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For Immediate Release: September 11, 2006
Contact: Frank Sobrino
(212) 669-4193
Gotbaum
Urges Industrial Development Agency
to
Deny Financing for Organization
Founded
by Lenora Fulani
“Lenora Fulani has made a reputation as a virulent anti-Semite;
Fred Newman is the figurehead of a cult that sexually exploits
women; and the All-Stars Project is simply Fulani and Newman’s
attempt to give their bigotry and wrongdoing a cloak of legitimacy.
The Industrial Development Agency must not validate that attempt
with $12.75 million in tax-free financing.
“Dr. Newman has
funneled money from the All-Stars Project into activities that
promote his fringe beliefs in the past, and a vote of confidence
from the IDA would only embolden him further. This time, though,
his misconduct would come at the public’s expense. I urge
Mayor Bloomberg and the IDA in the strongest terms to block this
bond transaction. The City of New York should, whenever possible,
make it difficult for hate-mongers like Fulani and Newman to operate.”
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