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Prosecutor: Sharpton Not a Figure in Probe
Wiretaps Misunderstood in Fraud Case
Associated Press
Sunday, April 3, 2005; Page A08
PHILADELPHIA, April 2 -- An investigation into whether Al Sharpton was involved in a scheme to defraud a pension fund was based on misinterpreted wiretaps, a prosecutor said Saturday.
Sharpton, who was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination at the time of the investigation, attracted authorities' attention when he started raising campaign money and discussing business with the late Ronald A. White, a Democratic fundraiser who was a target of a federal corruption probe at Philadelphia City Hall.
"The bottom line is that we thought something may have been going on with the New York pension fund that we were not accurate about," Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Zauzmer said Saturday.
