The rise of Trump, Sharpton and Giuliani
The end of shame
New York Newsday broke a blockbuster story on January 20, 1988.
Headlined “The Minister and the Feds,” the article by Bob Drury, Robert E. Kessler and Mike McAlary reported that the Rev. Al Sharpton Jr., “one of the city’s most vocal and visible black activists, has been secretly supplying federal law-enforcement agencies with information on boxing promoter Don King, reputed organized crime figures and black leaders and elected officials, according to sources.”
The 33-year-old Sharpton had admitted in an interview with Newsday that he “carried concealed microphones in briefcases” and joined federal agents who were wearing body mics as they met with people under investigation. He even let the feds put a tap on a phone in his home in Brooklyn but denied “supplying incriminating evidence on fellow activists or King.”
Sharpton went on offense after the st…
