JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- After a historic, nearly 25-year career representing Florida in Congress, former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was found guilty on Thursday of taking money from a charity that was purported to be giving scholarships to poor students.
Brown, a Democrat who was one of the first three African Americans to be elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction, represented the district that included Jacksonville since 1993.
Since her indictment last summer, she had been publicly defiant of the government's charges, saying in a statement she was among black elected officials who have been "persecuted." She had pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, including the fraud, but lost re-election last fall after her indictment.
Federal prosecutors said Brown and her associates used One Door to bring in more than $800,000 between 2012 and 2016, including a high-profile golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass. Brown's indictment said the Virginia-based One Door only gave out one scholarship for $1,200 to an unidentified person in Florida.
WJAX reports that Brown will not immediately go to jail. She will be sentenced in 90 days or more.
Dylan Adams
Why is a nigger stealing news?
Xavier James
RACIST ASS WHITEY
Chase Perez
I'm wasn't shocked at all when the news first broke, what an embarrassment. fuck that cunt
Thomas Morris
She ought to be tried for inciting racial hatred if she continues saying this is happening because shes black
Angel Bailey
>$1,200 scholarship
So they bought one textbook?
Alexander Long
>nigger politician >still a nigger
Makes sense.
Hunter Hernandez
they get paid 174k a year how many associates were involved during that period seems like not enough money to go to jail for when you already have a respectable income
Liam Cooper
WE
Carson Perez
WUZ
Cameron Bell
Kangz
Brody Campbell
Wow. Disregard all these white catholics and jews receiving donations for sacrificing children. This one black lady mimicking her peers is the problem. Swamp status = drained.
Christopher Nelson
THIEVES
Samuel Martinez
> yeah, but these scholarships called her NIGGER > so its okay
Jordan Lopez
Is never enough for fucking crooked politicians.
Lucas Gray
Oh lowdy. Look at that negress.
Joshua Roberts
>Jacksonville how? I thought that that was a conservative area
Josiah Price
>florida
ITS ALWAYS FORIDA. WHY IS ALWAYS FLORIDA. IS THERE JUST METH IN THE WATER?
Easton Peterson
RACIST NEWS STORY THAT'S RACIST
Kayden Wood
>blacks steal things Not surprised senpai
Justin Bell
>NO, NO NOPE! DAS DA THANG, YALL MUTHAFUCKAHS DONT UNDASTAN, ITZ A BLAK THANG, YA CRACKA ASS HO! DIS RITE HURR IZ DIZKRIMENASHUN N SHEIT!
Mason Hernandez
its a start. you can bet your ass this isnt enough. more will come. this was a black sheep.
