Jeri Wright, daughter of Obama's ex-pastor, gets 2 years for role in fraud

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The daughter of President Barack Obama’s former pastor was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for her role in a state-grant fraud scheme.

Jeri L. Wright, 49, was convicted in March 2014 of money laundering and lying to federal investigators and a grand jury. She’s been in jail since March, when U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough revoked her bail when she found probable cause that Wright was involved in a ghost payrolling scheme at an Indiana plastics company while on bond.

Wright has not been charged for allegedly accepting while on bond more than $8,000 for working at Berry Plastics in Franklin, Indiana, when she actually did no work for the company.

The State Journal-Register in Springfield reports that Myerscough, at the conclusion of the sentencing hearing, said she was “troubled by the amount of lying involved” in the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Bass said Regina Evans, who was sentenced to five years in prison after she pleaded guilty, was the mastermind of the scheme to siphon more than $900,000 from a $1.25 million state grant intended to fund job training. Ronald Evans Jr. was sentenced to one year and McCoy to six months in prison and six months home confinement for their actions.

“Regina Evans was the engineer, but Jeri Wright chose to get on for the ride, and she rode it to the very end,” Bass said in asking for a 36-month sentence.

In Sept 2013, the daughter of infamous “God D**n America” Rev Wright, and 12 other Democrats were charged with embezzling $16 million in Federal health grants (tax dollars) earmarked for AIDS charities and programs for the poor and needy. More than one of the defendants had direct ties to President Barack Obama.

===============================================

ONCE UPON A TIME IN GANGLAND CHICAGO Rev Jeremiah's Wright's beloved daughter was convicted for looting a $1.25 million state grant which financed a tax-exempt, 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.

Back in 6/8/13 Chicago Police Chief Regina Evans (above) pleaded guilty to government fraud and money-laundering related to the misuse of a $1.25 million state grant to the non-profit she ran with her husband, Ronald Evans Jr.

==========================================

Earlier, in October 11, 2011, Police Chief Regina Evans Resigned

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. (CBSLOCAL.COM) Country Club Hills Mayor said that negotiations were underway to clear the way for the resignation of police Chief Regina Evans, in office for about two years,

<><> Regina Evans was on (ahem) disability leave since August 2011,

<><> it was earlier reported that Illinois AG's office is suing Regina Evans' n/p over its handling of state job training grant worth more than $500,000.

<><> Evans also signed off on invoices for a controversial summer camp where the campers — including children of aldermen who voted for it — got paid to attend (Chicago-way--"redistribution of income").

<><> Most recently, Evans came under fire for overseeing a 2011 part-time police program where 10 part-time police officers were hired.... bur that many had questionable backgrounds, and weren’t qualified to do police work. They were ordered to turn in their guns and badges (got high-paid city sanitation jobs).

The SouthtownStar contributed to this report, via the Sun-Times Media Wire.

===================================================

Just goes to show: sap-happy Dem/Libs love to say they're "for" their fellow-man---while conniving to make a buck on it.

================================================

CHICAGO GANGLAND IN THE WH---Obama'll do anything to change the national conversation about illegals, contamination, contagion, and the overthrow of the US govt. “My Brother’s Keeper” is an initiative recently organized by Pres Obama w/ our tax dollars----that aims "to boost the life chances" of young African and Hispanic men.

======================================

BACKSTORY "My Brother's Keeper" is a scam that originated in Chicagoland----and it reared its ugly head in Washington.

WASH/POST---Community lenders’ network commits to lend $1 billion in support of Obama's ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ / By Zachary A. Goldfarb, March 6, 2014

A network of (ahem) community lenders is committing to lending (?) $1 billion in support of President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative that aims to boost the life chances of young African and Hispanic men.

==============================================

Valerie Jarrett attended "My Brother's Keeper" events....so did Valerie have her portable wire transfer kit with her? B/c a day without wire-transferring offshore makes Obama and Michelle nervous.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.