U.S. Rep. Tom Graves will have to wait until September before he gets the chance to officially tell his side of the story in a business lawsuit involving a Gordon County motel.
He was scheduled for a deposition Tuesday, but one of the attorneys involved asked the deposition be postponed because of a death in his family, according to Tim Baker, Graves’ chief of staff.
Baker said the deposition would be pushed into September, but he did not know a date and could not comment further Wednesday.
Graves, a Republican from Ranger, Ga., was scheduled to give a deposition in Atlanta as part of a lawsuit filed by Bartow County Bank against him, state Sen. Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, and a company they ran called Tich Hospitality.
The suit alleges that a business run by Graves and Rogers defaulted on a loan for $2.25 million and that Graves moved some of his property to a trust to make it more difficult for the bank to recoup the debt.