Posted on 08/20/2022 6:45:27 AM PDT by Salman
Prosecutors say a City Colleges of Chicago basketball coach forged employment records so people on electronic monitoring (EM) for pending criminal cases could move around the city for jobs they didn’t really have.
According to public records, the college system fired Edmond Pryor, 42, in 2019 following an unrelated internal investigation. However, that investigation uncovered “suspicious documents” on Pryor’s work computer, prompting a separate investigation by the Cook County sheriff’s police, according to Assistant State’s Attorney Jack Costello.
Costello said the documents included phone and fax numbers that investigators linked to Pryor and to “several individuals” who were on the Cook County Sheriff’s Office electronic monitoring program.
Pryor faxed false employment records from his computer, Costello said, and two phone numbers linked to Pryor received nearly 100 calls from the number the sheriff’s office uses to verify the employment of EM participants. He also received calls from court representatives and prosecutors during the alleged fraud.
Other documents included forged pay stubs and documents claiming that EM participants worked for UPS and Amazon, according to Costello.
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Its Chicago, Cook County, Its the way its always been done.
People are just nuts.
This is how far we’ve sunk.
College basketball teams consisting of thugs on electronic monitors.
We’ve become a cess pool.
If I were a betting man, I'd wager this coach was up to more than just making his team look good.
but we’re supposed to admire our college athletes....
if we really understood college athletics and the money being tossed around, none of us would ever watch another game....at least in the pros you know their mercenaries....
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