The LA NAACP boss who was paid by Donald Sterling for the achievement awards

This is Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles NAACP chapter which is now under scrutiny for awarding the bigot Donald Sterling with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’. He has resigned.

Jenkins allegedly was taking money from Sterling with promises to clear his (Sterling) name within the black community since the settlement over racial discrimination acts.

His trangressions:

While a Detroit judge, Jenkins in 1988 was indicted on federal bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and racketeering charges, according records from the State Bar of California.

Authorities at the time alleged that Jenkins received gifts from those who appeared in his court and committed perjury, the records show. He was acquitted of criminal charges. But in 1994 the Michigan Supreme Court disbarred him, finding “overwhelming evidence” that Jenkins “sold his office and his public trust,” according to the bar records.

Jenkins was practicing law in California in 1991, serving as an attorney to the family of Latasha Harlins, an African American girl who was fatally shot by a Korean grocery store owner in South L.A., according to Times reports at the time.

In 1995, the state bar began looking into the misconduct allegations from Michigan. He was disbarred in 2001, according to the state bar. He tried to be reinstated in 2006 but was rejected, records show. He made another attempt in 2012.

Earlier this month, the bar turned him down, questioning whether he had the “moral fitness to resume the practice of law,” according to records.

He certainly has the gift of gab to be able to convince people to hire his services.

Though he is quitting, the LA chapter has more than a president who makes decisions so the bad decision to honor a bigot was collective and that whole group should resign.