Civil rights leader must make good on $55,000 bad check

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge has ordered civil rights leader and former congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy to make good on a bad check for $55,000 he wrote to an event planner.

Johnny Barnes, Fauntroy’s lawyer, tells The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/29URTns ) that a judge in Prince George’s County, Maryland, issued the order Wednesday. If the money is not repaid before Sept. 12, the 83-year-old Fauntroy will face trial.

Fauntroy allegedly wrote the check to pay for a 2009 ball he organized for President Barack Obama’s first inauguration. Fauntroy left for the United Arab Emirates in 2012 after a bench warrant was issued.

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