Atlanta ex-CFO shot down by his hubris, not his machine guns

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Atlanta ex-CFO shot down by his hubris, not his machine guns

Jim Beard, the former Atlanta CFO indicted by the feds, allegedly used taxpayer money to buy machine guns for personal use. But he was felled not by bullets, but by an unabashed audaciousness in ripping off the city, writes Atlanta opinion columnist Bill Torpy.