A Gwinnett County grand jury this week indicted a former assistant director of Lawrenceville’s natural gas utility on racketeering and bribery charges in what prosecutors described as a kickback scheme to pocket millions from city pipe-laying contracts.
Joshua Heath Morris, Lawrenceville’s former assistant gas director for operations, was charged with conspiracy to violate the state’s Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, bribery and conspiracy in restraint of free and open competition in transactions with state or political subdivisions.
Westly Lee Griffin, owner of W.L. Griffin Company, faces the same charges…