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Church Leader Indicted in $1.6 Million Fraud Scheme
By: Heartland News
CAIRO,Ill. - A church leader with Heartland ties gets indicted in connection with $1 million fraud scheme involving a not-for-profit orgination he operates in Cairo.
The Reverend Charles Koen heads up the Christian Hope Church and a civil rights organization called United Front.
The Cook County state's attorney accuses Koen of running a fake training program through United Front to help workers get carpentry training so they can earn a union card.
In fact, the prosecutor says Koen and others from United Front scammed $1.6 million from government agencies.
Koen has a criminal record that runs all the way back to the 1960's. Cairo police arrested him on felony theft charges just last fall.
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