Posted on 06/29/2016 6:15:15 AM PDT by simpson96
Former D.C. congressman and civil rights activist Walter Fauntroy was arrested Monday on a charge of passing a bad check for $50,000 when he returned to the United States after years abroad, officials said.
Fauntroy, 83, was detained at Washington Dulles International Airport after he arrived from Dubai about 8:15 a.m.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers saw there was an outstanding warrant bearing his name and took him into custody, an agency spokesman said. Fauntroy was accused of fraud, writing a bad check in Prince George's County, Maryland, and failing to appear in court.
The former right-hand man to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been living abroad, and friends and relatives had expressed concerns about his health. He told The Washington Post in a phone interview last week he was coming home and believed the bad-check issue was resolved.
The check was written in the amount of $50,000, according to a representative for the Prince George's County State's Attorney's Office. It was intended to help pay for a 2009 ball he had organized for President Barack Obama's first inauguration.
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LOL!.................
not guilty then.
Yes, clearly there is a mistake here, which will be rectified by a Presidential Pardon and taxpayer refund of 10x whatever money was involved.
Will he get a pardon?........................
50 K check bounced for 8 years LOL
I guess he conveniently took off to avoid the fallout.
"There are already to many Black people in prison."
Civil Rights; the biggest scam of the 20th century.
And they're still scamming...
Sometimes, I read a column or news story posted here and have to just leave the room. I get to laughing so hard, my coffee imperils my keyboard.
AP, trying to make Lil Lord Fauntroy look as well as possible, almost pulled off a double half gainer with a full twist ending in a back flip.
They were not quiet able to make him the victim, but they sure tried.
Damn, but that was one funny story.
Fauntroy, 83, was detained at Washington Dulles International Airport after he arrived from Dubai about 8:15 a.m."..."It was intended to help pay for a 2009 ball he had organized for President Barack Obama's first inauguration."
So Fauntroy arrived from Dubai? Is that the ME country this 'civil rights activist' resided in all these years? Such a font of 'civil rights' "Dubai" or any of the ME countries are!
How typical was it for this currently 83 year old man to issue checks valued in six figures? His political donation history appears far less impressive. Or was this a generous one-off incident? Or...perhaps laundering foreign funds to an unqualified political candidate?
LMAO!
Discrimination!!! (sarcasm)
This guy abandoned his family and left them to (poorly) manage the mortgage and other bills. He then refused to be found by them when they ran out of money and only then started looking for him.
The meme in DC news is that only some kind of dementia or other mental impairment would cause such behavior in a civil rights hero.
I think he realized how old he was getting and just decided that there was no time like now to take a break from his life and see the world.
If they guy couldn’t cover a $50K check, he didn’t have a lot of cash to begin with. That begs the question as to how he supported himself abroad for all of these years. As a professional “activist,” I’m guessing he wasn’t collecting a pension (beyond social security). Dubai isn’t exactly a low-cost neighborhood, so who was picking up the tab for this “civil rights icon” for all those years and likewise, who payed for his plane ticket home?
Based on his remarks to the media, this guy doesn’t seem to be suffering from advanced dementia or any other sort of mental impairment. He just wrote a rubber check and decided to skip the country before the cops caught up with him. Now that his benefactors have cut off freebies, he comes slinking home and the feds finally got their man.
The irony? The taxpayers will now pick up the tab for this deadbeat, including the cost of his incarceration; “free” attorney to represent him in court, the tab associated with his prison term (to include medical expenses) and of course, more legal fees for the inevitable “appeal.”
We could have saved ourselves a lot of time and money by telling the UAE he was persona non grata and would be denied entry into the country. Let him find a way to support himself in Dubai and make arrangements to dun his social security and other income to make good on that bad check from 2009.
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