Ex-Atlanta official sentenced to prison for accepting bribes

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a former high-ranking Atlanta city official to prison for accepting bribes.
Katrina Taylor-Parks pleaded guilty in August to conspiring to accept bribes while she was former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s deputy chief of staff. Prosecutors say Parks accepted thousands of dollars from a city vendor in exchange for city work.
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones was in the process of sentencing Parks at a hearing Jan. 14 when she collapsed on the flo