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By Frank Rosario, Apr. 12, 2013, Nypost.com
DURHAM, NC — A drug trafficker who worked for Al Sharpton’s nonprofit in
the 1980s said that despite the preacher’s denials, he was eager to
get a slice of the lucrative drug deal captured on FBI surveillance video.
“It was greed. He just wanted money,” Robert Curington, 72,
told The Post during a two-day interview at his North Carolina home, detailing
for the first time how Sharpton stepped into the FBI’s trap — and was then forced to
become a federal informant.
Sharpton has said he showed interest in the drug deal only
because he feared the undercover agent was armed. He also claimed that he snitched for
the feds — as first reported by The Smoking Gun this week — because
the mob was threatening him.
Curington called all of that a tall tale.
He instead provided a detailed account of how Sharpton wined
and dined a man he thought was a South American drug lord — and said Sharpton
met him not just once, but three times.
Sharpton’s saga began in the Manhattan offices of boisterous
boxing big shot Don King in 1983, Curington said.
An unnamed felon trying to duck a 30-year prison sentence
promised the feds he could help them nail King on coke-dealing charges.
An undercover FBI agent, using the name Victor Quintana, set
up a meeting with King to discuss a boxing match in the Bahamas — but King had
a bad feeling about the potential business partner and pawned him off on
Sharpton.
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