Michael McCray

As a conscientious African-American community activist and civil rights lawyer, Michael McCray combats racism and corruption in the government and other institutions which deprive individuals of their basic civil rights, human rights and constitutional liberties. Whether by exposing human rights abuses under the "color of law" by public officials or cloaked in the "robes of justice". As a civil rights lawyer and federal whistleblower, McCray became known as the "$40,000,000 Whistleblower" when he reported over $40 million in government waste, fraud and abuse at the U.S. Department of Agriculture against the "black farmers" and in other rural development programs. McCray personally challenged the anti-civil rights and civil liberties policies of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and reported Ashcroft sanctioned official misconduct festering within the U.S. Department of Justice which later was exposed as politically motivated prosecutions by the U.S. Attorney's Office. McCray became a Judicial Reform Activist when he reported significant judicial misconduct against U.S. v. Microsoft Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and the Ashcroft Justice Department. His judicial complaint and judicial reform advocacy contributed to the early retirement, rather voluntary impeachment, of now disgraced Federal Judge Jackson. Beginning in 1994, Michael McCray served with distinction as community development specialist and a National Speaker on community economic development and technology issues for the Clinton Administration's Federal Empowerment Zone Initiative a/k/a the (EZ/EC) Initiative. McCray has also fought for human rights, judicial reform and equal justice as a National Board Delegate to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), as a principal for the Congress Against Racism and Corruption in Law Enforcement (CARCLE) and Co-chair for the International Association of Whistleblowers (IAW).

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