Pat Swindall terminated Fulton County’s lease on its Public Defender office for unpaid rent and late fees.
A jury has found that Fulton County owes more than $327,000 in unpaid rent to the former landlord of the Fulton County Public Defender office at the corner of Trinity and Pryor.
Now the county is fighting off a move to collect nearly $76,000 in attorney fees that the landlord, former U.S. Representative Pat Swindall, ran up as he fought to first have the PD’s office evicted, then to collect his money.
“It’s your taxpayer dollars at work,” said Swindall’s attorney, Richard Robbins of Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield. “We were forced to take the amazing, unprecedented step of having to evict Fulton County for refusing to leave the premises, and then take them to court for refusing to pay what
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