Victor Hill takes his trial on corruption charges public
One day after a Clayton County judge set Nov. 26 for the start of his trial on 37 felony counties, former sheriff Victor Hill – now the Democratic nominee to replace incumbent Sheriff Kem Kimbrough – took his troubles public.
The former sheriff released a batch of documents that he said would prove his innocence, and promised to show reporters even more. See the docs here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
From the press release, which arrived shortly after midnight this morning:
The attached documents and time line not only bring into question the credibility of the case against Victor Hill, but also brings into question the credibility of the sitting sheriff and District Attorney. This clearly indicates that they are both capable of and probably have made questionable cases on other individuals.
Victor Hill will be available today for an interview and will also make available for the media to see the 350 surveillance photos (to include pictures of him campaigning at the 2012 MLK parade earlier this year) taken by Clayton County deputies and a video of them going through his trash.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Parade of Knuckleheads
August 24th, 2012
12:48 pm
Clayton County is horrible.
Fun Size
August 24th, 2012
12:48 pm
For Chris who said:
“For most of the people on this blog making comments about Clayton county. Yall need to look at your own counties first” -
believe me, I don’t think any other metro county is superior (and i happen to live in one of them). While the location is great, it’s a mess too! Almost every goverment entity has their ethical and political challenges these days, as does the city of ATL and the State of GA for that matter. Power, money and greed are universal.
I wasn’t aware that one had to be from Clayton County to express an opinion on the topic of Victor Hill and how totally backward it is for him to be re-elected to office there.
Bernie Matt
August 24th, 2012
12:51 pm
@ AntiIgnorance – defending Obama and attacking Hill and Berry is not the answer. If you had a more wordly view and were not trying to capitulate to white folks and have them like you, you would realize that Victor just like Marion did more for people of color than Obama ever has and that’s why they were targeted. Sure Marion smoked crack, but I guess you’re going to ignore the fact that Obama was a druggy during his teen and early adulthood, huh. Call a spade a spade, this man is going around bombing sovereign countries just like his all Presidents before him, so I for one won’t defend him, whatever the white folks reason for hating him is.
Just Passing Through
August 24th, 2012
12:58 pm
No republican candidates?
Nope.
2 Choices of evil.
Choose lesser evil.
Son of Sammy Davis Jr, Jr
August 24th, 2012
1:02 pm
He’s to short to be Sheriff. Take his booster seat out of his patrol car so he can’t see over the dashboard and everything will be ok.
me
August 24th, 2012
1:11 pm
Would you hire anyone from Clayton? LOL!
Victor Hell
August 24th, 2012
1:11 pm
Thanks to all you dumb as dirt Clayton voters who voted me in as your crooked Sheriff. I always thought DeKalb voters were the most stupid of all but you, my dear crooks and wannabee crooks have put them to shame.
Oh, congrats to the first and second dummies at top of comments list. Did you vote for me also,lmao?
Anita
August 24th, 2012
1:28 pm
@Auntie Christ, Thank you for putting it out there. Corruption has no skin color so please don’t try to act like that blacks are the only ones that do it. As a former resident of Chicago which has history of years of corruption performed by white men, I know for a fact that corruption has no skin color. As a black woman, I also question the reason the residents of Clayton County put a man with such character back in office. This does say a lot for the residents. All we can do is pray for that county because they will need it.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
August 24th, 2012
1:35 pm
Walkin Small : the Victor Hill story
Bernie Matt
August 24th, 2012
1:35 pm
@Anita – just exactly what does it say about the county, that’s not also stated about the rest of the country. You by your own admission have stated it to be true in Chicago. So do you think that Chicago and Clayton County are any different from Cobb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Paulding and all the rest in GA and around the country. You black apologist kill me, trying to curry favor with the white folks. Wherever you live sweetie, they play the same game, you just don’t know about it because you probably live in a majority white area and you keep your mouth closed and do what they tell you.
me
August 24th, 2012
1:49 pm
Black folks keep themselves down, and racists love it.
Selina
August 24th, 2012
1:52 pm
Innocent until proven guilty! Who the hell made you all judge and jury?
Denying And Manipulating All News, inc.
August 24th, 2012
2:07 pm
That’s right Bernie. You tell ‘em. Black folk have to stick together. If they move to a majority white area their property might appreciate and that hurts our agenda.
DaMan, inc.
demsuxs
August 24th, 2012
2:10 pm
el negro county is going down the tubes, gotta luv seeing that.
Jai
August 24th, 2012
2:13 pm
What about the mayor and the airport contracts? He should be impeached for making sure all his friends got the contracts. But nothing will be done as usual.
Bernie Matt
August 24th, 2012
2:14 pm
Hey Stupid, white folks houses are being foreclosed left and right. So your point would be what exactly! IDIOT! Have you noticed the 99% movement is lead by your own. Man try that bull on someone else. I’m way above you!
Angel Macaroni
August 24th, 2012
3:59 pm
This is for the ignorant people who continually scream “innocent until proven guilty.” This doctrine applies to a jury inside a court of law. It does not apply to people expressing an opinion. Also, there is case law which expressly states that it is permissible to draw an unfavorable inference subsequent to felony indictment. Hill is guilty as hell. So was O.J.
dinoM
August 24th, 2012
4:06 pm
clayton county may be even more crooked than gwinnett, which I didn’t think possible.
Denying And Manipulating All News, inc.
August 24th, 2012
5:30 pm
No point in flinging names Bernie. Can’t you see that we agree? Moving to a majority white area that has better schools than Clayton County is outside of our agenda too. You keep it up calling them sell outs and black apologists. We love it.
DaMan, Inc.
Chris
August 24th, 2012
7:31 pm
@ funsize you can have an opinion just make sure its a educated one meaning atleast know more than 37 indictments. For the people that say they are glad they don’t live in Clayton county. Remember you still live in Georgia and Gov. Deal is corrupt and well as the lady that was up in Gwinnett an the commission board. And Fulton county rigged their election so come on people. If Clayton county election was rigged you would because Victor or Jeff Turner wouldn’t have won. So glad we can run a honest election. The criminals will be in your community soon because Victor is running them out of Clayton co. Just as he did his 1st term………………..
Pragmatic1One
August 24th, 2012
8:02 pm
Anyone ever hear of “skip” chesire? Well, he’s a white male who is the former court administrator in Cobb County who used his influence to have women engage in various sex acts in the Cobb county courthouse. There were implications that Superior court judges were aware of and/or engaged in the sexual trysts. This was not a top news story, and it took almost a week to find any residue of it on the internet. The epicenter of white male republican activity, counties such as Cobb seem to have immunity from media scrutiny.
Is Fayette county a Black female assistant DA was caught performing a sexual act on a sitting judge, in his vehicle. She was suspended without pay, placed under investigation, all while this judge was given the option to resign. The hierarchy of power swayed in the direction of this white male Superior court judge. Not to mention the top judge for the circuit calling the attorney, who exposed the information, into judge’s chambers, during hearing & trials, to perform sexual favors.
What about a law case out of Gwinnett that is required study for educational law where administrators allowed an injured student to lay on the floor bleeding while they tried to figure out how to not report the incident so it would not reflect as a violent act for their school.
I can go on-and-on, but my point is the media propagates the fallacy of a utopia in predominantly white areas, when in fact they are the most problematic (psychologically, morally, and ethically). Fortunately I have had an opportunity to study & research media, propaganda, and politics, a major portion of which was to view & analyze media coverage. Today’s media is the most technologically advanced propaganda machine in history with instantaneous misinformation available via twitter & facebook.
“Innocent until proven guilty” is still the standard, but the misguided one’s who believe in the fallacious/oxy-moronic ideology of white superiority will continue to plague comment boards & pollute the planet with their presence.
atonement
August 24th, 2012
8:54 pm
For all of you who dont know the facts just stop posting comments about our elected sheriff victor hill these are not federal charges the feds nor fbi thought it was even worthy to get involved this was brought about by sheriff well not sheriff any more kemdummy as of jan 1 read the files if someone followed you around for two years or more im sure they could build a case on you ashamed of that da didnt vote for her.
Horsetoothedjackass
August 24th, 2012
10:34 pm
I live in Clayton County and I sure as hell didn’t vote for Walking Small. I find it a bit deceptive for a candidate who is not the incumbent to have “re-elect” on their campaign signs as well as appearing in what looks to be a Sheriff’s uniform in some ads that appeared on LED billboards as well as campaign mailers.
Victor Hill is someone whose middle name ought to be troublemaker. Years ago, he worked for a police department in South Carolina (North Charleston, IIRC) and left there under mysterious circumstances and ended up moving to Atlanta. When he was a Clayton County police officer, he was also a member of the Georgia House Of Representatives and during that time he butted heads with County officials over a policy regarding county employees running for political office. When he resigned from the Clayton County PD, he parked his patrol car in the Police Chief’s parking space with his gun and his badge in the trunk of the car.
When he was Sheriff, beside butting heads with the County Commission, he was also butting heads with the Clayton County PD, as he had every intent to try to force a merger of the two departments that he would head. This is part of the reason why he had the CCSD cars painted black (He also had his name put on the cars, which is the height of arrogance and egotism, as putting the Sheriff’s name on the cars is just not done.) and why they switched from the traditional brown uniforms to navy blue ones that nearly match the CCPD black uniforms. He also started putting deputies out on patrol duty and duplicating the services that the CCPD performed and this caused a lot of friction as a result. While under state law the Sheriff’s Department could do the same duties as the Police Department, traditionally counties that have both a Sheriff’s Department and a Police Department lay out specific duties for each department and the Sheriff’s Departments have traditionally performed duties assorted which the courthouse.
After Hill was defeated in a runoff in 2008, he quit showing up to work, which for a sworn officer of the law is unacceptable. You didn’t see Stanley Tuggle act that way after he was beaten by Hill in 2004.
Sheriff Kimbrough was doing a fine job as Sheriff, as unlike when Victor Hill was Sheriff, the only time his name would be mentioned would be for the sort of things you expect the head of a county law enforcement agency to be doing. He wasn’t making the news for firing deputies who happened to support the former Sheriff; he was out there trying to undo some of the mess Hill left, like a number of missing CCSD badges that Victor Hill seemed to hand out like candy to his supporters. As a result, they had to redesign the badge and reissue them to their deputies. Even out of office, Victor Hill was costing the taxpayers in Clayton County.
Victor Hill seems to continue to ignore the fact that they brought in a special prosecutor from outside of the county, and if this was “political”, they would have not done so. The charges against him were the result of an ethics complaint that was filed by a citizen who had looked at his campaign disclosures and then brought it to the attention of the District Attorney as well as the current Sheriff.
Of course he’s going to make these outrageous accusations towards the current DA, as she defeated Jewel Scott back in 2008, who has been a longtime supporter of Hill’s ( As has her husband, Lee Scott, who has had multiple failed bids for the county commission.). She also recently defeated another candidate supposedly linked to Victor Hill and the Scotts, Leslie Miller Terry.
Victor Hill will not serve a single day as Clayton County Sheriff as with 37 charges against him, the chances of beating all 37 of them doesn’t look very promising. Once again, he’ll cost the taxpayers of Clayton County money that could have been better spent elsewhere, as at some point they will have to hold a special election to fill his term, and I don’t think they’ll let the interim Sheriff sit in office until the primaries in 2014.
Oscar Knight
August 24th, 2012
11:18 pm
File : victorhill 5 – Page 35 – Time : 1843
Please Read who Victor had dinner with.
Sgt Rock
August 25th, 2012
8:45 am
Want to see the depth of it all? Visit and read: http://www.claytonadvocate.com
Oscar Knight
August 25th, 2012
9:02 am
Quote : “The former sheriff released a batch of documents that he said would prove his innocence, and promised to show reporters even more. See the docs here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.”
….The Dinner Party of Three : The Reunion ?
Document File :
Victor Hill 5 – Page 35 – Time : 1843 – December 19, 2011
….Just Ask Jeff about his association with Victor Hill and Greg Porter :
…….News-Daily article published March 29, 2007
….Quote : “In 1994, three of those officers — Turner, Greg Porter, who is now an administrative captain, and Victor Hill, who is now the county’s sheriff — approached the NAACP for help.”
http://www.lakejodeco.org/news/AnnounceShow.asp?announcement_id=17558&assn_id=12312
…..”Newly Elected Chairman : Peace With Victor Hill”
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/peace-with-victor-hill/nRHjj/
Oscar Knight
August 25th, 2012
9:22 am
…Read More :
http://claytonwatchdog.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=news&action=display&thread=3527
Nappy Bonaparte
August 25th, 2012
10:18 am
If you read the surveillance report you will see that when he didn’t know he was being tailed he parked in handicapped spaces at almost every opportunity. That speaks volumes about his real character to me outside of the felony charges. My wife has cerebral palsy and I wouldn’t dare park our handicap tagged car in those spaces unless she is with me.
One of the few times he didn’t was the meeting with Turner and Porter.
Oscar Knight
August 25th, 2012
10:31 am
….Many Outsiders of Clayton County might have your own opinion, about the county…..However; I have lived in Clayton County since 1960.
…..During the last 15 years, their has been a Self Destruction Force within our county, and began like this :
……Start by building a Temple of Justice, building a state of the art prison facility, provide section 8 housing for the poor and underprivileged, wait for Atlanta to demolish their government housing projects, throw out the welcome matte for residents, and sponsor new voter registration .
……..Elect incompetent officials to lead the county through the primrose path to self destruction, discredit the school system,let corruption go unchecked, bring in the media to advertise the crime and our shady officials, and then watch as our property values plummet to nothing.
….Don’t blame the plummeting economy for Clayton County’s hardships.
……Do Your Own Math On Clayton County, Ga. and Add Up The Totals :
Start off by building a Temple of Justice
+
Build a state of the art prison facility
+
Rezone the county for apartment dwellings
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Provide section 8 housing for the poverty stricken residents
+
Start Blockbusting the neighborhoods
+
Wait for Atlanta to demolish their government housing projects
+
Throw out the welcome matte for our new residents
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Sponsor Voter Registration For Our New Residents
+
Watch the rising crime rates
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Elect incompetent officials
+
Discredit the school system
+
Let corruption go unchecked
+
Bring in the media to advertise the crime and our shady officials
+
Watch the Business Closings go unnoticeable
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And watch our property values plummet to nothing.
What do you have remaining ?
80% of the Voters that Welcomes the new changes in our county.
The Clayton County Temple of Justice :
Clayton County Justice Complex
..”The facility received its first inmate in October 2000; about 21 months after site work began.”
…..”The new $110 million Clayton County Justice Complex in Jonesboro, Georgia is a mammoth facility comprising a county detention facility, new courthouse and renovation of existing structures. The precast concrete portion of the facility is the new detention facility”
http://www.precastconsulting.com/Thirdlevel/Clayton.html
…What was Clayton County preparing for ?
Read More : “Stuck On Stupid In Clayton County”
http://claytonwatchdog.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=thedysfunctionalundertow
Oscar Knight
August 25th, 2012
10:39 am
…Riddle me with this :
……If Clayton County was to have a Fool’s Parade, who would be out front twirling the baton ?
Oscar Knight
August 25th, 2012
10:46 am
…..Clayton County is a gift that keeps on giving !!!
….”The Escapades’ & Adventures Of Walkin Small”
http://claytonwatchdog.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=walkinsmall
Oscar Knight
August 25th, 2012
11:02 am
…Anyone is Welcome to say anything about Our County, however, How can anyone deny the fact that Clayton County has their own Free Magic Shows incorporated into Our Government and Culture ?
…..One of my best, is the vanishing property values routine.
…..The follow up show will cost you, it’s called “The Raising County Taxes Show”. We have seen this trick done before, but, we forced, against our will, to watch it again.
……Another mind boggling Magic Show is when a fired Clayton County School Board Member disappears and reappears as a State Representative.
…..Another mind boggling illusion of magic, is when brainless voters turn on themselves in the voting booths, cut their own throats, and then returns in the aftermath, to lodge complaints for their own mistakes.
…Come to Clayton County and Be Part of the Shameless Fun !!!
…Where stupid & ignorance reigns supreme……In fact, it’s highly encouraged.
Oscar Knight
August 25th, 2012
11:58 am
….Victor Hill is not the only side show novelty act that we have in Clayton County; We have a lot more in The Clayton County Circus.
…..Welcome To The Democrat Plantation of Clayton County, Georgia.
Horsetoothedjackass
August 25th, 2012
12:00 pm
Just ignore Oscar Knight’s spamming. He does a lot of the same on the Clayton Neighbor website as well as some community related forums. He seems to be Clayton County’s resident crackpot and seems to have his tinfoil hat on a little too tightly. He’s the other extreme of craziness within Clayton County.
Oscar Knight
August 25th, 2012
12:15 pm
Horsetoothedjackass; Sgt Rock….Envy will get you nowhere. Go back to your Ghost Forum and Get yourself a Fresh Crying Towel.