Black Plague
06-06-2008, 01:44 AM
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31-count indictment says they bilked charities for years Feds allege they took money aimed at black youth programs
New Orleans 4th District Assessor Betty Jefferson, an elder sister of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, conspired with other family members to plunder more than $600,000 in taxpayer money from three charities they founded and controlled that were supposed to help inner-city youths, alleges a 31-count federal indictment handed up Wednesday.
Mose Jefferson, brother to the congressman and the assessor, also was charged Wednesday, as was Angela Coleman, Betty Jefferson's daughter.
The latest round of charges adds to a growing federal docket for the Jefferson family. William Jefferson, indicted last year, is awaiting trial in Virginia on 16 counts of public corruption. Mose Jefferson is set to be tried Oct. 20 on federal charges that he bribed the former president of the Orleans Parish School Board.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1212644763114130.xml&coll=1
31-count indictment says they bilked charities for years Feds allege they took money aimed at black youth programs
New Orleans 4th District Assessor Betty Jefferson, an elder sister of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, conspired with other family members to plunder more than $600,000 in taxpayer money from three charities they founded and controlled that were supposed to help inner-city youths, alleges a 31-count federal indictment handed up Wednesday.
Mose Jefferson, brother to the congressman and the assessor, also was charged Wednesday, as was Angela Coleman, Betty Jefferson's daughter.
The latest round of charges adds to a growing federal docket for the Jefferson family. William Jefferson, indicted last year, is awaiting trial in Virginia on 16 counts of public corruption. Mose Jefferson is set to be tried Oct. 20 on federal charges that he bribed the former president of the Orleans Parish School Board.