{"id":3438,"date":"2025-10-25T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyonesdiary.com\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:09:23","slug":"georgia-democratic-official-arrested-charged-with-felony-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyonesdiary.com\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Democratic Official Arrested, Charged With Felony Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"160\"><strong data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"158\">Former Georgia PSC Candidate Arrested for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"583\">Patty Durand, a former Democratic candidate for Georgia\u2019s Public Service Commission (PSC), was arrested Tuesday by Georgia Capitol Police and charged with felony theft, according to Georgia Public Broadcasting. Authorities allege Durand took confidential Georgia Power documents during a PSC hearing concerning the company\u2019s request to add nearly 10,000 megawatts to the state\u2019s power grid, much of it for data centers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"799\">Video footage reportedly shows Durand taking booklets from desks and placing them in her bag. The motive for allegedly taking the materials has not been clarified. Georgia Power is cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"1126\">Durand has been an outspoken critic of Georgia Power\u2019s contracts with data centers and recently founded a watchdog group, Georgians for Affordable Energy. She has publicly opposed building new natural gas plants over renewable energy investments and criticized the PSC for allowing heavily redacted trade-secret agreements.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1306\">Following her arrest, Georgia Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon called Durand\u2019s actions hypocritical, noting her prior criticism of the PSC and positioning as a \u201cwatchdog.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Georgia PSC Candidate Arrested for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets Patty Durand, a former Democratic candidate for Georgia\u2019s Public Service Commission (PSC), was arrested Tuesday by&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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