Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Cleveland NAACP Leader charged in BWC Probe

From the PD --

A task force investigating corruption at the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation on Tuesday charged Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes with criminal violations of state ethics laws.

The six misdemeanor charges stem from Forbes' tenure as a member of the BWC's oversight board.

He is accused of accepting gifts from investment brokers doing or trying to do business with the BWC and not reporting them on financial disclosure statements filed with the Ohio Ethics Commission.

Forbes, 76, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning in Franklin County Municipal Court. More....

His daughter, Mildred "Mimi" Forbes, worked as the human resources manager for MDL Capital Partners, a Pittsburgh firm that lost $216 million in a risky investment for the BWC.


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