges that in July 2012 Gov. Nathan Deal’s chief of staff and executive counsel pressured the commission to quietly wrap up its investigation of Deal’s 2010 campaign. The memo, which references text messages, only recently came to light when the executive secretary asserted whistle-blower protection against the ethics commission in the wake of an audit.
