A former Atlanta official was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for accepting bribes in the form of cash and luxury items from a contractor to whom she steered millions of dollars in architectural, design and construction management contracts for the city, while her attorneys maintain her innocence and plan to appeal.
Jo Ann Macrina, who served as commissioner of the Atlanta Dept. of Watershed Management from 2011 to 2016, must also undergo three years of supervised release following her prison term and pay $40,000 in restitution to the city, according to the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones Feb. 24. She had faced as much as 15 years in prison.