Sharpton didn’t just want a slice of that coke deal, he did inhale…a lot, according to his friend, Robert Curington.
Via NY Post:
If he were indeed a coke-snorting, drug-dealing, FBI-fearing mob stoolie, he would have just said so, the Rev. Al Sharpton insisted Saturday.
And the world would have forgiven him, he argued.
“I could have very easily said, ‘I made a lot of mistakes 30 years ago,’ and confess to all the allegations they said, and the public would have forgiven me,” Sharpton said, reacting to an ongoing storm of reports claiming that back in 1983, the feds flipped him against his mobster pals after catching him in a coke sting.
“I could have said, ‘I helped the cops because I was scared.’ And at the end of the day, who would have been mad at me for 30 years ago?” he argued.
“But why lie?” he said in sticking to his denials. “I’m not going to distort what happened.”
Sharpton’s remarks came in response to an exclusive Post interview with Robert Curington, the former VP of Sharpton’s ’80s-era National Youth Movement.