FBI gives early Christmas present to Rev. Sharpton
Report: Feds Raid Al Sharpton Offices, Subpoena Financial Records, Employees
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316660,00.html
NEW YORK - Federal authorities have subpoenaed financial records and employees in an apparent probe of the Rev. Al Sharpton's 2004 presidential bid, nonprofit civil rights group, and for-profit businesses, a newspaper reported Thursday.
As many as 10 Sharpton associates were subpoenaed Wednesday to testify before a federal grand jury in Brooklyn Dec. 26, his lawyer told the Daily News.
They were told to provide investigators with financial records from the campaign and roughly six Sharpton-related businesses, as well as personal financial documents of Sharpton and his wife, the newspaper said.
The FBI and Internal Revenue Service are seeking the records, which go back to 2001, according to the Daily News.
A Sharpton spokeswoman did not immediately return phone calls or e-mail messages early Thursday.
An FBI agent who answered the phone at the agency's New York headquarters declined to comment, and an agency spokesman did not immediately return a telephone message. An IRS spokesman did not immediately return phone calls.
"It was like a sting or a raid," said Carl Redding, Sharpton's chief of staff for eight years during the 1990s. "They converged on everybody."
Redding said FBI agents awoke him at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday with a subpoena to testify and to bring records to the grand jury, but would not tell him the reason for the investigation.
Several staffers from the National Action Network, a Sharpton-led civil rights organization, also got subpoenas to testify, said Sharpton lawyer Michael Hardy. Sharpton himself did not receive a subpoena, the Daily News said.
Sharpton spokesman Charlie King said the minister and the National Action Network were cooperating with the probe. Hardy was sanguine about the developments.
"I can't think of a time when the Rev. Sharpton wasn't under investigation," he said.
Sharpton agreed in 2005 to repay the government $100,000, plus interest, for taxpayer money he received during his failed effort to win the Democratic presidential nomination the year before, though he denied wrongdoing.
The Federal Election Commission had determined that he spent more of his own money on the campaign than the qualifications for federal matching funds allow.
In 1993, Sharpton pleaded guilty to not filing a state income tax return in 1986.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316660,00.html
NEW YORK - Federal authorities have subpoenaed financial records and employees in an apparent probe of the Rev. Al Sharpton's 2004 presidential bid, nonprofit civil rights group, and for-profit businesses, a newspaper reported Thursday.
As many as 10 Sharpton associates were subpoenaed Wednesday to testify before a federal grand jury in Brooklyn Dec. 26, his lawyer told the Daily News.
They were told to provide investigators with financial records from the campaign and roughly six Sharpton-related businesses, as well as personal financial documents of Sharpton and his wife, the newspaper said.
The FBI and Internal Revenue Service are seeking the records, which go back to 2001, according to the Daily News.
A Sharpton spokeswoman did not immediately return phone calls or e-mail messages early Thursday.
An FBI agent who answered the phone at the agency's New York headquarters declined to comment, and an agency spokesman did not immediately return a telephone message. An IRS spokesman did not immediately return phone calls.
"It was like a sting or a raid," said Carl Redding, Sharpton's chief of staff for eight years during the 1990s. "They converged on everybody."
Redding said FBI agents awoke him at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday with a subpoena to testify and to bring records to the grand jury, but would not tell him the reason for the investigation.
Several staffers from the National Action Network, a Sharpton-led civil rights organization, also got subpoenas to testify, said Sharpton lawyer Michael Hardy. Sharpton himself did not receive a subpoena, the Daily News said.
Sharpton spokesman Charlie King said the minister and the National Action Network were cooperating with the probe. Hardy was sanguine about the developments.
"I can't think of a time when the Rev. Sharpton wasn't under investigation," he said.
Sharpton agreed in 2005 to repay the government $100,000, plus interest, for taxpayer money he received during his failed effort to win the Democratic presidential nomination the year before, though he denied wrongdoing.
The Federal Election Commission had determined that he spent more of his own money on the campaign than the qualifications for federal matching funds allow.
In 1993, Sharpton pleaded guilty to not filing a state income tax return in 1986.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now thats just to bad[:D] 0 -
I really hope they nail this guy. Maybe it will lead over to Jesse
Jackson too. Sharpton had the ignorance to say the govt. blew the
levees after Katrina to save the white peoples homes. I don't think
he realized the stupidity of that remark until he learned the levee
broke in a upscale white neighborhood.0 -
Damn FBI... I really wish they'd quit profiling these turds. 0 -
I'm still waiting for him to "pay the piper" for his demagogueing the Tawana Brawley fooforaw.
But I would be happy if they put him in jail for anything. He is bad for anybody he supports. There is a strong smell of Mendacity roundabout him and his acolytes.0 -
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy... unless they went after Jesse Jackson. 0 -
Or the Reverend Farrakan... 0 -
Now just because of his race
Next they will be picking on the mexicans0 -
Now lets see how close Rev. Jesse gets..[:)] 0 -
It's a racist conspiracy. If he was white this never would have happened. 0 -
Sorry, is NOT racist - do you know haw many churches and 401 C (3) establishments get investigated and incarcerated a year for tax mess-ups??? MANY,MANY!!!
Maybe it is racist that we hear/read more about this one, but that lies at the feet of the MainStreamMedia. The FBI, and the IRS, are very carefully NOT racist.0 -
RACISM! It's the white man just trying to keep poor Al Sharpton down! 0 -
If I find out Bush personally authorized this, I may have to say something good about our president for once![:D] 0 -
Maybe their investigation will also reveal what gives MR. Sharpton the right to call himself "Reverend". [:(!] 0 -
Redding said FBI agents awoke him at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday with a subpoena to testify and to bring records to the grand jury, but would not tell him the reason for the investigation.
because hes black duh [8D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Dakota308
Redding said FBI agents awoke him at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday with a subpoena to testify and to bring records to the grand jury, but would not tell him the reason for the investigation.
because hes black duh [8D]
I'm sure his first words were "I didn't did nuttin'"0 -
quote:Originally posted by Dakota308
Redding said FBI agents awoke him at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday with a subpoena to testify and to bring records to the grand jury, but would not tell him the reason for the investigation.
because hes black duh [8D]
LOL!!! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Now that's funny right there!0 -
I'd like the FBI to invetigate Jesse and find out where all his money comes from? 0 -
Shall we all sing and rejoice to "The Justice Brothers" Harlem based Civil Rights Network'good fortune?
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
'Tis the season to be jolly
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la0 -
All I can say is great I hope they smoke him just like they would anyone else. 0 -
Good things come to those who wait![:D][:D] 0 -
Bush did it. [:D] 0 -
I hope the TV evangelistd are next. All frauds, black, or white, or yellow should all get the same treatment. 0 -
And then churches that use Church status to preach politics/offer sanctuary to illegal immigrants, etc. 0
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