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Podcast: Darkness Radio
Episode: Triple Jeopardy: Three Strikes: But Not Out w/ Dr. Rita Ali
Description: True Crime Tuesday presents Triple Jeopardy: Three Strikes: But Not Out with Dr. Rita Ali!
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...