14 of Al Sharpton’s Biggest Missteps, Controversies …
The Rev. Al Sharpton's name keeps popping up in the media often for the wrong reasons.
The latest negative report about the rabble-rousing civil rights leader discloses that Sharpton's nonprofit group is deeply in the red and has a rising tax debt.
Sharpton's National Action Network's (NAN) federal tax liability rose in 2013 to about $820,000, according to a new report from The Smoking Gun.
NAN took in $4.9 million in gross receipts primarily from corporate sponsors that year, while its total expenses were $5.2 million, leaving a sizeable deficit, The Smoking Gun also disclosed.
Last November, The New York Times reported that the MSNBC host "has regularly sidestepped the sort of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent, and other bills."
The Times also noted that NAN "appears to have been sustained for years by not paying federal payroll taxes on its employees."
There have been plenty of other reports highlighting missteps by Sharpton over the years:
1. A retired NYPD detective charged that Sharpton was ultimately responsible for the deaths of two officers.
After the July 2014 death of Eric Garner on Staten Island at the hands of New York City police, Sharpton organized a protest and condemned an officer's use of a chokehold on Garner. Sharpton also protested loudly when a grand jury decided on Dec. 3 not to hand down an indictment in the case.
About two weeks later, a man with a long criminal record shot and killed two officers in a police bar in Brooklyn. The killer had suggested on social media that he was avenging the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, who was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo.
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14 of Al Sharpton's Biggest Missteps, Controversies ...