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A trove of documents on the Clinton Foundation alleging possible pay for play and tax evasion have been turned over to the FBI and IRS by several investigative whistleblowers, who will be testifying in an open hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday, according to the committee and lawmakers. Roughly 6,000 documents that are expected to reveal the nearly two year investigation by the whistleblowers with a private firm called MDA Analytics LLC, which allegedly turned over the documents more than a year and half ago to the IRS, according to John Solomon, who first published the...

ATLANTA - Former Mayor Bill Campbell, who presided over one of the most prosperous and dynamic periods in Atlanta history, was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $6,300 for tax evasion. Campbell, 52, was convicted in March. He was cleared of charges he lined his pockets with payoffs as he guided Atlanta during the 1990s. But he was found guilty of failing to pay taxes on what prosecutors said were his ill-gotten gains. While praising some of Campbell's accomplishments as mayor, U.S. District Judge Richard Story said he was overcome with a "pall of disappointment over...

The first day of jury selection in the federal corruption trial of ex-Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell was a productive one. WSB's Veronica Waters reports Judge Richard Story has qualified 17 potential jurors so far; of those, seven are black and 10 are white. Attorneys need 36 people in the jury pool in order to start striking the panel down to 12 jurors and four alternates. Lawyers believe they will have a jury chosen by week's end. In December, 240 potential jurors from the metro Atlanta area were given questionnaires; 50 were excused right away for hardships. This week, Judge Story...

Facing the prospect of a federal corruption indictment, former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell took the offensive Friday with the announcement he had passed a polygraph examination. The examination, which cost Campbell $600, was administered Friday by a former director of the FBI's polygraph unit who is now a private examiner in Knoxville. Kendall Shull, who retired from the FBI in 2001, said he asked Campbell questions about whether he took bribes as mayor and engaged in illegal fund-raising activities. "He passed," Shull said. This summer, federal investigators have interviewed witnesses and lawyers representing witnesses who are cooperating in the corruption...

    An audit of the Atlanta Police Department has concluded that it has consistently underreported crimes for years. The audit found evidence of negligence and deliberate efforts to improve the city's image for tourism, possibly including the Olympics in 1996.     The report, by the management consultant firm Linder & Associates, painted a picture of a department mired in disorganization and increasingly besieged by 911 calls, some of which never got a response.     "We've not seen this sense of a condition of being overwhelmed in any other major city," said John Linder, president of the consulting firm.     Several...