Rally Calls For Probe Into Fatal Police Shooting Of Unarmed Man In Brooklyn
Family members of the unarmed man fatally shot by an NYPD officer in Brooklyn this week joined Rev. Al Sharpton at a rally Saturday to urge prosecutors to do a thorough investigation. CBS2 #39;s...
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Rev. Al Sharpton Blasts Reports of Unpaid Taxes - Leslie Marshall on America #39;s Newsroom 11/20/14
http://lesliemarshallshow.com Radio talk show host, Leslie Marshall, discusses Al Sharpton blasting The NY Times story saying he owes $4.5 million in taxes a...
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50 Pepole in Yellow Shirts Will Try to Keep the Peace in Ferguson
A group of "Justice Disciples," recruited by Al Sharpton, will oversee the protests to try and quell any violence on either side. NowThisNews is the rst and only video news network built...
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November 25, 2014|8:45 am
Years of massive corruption by the man known for stirring up race relations and making them worse are finally being exposed. While flying around the country first class, dressed in lavish suits, and most recently stirring the pot in Ferguson, Mo., Al Sharpton has avoided paying millions in taxes - that would have landed the rest of us in prison. The situation is so egregious that even the left-wing New York Times finally wrote a long articlelast week exposing Sharpton's tax evasion as well as graft and crime going all the way back to his teenage years.
The Times found there is currently more than $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens against Sharpton and his for-profit businesses. That number apparently doesn't even includethe amount owed by his nonprofit, the National Action Network (NAN). According to the Times, "Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills." Sharpton repeatedly failed to pay off travel agencies, hotels and landlords. A Treasury report found that only 1,200 organizations in the entire country owed more than $100,000 in unpaid payroll taxes, making Sharpton's group one of the most delinquent.
NAN was able to afford Sharpton's one percenter salary of $250,000 annually by not paying federal payroll taxes on its employees. A sympathetic writer at the New York Daily News says Sharptontold him in 2008 that he made $750,000 that year from media gigs alone. He speculated that after MSNBC hired Sharpton, his annual income must have exceeded $1 million.
It is incredible that Sharpton would continue to collect a $250,000 annual salary from NAN even though the organization was years behind in taxes. The Times reports that Sharpton also illegally used funds from NAN to pay for his daughter's private school tuition.
Sharpton responded to the article, claiming that he has been paying the delinquent taxes down, but the Times contradicted this, stating that the amount owed to the state had actually been increasing.
A quick Google news search reveals the latest Americans sentenced to prison for tax evasion owed significantly lesser amounts than Sharpton. A physician in Wisconsin was sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison last month for not paying $191,000 in income tax and lying about it. For evading over half a million in taxes, two brothers known for their sports-car racing teams were sentenced to one year in prison for one brother, and five months in prison for the other.
Republican lobbyist and businessman Albert Pirro, Jr., the ex-husband of district attorney and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, was sentenced in 2000 to 29 months in federal prison for improperly deducting $1.2 million in tax write-offs.
None of the amounts of these previous offenders even comes close to the $4.5 million in taxes Sharpton hasn't paid. Failing to file a tax return for a year in which taxes are owed is a crime punishable by a fine and a prison sentence of up to one year. If the failure was done willfully to evade taxation, it is a felony punishable by a fine and up to five years in prison.
Sharpton has apparently been getting away with tax evasion for a decade. According to the Times, Sharpton's failure to pay taxes goes back to at least 2004, when NAN underpaid the federal government by $900,000 in taxes, which increased every year to almost $1.9 million by 2006.
After a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri declined to indict a police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, Rev. Al Sharpton said New Yorkers would face the same attitudes in investigations in police-related deaths here.
We are dealing with the same attitudes of Ferguson right here in the city, Mr. Sharpton said.
A Missouri grand jury declined to bring any charges against police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager whom Mr. Wilsonshot to death. Mr. Sharpton watched a prosecutorsannouncement from his National Action Network House of Justice, alongside the family of Eric Garner a Staten Island man who died in July as police tried to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes.
Mayor Bill de Blasio recently urged New Yorkers not toconnect all the dots between Garners death, Browns death, and more recently, the death of Akai Gurley, who police say was accidentally shot and killed by a rookie cop in a housing project stairwell last week.
But Mr. Sharpton is amongseveral voices in New York making that connection.
This is one case, you have another case now with Gurley, Mr. Sharpton said tonight. Ferguson is not just in Missouri, which is why we watched it tonight in the House of Justice. We can lose a round, but the fight is not over.
Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson is investigating Gurleys death. But the inquiry into Garners death which came before Browns death in Ferguson is considerably further along. A special grand jury impaneled by Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan is considering the case and will be tasked with deciding whether to bring charges against the officers involved including Daniel Pantaelo, the officer shown on video wrapping his arm around Garners neck to bring him to the ground. Some, including Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, have saidthe move appeared to be a chokehold, which is not illegal but is prohibited by NYPD guidelines.
Garners family his wife and mother joined Mr. Sharpton did not make any remarks. But Mr. Sharpton said the lack of an indictment in Ferguson was a blow to them.
It as expected, but still an absolute blow to those of us that wanted to see a fair and open trial. I think that it is clear that even when you see a blow coming, that you expected, it still hurts, Mr. Sharpton said. Nonetheless, we said from the beginning that we had little or no confidence in this local prosecutor and called for federal intervention.
Mr. Sharpton criticized the remarks ofSt. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch and the grand jury investigation he oversaw. He also noted that Garners family had stood alongside Browns in September calling for the federal Department of Justice to take over both cases from local law enforcement.
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