(New York Daily News) – Brooklyn City Councilman Charles Barron and his assemblywoman wife have pumped $350,000 in taxpayer money into a nonprofit run by a longtime political aide, records show. Charles and Inez Barron steered the money to Man Up! Inc., a group that helps inmates reenter society, and gave campaign funds to its affiliate, Hip Hop Stand Up and Vote. Both are run by Barron’s longtime friend and sometime campaign worker Andre Mitchell, records show. Mitchell was paid as a consultant and manager in Charles Barron’s 2005 and 2009 campaigns. Barron’s campaign headquarters shared an address with Hip Hop Stand Up and Vote, and a Man Up! board member and an employee worked on Barron’s campaigns.
