A former corporation counsel for Newark has claimed in a whistleblower suit that he was fired after objecting to terms of a deal between the city and a developer.
Ex-Corporation Counsel Willie Parker claims Mayor Ras Baraka and his brother and chief of staff, Amiri Baraka Jr., were angered after he advised them in August 2016 that a clause in a contract with a developer would cost the city millions of dollars and would enrich private interests. The chief of staff told Parker the contract revision was executed for “purely political reasons.” The chief of staff then confronted Parker outside his home with two armed bodyguards, demanding he change his story, after learning that he repeated the substance of that conversation to the mayor, according to the complaint.
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