maybe some good news about al sharpton
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/13/sharpton.ap/index.html
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton on Thursday angrily denounced reports of an investigation into his 2004 presidential bid and suggested that federal authorities were retaliating against him for his civil rights advocacy.
"The issues raised are issues that we've learned over and over again," said Al Sharpton.
"I have probably been under every investigation known to man and I can't remember a time that I've not been under investigation," Sharpton said at the Harlem headquarters of his civil rights organization.
He continued: "The issues raised are issues that we've learned over and over again, particularly when we are approaching an election season." Watch Sharpton on why he's upset ?
Newspapers reported Thursday that federal authorities subpoenaed financial records and employees in an apparent probe of his presidential bid, nonprofit civil rights group and for-profit businesses.
Sharpton said he thought the timing of the investigation was suspicious, coming just weeks after he led a march on the Justice Department to demand federal intervention in the Jena Six case in Louisiana and better enforcement of hate crimes.
As many as 10 Sharpton associates were subpoenaed Wednesday to testify before a federal grand jury in Brooklyn on December 26, his lawyer told the Daily News.
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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.
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.
The charges against the six black students accused of attacking a white student in Jena, Louisiana, led to the September demonstration by Sharpton and other activists who alleged local authorities were prosecuting blacks more harshly than whites
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton on Thursday angrily denounced reports of an investigation into his 2004 presidential bid and suggested that federal authorities were retaliating against him for his civil rights advocacy.
"The issues raised are issues that we've learned over and over again," said Al Sharpton.
"I have probably been under every investigation known to man and I can't remember a time that I've not been under investigation," Sharpton said at the Harlem headquarters of his civil rights organization.
He continued: "The issues raised are issues that we've learned over and over again, particularly when we are approaching an election season." Watch Sharpton on why he's upset ?
Newspapers reported Thursday that federal authorities subpoenaed financial records and employees in an apparent probe of his presidential bid, nonprofit civil rights group and for-profit businesses.
Sharpton said he thought the timing of the investigation was suspicious, coming just weeks after he led a march on the Justice Department to demand federal intervention in the Jena Six case in Louisiana and better enforcement of hate crimes.
As many as 10 Sharpton associates were subpoenaed Wednesday to testify before a federal grand jury in Brooklyn on December 26, his lawyer told the Daily News.
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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.
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.
The charges against the six black students accused of attacking a white student in Jena, Louisiana, led to the September demonstration by Sharpton and other activists who alleged local authorities were prosecuting blacks more harshly than whites
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Well, that is at least a start. Please give Sharpton more, much more, of the same. 0 -
quote:"The issues raised are issues that we've learned over and over again, particularly when we are approaching an election season."
Is he on the ballot somewhere? If he IS running, that would just make him a MOVING TARGET. When you said "good news about al sharpton" I thought surely he had DIED![;)]0 -
guys that would be "GREAT NEWS", this falls a bit short, but still nice to see a thorn in his side, and to watch him show his racist race card right out the gate 0 -
Great!! When the taxman get's intrested, he usually doses not stop! 0 -
Tax Evasion, isn't that how they got Al Capone 0 -
maybe they can get his brother jesse jackson too 0 -
Discrimination, pure and simple.
And it could not happen to a more deserving guy.0 -
I thought it would be a story about brain cancer. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by PanzerSlayer2
I thought it would be a story about brain cancer.
But wouldn't that require a BRAIN?0 -
Al Sharpton is an illusion....that is only sustained by the Media of this country. A true disgrace to my kind.[xx(] 0 -
The only good news about Sharpton is that he bought the farm... even black people I know despise this man. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by reloader44mag
Al Sharpton is an illusion....that is only sustained by the Media of this country. A true disgrace to my kind.[xx(]
Hey it's the Christmas Season - We're all "our kind", ain't we?
Sharpton is a buffoon and deserves no attention.0 -
quote:Originally posted by bigcitybill
quote:Originally posted by reloader44mag
Al Sharpton is an illusion....that is only sustained by the Media of this country. A true disgrace to my kind.[xx(]
Hey it's the Christmas Season - We're all "our kind", ain't we?
Sharpton is a buffoon and deserves no attention.
OK I'll go back to being "my kind" after Christmas Season is over[;)]0 -
Damn I was just trying to break things up a little.
Sorry if I was out of line.0 -
quote:Originally posted by bigcitybill
Damn I was just trying to break things up a little.
Sorry if I was out of line.
you're not out of line........Sharpton sickens me.0 -
Well he's going to be otherwise engaged for the next few months or maybe years so maybe we'll be spared from his drivel until he's properly insignificant. 0 -
Unlikely........sorry to say. 0
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