Ronald White: I did Nothing Wrong
LAWYER Ronald A. White, accused of allegedly plying ex-City Treasurer Corey Kemp with illegal gifts and trips, said yesterday he had not done anything wrong. The mayor's pal was the first to raise a racial defense, saying the government had a "cultural misunderstanding" about his relationship with Kemp. "We did things for each other because we were friends," White said. "Corey Kemp never asked me for anything, and I never asked him." White said the government took a phrase like "my boy," a "term of affection" in the African-American community, and "turned it into something else." [more]