Everybody knows that Barack Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church every Sunday for 20 years without listening to a single word the preacher said. But it sounds like Wright’s daughter learned a lot from her old man.
The daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright — the controversial former pastor to President Barack Obama — was indicted today in an expanding federal probe of a state grant tied to a former suburban police chief.
Jeri Wright of Hazel Crest is accused of helping former Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans convert fake paychecks from Evans’ nonprofit to Evans’ personal use, allegedly hiding money that was supposed to be used to train minority and female workers in the building trades.
Federal prosecutors in the Illinois’ central district say Jeri Wright received about $28,000 in grant-tied paychecks in 2009, but $20,000 of that was deposited back into accounts controlled by Evans. Prosecutors also say Wright then lied to officers and a grand jury.
The charges emerge about a year after Evans was charged with fraud in relation to a $1.25 million job training grant awarded to her nonprofit, We Are Our Brothers [sic] Keeper.
You know what they say: finders, keepers.
Hat tip to the mighty David Burge, who notes:
I’m continually impressed how the president connected himself with the likes of Blago, Rezko & JJJr, and emerged so ethically untainted.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 11, 2013
It’s miraculous, really. How that brave young Harvard man strode into the lion’s den of perfidity and rascality, and cleaned it all up.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 11, 2013
It really is amazing. Got a problem with that, racists?
