Attorneys for Pastor Mitzi Bickers are asking a federal judge for leniency in his Thursday sentencing of the former Atlanta city official, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery and ...

Pastor Mitzi Bickers, a former city insider, was found guilty Wednesday of operating a cash-for-contracts scheme at Atlanta City Hall, a major victory for prosecutors in the first trial in a ...

Mitzi Bickers was found guilty of accepting bribes in exchange for steering nearly $20 million in city contracts to local businessmen.

Bickers and companies she owned or was associated with were allegedly paid almost $2 million. Former city of Atlanta official Mitzi Bickers has been charged in the widening bribery scandal at ...