The daughter of President Barack Obama’s former pastor was convicted on Friday of laundering thousands of dollars from a state grant for a Chicago-area job-training program, federal prosecutors said.
A federal jury took less than two hours to find Jeri Wright, 48, the daughter of Jeremiah Wright, guilty on all counts for her part in a fraud scheme led by a former suburban police chief and the chief’s husband, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Central District of Illinois in Springfield.
The $1.25 million state grant was for a not-for-profit work and education program called We Are Our Brother’s Keeper, owned by Regina Evans, former police chief of Country Club Hills, and her husband, Ronald Evans Jr.
Wright, a close friend of the couple, took as much as $11,000 from checks worth more than $30,000 that were supposed to be for work related to the grant, prosecutors said. About $20,000 was deposited back into accounts controlled by Regina and Ronald Evans.
The couple has pleaded guilty to the fraud scheme.
Well…of course!
This is a great example to demonstrate what a crackpot loser the Rev. Wright is! Imagine… his own daughter growing up on his guidance and this is how she winds up? Rev. Wright fits right in with the Obama’s and there ethics.
How could that be!!
An apple does not fall far from the tree . . . . . .
Taxpayers are just cash cows.
Just look at all of the billions that have gone also to the state run ObamaCare websites that don’t work. Millions have gone into the pockets of the elites leaving us with nothing.
How many more got away with filling their pockets? Will we ever hear about their guilty charge?
Bonuses are being awarded to those who can’t be fired for failing to do their jobs. And those in charge of our veterans health care have devised scams to cook the books to fill their pockets leaving vets to die while waiting for a nonexistent appointment.
My point being this administration is full of corrupt individuals who believe they’re entitled to our money because of who they are and the titles they hold. No one in the past six years from Eric Holder to Lois Lerner have been held accountable for their actions, therefore, setting the example their illegal actions will go unpunished. When those at the very top get away scot-free those below will believe they will too.
But Michelle Bachmann’s husband was not busted. It’s just not right.
(First, I typed the other crackpot, Sarah … but no, that wasn’t it … I couldn’t bring the name to mind … so I googled “crazy minnesota” … and up she popped!)
Libby They bust people on evidence of criminal activity.
Do you have information of such? All I could find was FBI “interest” and “probing”…and a lot of liberal ranting and raving.
Yes, you progressives (A la Mr. Alinsky) have had quite the run of destroying people’s lives in the arena of public opinion for money and power…you’re even proud of it.
It’s just interesting which “interests” the FBI decides to pursue, and which they don’t.
(I didn’t even have to go as far as “representative” … “crazy minnesota” was all it took!)
“Crazy Minnesota” should have been a clue that what you would gather was constructed entirely by the Alinsky mud-slinging left rather than evidence of criminal activity.
Tina, are you going to sit there and pretend that Michelle Bachmann does not engage in Alinsky-style mud-slinging? Do you not remember her McCarthyist attempts to destroy Huma Abedin based on no evidence whatsoever?
Hmmmm, suddenly the mud-slinging water boy gets upset.
Re #10 Chris: Duuuuuuuuude, that was, like, TWO YEARS AGO!
Evidently the federal jury that found Jeri Wright guilty of fraud were all a bunch of McCarthyist Alinsky-ites.
My new favorite phrase: Oh, fer pity’s sake!
Why don’t you just have “Saul Alinsky” tattooed on yer forehead? Save yerself no end of pointless repetition.