Press Releases: 2001

(Atlanta - 14 December 2001) Attorney General Thurbert Baker today announced that a nationwide settlement had been reached between the nation's Medicaid programs, the United States Department of Justice and TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker offers the following information on the execution of Byron Ashley Parker.

Execution

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker offers the following information on the execution of Fred Marion Gilreath, Jr..

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker offers the following information on the execution of Fred Marion Gilreath, Jr..

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker offers the following information on the execution of Jose Martinez High.

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker offers the following information on the execution of Terry Michael Mincey.

Execution

Attorney General Thurbert Baker announced this morning that the former office manager of the state cafeteria in Atlanta and her husband entered guilty pleas arising out of their theft of an estimated one million dollars from the Georgia Building Authority’s Floyd Office Building cafeteri

Attorney General Thurbert Baker announced today that former Brooks County School Superintindent, John R. Horton, has received a multi-count felony indictment stemming from his administration of a wealthy estate in Brooks County.

Attorney General Thurbert Baker announced today that the State of Georgia will file suit Wednesday in federal district court in Washington, DC in an effort to have Georgia’s redistricting plans precleared as soon as possible under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

“I am extremely disappointed in today’s 4 to 3 Supreme Court decision. I strongly disagree, both factually and legally, with the majority’s rationale in reaching their decision.