Kai Franklin to avoid jail

Published: December 18, 2007, 7:25 pm

Tags: atlanta politics, black atlanta movers and shakers, drug trafficking ring, federal indictment, kai franklin, tremayne graham, black bourgeoisie

Hat Tip: By Alan Judd, Atlanta Journal Constitution Greenville, S.C. - In November 2004, Kai Franklin Graham’s life was unraveling. Her husband of three years was a fugitive from justice, charged with operating a transcontinental drug-trafficking ring. One of his co-defendants - a potential witness against him - had been shot to death. Federal agents had searched the Grahams’ $650,000 house in suburban Atlanta. And the mortgage was due. One day, about two weeks after her husband had fled to California, the oldest of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s three children traveled to seven post offices. At each, she bought two $1,000 money orders, a total of $14,000 that she used for house payments. She paid cash. The money, federal prosecutors said here Monday, came from drug dealing. And the transactions, Franklin Graham admitted to a judge, were designed to evade government reporting requirements that help authorities spot money laundering. With her mother

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