Sheriff Ezell Brown is the Chief Financial Officer of Bethlehem Baptist Church of Covington, GA. This flier would have you think he was a community leader speaking with a local minister without any contact with the organization. In fact, he is an officer of the nonprofit ministry.
A faith-based nonprofit has tax exemptions for their assets. Donations in cash have virtually no reporting requirements for either the donor or the church receiving the money. The concept of having a local Sheriff as the Chief Financial Officer has the stench of corruption on steroids. He can accept donations, avoid claiming the income for himself or the Church, and solicit regular income in the form of tithing. Does anyone think a church is going to try and arrest the County Sheriff for stealing money from the collections?
Sheriff Ezell Brown has a clear conflict of interest by acting as a CFO for a local church. He has a lifetime of work in law enforcement. No one can possibly think he is qualified to be an accounting guru. The stench is powerful enough to compete with a landfill.
Justin Hipps is challenging Ezell Brown in the upcoming election cycle. He has refused to act on our concerns. He is too weak to win against Ezell unless he is willing to investigate all the allegations against his opposition.
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Business Name: Georgia Secretary of State Corporate Web Site Information
BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH OF COVINGTON GEORGIA, INC.
Control Number:
12036312
Business Type:
Domestic Nonprofit Corporation
Business Status:
Active/Compliance
Business Purpose:
NONE
Principal Office Address:
BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH
2169 USHER ST
P.O. Box 2787, Covington, GA, 30015, USA
Date of Formation / Registration Date:
4/26/2012
State of Formation:
Georgia
Last Annual Registration Year:
2024
REGISTERED AGENT INFORMATION
Registered Agent Name:
Brown, Ezell
Physical Address:
2177 Usher Street, N.W., Covington, GA, 30014, USA
County:
Newton
OFFICER INFORMATION
Name
Title
Business Address
Agnes Morehead
CEO
po box2787, covington, GA, 30015, USA
Ezell Brown
CFO
p o box 2787, covington, GA, 30015, USA
Shawna Ducksworth
Secretary
p o box 2787, covington, GA, 30015, USA
Valuation
2023 $786,700
2022 $361,800
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Is Tommy Craig the bagman for local corrupt politicians?
Douche Bag Hall of Famer Sheriff Ezell Brown arrested a man for taking cell phone videos of the public parking lot at the Sheriff's Office. The man arrested was released almost immediately after the Newton County District Attorney refused to prosecute the defendant. It was a clear effort to intimidate anyone from recording an encounter with our local law enforcement.
Ezell has hired disgraced attorney Tommy Craig to handle his department's legal efforts. The County Board of Commissioners had just fired Toomy for excessive billing and removed him as the Newton County Attorney after 49 years. Tommy was facing $500,000 in personal federal tax liens for delinquent taxes. Ezell still hired Tommy anyways.
It is obvious that Ezell must be profiting off Tommy Craig's continued access to public funds for his lawyering work. It seems obvious that Ezell could be receiving a kickback for legal work related to the arrest of a person for filming in the public parking area of the Sheriff's Department.
Ezell has qualified immunity for his actions against egregious criminal behavior. He cannot be sued personally for his criminal behavior.
Qualified Immunity
In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle of federal constitutional law that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from lawsuits for damages unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known".[1] It is comparable to sovereign immunity, though it protects government employees rather than the government itself. It is less strict than absolute immunity, which protects officials who "make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions",[2] extending to "all [officials] but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law".[3] Qualified immunity applies only to government officials in civil litigation, and does not protect the government itself from suits arising from officials' actions.[4]
The U.S. Supreme Court first introduced the qualified immunity doctrine in Pierson v. Ray (1967), a case litigated during the height of the civil rights movement. It is stated to have been originally introduced with the rationale of protecting law enforcement officials from frivolous lawsuits and financial liability in cases where they acted in good faith in unclear legal situations.[5][6] Starting around 2005, courts increasingly applied the doctrine to cases involving the use of excessive or deadly force by police, leading to widespread criticism that it "has become a nearly failsafe tool to let police brutality go unpunished and deny victims their constitutional rights" (as summarized in a 2020 Reuters report).[7]
Qualified immunity - Wikipedia
Justice from Justin is not happening at all!
In a telephone interview with Justin Hipp, he named specific crimes that Ezell committed in his interaction with the man recording in the Sheriff's parking lot. He noted that the offenses were not prosecuted by his current boss at the District Attorney's office.
No referral was made to the GBI to investigate his behavior on that day. It was just a routine intimidation tactic by a corrupt law enforcement bureaucracy in Newton County.
Short of bringing attention to Ezell's criminal behavior, Justin has virtually no chance of winning the Newton County Sheriff's election. His "team" is wasting their time with this effort.
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