Parks & Rec Investigation
City Manager Isaiah Hugley says he was unaware of Parks & Rec Department's actions
City Manager Isaiah Hugley said he didn’t know. On Tuesday, he told Columbus Council that for years he didn’t know former Columbus Parks and Recreation Director Tony Adams recruited regional top Division I college prospects for an elite Georgia Blazers boys basketball team operated under the department...
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Parks & Rec Investigation
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
SPECIAL REPORT: Mayor Teresa Tomlinson pledges more audits, steps to prevent scandals
Columbus’ new mayor says shoddy bookkeeping no longer will be tolerated anywhere in city government, not just in the Parks and Recreation Department.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
SPECIAL REPORT: Inner circle ran basketball, other divisions suffered
Former Columbus Parks and Recreation Director Tony Adams relied on a command staff composed of Recreation Services Division members to support his mission of identifying Division I college players through the city’s Nike-branded city basketball team.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Special report: Worker noticed lax cash handling long before city scandal erupted
Lax financial controls within the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department worsened as conscientious workers unhappy with its mismanagement left to take jobs elsewhere, witnesses told police investigating a scandal last year.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
SPECIAL REPORT: City workers warned that Parks & Rec Department was spinning out of control
Now-public police files from the Columbus Parks and Recreation probe leading to the corruption convictions of top administrators show the issues prompting the investigation were nearly a decade old and no secret to workers inside the department.
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
SPECIAL REPORT: Parks and Rec scandal puts NCAA eligibility of Georgia's Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Jarvis Jones at risk
Columbus police interviews conducted during an investigation of the Parks and Recreation Department reveal that director Tony Adams and top lieutenant Herman Porter may have jeopardized the amateur status of two University of Georgia athletes who played on the Georgia Blazers, their city-funded, ...
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
New Parks & Rec era begins with both hope and concern
As expected -- indeed, as now seems to have been all but inevitable -- Columbus Council on Tuesday confirmed James D. Worsley, a young, apparently energetic and obviously well-educated parks and recreation administrator in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, N.C., as the new director of Columbus’...
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Columbus Parks & Recreation investigation timeline
September 2009: Mayor Jim Wetherington orders Internal Auditor John Redmond to conduct an extensive operational audit of Parks and Recreation.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Update: Indictments cite CB&T account, Nike contracts in Columbus Parks & Rec probe
Indictments against three men arrested in last year’s Columbus Parks and Recreation scandal allege an elaborate scheme of double-dealing involving kickbacks and forgery.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Defense drops gag order request, gets preliminary hearing
A motion for a gag order to muzzle principals and witnesses in the criminal case against former Columbus Parks and Recreation Director Tony Adams and two others was abandoned in a Friday morning hearing before Muscogee Superior Court Chief Judge John Allen.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Columbus Parks & Rec update: Judge refuses gag order on investigation, sets new hearing for Oct. 1
Saying he found a defense motion for a gag order in Columbus’ Parks and Recreation investigation “woefully insufficient,” Muscogee Superior Court Judge John Allen today refused to shut down the release of government information in the case..
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