Mondesire, former NAACP head, dies
Philadelphia Daily News · 4 hours ago
Seth Williams@DASethWilliams 8h8 hours ago
Philadelphia has lost a great champion & advocate for justice. He was my mentor & friend.Thanks for everything Jerry, rest in eternal peace.
Nothing to see here:
http://articles.philly.com/2014-06-06/news/50390468_1_memo-whyatt-mondesire-generation-community-development-corp
Philadelphia Daily News · 4 hours ago
Seth Williams@DASethWilliams 8h8 hours ago
Philadelphia has lost a great champion & advocate for justice. He was my mentor & friend.Thanks for everything Jerry, rest in eternal peace.
Nothing to see here:
http://articles.philly.com/2014-06-06/news/50390468_1_memo-whyatt-mondesire-generation-community-development-corp
- Mondesire's employee, Harriet Garrett, and her daughter pleaded guilty in 2010 to stealing nearly $220,000 in state grant money for a job-training program. Garrett was sentenced to a minimum of six months in jail and ordered to pay restitution. Her daughter got 18 months' probation.
- A 2009 memo written by then-Deputy Attorney General William Davis Jr. says investigators "uncovered what appeared to be questionable spending" of state money by Mondesire.
- Kane, a Democrat, is now trying to determine what happened with the Mondesire investigation. Gov. Corbett, a Republican, was the attorney general at the time.
- Corbett, as attorney general, named Fina in 2006 to head a new public-corruption unit and Costanzo to work on cases for the unit in the Philadelphia region.
- Fina and Costanzo now work in a similar unit for District Attorney Seth Williams.
- In the memo, Davis wrote:
- Next Generation's bank-account records, obtained with a grand-jury subpoena, showed deposits of $1.3 million in government grants in a one-year period.
- Another $521,000 in the account came from political campaigns, rent payments and the intermingling of money from the Sunday Sun, which is owned and operated by Mondesire, the memo said.
- Next Generation paid $2,273 to the Philadelphia Club, a private and exclusive club in Center City.
- Next Generation spent "tens of thousands," writing checks to pay Mondesire's American Express bill for "clothes, food, lodging gas and entertainment" and a loan from Mellon Bank. There were also checks written to Mondesire and to "cash."
- Next Generation wrote checks for $169,960 to Charles and Claudia Tasco and their company, C&C Construction. (Charles Tasco is the son of City Councilwoman Marian Tasco, a friend and political ally of Mondesire's for more than three decades.)…..
- the money laundry list continues in the article…………………………..
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