Former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton donated thousands of dollars to a Brooklyn public relations specialist still in a coma after a Brooklyn Citi Bike crash, the Daily News learned Sunday.
Jacob Priley, who recently served as a chief of staff to a Manhattan state senator, suffered a traumatic brain injury after the incident, in which he slammed into a 2017 Nissan Rogue near the corner of Union St. and Fifth Ave. in Park Slope on Sept. 22, friends and family previously told The News.
Priley, 29, wasn’t wearing a helmet when he was thrown off the Citi Bike he was riding and onto the pavement, police sources said.
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Police respond to a collision involving a Nissan SUV and a Citi Bike on the corner of Union Street and 5th Ave. in Park Slope on Sept. 22. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)
He was taken to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in critical condition.
“We don’t yet know what Jacob’s prognosis will be, but he is fighting for his life,” wrote the organizer of a GoFundMe set up for the man.
The campaign has raised over $100,000, with a top donation of $10,000 by the Clintons.
Priley, an account supervisor for the public relations firm BerlinRosen, previously worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to his LinkedIn bio.
After the crash, tributes in honor of the well-liked politico flooded social media.
In an interview with The News last week, City Councilman Erik Bottcher said Priley “got into politics because he cares.
“He’s someone who you’d see at political events all the time and always there with a big smile,” Bottcher added. “I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like Jacob.”
