NYC lawyer accused by ex-employee of setting up straw donations for Andrew Yang, drawing attention from feds Chris Sommerfeldt, Michael Gartland
A politically-connected Manhattan lawyer is facing scrutiny from two federal agencies over allegations that he facilitated illegal campaign contributions to mayoral candidate Andrew Yang and another Democrat but the barrister says the claims are bogus and cooked up by a disgruntled ex-employee.
William Wachtel, the founder of white-shoe law firm Wachtel Missry, is accused by the former employee in a Federal Election Commission complaint of soliciting colleagues and associates to make political contributions on his behalf a practice known as straw donating, which can be illegal if middlemen are reimbursed.
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For members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, and especially people of color, the hesitancy stems, in part, from pre-existing mistrust in the medical establishment, the experts said.
The infamous Tuskegee study, which took place from 1932 to 1972, is one of the most egregious examples of racial discrimination in health care. The researchers recruited African-American men, some of whom were infected with syphilis, to observe the course of the disease. But the researchers did not disclose what they were studying or give the participants proper treatment, even as the men suffered and experienced severe health problems.
The racial bias still found in medical care as well as the modern-day discrimination faced by sexual and gender minorities adds an additional burden.