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YBW Exclusive: Former Friend to Rev. Al Sharpton Warns Against Trusting FBI Informant
By Andrew Scot Bolsinger
A high-school friend and early partner in civil rights to Rev. Al Sharpton – activist, political mahogfrntLcandidate, talk show host —
has challenged the veracity of Sharpton’s ethics from his earliest days while highlighting exactly how the controversial past as an
FBI informant remains relevant now years later.
Donald Thomas was a high-school buddy with the controversial, outspoken activist. When Sharpton was just 16 and Thomas was 17,
the two formed Sharpton’s first civil rights organization, the now-defunct National Youth Movement, in New York.
Thomas said he recognized early a tendency in his friend to cυt corners and quickly distanced himself from the organization back in 1974.
But now forty years later, Thomas is determined to continue to clear his name while raising key questions about his former friend.
“I was not aware that the clock runs out on being an informant,” Thomas said recently in an exclusive interview with Your Black World.
Recent news reports chronicled Sharpton’s controversial role as an FBI informant during the 1980s. Sharpton dismissed claims of his
involvement other than to say he helped the FBI by his own choice because of threats from the mob.
But since those revelations became public, former associates of Sharpton’s have come forward with a different version of events.
A drug trafficker named Bob Curington who worked for Al Sharpton in the 1980s said that despite the preacher’s denials, Sharpton
wanted to profit from a lucrative drug deal captured on FBI surveillance video. He had no choice but to wear a wire or go to prison,
Curington said.
Read more: http://www.yourblackworld.net/2014/...harpton-warns-against-trusting-fbi-informant/
By Andrew Scot Bolsinger
A high-school friend and early partner in civil rights to Rev. Al Sharpton – activist, political mahogfrntLcandidate, talk show host —
has challenged the veracity of Sharpton’s ethics from his earliest days while highlighting exactly how the controversial past as an
FBI informant remains relevant now years later.
Donald Thomas was a high-school buddy with the controversial, outspoken activist. When Sharpton was just 16 and Thomas was 17,
the two formed Sharpton’s first civil rights organization, the now-defunct National Youth Movement, in New York.
Thomas said he recognized early a tendency in his friend to cυt corners and quickly distanced himself from the organization back in 1974.
But now forty years later, Thomas is determined to continue to clear his name while raising key questions about his former friend.
“I was not aware that the clock runs out on being an informant,” Thomas said recently in an exclusive interview with Your Black World.
Recent news reports chronicled Sharpton’s controversial role as an FBI informant during the 1980s. Sharpton dismissed claims of his
involvement other than to say he helped the FBI by his own choice because of threats from the mob.
But since those revelations became public, former associates of Sharpton’s have come forward with a different version of events.
A drug trafficker named Bob Curington who worked for Al Sharpton in the 1980s said that despite the preacher’s denials, Sharpton
wanted to profit from a lucrative drug deal captured on FBI surveillance video. He had no choice but to wear a wire or go to prison,
Curington said.
Read more: http://www.yourblackworld.net/2014/...harpton-warns-against-trusting-fbi-informant/
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