Ethics Probe into Cobb County Chairman Lee's Braves Stadium Dealings

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MARIETTA, Ga. — The Cobb County Board of Ethics voted 5-1 to go ahead with an ethics complaint against Commission Chairman Tim Lee over his questionable handling of initial stadium negotiations with the Atlanta Braves.
Software designer and Cobb County resident Tom Cheek filed the complaint that Lee blatantly violated ethics by negotiating the deal to move the Atlanta Braves from Turner Field in neighboring Fulton County to a yet-to-be built stadium via his private email account to prevent an open records request. Cheek also says Lee ignored repeated requests for his open records request and that Lee was wrong to “unilaterally” hire an attorney to negotiate the deal for the county, which will cost nearly $400 million and be built in Cumberland.
Lee is confident that he will emerge from the ethics probe unscathed.
This is the third ethics complaint on the matter to be brought against Lee, the Marietta Daily Journal reports, with the other two being tossed out. Ethics board members voted during a Tuesday meeting to hold the formal hearing after hearing arguments and presentations and asking questions of both Cheek and Lee’s attorney.
If Lee is found to be guilty of the county ethics, he can be reprimanded, but he cannot be fined nor removed from office, the paper reports.

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