Ex-UNC hoops player on trial in fraud
Courtney Dupree, a former University of North Carolina basketball player who hosted a pricey 2008 fundraiser for the Obama campaign, defrauded a bank out of $18 million by cooking the books at his Long Island City lighting supply company, prosecutors said in opening statements Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn.
Dupree, 42, of Manhattan, and co-defendant Thomas Foley, 43, a lawyer, are charged...
