Thread: NAACP Head And Convicted Murderer Says He’ll ‘Fire Back’ If We Report On Embezzlement

NAACP official Gerald Hankerson / Screenshot from Todd Boyle Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3tKjJHmmLs

NAACP Head And Convicted Murderer Says He’ll ‘Fire Back’ If We Report On Embezzlement
LUKE ROSIAK
Investigative Reporter
10:20 PM 02/02/2017

A high-ranking NAACP official convicted of murder threatened to “fire back” if The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group (TheDCNF) reported that a new branch president embezzled from the previous nonprofit that he ran.

Gerald Hankerson, president of the Alaska, Oregon and Washington State regional NAACP, told TheDCNF he wasn’t “authorizing” the disclosure because it “strikes a blow to the NAACP by indicating that we allow criminals at the leadership.”

Hankerson himself was sentenced to life in prison for aggravated murder and spent 23 years in prison before being granted leniency because he, in the governor’s words, “accepted full responsibility of his conduct,” but now claims he is innocent.

TheDCNF reported Thursday that the Anchorage, Alaska, branch of the NAACP in November elected Kevin McGee, who had been convicted of using his previous position as president of a government employees union to steal from, as a court document put it, “the very people he was supposed to represent.” In a victim impact statement, the union called McGee “an opportunistic thief who has shown no remorse.”

TheDCNF inquired whether Hankerson’s regional umbrella group, which oversees all the NAACPs in that corner of the country, was aware of the precarious situation, or whether McGee had hoodwinked members.

Hankerson acknowledged that McGee’s election could seem like “hiring a bank robber to run a bank,” but said he knew about McGee’s history in advance and did not have a problem with it. “Why would so many people feel comfortable” electing him if they held it against him? he asked.

In his own case, Hankerson in 2009 successfully petitioned the governor to be released and put on parole. But he still wasn’t happy, arguing it was “problematic” that he had to avoid further violating the law or parole or else return to prison.

So Hankerson later used his new position as a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People official to ask for a pardon from the new governor that would removing those restrictions.

In an interview, Hankerson, like McGee, offered conflicting explanations, waffling between saying that he deserved a second chance because he had turned away from a sinful past, and denying personal responsibility, claiming his innocence.

Hankerson has been portrayed as a poster child for “forgiveness” and “redemption,” but he claimed to TheDCNF he “didn’t do it,” citing the successful appeal to the governor’s compassion as evidence. “That’s what a pardon does, bro. That mean I didn’t do it.”

Asked whether Nai Vang Saeturn, the 25-year-old killed as part of a robbery outside a liquor store, would agree that executive action altered the facts, he said “you’re not going to be able to find him.”

Though he has publicly touted bridge-building, he told a reporter whose job is uncovering fraud that he was inspired to be president of the NAACP because of anger at “people like you” and because “they falsely convict black people.”

As for why potential Alaska donors should feel comfortable that their money was in good hands given McGee’s history, and asked how much money McGee was in charge of, Hankerson claimed his NAACP chapters don’t disclose their finances. Told that federal tax law generally requires nonprofits to do so, Hankerson responded by saying “take it up with the IRS.”

Hankerson said it shouldn’t matter what McGee did “20, 30 years ago,” but when reminded that McGee’s conviction was in 2010, said a white person isn’t capable of judging how short or long seven years was.

“For a black man that’s a long time,” he said.

Hankerson reportedly still calls himself “9-0,” a nickname given to him by members of the Crips gang with whom he associated in jail, and railed against a city requirement that officials see evidence that programs local taxpayers fund help the intended beneficiaries.

That money “should be ours,” he said. “We got to create our own s–t.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/02/na...from-last-job/

Alaska NAACP Prez ‘Stole From The People He Was Supposed to Represent’
UKE ROSIAK
Investigative Reporter

02/01/2017

Black Alaskans have elected as the new president of the Anchorage NAACP a convict who used his previous role as president of a government employees union to embezzle from that group.

Kevin McGee “is a man who has stolen from the very people he was supposed to represent. He used his position to travel first class, stay at 5-star hotels, buy nice suits and live a life he otherwise could not afford,” the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) union told the judge in a victim impact statement at McGee’s June 2010 sentencing.

He “is nothing more than an opportunistic thief who has shown no remorse” and “doesn’t feel compelled to follow” the law, the union said. “McGee left this organization in a financial mess… there was no checking ledger, bank statements were not even opened.”

Yet in November 2016, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Anchorage chapter members chose McGee as their president, saying he would fight for “criminal justice reform” and that “following the apparent election of Donald Trump, Alaskans’ civil rights are at greater risk than at any point in recent memory.”

The union said McGee is “very quick to judge others” but “proudly flaunted” his own misconduct. It said it hopes others “will see what kind of a man he is.”

McGee was kicked out of AFGE “for serious misconduct, incompetence, negligence, and violations of AFGE Constitution.” As president of the AFGE local for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees, he drew a taxpayer-funded check despite working exclusively on union matters, under a policy called official time.

On February 2, 2010, then-national president John Gage suspended Mr. McGee from his union positions–which also included a national position dealing with affirmative action–for “gross neglect of duty,” malfeasance, and embezzlement.

The union said McGee then “failed to inform VA management, therefore he had no union position and performed no VA job. Essentially, he came to work, sat in his private office, had no job and was still paid his regular salary. Several months went by before the VA learned of his suspension and placed him in a job.”

In addition to stealing money by getting reimbursed twice for expenses, he “engaged in gross neglect of duty constituting misfeasance or malfeasance as an officer” and by “committing acts of mismanagement by expending Local funds not authorized by the membership approved budget.”

He “failed to seek membership authorization for additional funds when budget category allocations were exhausted. This gross misconduct, whether through incompetence or negligence, resulted in budget overruns.”

He also “failed to assure the AFGE Local 3028 IRS reports for tax year 2005 were timely submitted.”

Aside from the crimes, union members found McGee uninterested in helping them. “I feel that dealing with the ‘union’ on the leave restriction issue has cost me far more harm than good…. waiting over four months for a grievance that never actually went through. Yes Kevin, I feel I have been screwed,” one wrote to him.

Federal prosecutors charged him with four counts of fraud, including submitting “to the Department of Veterans Affairs a travel voucher knowing that the form contained a false representation seeking reimbursement for costs that he had not incurred” and “to the United States Department of Labor, an LM-3 financial disclosure form” under-reporting the money he had been paid.

The union said the official charges “barely scratch the surface of the misappropriation and blatant theft.”

McGee was unrepentant. Although he had no hope of regaining his position as local president, the day before he pleaded guilty he tried to withdraw his resignation as affirmative action coordinator. The law prohibits people who have been convicted of financial crimes from serving as union officers.

Augusta Thomas, national vice president for women and fair practices, responded that “you sought to withdraw your resignation as 11th District National Fair Practices Affirmative Action Coordinator… it is too late for you to withdraw your resignation.”

On February 26, he pleaded guilty, and on June 24, 2010, the Department of Justice announced that he was sentenced to 18 months of probation, 30 days home confinement and restitution for “making a false representation in a federal form to cover his receipt of double reimbursement.”

“Judge Burgess stated that it was an abuse of trust for McGee, the union president, to take the unauthorized funds and then cover up the conduct,” it said.

Asked whether he told the voting membership of the NAACP about his past when campaigning, McGee told the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group “No. Actually, I attempted to at a presidential forum, but another individual cut me off.”

But he said they knew anyway because he did tell the executive board, and “there were a couple members on the board who made it their duty” to tell people because they backed his opponent.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/01/alaska-naacpers-elect-financial-fraudster-as-chapter-chief/

All these organizations, 501 C 3 "charity" frauds as I call them, have corruption of one type or another. They're a disgrace. I want to get rid of all of them by passing the FairTax. You still have them by law, but the status designation is meaningless. They are treated like any other business under the FairTax and rightly so.

Most of them should lose their tax exempt status and be made to pay claw back monies. IMO

That would be all of them.