A "Hate Crime" Hoax Unravels
Irmin
Black woman, former law student gets 5 1/2 years in phony
hate-mail case
CHICAGO (AP) - A black woman who sent phony hate mail to
prominent blacks in a scheme to defraud United Parcel Service out
of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced Tuesday to five
years and five months in federal prison.
Angela Jackson, 29, a former law student, claimed that white
racists working for the shipping company had damaged or lost
packages containing art works.
She tried to collect $143,500 for each loss, and to make her
claim credible, scrawled racist remarks on letters sent via UPS
to several prominent black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse
Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and eight members of
Congress.
Her aim was to make it appear the remarks were written by UPS
workers.
"There were so many falsehoods and lies, they were like
dandelions in the spring grass," U.S. District Judge Charles
Norgle said.
Jackson, who is not related to Jesse Jackson, was also convicted
of trying to torpedo the career of a Chicago police sergeant who
arrested her in 1996 by making it look as if the officer had
stolen her credit card.
She took the witness stand at her trial and tried to talk her way
out of trouble but became hostile and defiant under cross-
examination. At one point, she called prosecutor Ryan Stoll "an
animal."
At the sentencing, she apologized to her family, seated in court,
saying she was "sorry that their introduction to the American
judicial system had to be so negative."
Copyright 1999 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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From: don....@stormfront.org
To: ALL
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:29:28 GMT
Stormfronters!
Those of you who read the AP story last winter about Stormfront's
"involvement" in a UPS "racial harassment" and "extortion" scheme
will find this morning's AP story enlightening. No, I hadn't
finally gone off the deep end, spending my time harassing some
Black woman in Chicago :-). This is an example of just how rotten
the national media can really get.
I'll start with the original story, followed by today's [i.e. 12
Sept, 1997 - Irmin].
Special thanks to Anton of the Aryan News Service for tipping me
off this morning that the story was on the wires.
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FBI investigates UPS packages with racist messages
KAREN SCHWARTZ
01/30/97
NEW YORK (AP) - In a case taking on the outlines of racial
harassment or corporate extortion, someone is sending prominent
black people United Parcel Service envelopes defaced with bigoted
messages.
UPS executives say they didn't know the dozen next-day air
envelopes had passed through their system in December and January
until contacted this month by The Associated Press.
The envelopes were sent to the Washington offices of two Chicago
congressmen, Jesse Jackson Jr. and Bobby Rush; to the New York
City home and office of New York State Comptroller H. Carl
McCall; and to former Assistant U.S. Attorney for Civil Rights
Deval Patrick. Police say at least three other people received
defaced UPS envelopes, but would not release the names.
After looking into the complaints, UPS insisted none of its
339,000 employees was involved and suggested it may be an
extortion scam.
The criminal investigation, meanwhile, involves at least four
states and the District of Columbia; law enforcers working on it
range from local police to the FBI bias crimes unit.
UPS said its tracking system - so sophisticated that commercials
boast it can tell whether a person who signs for a package dots
his i's - missed the scrawled words "niger" and "nigers day."
Envelopes travel with labels up, and the slurs were written on
the undersides, said UPS spokesman Ken Sternad at headquarters in
Atlanta.
The flurry of mailings coincides with a nationwide class-action
lawsuit against UPS by black managers who contend they're passed
over in pay and promotions. In addition, black UPS employees in
California have complained of harassment by supervisors.
The culprit could be charged at a state level with aggravated
harassment, or the federal level with violating civil rights
statutes. Depending on the motive, the sender might also face
federal penalties for tampering with interstate commerce.
Some details about the deliveries come from one of the
recipients, Angela Jackson, an art distributor with a business in
Chicago called Afro-Centric Arts of Michigan Avenue. She lives
and works in St. Paul while attending law school. She is not
related to the congressman and, according to St. Paul police, is
not a suspect in the investigation.
On Dec. 4, Ms. Jackson, 27, received three brown padded bags with
prints and negatives she had ordered from the African-American
artist Bayo. The stapled bags had been opened and the contents
smeared with a substance she believes was feces. The bags were
then taped shut.
On the backs of two bags, over the artist's inscription "Kwanzaa
gift," someone had scrawled "nigers day" in red felt pen.
Ms. Jackson reported the delivery to police and to UPS in
Chicago. Word apparently never reached UPS headquarters because
of the company's system of regional hubs, Sternad said.
Ms. Jackson said she'd insured the artwork through UPS for
$150,000, but her claim was denied. She plans to sue UPS for
$500,000, for damages and emotional distress.
In a development that appears unique to the case, Ms. Jackson
said she received dozens of harassing calls on her home and
business phone lines for four or five days after the delivery.
The caller would either mutter a brief slur or hang up without
speaking.
Ms. Jackson's December phone bill for the toll-free line shows
two calls made from the West Palm Beach, Fla., home of former Ku
Klux Klan leader Don Black. She said she used the "star 69" phone
service to trace several of the calls on her home line and that
they also came from Black's number.
Black is well-known in white supremacist circles, and New York
state police investigating the UPS case have contacted Florida
authorities for information on Black's Internet site, Stormfront,
where he promotes his racist views.
Repeated calls to Black from the AP rang unanswered.
No other UPS recipient is known to have received calls placed
from Black's number, but the Stormfront name shows up in notes
sent in UPS envelopes from Dec. 23 to Jan. 3 to Ms. Jackson, Rep.
Jackson and McCall - misspelled as "Strom Front." The racial
epithet is again misspelled.
The notes were written in photocopied or computer-generated block
letters and look much like pasted-up ransom letters in movies.
The UPS logo was also copied onto the pages.
Ms. Jackson received a single envelope with two notes, one that
read "nigers day is coming," the other "happy nigers day
monkeys."
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Please note that my phone never rings unanswered. Local
newspapers had no problem reaching me that same day. The AP
reporter, Ms. Schwarz, never bothered. And no, I had never heard
of this Black woman in Chicago before this story, though I had
gotten some really strange calls from or purportedly from UPS.
The two calls on Jackson's "800" number resulted from someone
leaving a message here with that number, saying they were with
UPS and needed instructions for delivering a package.
I was later told by an FBI agent in Minnesota that someone had
also left messages with my number on UPS officials voicemail, in
an attempt to establish a link between us. I'm sure this scam
seemed perfectly logical to Jackson's primitive brain. Make
everybody think UPS wanted to harass their prominent Black
customers, and that they had hired me to do it! Yeaaaah!!!
Of course, Jackson's claims that I had called her home were
easily disproven by my phone records. I guess she didn't think
about that.
Here's today's story. Note that AP conveniently doesn't mention
me this time.
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Student Charged With 'Racist' Fraud
CHICAGO (AP) -- A black law student trying to defraud the United
Parcel Service scrawled racial epithets on packages and sent them
to herself and nationally known black leaders, federal
prosecutors say.
Angela L. Jackson of St. Paul, Minn., was accused in an
indictment Thursday of trying to collect $150,000 from UPS by
claiming workers had damaged and vandalized four packages
containing art works shipped to her.
The federal grand jury's indictment said Ms. Jackson, 27, accused
UPS employees of being members of racist organizations. To make
her claim seem realistic, she shipped 27 packages containing
racially offensive materials to prominent blacks and one to
herself.
Among those receiving the packages were the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
NAACP president Kweise Mfume and the Rev. Al Sharpton, federal
prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the packages were sent under phony accounts. Ms.
Jackson was indicted in Chicago because the racist material was
sent from the Chicago area.
Ms. Jackson formerly was a student at Chicago-Kent College of Law
and was enrolled during the last academic year at William
Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, according to a statement
released by the office of U.S. Attorney Scott R. Lassar. It said
she was co-owner of Afro-Centric Arts of Michigan Avenue Inc., a
company she formed just before launching the alleged scheme.
Ms. Jackson had insured each of four packages containing art
works for $37,500, and then shipped them to herself, the
indictment said. After the packages were delivered to her, she
damaged and scrawled racially offensive messages on them,
according to the indictment.
She then demanded payment for the damaged goods and claimed that
one of the packages had been lost, according to the indictment.
Ms. Jackson also was charged with mail fraud in what prosecutors
called an effort to discredit a Chicago police sergeant who
arrested her in July 1996.
The indictment said she bought mail-order items with her credit
card and had them sent to his home to make it appear the police
officer had taken her credit card.
Ms. Jackson's attorney, Standish Willis, said Thursday his client
would plead innocent. He declined further comment. Prosecutors
said a court date had not yet been set.
If convicted, Ms. Jackson faces a maximum sentence of five years
and fine of $250,000 on each of the nine fraud counts.
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