A native of the Arkansas Delta
Region, Michael McCray traveled to Washington during the Clinton Administration
and worked at U.S. Department of Agriculture on the Federal Empowerment Zone
Program, which was a Clinton White House Initiative. But he blew the whistle on
over $40 Million of waste, fraud and abuse at USDA and the mismanagement of
millions of dollars intended to benefit low and moderate income communities. He
became a federal whistleblower.
After suffer devastating discrimination and retaliation at USDA, McCray continued his advocacy on behalf of marginalized people by joining ACORN. You can say he wrote the book on ACORN corruption, because he really did. His new book ACORN 8: Race Power & Politics describes the inner struggle within the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and how it exploited the low-income and minority members it was founded to serve.
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