| # | Cardholder | Txns | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charisma Webster | 386 | $114,211.02 |
| 2 | Richard Godfrey | 178 | $53,111.77 |
| 3 | Amelia Campbell-Andrews | 288 | $52,663.97 |
| 4 | Sharee Lane | 192 | $44,048.64 |
| 5 | Cassandra Lester | 76 | $33,578.75 |
| 6 | Frank Trammer | 110 | $33,396.82 |
| 7 | Zenovia Pearson | 148 | $31,538.45 |
| 8 | Tranita Jones | 108 | $28,659.68 |
| 9 | Rosalyn Rawls | 160 | $27,922.82 |
| 10 | Frank Milazi | 61 | $25,485.49 |
| 11 | Econuel Ingram | 73 | $24,377.92 |
| 12 | Crystal Collins | 104 | $24,056.24 |
| 13 | Demeatris Ivey | 50 | $19,078.71 |
| 14 | Leslie Norsworthy | 65 | $18,931.08 |
| 15 | Kerri Stewart | 40 | $14,616.60 |
| 16 | Dwayne Pollock | 24 | $14,385.01 |
| 17 | Gerald Sanders | 60 | $13,681.46 |
| 18 | Jayden Williams | 56 | $13,041.01 |
| 19 | Vanessa Holiday | 80 | $13,017.66 |
| 20 | Kyle Berry Sr. | 41 | $12,453.69 |
| 21 | Shawn Edmondson | 29 | $11,247.83 |
| 22 | Jeremy Andrews | 31 | $11,019.94 |
| 23 | Ronnie Anderson | 22 | $9,786.90 |
| 24 | Elton Alexander | 29 | $9,089.31 |
| 25 | Decius Aaron | 23 | $8,229.56 |
| 26 | Al Barnes | 27 | $6,970.38 |
| 27 | Shakera Hall | 14 | $6,912.55 |
| 28 | Yolanda Barber | 17 | $6,772.72 |
| 29 | William Smith | 11 | $6,717.86 |
| 30 | Lakeisha Gantt | 28 | $6,346.43 |
| 31 | Antwan Cloud | 10 | $6,277.18 |
| 32 | Renee Wheeler | 47 | $5,830.67 |
| 33 | Lisa Fareed | 32 | $5,781.22 |
| 34 | Genea Stanley | 14 | $5,125.79 |
| 35 | Uneeda Smith-Sellers | 17 | $4,443.10 |
| 36 | Najaa Hammonds | 12 | $3,980.11 |
| 37 | Adrienne Barnes | 14 | $3,679.94 |
| 38 | Rhonda Whitehead-Combs | 19 | $3,663.96 |
| 39 | Anthony Ford | 15 | $3,458.26 |
| 40 | Arius Clark | 12 | $3,433.89 |
| 41 | Kevin Miller | 9 | $3,417.99 |
| TOTAL | 2,793 | $744,442.38 |
Reversals for everyone but the mayor
The single question this report raises above all others is one of unequal treatment.
Across the 17 statements, the card program shows a well-established, quiet remedy for
ineligible charges: reverse them and move on. The bank records contain 176 reversal
transactions totaling $43,634.50, spread across 30 of 41 cardholders — roughly
three-quarters of everyone who held a card got at least one charge quietly credited back.
The reversals are not trivial bookkeeping. They include:
- Online gambling, reversed to zero. Prize Picks — an online sports-betting app —
appears on three management cards: Renee Wheeler (HR), Demeatris Ivey (IT), and
Charisma Webster (Events). The charges ($505.00) were reversed ($580.00), netting out
almost entirely. Three department-level employees put gambling on the public card, and
the city’s response was a credit adjustment. Nothing else. - Luxury and personal charges, reversed. Renee Wheeler’s card alone carries a
$2,543.70 Harbor Group demolition charge, a $1,349.38 “Cue Luxury Apartments” charge,
a $1,000 “Dishons Fine Custom” jewelry charge, and a $945.57 Oxley Leasing charge — all
reversed, along with Comcast/Xfinity bill charges. The city did not fire her; the
charges were simply credited back. - The same quiet fix for nearly everyone else. Vanessa Holiday ($4,643.15 reversed),
Leslie Norsworthy ($4,159.59), Shawn Edmondson ($2,824.00), Tranita Jones ($2,496.03),
and two dozen more all received reversals without consequence.
Now set against that backdrop the treatment of Mayor Jayden Williams. His personal-use
charges — restaurants, clothing, a haircut, a movie — totaled roughly $4,000, an amount
he repaid. His entire two-year card history shows a single reversal of $35.76. He is
the one cardholder who was removed from office over P-card use.
The question the city has never answered: why was the remedy for everyone else —
repay and reverse, no discipline — denied to the mayor? If a $1,349.38 luxury-apartment
charge on the HR director’s card is handled with a quiet credit, and a $505.00 gambling
tab spread across three directors’ cards nets out to zero without a single termination,
then what made the mayor’s repaid restaurant meals the exception that justified removal?
That asymmetry is the thread running through every finding that follows.
The fuel bill: what it is, what it should be
The WEX export — fuel alone, nothing else — totals $822,321.13 across 18,402
fills over 25 months (July 2024 – July 2026). That is:
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Per year | ~$411,160 |
| Per month | ~$32,893 |
| Average fill | $44.69 |
| Gallons/year at $3.40 blended (regular/diesel, GA 2024–26) | ~121,000 |
| Per card-fed vehicle (190 asset IDs) | ~$2,164/yr, ~636 gal |
| Driving implied at 20 mpg | ~35 mi/vehicle/day |
| Per resident (36,331, Census July 2025 est.) | ~$11.32/yr |
Is $411,000 a year too much? The item of most concern is 80 “fills” totaling $14,800 are even dollar amounts — 54 are exactly $200.00, and 72 of the 80 occur at Sunoco. Even dollar amounts at a pump station are prepayments/card-loads, not measured fuel; they are sitting in the middle of the fuel total unmarked. Second, someone is using retired or terminated employee’s WEX cards. Overall, benchmarked two ways it’s not too high for the fleet this city actually operates, however:
- 63 of the 190 card-fed asset IDs have no VIN anywhere in the export (198 cards,
190 IDs, 127 VINs). A third of fuel spend flows to “vehicles” the city’s own file
cannot identify. - A department called “Unassigned” burned $21,750.91 over two years ($10,875/yr,
484 fills across 16 IDs) — and 401 of those 484 fills belong to one driver,
Amareon Hart, across 9 different vehicle IDs, July 2024 – March 2026 ($17,737.11).
One person, no department, nine vehicles. - 80 “fills” totaling $14,800 are even dollar amounts — 54 are exactly $200.00,
and 72 of the 80 occur at Sunoco. Even dollar amounts at a pump station are
prepayments/card-loads, not measured fuel; they are sitting in the middle of the
fuel total unmarked. - Elected-official fuel lines exist as named categories: 10 vehicle IDs tagged
COUNCIL ($550/yr across all ten) and 4 tagged MAYOR ($1,298/yr). Small dollars;
a per-seat take-home-vehicle culture, documented in the city’s own export. - Driver-level control failures are covered in Finding 6: a PIN belonging to a
man retired in November 2023 kept buying fuel through July 2025, and the removed
mayor’s personal fills appear as their own card.
FINDING 1 — Charisma Webster: $114,211.02 on one card (MEDIUM-HIGH)
Charisma Webster is not just the program’s highest spender — she is the program. One
cardholder, 386 transactions, $114,211.02 in 15 billing cycles: 15.3% of every
dollar charged to every card in the city, and 2.1× the second-place cardholder. Her
average charge is $315.64; her median is $172.72; her single largest is $5,015.35.
She appears in these records as the events/celebrations buyer (florists, balloons,
catering, printing, entertainment licensing) — a role that plausibly explains the
volume. What follows is what the volume contains, and where it stops looking like
events.
Spend profile
| Billing cycle | Amount | Txns |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | $18,049.47 | 43 |
| Sep 2025 | $14,971.38 | 42 |
| Jun 2025 | $9,947.18 | 37 |
| Jul 2025 | $9,963.10 | 35 |
| May 2026 | $9,453.07 | 28 |
| Oct 2025 | $8,834.03 | 23 |
| Nov 2025 | $7,836.29 | 14 |
| Jan 2026 | $7,686.51 | 20 |
| Jun 2026 | $6,790.14 | 34 |
| Mar 2026 | $5,056.86 | 26 |
| May 2025 | $4,905.59 | 22 |
| Apr 2026 | $4,126.88 | 22 |
| Feb 2026 | $2,948.34 | 26 |
| Apr 2025 | $3,208.63 | 9 |
| Dec 2025 | $433.55 | 5 |
August–September 2025 alone is $33,020.85 — 29% of her two-year total in two
months. That is consistent with a signature fall festival, but it means the city’s
entire event spend for that season ran through one personal card with no visible
purchase-order structure.
Where the money went (verified rollup, all 386 transactions)
| Use | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Printing / signage / marketing | $16,853.27 (66 txns) | VistaPrint $9,405.44 across 39 orders; StickersBanners $3,878.31 — none itemized |
| Grocery / warehouse club | $13,605.02 (61 txns) | Publix $5,431.51, Walmart $3,880.65, Sam’s Club $3,117.34, Costco $1,175.52 — cash-and-carry buying on a card, not an account |
| PayPal to named individuals | $10,440.35 (10 txns) | See breakdown below |
| Hotel — Tru by Hilton Stockbridge | $9,101.28 (19 txns) | In her own city; see below |
| Hotel — other (Westin/Hyatt/Fairfield/…) | $8,790.11 (18 txns) | See below |
| Talent booking & music licensing | $7,669.16 (11 txns) | Bonds Established Investments $2,500; Bookher.pro $1,500; TabiCaGroup $2,000; ASCAP/BMI $919.16; Rhythm & Gospel promo $750 |
| Amazon marketplace | $7,150.19 (55 txns) | 55 unitemized “AMZN Mktp+” charges, avg $130 — what arrived at City Hall? |
| Event services (flowers/balloons) | $6,847.03 (12 txns) | Divine Celebrations $2,698.86; CosmoFlora $2,667.68; Balloons by Sharon J $1,390.50 |
| Square (SQ*) local/personal vendors | $5,006.51 (18 txns) | Incl. $3,969.70 to Markstarr Holdings, a $13 coin-laundry charge |
| Self-storage (Extra Space) | $3,033.20 (6 txns) | Plausibly city overflow storage |
| Dining | $2,388.34 (21 txns) | |
| Delta airfare | $1,767.90 (4 txns) | Four tickets booked the same day, 08/08/2025 |
| Office Depot | $1,491.99 (9 txns) | |
| Other (TOAST Inc. $4,021.28, All Georgia Farms $2,464, Queensboro $2,172.71, KR ProPhase $1,510, hardware, transport, crafts) | $20,066.67 (76 txns) | |
| Total | $114,211.02 (386 txns) | reconciles exactly |
The hotel money — two different problems
$9,101.28 (19 charges) at Tru by Hilton Stockbridge — a hotel inside the city she
works for. This includes the single largest non-P2P charge on her card, $4,298.96
on 09/08/2025, and a burst of fifteen Tru charges from 09/06–09/08/2025 totaling
$6,420.92 — eight of them $131–$154 each (one night, one room, one charge apiece).
If those rooms housed visiting performers or judges, that is defensible; if they housed
anyone else, it is not. The $1,608.00 “HOMES TO SUITES BY HILTON” charge the same day
and a Fairfield Inn Stockbridge $981.00 across six charges point at the same pattern:
the city books out its own hotels through one employee’s personal card.
$8,790.11 (18 charges) at other hotels: Westin Atlanta Airport $4,618.24 (8
charges, incl. $1,559.30 twice), Homes to Suites $1,608.00, Grand Hyatt Nashville
$1,294.87, Fairfield Inn $981.00. Nobody has yet explained what Nashville and the
airport hotel were for, since neither hosts a Stockbridge event.
The money routed outside vendor rails — $10,440.35 PayPal + $5,006.51 Square
This is the part of Finding 2 that lives on her card specifically. Ten PayPal charges
to six different named recipients:
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAYPAL *BEEOLIVER | $5,015.35 (single charge, 08/09/2025) |
| PAYPAL *PHILLIPPIAW | $2,500.00 ($1,250.00 x2, Oct 2025) |
| PAYPAL *KKLA (religious radio station) | $1,800.00 (x3, Jun–Jul 2025) |
| PAYPAL *BUDDYSPLAYH (a child-care center) | $425.00 (x2) |
| PAYPAL *CAROVOICE | $400.00 |
| PAYPAL *TORSH07 | $300.00 |
Plus 18 Square-network charges ($5,006.51), dominated by SQ *MARKSTARR HOLDINGS
(Atlanta): $3,969.70 across nine charges, all descriptor variants of the same
company — including three $333.90s. The tail includes $13.00 at a coin laundry and
$107.21 at a donut shop: one card doing festival-scale buying and pocket-change buying
through the same unitemized rails.
A $5,015.35 single payment to one PayPal account and $3,969.70 to a single Square
merchant are vendor-sized payments made without vendor infrastructure: no PO, no
invoice, no 1099 trail. BEEOLIVER, TORSH07, PHILLIPPIAW and CAROVOICE are not
identifiable as any business in the city’s vendor records.
The other buyer-side oddities
- 55 Amazon Marketplace charges, $7,150.19 (avg $130.00 each) on one personal card.
Amazon per-transaction ordering with no account and no itemization is how personal
shopping hides inside a legitimate merchant name. - TOAST, INC $4,021.28 in a single charge (05/15/2026, MCC 5734 = software/site
subscription). Toast is a restaurant point-of-sale service. What municipal software
purchase ran $4,021 through a card instead of an IT procurement channel? - KR PROPHOUSE LLC $1,510.00 (11/25/2025) and PRIVATE PRESS SHIRT $731.60 —
apparel/branding purchases outside any uniform program.
What’s clearly normal in her file
For balance: the Tru burst timing matches the festival season; ~$919 in ASCAP/BMI music
licensing is exactly what a public event with recorded music requires; the storage-rental
line (city overflow storage is a real expense); Delta airfare $1,767.90 across 4 tickets
booked the same day (08/08/2025 — consistent with flying in talent, though destination
is not evidenced in the descriptor); Office Depot $1,491.99 (she is the program’s
second-largest Office Depot buyer).
FINDING 2 — Person-named P2P payments across the program (HIGH)
Across at least ten cardholders, the statements contain PayPal, Square, and Cash App
charges naming individuals or informal entities rather than vendors. Representative
examples (amounts as stated; some repeat):
| Cardholder | Merchant descriptor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Charisma Webster | PAYPAL *BEEOLIVER | $5,015.35 |
| Charisma Webster | PAYPAL *PHILLIPPIAW | $1,250.00 (x2) |
| Dwayne Pollock | PAYPAL *INFO | $1,800.00 |
| Kerri Stewart | PAYPAL *DOWNSOUTH 334 | $2,000.00 |
| Richard Godfrey | PAYPAL *MASSI.MARTIN | $700.00 |
| Richard Godfrey | PAYPAL *FBINATIONAL | $900.00 |
| Charisma Webster | PAYPAL *KKLA | $600.00 (x3, three cardholders) |
| Econuel Ingram | PAYPAL *JALENHUDSON | $225.00 |
| Charisma Webster | PAYPAL *CAROVOICE | $400.00 |
| Amelia Campbell-Andrews | PAYPAL *MARYBELLASC | $250.00 |
| Amelia Campbell-Andrews | PAYPAL *GEORGIAGANG | $50.00 (x2) |
| Richard Godfrey | PAYPAL *FABULOUSFOT | $179.95 |
| Frank Trammer | PAYPAL *IAPE | $425.00 |
| Sharee Lane | CASHAPP*KALITHOMAS | $3,965.50 |
Payments to person-named recipients are the highest-risk P-card pattern: they lack the
vendor documentation, tax reporting, and competitive procurement that a legitimate
municipal purchase carries. The repetition of “KKLA” across three different cardholders
suggests coordinated routing.
Recommended action: reconcile this list against city contracts and purchase orders, and
pull supporting documentation for each.
FINDING 3 — Food services: $67,318.51 in dining on the public card (HIGH)
Across the 17 statements, 315 transactions fall into dining/food-service categories —
sit-down restaurants, fast food, caterers, and bars — totaling $67,318.51. That is
dollars spent feeding city employees and officials on the purchasing card, over roughly
17 months, by 35 different cardholders.
Top dining spenders:
| Cardholder | Dining total |
|---|---|
| Econuel Ingram | $10,750.72 |
| Rosalyn Rawls | $6,789.33 |
| Tranita Jones | $6,124.30 |
| Ronnie Anderson | $4,050.16 |
| Cassandra Lester | $3,433.70 |
| Richard Godfrey | $3,343.10 |
| Jeremy Andrews | $3,249.90 |
| Frank Milazi | $3,161.59 |
Largest individual food/catering charges include: La Bonanza Catering ($3,150.00), JNN
Catering, Birmingham ($2,515.21), Eggroll Daddy ($1,780.00), The Italian Oven ($1,773.86
across 8 visits), Chick-fil-A ($1,560.22 + $1,387.60 across two locations), Pandora On
restaurant ($1,517.50 in a single charge), Angie’s Cafe ($1,336.65), McAlister’s Deli
($1,303.93), The Gourmet Palate ($1,200.00), City BBQ Catering ($1,024.05), and World
Renown Catering ($1,000.00).
Grocery and warehouse-club spending — Publix, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Costco, and similar —
adds a further $79,840.07 across 525 transactions. That category is mixed (some is
food, some is office/cleaning supplies), so it is reported separately rather than counted
as dining.
Recommended action: request the itemized receipts for the catering charges (La Bonanza,
JNN, City BBQ, World Renown) and any city policy governing meal purchases and employee
feeding on the purchasing card.
FINDING 4 — Cash App payment to an individual in Oakland, CA (HIGH)
Cardholder: Sharee Lane, Records Coordinator. January 2026 statement. To the best of our
knowledge, Sharee Lane is no longer employed by the City.
| Date | Merchant | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 01/02/2026 | CASHAPP*KALITHOMAS, Oakland CA 94612 | $3,965.50 |
- Cash App’s card descriptor format (“CASHAPP* “) shows the
recipient is a private individual with a Cash App account registered to “Kali Thomas”
in Oakland, California. - Peer-to-peer money transfer is not a normal municipal purchasing method, and no city
vendor by this name surfaced in public records searches. - Same card, same day: SQ*DELYSIS (Square) $500.00 — a second person-named payment.
Recommended action: obtain the receipt/invoice/contract supporting this payment and any
policy on P2P app use. Verify recipient identity via Cash App records or a records
request.
FINDING 5 — Terminated/retired employees’ cards kept charging (HIGH)
Three employees whose cards continued to incur charges after their stated separation
dates. Separation dates are from the City (as relayed) and, where possible, corroborated
by public sources.
5a. Gerald Sanders — Economic Development Director (separated Oct 16, 2025)
P-card charges after the separation date, by statement month:
| Month | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | $1,392.59 |
| Nov 2025 | $101.95 |
| Dec 2025 | $218.12 |
| Jan 2026 | $3,214.28 |
| Feb 2026 | $548.53 |
| May 2026 | $274.00 |
| Jun 2026 | -$175.00 (refunds) |
Total post-separation activity: approximately $5,575 in charges (net of refunds). This is
the single strongest internal-control failure in the dataset: a separated director whose
card remained active and charging for at least seven months, including a $3,214.28 month
in January 2026.
5b. Tommy Moseley — Public Works (retired, late 2023)
The city’s Facebook page confirms Moseley’s retirement after 32 years in Public Works.
The WEX export shows “MOSELEY” (Public Works) continued to charge fuel across 13
consecutive months:
- Total: $2,714.46 across 58 fills (matches the $2,714 figure reported).
- Span: July 2024 through July 2025, almost entirely on vehicle 097V ($2,676.41 / 57 fills).
Caveat: the WEX export begins July 2024, so charges before that date are outside this
dataset. The confirmed pattern is 13 months of post-retirement fuel charging; if early
2024 is included, the true total is higher.
5c. Renee Wheeler — Human Resources (separated Sep 17, 2025)
Post-separation activity exists but is weaker than claimed:
| Month | Amount | Nature |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | $0.00 (6 txns) | PrizePicks charge + reversal |
| Nov 2025 | -$10.00 (3 txns) | PrizePicks reversals |
The post-separation activity is PrizePicks sports-betting charges that were then refunded,
netting to roughly zero — not ordinary spending. The claim “charged through Nov 2025” is
technically true but the honest characterization is “her card was still being hit with
PrizePicks charges and reversals for two months after separation, netting ~$0.”
Recommended action: request the card-deactivation records (who cancelled each separated
employee’s card, and when) and the WEX PIN-deactivation records. The gap between
separation date and deactivation is the audit finding.
FINDING 6 — Prize Picks (sports betting) on three management cards (MEDIUM)
Three cardholders have PRIZEPICKS (online sports betting) entries: Charisma Webster,
Demeatris Ivey, and Renee Wheeler — matching the report that three directors’ cards
carried sports-betting charges. However, nearly every line is an “ADJ-” (adjustment)
entry, i.e. the charge was subsequently reversed:
- Charisma Webster: net $0.00
- Demeatris Ivey: net $0.00
- Renee Wheeler: net -$75.00
The accurate finding is: sports-betting charges were made on three management cards and
then refunded/clawed back — not that the city lost money to betting. The fact that
betting charges appeared on a municipal card at all, and had to be reversed, is itself a
control failure, but the dollar impact is ~$0 net.
Recommended action: obtain the reversal/adjustment documentation — who flagged the
PrizePicks charges and why they were made in the first place.
THE BILL THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT HAVE PAID: $132,328.68
Sorting all 2,793 purchasing-card transactions through one canonical classifier
(scripts/categorize.py; each transaction counted once, in its best-fit category), the
categories a taxpayer would reasonably expect NOT to fund on a city card total
$132,328.68 across 519 transactions — 17.8% of all card spend:
| Category | Amount | Txns | Cardholders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dining, fast food & catering | $67,318.51 | 315 | 35 |
| Payment apps to named individuals (PayPal / Cash App / Venmo / Zelle) | $25,034.05 | 34 | 10 |
| Clothing & personal retail | $16,184.88 | 74 | 14 |
| Hotel rooms in our own city (Tru by Hilton Stockbridge) | $11,383.23 | 21 | 2 |
| Entertainment & amusements (movies, bowling, paid tickets) | $7,926.77 | 26 | 12 |
| Florists, gifts & balloons | $4,279.13 | 25 | 14 |
| Personal grooming (salon, barber, nails) | $277.11 | 4 | 3 |
| Sports betting (Prize Picks, net of reversals) | −$75.00 | 20 | 3 |
| Total | $132,328.68 | 519 | — |
A further $18,609.24 (49 txns, 14 cardholders) ran through Square (SQ* descriptors).
It is deliberately NOT in the table above.
So, who quietly flagged and reversed the sports betting charges? And why wasn’t the mayor given the same benefit of the doubt, especially given he payed back the disputed charges?
