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Woman Charged in Race-Based Extortion

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A black woman from Minnesota has been indicted on federal fraud charges for an alleged extortion scheme involving packages defaced with racist epithets that she shipped to prominent blacks and to herself, federal prosecutors said in Chicago. The nine-count indictment charges that Angela Jackson, 27, the owner of Afro-Centric Arts in St. Paul, smeared feces and racially offensive messages on packages sent to phony accounts she set up, then demanded $150,000 in damages from UPS.

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