Thad Moore

2 months ago | ajc.com | Thad Moore

Gwinnett-based U.S. Auto fitted its cars with GPS trackers and kill switches that could remotely disable them with the click of a button. The threat of a car that wouldn’t start was a powerful tool to make borrowers pay. And it was power, federal authorities say, that wasmisused thousands of times. Its system repeatedly triggered the kill switches, even when borrowers paid on time, according to an analysis of the company’s internal data by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Jan 7, 2025 | macon.com | Thad Moore

The onetime west Georgia resort town of Warm Springs is being sued by its former police chief, who alleges the city's leaders fired him and suspended virtually the entire police force with a "stunning lack of transparency and oversight."Emilio Quintana, who was fired as chief in June, said the city had undertaken an "unprecedented effort to overturn its police department" two years after he was hired but gave few concrete reasons why.

Jan 7, 2025 | ajc.com | Thad Moore

The onetime west Georgia resort town of Warm Springs is being sued by its former police chief, who alleges the city’s leaders fired him and suspended virtually the entire police force with a “stunning lack of transparency and oversight.”Emilio Quintana, who was fired as chief in June, said the city had undertaken an “unprecedented effort to overturn its police department” two years after he was hired but gave few concrete reasons why.

Dec 24, 2024 | timesfreepress.com | Thad Moore

A Fairburn man previously banned from selling investments in Georgia was caught promoting a multilevel marketing scheme that lured investors with promises of massive returns, according to state regulators. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office this month issued a cease-and-desist order against Eric Ture Muhammad, who had been hit with another order in January for his alleged involvement in a similar scheme.

Nov 27, 2024 | ajc.com | Thad Moore

Cobb County spent more than $200,000 to rush absentee ballots to voters in the days before theNov. 5 presidential election after processing issues threatened to disenfranchise thousands of residents. The county paid, on average, roughly $60 to ship each of the 3,419 ballots it sent out late, according to records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in response to an open-records request.