CLEVELAND, Ohio — Former Cleveland Browns player and founder of the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance Reggie Rucker was charged Tuesday in federal court with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to his non-profit agencies to pay off gambling debts and his mortgage among other personal expenses.
Federal prosecutors say Rucker used the non-profits’ bank accounts as his own — writing himself checks for thousands of dollars, withdrawing cash at ATMs and at casinos across the country and often running the agencies into the red sometimes while his outreach workers went months without a paycheck.
Rucker faces one count each of wire fraud and false statements to law enforcement. He was charged by way of a crimin…
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