Word: reed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found raped, beaten and poisoned in a stairwell of Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, seemed especially affecting. About the only bright note was the speed at which contributions, many as little as $5 or $10, poured in to help. Now one of the principal fund raisers, BEVERLY REED, an unemployed single mother of five, finds herself the target of the Illinois attorney general's office over her handling of $310,000 she collected on the girl's behalf. According to depositions taken in connection with the investigation, Reed spent more than $50,000 for personal use, including rent...
...talent, hiring writers and editors from such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and TIME (former chief political correspondent Michael Kramer is Brill's No. 2 editor). Washington Post media critic (and author of Spin Cycle) Howard Kurtz will be a contributor, as will former FCC chairman Reed Hundt and humorist Calvin Trillin. Brill has even hired an in-house ombudsman: former New York Times editor Bill Kovach, head of the Nieman journalism fellowships at Harvard, will critique Content's own articles...
...principal fund raisers, Beverly Reed, an unemployed single mother of five, finds herself the target of the Illinois attorney general's office over her handling of $310,000 she collected on the girl's behalf. According to depositions taken in connection with the investigation, Reed spent more than $50,000 for personal use, including rent, utility bills, a computer, babysitters for her children and payments to friends and family. Authorities contend that only about $1,400 has gone to Girl X or her family. The girl, who is blind, cannot speak and uses a wheelchair, lives in a state...
...Reed, who denies any illegal conduct, told TIME that payments to the girl were limited so as not to jeopardize her eligibility for public aid. "I may not have done everything properly," she said, "but I did the best I could. I am not an attorney or an accountant." Meanwhile, a separate $343,000 fund set up by WGCI Radio has been administered correctly...