LAWRENCEVILLE, GA – A former City of Lawrenceville official is part of a duo named in a sweeping conspiracy that redirected multi-million-dollar pipe-laying contracts away from qualified potential vendors to companies he controlled.

Joshua Heath Morris, Lawrenceville’s former assistant gas director for operations, and businessman Westly Lee Griffin were indicted Wednesday on conspiracy to violate the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (R.I.C.O.) Act, bribery, and conspiracy in restraint of free and open competition in transactions with state or political subdivisions.

“Public officials are held to a high standard,” Gwinnett District Attorney Patsy Austin-Gatson said. “We intend to prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law.”

Lawrenceville city officials have bee

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