Rep. Tyrone Brooks Indicted
BREAKING: A federal grand jury has issued a 30-count indictment against State Rep. Tyrone Brooks. The indictment accuses Brooks of misappropriating almost one million dollars from two different charitable organizations.
The indictment charges Brooks with mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax fraud going back to the mid-1990s. The charges accuse Brooks of diverting charitable contributions and using them for his personal expenses.
A statement from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Georgia, which provides more detail about the charges, opened with the following:
“This is a disappointing day. Representative Brooks has done much good in his life, both as a state legislator and civil rights leader. But the indictment charges that over many years, Representative Brooks misappropriated nearly one million dollars in charitable donations intended to provide literacy training in underserved communities, and from GABEO – the organization for which he has served as president since 1993. Sadly, by diverting these funds to his own use, Representative Brooks deprived those most in need of critical assistance.”
Agents from the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are conducting the investigations.
WABE will have more on this breaking story during All Things Considered this afternoon, beginning at 4:00 p.m. Tune in to 90.1 FM or stream our broadcast online at wabe.org.
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