The Albion, MI, Chamber of Commerce apparently doesn't do background checks on their award recipients. Giving an 'good neighbor' award to a convicted sex offender may cast doubt on the group's competence after all. From the AP visa The Detroit News: Michigan sex offender gets 'Good Neighbor' award
Apparently, he was convicted for touching an 10 year old girl in said Albion Community Band, and spent a couple of months in the can. It could have been worse though. The Albion Chamber of Commerce could be the governor of Michigan holding a public event where they gave a convicted embezzler more than $9 million of our money: Granholm gives convicted embezzler and scam artist $9.1 million tax breakA convicted sex offender has been given an award by a local business group in Calhoun County for his work with a community band.
TV station WWMT says the Albion Chamber of Commerce didn't know about Ken Fourn's past. He pleaded no contest to second-degree criminal sexual conduct in 1999 and is on the Michigan sex-offender registry.
Fourn was recently honored with a "Good Neighbor" certificate for more than 30 years of work with the Albion Community Band, 45 miles southwest of Lansing. He tells WWMT that he wouldn't have accepted it if he knew it would cause criticism. ...
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