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NY Minority Caucus “Scholarship Gala” Had $500K for Parties, Not Scholarships

This is one of the oldest scams in the book.

Minority legislators and their umbrella groups claim to raise money from corporations for scholarships. And the scholarships either never materialize or are ridiculously abused. It’s a commonplace problem in the Congressional Black Caucus.

Rep. Corrine Brown was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 2017 for mail fraud and various other forms of fraud after running a fake charity that stole money meant to provide scholarships for minority students.

CBC members often set up educational non-profits, into which corporate donors pour money, but the only people who benefit are their friends, their family members and their own bank accounts. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson never went to jail, but Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarships that each member is supposed to distribute to needy district members instead went to her grandsons.

Rep. Frank Ballance did go to jail. In 2005, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for that CBC standby, mail fraud and money laundering relating to theft of funds from an educational non-profit, run by him.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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