"Behind Big Political Gifts, a Mysterious Donor"

Behind Big Political Gifts, a Mysterious Donor

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, ALISON LEIGH COWAN and JO CRAVEN McGINTY at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/nyregion/behind-big-political-gifts-a-mysterious-donor-from-queens.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&smid=fb-share


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It is a small apartment in a scrubby section of Jamaica, Queens, where the average household income is $33,800 and many residents receive government assistance.

But from this unlikely address, nearly $900,000 has flowed to the campaign accounts of powerful political players across the country.

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According to documents at the New York Department of State, Mr. Williams has formed at least 25 companies, most of them based at his apartment on 170th Street in Jamaica. But there is little evidence of their existing beyond incorporation papers, and most are now inactive.

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Before he vanished, Mr. Williams rebuffed a reporter who went to his apartment building and tried to ask him some basic biographical questions, like where he went to school. Mr. Williams said the questions were “more complicated” than they seemed and ended the conversation over a phone in the building’s lobby.

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