S18 Ep43: Triple Jeopardy: Three Strikes: But Not Out w/ Dr. Rita Ali
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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 153 minutes
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Summary
Rita Ali was a distinguished Philadelphia socialite and among the few African American women boxing PR professionals who hobnobbed with such famous fighters as Muhammad Ali, Michael Spinks, and Mike Tyson, who is now her son-in-law. Then it all came crashing down when she — along with her daughter and son — was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for allegedly funneling public funds through a partnership between the Sister Clara Muhammad School and the Community College of Philadelphia. The indictment alleged that the defendants profited off of a ghost employee scam to provide adult education classes. “I was convicted and sentenced three times on virtually the same charges for a crime I didn’t commit, which amounted to triple jeopardy,” she says. She is the author of “Triple Jeopardy: 3 Strikes But Not Out,” and a life coach and founder of the nonprofit We 2 Matter, which provides resources for previously incarcerated women.
Dr. Ali joins TCT today to talk about her illustrious past, why the government focused in on her and her children, prison life, and how she turned a negative experience in prison into a positive experience helping other women who are incarcerated.
PLUS, AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH BEER CITY BRUISER!
Get your copy of "Triple Jeopardy..." here: https://bit.ly/3ZS5H5b
Find out how you can join Dr, Ali in help empower formerly incarcerated women to succeed as they re-enter society! Check out We2Matter here: https://we2matter.org/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Best in True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:26.9 | Have a very interesting show for you today folks. |
| 0:29.5 | Not only do we have Dunkin' Crime Supercriminals coming up at the end of the program, but we |
| 0:32.7 | have a very interesting guest today. |
| 0:34.5 | We have a distinguished guest with us today and Dr. Rita O'Leigh, who is a distinguished |
| 0:38.8 | Philadelphia socialite and among the few African American women boxing PR professionals, |
| 0:44.6 | who hobnobbed with such famous fighters as Muhammad O'Leigh, Michael Spinks and Mike Tyson, |
| 0:49.7 | who by the way is her son-in-law. |
| 0:52.4 | Then mysteriously all came crashing down when she along with her daughter and son were |
| 0:57.0 | wrongly convicted and imprisoned for allegedly funneling public funds for partnership between |
| 1:02.6 | the sister Claire Muhammad School and the community college of Philadelphia. |
| 1:07.3 | Now the indictment alleged that the defendants profited off a ghost employees scam to provide |
| 1:12.2 | adult education class. |
| 1:15.0 | To quote Dr. O'Leigh, she says, I was convicted and sentenced three times on virtually the |
| 1:20.6 | same charges for a crime I didn't commit which amounted to triple jeopardy. |
| 1:24.8 | We'll find out more about that here later in the program. |
| 1:28.4 | Now she's the author of a book that I had the pleasure of sitting down and reading over |
| 1:31.5 | the weekend called Triple Jeopardy, Three Strikes But Not Out. |
| 1:35.2 | She's also a life coach and founder of the nonprofit We Too Matter, which we'll also |
| 1:39.2 | sit down to talk about today, which provides resources for previously incarcerated women. |
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