Job training program charged with money laundering

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And, no, oddly enough, they were not training participants to operate dry cleaners. We Are Our Brother's Keepers, a Chicago-based job-training program proposed to pull up low-income blacks and Latinos living without any real shot out from under the disadvantaged poverty line, received a $1.25 million state grant in 2009. The program's target was to train 40 people with brick-laying and electrician skills. Not the most lofty careers but, then again, with construction being one of the fifth seasons in Chicago it would likely lead to steady work and, of course, earning a living from a day's honest work does a man good.

The final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man.

--- W.E.B. Du Bois

(Du Bois' Pledge of Allegiance poem)

Unfortunately the IRS believes the only training being done was to the inside of the purse holders', well, purses. In a word, money laundering. And thousands of dollars' worth of it. The prosecutors have begun laying out their case in court. Personally, I always smell something fishy - and I don't like fish - in groups and places with such bona fide reassuring handles. I would never reside on, say, Wonderful Street or Happy Hills; marry a girl called Delight; donate to the coffers of Making The World A Better Place; or trust Homeland Security. If the title has to be that propagandized, then it is to lull you into a false sense of security, to mislead, to pull the old bait and switcheroony.
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 We Are Our Brother's Keepers Money Launderers 

 (read more of the story on the McHenry County Blog)