The Fulford File | NATIONAL REVIEW And Not Reporting Race: The Case Of The Anti-Poverty CEO
National Review has done a number of stories about race recently (some of them wrong-headed), because of the rioting in Ferguson.But its recent story Corruption in Cleveland [By Jillian Kay Melchior,August 20, 2014] does not mention race—although it should.
A prominent Ohio not-for-profit agency that offered help to low-income Americans received more than half a billion in taxpayer dollars over the past 15 years. But its president and CEO was awarding publicly funded contracts in exchange for kickbacks, home-renovation work, and other pay-offs, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio alleged last week.Jacqueline Middleton, who led the Council of Economic Opportunities of Greater Cleveland (CEOGC) from 1993 until last April, now faces two charges of honest-services fraud, one count of bribery in a federally funded program, and one count of Hobbs Act conspiracy for her alleged misdeeds.
What race is Jacqueline Middleton? She’s black. ...