Sharpton scumwatch

New Yorkers, watch your wallets when friends of Reverend Al enter the room.

A top presidential fund-raiser for the Rev. Al Sharpton was convicted yesterday in a massive Philadelphia pay-for-play corruption trial.

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Hawkins and Philly powerbroker Ron White were caught on FBI tapes saying Sharpton could gain them access to New York City pension funds and "billions" in Pepsi contracts. White died before trial.

"Let's say they [Pepsi] probably have some minority mandates . . . We could take insurance, we could take printing, we could take their pension fund . . . If you just broke off, like, you know, 10 percent of that s- - -, man, like, you talking billions," White tells Hawkins on a March 31, 2003, tape.

It's a travesty the good Reverend holds one iota of power in NY politics.