Atlanta mayor's former son-in-law gets life on drug charges

<p>The former son-in-law of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin has been sentenced to life in prison after a federal judge said he was involved in one of the biggest drug dealing operations he had ever seen.</p><p>Tremayne Graham pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, but lied several times to investigators and failed a lie-detector test, U.S. Attorney Reggie Lloyd said.</p><p>Graham, 32, also threatened a witness during his sentencing hearing last week, pointing at a witness with his fingers shaped like a gun, then pointing at his heart, Lloyd said.</p><p>At the time he was charged in April 2004, Graham was married to Franklin's daughter, Kai Franklin Graham.</p><p>Graham started dealing drugs after he met dealer Scott King in the early 1990s while Graham was a student at Clemson University, prosecutors said.</p><p>King, 37, also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly 25 years in prison.</p><p>The two moved to Atlanta and became significant drug dealers, selling more than 500 kilograms of cocaine in South Carolina, Lloyd said.</p><p>During the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Henry M. Herlong Jr. described the drug operation ran by Graham, King, 32-year-old Jerry Davis and others as "one of the biggest" he had ever seen. Davis was sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison.</p><p>The drugs would be shipped from Los Angeles to Atlanta by private jets, tractor-trailers and parcel post, then packaged and sent all along the East Coast, authorities said.</p><p>Investigators began breaking up the drug ring after an informant involved with a different dealer delivered drugs to a Greenville house where King stashed drugs, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Jay Rajaee said.</p><p>That informant and his girlfriend were killed in 2004, but no one has been charged in their deaths, according to court records.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cdbd10)</p>

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