DeKalb prosecutor says Ellis probe crossed legal lines | 11alive.com

DECATUR, GA — A former top assistant to DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James says investigators may have broken the law gathering evidence against CEO Burrell Ellis.

Don Geary, former chief assistant district attorney to James, said James showed him a secretly-recorded video, showing Ellis in his office on the phone, raising campaign money. Ellis is accused of shaking down DeKalb County vendors for campaign cash, charges denied by James.

Geary testified that he told James “that it could be the commission of two separate felonies” because the video was recorded in Ellis’s office without his knowledge.

Geary says James took him off the corruption case shortly afterward. Ellis quit in December 2012 “Because I didn’t want to get arrested,” he testified.

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