Adam Clayton Powell IV, who is challenging Rep. Charlie Rangel in the September 14 Democratic primary in NY-15, was told at a press conference yesterday that one of his major donors pleaded guilty to insider trading in 2002, and has been slapped with multiple racial and sexual harassment suits by dancers at his Bronx strip club, “Sin City.”
“I don’t want to hear any more. Jesus Christ, that’s quite a resume,” said Powell.
“I’m going to return the money. I want no part of anybody like that,” Powell said, according to the New York Daily News, when he heard about the legal troubles of Konstantine Drakopoulos. “Wow,” he said, six times.
Powell did admit he knew that Drakopoulos, who according to federal records gave Powell five donations of $1,000, was a strip club owner: “I honestly don’t know [when I learned about the strip joint],” he said. “I know he owns it. I haven’t been there.”
