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By Tom Beyerlein  and Lynn Hulsey, Staff Writers Updated 9:10 AM Thursday, February 25, 2010

State officials have canceled more than $52,000 in criminal justice grants to the Dayton chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, cutting off the last taxpayer money to the civil rights group chaired by the Rev. Raleigh Trammell.

Officials of Ohio’s Office of Criminal Justice Services told SCLC leaders Tuesday, Feb. 23, that they were canceling the federal funds, including stimulus money, awarded last year for services to be delivered through 2010.

“OCJS determined the grant was not being administered according to federal guidelines and stopped any further activity on the grant,” state spokeswoman Kristen Castle said Wednesday.

The state inspected the SCLC’s records for a teen domestic violence awareness program in January and found that the SCLC couldn’t show proof of how money from a 2009 grant was spent. The program’s paid staff included Trammell’s two daughters.

The inspection was prompted by allegations that Trammell and another man embezzled $569,000 from the national SCLC in Atlanta, which is also chaired by Trammell.

The cancellation brings to $232,383 the amount of public money that funding agencies have pulled from the local SCLC and the Trammell-led Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance since Feb. 11. That’s the day FBI agents raided Dayton SCLC headquarters and the homes of Trammell and daughter Angela Goodwine, who led a criminal justice program for area schools.

Trammell did not return a phone call Wednesday seeking comment.

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