The former chief executive for Cobb EMC finds himself in a familiar position. Dwight Brown has been indicted again by a Cobb County grand jury.

Thursday afternoon Brown was indicted on four new counts of intimidating witnesses. Tack that on to a January indictment on 31 counts of racketeering and theft.

Brown is accused of threatening witnesses who are Cobb EMC customers that sued the co-op in 2007. They claim Brown created a for-profit business and siphoned co-op assets to it. Once that cased was settled Brown and the EMC board sued those customers and an attorney for damages and attorneys’ fees.

“It certainly confirms our belief that when the EMC filed suit against my client, it was for the sole purpose of intimidation and precluding them from performing their role as representatives of the EMC,” Pitts Carr, attorney for the suing customers, told the AJC.

The other 31 counts included in Thursday’s charges mirror those from the January indictment that accused Brown of stealing millions from the customer-owned cooperative and its customers, and of making false statements to customers in order to conceal the thefts.

This marks yet another shift in a legal saga for Brown, who had led the Marietta-based electric cooperative since 1993. Brown's first indictment capped a two-year criminal investigation of EMC that provides power to about 200,000 customers.

That indictment was later thrown out on a technicality. Brown resigned in February as part of a settlement agreement between the co-op and customers. Since February, Brown has worked as a consultant for the co-op, a move that has further angered some employees and customers.

Brown’s lawyer, former Gov. Roy Barnes, was still reviewing the indictment and had no comment.