(Aug. 13, 1990) Indicted:Rep. Floyd Flake TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990 Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
Time Magazine MILESTONES, Page 73

INDICTED. Floyd Flake, 45, U.S. Congressman from New York; on 17 counts of conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion; in New York. A two-term Democratic Congressman who serves as pastor of the venerable Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., Flake is charged with embezzling $75,000 from a senior-citizen housing complex operated by his church. He is also accused of diverting $66,700 in church funds for his own use. His wife, portrayed as the bookkeeper of the operation, was also named in the indictment. If convicted of all charges, Flake could be sentenced to an 87-year prison term and a fine of $3.95 million.