“King was deemed unsafe to be around staff. He’s OK to be around kids?” said the Council insider, who requested anonymity.
The group is not listed as a not-for-profit charitable group in the state attorney general’s charitable group public registry.Mayor Adams’ office said the school — not Adams or his hand-picked school Chancellor David Banks — selected King’s BYEP.
For his part, the disgraced King defiantly said he was railroaded by the Council and insisted his work with kids is beyond reproach.“You can’t equate one with the other,” King said about linking his work at BYEP with his Council expulsion. “I’m not going to compare apples and oranges when it comes to helping people.”
He said teens were negatively impacted — academically and socially — by the COVID-19 pandemic and need help.
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