Longtime DA in Ga. Gets 6 Years in Payroll Scheme
A 24-year veteran district attorney in northeast Georgia was sentenced today to a six-year prison term for payroll fraud in which two other Piedmont Judicial Circuit employees, including his wife, allegedly were involved.
Tim Madison, who resigned last year during an investigation by state authorities, also was sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to pay $40,000 restitution, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He pleaded guilty to “two felony theft counts, one count of violation of oath of office, four felony counts of making false statements and writings and one conspiracy count,” the newspaper writes.
Linn Madison, his wife and a former victim-witness coordinator, and Brett Williams, a former assistant district attorney, also were indicted in the case, but charges against them haven’t yet been resolved.
Tim Madison and Williams are accused of having bilked Banks County of more than $50,000 paid to Williams, in addition to his state prosecutor pay, apparently under a double-payrolling scheme in which Williams, on paper, held two jobs. The two men allegedly split the proceeds.
Meanwhile, Linn Madison was charged, along with her husband, in connection with several time sheets that prosecutors say she submitted for work apparently performed while she was on vacation.
