An invalid, possibly forged, legal document paved the way for a DeKalb official to win a million-dollar county contract, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News has found.
It’s not clear whose fingerprints were on it, but who benefited is clear: Vaughn Irons, chairman of the DeKalb County Development Authority and CEO and founder of Atlanta-based APD Solutions.
The document made Irons’ company an eligible bidder after he previously had been shut out for having a conflict of interest. No one seems to know, or will say, who, specifically, delivered it to the county’s Purchasing and Contracting Department. County spokesman Burke Brennan said, “We believe that it came from the vendor.”
Irons denies that, saying he’s never possessed a copy and doesn’t know how it wound up in county files. “Whoever was involved in that was not someone from APD Solutions,” he said.
Wherever the document came from, after it showed up, everything seemed to go Irons’ way.
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