Michael Brooks says there’s no wrongdoing in use of $15,000 for Floyd Mayweather Jr. event that never happened
- Brooks says he didn’t throw his weight around for Mayweather event
Kansas City Councilman Michael Brooks said the press created a storm around $15,000 that went missing from City Hall for a Floyd Mayweather Jr. event that never happened.
Brooks took to 1590 AM Wednesday afternoon to deny any inappropriate conduct in obtaining $15,000 from City Manager Troy Schulte to get the famous (and at times, infamous) boxer to town to speak to the city’s youth. Brooks spoke to Schulte to secure the money on behalf of local anti-violence group POSSE’s director Ossco Bolton.
Brooks called the $15,000 obtained last year “seed money” and that it would actually cost between $60,000 and $70,000 to actually get someone like Mayweather to Kansas City. The Mayweather event never happened and the $15,000 hasn’t been returned to City Hall.
“It was unfortunate that it didn’t happen,” Brooks said on the radio.
The explanation of why it didn’t happen remained murky after Brooks’ 10-minute explanation over the airwaves.
