I-Team: Investor in Business Run by Mayor Kasim Reed's Father Won Millions in Airport Contracts
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- by Dale Russell
Aired Feb. 28, 2017
ATLANTA - A FOX 5 I-Team investigation found nineteen days after Mayor Reed was elected, his father, June, started a company called Capital Plastic Recyclers
June Reed raised as much as $250,000 from ten or more Atlanta investors according to two of his business associates. Reed set up his recycling shop in Cheraw, South Carolina, five hours north of Atlanta.
Who were all his investors? No one involved will say. But, our investigation found two of those investors had strong ties to the Atlanta Airport.
Investor in business run by Mayor Kasim Reed's father later won millions in airport contracts.
We've already told you about Lance Lyttle. He was - at the time - the assistant general manager at the Airport. Lyttle invested $50,000, according to a lawsuit he filed against June Reed. Lyttle accused Reed of fraud. The law suit shows while June Reed began paying the money back, the case was settled. Lyttle left the airport and now works at the Seattle-Tacoma International airport. He wouldn't comment. Nor would June Reed.
We found a second investor also had strong ties to the airport. Darrell Anderson is a limousine company owner and longtime family friend of the Reeds. Kasim Reed and Darrell Anderson, along with other investors, bought a $1.4 million piece of property off Cascade Road together back in 2007.
In 2010 Anderson invested in June Reed's recycling company. A bank check, obtained by FOX 5 I-Team, shows Anderson's company A-National Limousine wrote a $32,000 check to cash in July of 2010. On the check it states the money was for: Capital Plastic Recyclers.
On the phone, I asked Anderson if he was an investor. He told me: "I was. That was a long time ago. I've been out of it for a long time."
One month after Anderson wrote that $32,000 check, in the summer of 2010, Atlanta airport officials gave Darrell Anderson control over the city's lucrative airport shuttle business. There was no competitive bid. The old shuttle company was out. Anderson was in. It was supposed to be temporary but ended up lasting four years.
Sara Henderson is the director of good government group Common Cause. "It really seems, very back room, old politics kind of things happening in this situation," says Henderson.
But there was another check. Shortly after Christmas, Anderson's company wrote a $35,000 to June Reed personally. On the check it states the money was an "advance CPR."
On the phone, Anderson told me the timing of the check written to June Reed had nothing to do with his new found city business. "Now you are going into left field about one thing that's got nothing to do with the other."
Sara Henderson found the check troubling. "It looks awful; especially when you have copies of check written directly to the father. Not to the business, to the father. This is clearly a conflict of interest," she told me.
Just months after the second check was written, in early 2011, Anderson was selected to take over his second contract at the airport. The city notified Darrell Anderson he was the winning bidder in a contract to manage cars, taxis, and limousines at the airport. The contract was later canceled and rebid, but Anderson won again.
The 5 year $6.6 million contract required Anderson to disclose any potential conflicts of interest. Anderson did not disclose his financial dealings with Mayor Reed's father. That contract was signed by Anderson and Mayor Reed.
"I think the Mayor needs to come out and say, address this situation, and talk directly about these relationship and the money that has changed hands," says the director of Common Cause.
Darrell Anderson later wrote two more checks totaling $20,000 to June Reed. Written in 2012, and 2013 to June Reed personally, the checks indicate the money was for a "loan." The recycling company was still in business then.
The city also awarded Anderson his third airport contract just three months ago. A 3 year $10 million contract to provide Terminal to Terminal transportation at the airport. Mayor Reed's spokesperson in a statement said we are trying to smear the administration, public employees and small business people, and no one has broken any laws.
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Keep up the good work FOX5👈👍
Kaseem so bold. Arrogance. Jail this pig that stole OUR $!
Just one more of the "privileged segment" of society! Hope they put his ass in jail for a very long time along with the city employees that tried to hide the fraud.
HE EARNED???? Man that kind can sure delude themselves....he's a 2 bit CROOK!
Yes get them all. I never liked that mayor
She is very cute! Like the hair videos.
3 years, $10 million...enough said
you don't even know what it's for, so how do you know its value?
Crooks should all be in jail. Lose their homes and cars for this fraud.
You know that you've been trying to smear me for 7years? Lol!
On e a crook, always a crook.
Send that criminal mayor back to Jamaica to serve his prison sentence
No laws broken. What’s the problem?
Good job guys keep it going
How can that possibly be?
Reminds me of the church.. full of con men
Sadly, I HAVE to agree with you on this. So many megachurches being built to glorify the "pastors" that run them and the massive paychecks they all get every month.
Please send me the other mayors y’all have investigation on . Please change my mind
Isn’t this a conflict of interest??
Corruption at its best reminds me of Africa
Cities do this every day b, I bet you this is the most contracts blacks have received in one city. I say call Guinness
You scratch my back I scratch yours with cash
Coleman A Young, 'nough said.
Trust blacks get knotted
The good government people r no different then the people she talking about. There is no good government! Good government will just enough to hold of anarchy, maintain a military, have basic rules and protect our rights and nothing more.
Fruad in the city officals. Again the City Copmtoller is responsible for what is appropriate to pay out of City funds. If it's a conflict of interest should not be paid
When you vote for low life criminals, They will never disappoint !!!
all bums
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss Maynard Jackson and Hosea Williams so much! These new crooks too much!
Where is The law.
Can anyone say Kwame Kilpatrick
They look like brothers and both are Gemini's!
Aren't the Feinsteins the same way in California
If u watch all this is all coeeuprion in atlanta
wow, these guys really need to study the republican playbook on shady deals. They didn't establish multiple LLCs and overseas companies for purchasing?!?!?!?!
that means what? Name em if you know em
Haha. We all know Demoncrats are the corrupt ones.
Before you start making these kinds of accusations you need to do some checking uop on your obviously beloeved analcrat party and it's shady dealings......the Clinton Mafia comes to mind in regards to the theft of the money by Bill Clinton, aided by GW Bush, that was SUPPOSED to go to helping the Haitian people after the earthquake that all but destroyed the country. And now we have Slow Joe Biden's son and his corrupt shenanigans that the analcrat party is trying sweep under the rug. Also there are the thousands of illegal e-mails of Killary Clinton that will never get released for investigation. People that live in glass houses......
@@richardcline1337 what, no word about $2B the Saudis paid Jared Kushner ? No word about Qatar bailing out Jared's 666 5th ave property for $1.6B ?
Both sides are dirty Dem or Reps
LOL...
Left Utopia.
Slimy
Must be taking tips from Nancy Pelosi
That hag wrote the book on corruption along with Killary Clinton. NOTHING good ever comes out of Commiefornia.