Ex-Florida Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown sentenced for mail, wire and tax fraud involving sham charity.
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Former Florida Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for mail, wire and tax fraud involving a sham charity.
A jury convicted Brown of stealing money from a bogus charity, One Door For Education, which purported to give scholarships to poor children but instead filled the coffers of Brown and her associates.
Federal prosecutors said she and a top aide commited fraud by using donations for lavish parties and trips.
The aide and another official later accepted a plea deal and testified against Brown, who served in Congress for nearly 25 years.
She was defeated in her 2016 primary race.
Earlier this year, One Door President Carla Wiley pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after it was determined that she had deposited $800,000 into the foundation’s account over four years. Over that time, federal prosecutors say it gave one scholarship for $1,000 and that Wiley transferred herself tens of thousands of dollars.
Brown’s former chief of staff, Elias “Ronnie” Simmons, and the charity’s president pleaded guilty after their federal indictments for misusing the charity’s funds, and testified against Brown.
Brown testified that she was left in the dark about the goings-on with One Door’s money, and blamed the theft on Simmons.
She was convicted in May on 18 of 22 charges.
Brown’s attorney was seeking probation in Monday’s sentencing.
MAGA
One Door For Education, One Door For The Big House
Go Gatahs!
Holy Christmas. Santa Claus is real and we got a early present. Joy To The World.
Two words.
Term Limits.
Here sentence should be as long as she was in congress.
Will they let her keep her nappy weave?
I’m a bit upset, she has culturally appropriated some Italian ladies wig.
Go gata
You got that right hanoverfist.
Does she pull a Phil Spector? Traficant kept his.
“Entitlement”.
This is what is known as “a good start.” Next up . . . Maxine Waters. Warm up with one or two more, then take down the Clintons.
Truly mind blowing how deep the democrat’s ‘Team Black Dumb Asses’ bench is. Somewhere in the east a City Council lady decided bullet proof plexiglass is somehow offensive to blacks and is call for a ban. Maxine? It’s OK for you to step aside. I think we have your replacement.
They should tack on another year for that wig.
And a second year just on general principles.
Sometime between now and when she has to report she’ll be hospitalized and claim she’s too old and sick to go to prison.
If it’s Brown, flush it down. Allen West was the last honest black congressman and George Soreass f_ucked him up royally.
With appreciation to Joseph Wambaugh and THE BLACK MARBLE:
“Janitor to Jacksonville, FL.—–Janitor to Jacksonville, FL.
The American legal system is full of dog manure!”
This thief steals over 1 million dollars and will stay a few years
in a Federal play ground. When will we get honesty in the US Government
system?
But the Clinton Foundation’s OK?
I smell BULLSHIT!
izlamo delenda est …
West voted for pigford.
The good news is, she will still be able to live off the government
She made a statement today calling the White judge a racist. She is nothing more than a typical DAN, worst congress member ever.
The sparrows are going to have a field day picking thru that wig.
Uglier than a mud fence but not as useful. She’s getting 5 years. Hopefully, they’ll give her wig life.
Oh, come on now, ranger. she jus be representin’ her constichients…
Fleecing the saps that go to her fundraisers seems fair enough.
She looks like a black lhasa apso.
Make it 5 years of hard labor squeezing tubes of Black Caucus down in the hull of Guam with Crazy Hank to keep it from capsizing!
Hey Ko Rin…HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Go gata gal gets locked up.
Years ago, her district ran from Jacksonville to Orange County and my mom had her as her representative. We got redistributed into her revised district which now goes from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, now snaking along I10 instead of I4. Fortunately, she was beaten out in the primary by Al Lawson. Of course, Al will be able to keep getting elected. He is black and a democrat who will vote the party line, but at least he is far more intelligent and even intelligible.
Al Lawson has degrees from FAMU and FSU. Even was an assistant baskets coach here at FSU, so no go Gata from him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Lawson
Currently, FSU is beating UF in basketball 🏀