 Two grand juries found Jones $ 250 @,@ 000 per year taxpayer funded security detail excessive , and recommended it be decreased , but found no violations of the law . Jones was accused of a questionable real estate transaction involving a house and a 55 @-@ acre tract of land near Arabia Mountain that he purchased for $ 550 @,@ 000 in 2003 in anticipation of a then active quarry becoming part of county green space project that he initiated . In summer of 2007 , Jones sold the site and made a $ 220 @,@ 000 profit . On January 20 , 2013 , a special purpose grand jury , <unk> to investigate corruption in DeKalb County , found widespread " incompetence , patronage , fraud and cronyism " dating to the beginning of the administration of Vernon Jones . The report , which was not released until August 21 , 2013 , recommended further investigations of possible illegal acts by Jones , along with a number of other current and former senior DeKalb County officials . 
