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Mount Vernon Mayor Ernie Davis on federal probe: I'm target of 'lynching'

Originally published: February 14, 2013 3:14 PM
Updated: February 14, 2013 8:40 PM
By TIMOTHY O'CONNOR  timothy.oconnor@cablevision.com

Bill O'Shaughnessy interviews Mayor Ernie Davis during his

Bill O'Shaughnessy interviews Mayor Ernie Davis during his show on radio station WVOX in New Rochelle. Davis expresses his views on the federal investigation into his finances. (Feb. 14, 2013) (February 14, 2013 6:44 PM)

In an outburst of emotion in print and on the radio, Mount Vernon Mayor Ernie Davis on Thursday slammed the media for "lynching" him and federal authorities for "demonizing" him as he publicly tries to combat a federal probe into his finances.

"When you are a black man ... this is nothing. There is no black leader that has not gone through all types of stuff," he told William O'Shaughnessy...

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