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Rev Al Sharpton has accused police of trying to embarrass him Leaked that his Viagra prescription found at Sanford Rubenstein's home Rubenstein, 70, was accused of attacking a woman last October 42-year-old executive accused him of raping her in his New York penthouse Manhattan district attorney says there isn't enough evidence to prosecute Prescription for erectile dysfunction pill found during probe into the case

By Ted Thornhill for MailOnline

Published: 07:38 EST, 6 January 2015 | Updated: 08:43 EST, 6 January 2015

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Rev Al Sharpton has accused police of trying to embarrass him after they revealed they found his Viagra prescription in the apartment of a lawyer friend recently cleared of rape charges.

High-profile civil rights attorney Sanford Rubenstein, 70, has been told he will not face criminal charges after a woman accused him of rape last year.

But rather than the case disappearing from the media spotlight, it was leaked that a prescription for Viagra a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction was found in Rubensteins apartment, made out in Sharptons name.

Rev Al Sharpton (center) has accused police of trying to embarrass him after they revealed they found his Viagra prescription in the apartment of a lawyer friend, Sanford Rubenstein (second left)

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Al Sharpton says the New York Post should know better than to accuse him of political pay-to-play.

On Sunday, Rupert Murdochs New York Post took aim at the Rev. Al, charging the grandstanding civil rights leader with muscling companies like Sony Pictures out of hush money for his National Action Network, in order to make racial discrimination accusations go away.

But according to Sharpton, the Post article somehow forgot to mention that their 83-year-old Svengali has played ball with him, too.

In February 2009, when Sharpton was leading protests outside the Posts Midtown headquarters after it ran a cartoon that many New Yorkers felt compared President Obama to a chimpanzee, Sharpton says he met with the Posts parent, News Corp., to hammer out a deal.

I met with Murdoch, he issued a statement, and we let it go, Sharpton said. After that they formed this diversity board where we were supposed to have input, then the board fell apart.

Sharpton insists he wasnt paid for his consultancy on that board, but he estimates it was four or five years ago, right around 2009, that News Corp. started buying $5,000 to $10,000 tables at his NAN events. He also denies a connection between those transactions and the end of his protests, arguing that News Corp.s contributions to his organization date back to around 2007.

When you talk about a company wanting to attend your banquet and mingle, they might buy a table or a ticket, Sharpton told Confidenti@l. That doesnt mean its a shakedown.

Sharpton insists that just like any other company, News Corp., the parent company of the Post and Fox News, pays to attend NAN events and network with prominent black businessman and politicians including Obama.

Sharpton also points out that around 2009, Fox commentator Bill OReilly donated $25,000 to his organization and that it hasnt bought OReilly amnesty from criticism.

In their Sunday takedown, the Post further contends, For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharptons National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverends supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence.

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5:29 p.m. EST January 6, 2015

Rev. Al Sharpton gestures as he speaks at the National Action Network conference in New York in April 2014.(Photo: AP)

WASHINGTON Recent events from Ferguson, Missouri, to Staten Island, New York, might prompt an observer to infer that American cops are racist and that a bigoted white populace tolerates unnecessary lethal force against minorities.

One might also conclude that America has a hearty appetite for the carnival barker, the jester, the rabble-rouser, the race baiter and, lest we leave anyone out, the performance-activist who pretends to be a newsman while fomenting unrest that only he can quell.

I havent yet said Al Sharpton, but if his name came to mind, there must be a reason.

In nearly every high-profile case in recent years that involved a black alleged victim and a white alleged perpetrator, Sharpton has injected himself as arbiter. Where once he was a mere street activist, he is today a disruptive celebrity. He has stepped off the soapbox and into the MSNBC television studio, where he is free to pontificate and to chastise those who dont fit his template of truth and justice.

This isnt to say that Sharpton doesnt have fans or that he hasnt helped many people. He has. But in too many cases that he designates as racist, he has inarguably contributed to more harm than good. He has evolved into a variation on the Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: He creates a problem, then zooms in to save the day.

One can argue that he isnt really taken seriously, but this isnt so. Protesters take him seriously. The president of the United States takes him seriously enough to bring him in as an adviser. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes him seriously enough to keep him close despite, or perhaps because of, Sharptons recent threat to the mayor: If were going to just play spin games, Ill be your worst enemy.

Well, now.

This was in connection with Sharptons push to revolutionize the police department in the wake of the death of Eric Garner, who was asphyxiated after being placed in a police chokehold. Was that cop racist? Hard to say, but its not difficult to deduce racism in the subsequent murders of two police officers sitting in their car by a black man who described his act on Instagram as revenge.

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Rape charges were dropped Monday against Al Sharpton crony Sanford Rubenstein for lack of evidence but he was instantly slapped with a lawsuit by the alleged victim.

Manhattan prosecutors say they let the cop-bashing civil-rights lawyer off the hook because they found that the sex-assault claims by accuser Iasha Rivers were not credible and couldnt even be put before a grand jury.

Given the available evidence, the degree of the complainants recollection of what occurred at the suspects apartment, and the results of the toxicological testing, neither the provable facts nor the applicable law support a prosecution in this matter, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorneys Office said.

A lawyer for Rubenstein celebrated the decision, saying there was no rape.

What happened in this case was consensual sex between two adults who were fully alert and fully awake throughout, said Rubenstein attorney Benjamin Brafman.

The decision to clear Rubenstein left his accuser devastated, her lawyer said, and prompted her to immediately file a suit against him in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

It really wasnt a surprise to us, said Rivers attorney, Keith White. I think she was upset that the system failed her.

In her suit, Rivers says Rubenstein attacked her while she was passed out at his Upper East Side penthouse, where the pair went after Sharptons Oct. 1 birthday bash at the Four Seasons.

As the defendant was a colleague with ties to Sharpton and his organization, Ms. Rivers thought it would be safe to accept the defendants offer to see the view from his penthouse and enjoy a few cocktails . . . However, it turned out to yield horrible consequences, the suit says.

Rivers passed out, but awoke and saw Rubenstein raping her, the suit says. She couldnt resist and again passed out. She also claims to have seen bloody condoms.

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Cleared of rape charges, Rubenstein slapped with lawsuit

Sandy Rubenstein was cleared of a rape accusation Monday, but not before one final, potentially humiliating revelation emerged about his ex-pal Al Sharpton.

A prescription for the sex pill Viagra was found in Rubensteins apartment but it was issued in Sharptons name, a police source told the Daily News.

A shocked Sharpton initially said he was unaware of a doc's note for the little blue pill that solves erectile dysfunction.

I dont know anything about that, no, I dont know anything about that, Sharpton said, after a speechless second.

But he roared back a moment later, accusing the source who leaked the detail of trying to embarrass him with a smear campaign and saying he would demand an investigation.

I am not saying what I do or dont do, Im not going to invade my privacy for some cop, said Sharpton. I have no knowledge of what was in (Rubensteins) apartment. But its not uncommon for men of all ages to use certain things.

If the motive of the cop was to embarrass me, at 60 years old, I am unembarrassable, fumed Sharpton, whose longstanding animosity with the NYPD has reached a fever pitch because of his vocal opposition to stop-and-frisk and close relationship to Mayor de Blasio. The tensions got even worse recently with the execution of two cops who were shot while on duty.

The prescription was just the latest in a string of tawdry finds cops made as they searched Rubensteins apartment after a top official with Sharptons National Action Network accused him of drugging and raping her last year.

But after an investigation that saw interviews with 48 people, including Rubenstein and the accuser, prosecutors said Monday afternoon they concluded there was no case.

"Given the available evidence, the degree of the complainant's recollection of what occurred at the suspect's apartment, and the results of toxicological testing, neither the provable facts nor the applicable law support a prosecution in this matter," Manhattan District Attorney spokeswoman Joan Vollero said in a statement.

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