Future cellmates?
Posted on 05/09/2008 8:39:19 PM PDT by rdl6989
U.S. attorney delves into unflappable civil rights leader's non-profit group
NEW YORK - Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion.
The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation's most prominent civil rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan's major bridges and tunnels.
But he still carries baggage from his early days as a fire-breathing agitator: Government records obtained by The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
And he owes Stephen Pinones damages from the Tawana Brawley trial.
The only thing he ever accomplished was getting a city block on fire, getting eight people killed, and putting a bunch of Puerto Ricans out of work by closing a Naval base.
Yep, a resume of sterling accomplishments by any standard of measurement. /projectile vomiting level sarcasm/
So why isn’t he sharing a cell with Wesley Snipes?
Good, throw the book at him.
You beat me to it. Lock him up. Throw away the key.
Future cellmates?
The guy has already been arrested for sitting in a street yesterday as an act of civil disobedience.
Just give him credit for time served and let’s move on. If you prosecuted all of these non-profits and put them all in jail there would be nobody left on the street. Good for me...less traffic.
I’ll be surprised if he ever repays a penny or serves a day.
Damned crackers, keepin’ the black man down...
He could get pardoned by Bhussama.
“Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop,” Sharpton said. “I think that that is why they try to intimidate us.”
Actually, it kinda strikes me like something Al Capone would have said.
And didn’t the feds get Capone on tax evasion?
Al Franken, Al Sharpton, both owe taxes, nice of those dems, don’t they know there are people out there who depend on the taxes they pay?
Profiling!
Resumes are not necessary in the "black community"....
Obama proved that point...
The ONLY requirement is to have dark skin and assign all responsibility for the poor condition of ghetto blacks on slavery and the "the man" ------- who they see as white.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have done more to bring discredit to America's blacks than the decades of KKK activity...
Thanks for the info and correction on the Sharpton damages and Mr. Pagones.
Let’s pray for a frogmarch and perp walk. Then Sharpie will need some vasoline for his jail time.
This is Sharpton’s *** - o - before jail.
This is Sharpton’s *** - Q - after jail.
He’s going to make some guy a nice girlfriend.
It would be an obamanation if Sharpton were let off the hook.
Why isn’t he in prison like other tax dodgers?
No, I think you are correct—he was paid—see the article I found from the NY Times:
Sharpton’s Debt in Brawley Defamation Is Paid by Supporters
By ALAN FEUER
Published: June 15, 2001
More than two years after the Rev. Al Sharpton was found to have defamed a former prosecutor in the Tawana Brawley case, the $65,000 damage award entered against Mr. Sharpton by a Dutchess County jury has been paid in full.
Last week, Steven A. Pagones, a former Dutchess County assistant district attorney, received about $40,000, the last of the money owed to him by Mr. Sharpton, Mr. Pagones’s lawyer said yesterday. In 1998, a state jury decided that Mr. Sharpton; Ms. Brawley’s lawyers, Alton H. Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason; and Ms. Brawley herself had defamed Mr. Pagones by wrongly accusing him of abducting and raping Ms. Brawley, then 15, over several days in 1987.
With the judgment, and interest, paid off, a case that has haunted Mr. Sharpton for more than a decade as he has sought to advance his position in public life has been put to rest. Although a special state grand jury concluded near the time of the incident that Ms. Brawley fabricated the account of her attack, the case became a national racial controversy.
‘’It is gratifying that we did get paid in full because there were many people who thought that we wouldn’t,’’ said Mr. Pagones’s lawyer, Garry Bolnick, who worked on the case with another lawyer, Larry Kleinman. ‘’It is not gratifying, however, that we could not get Mr. Sharpton to issue a public apology.’’
In November 1987, Ms. Brawley was found inside a plastic bag behind an apartment house in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. She was curled in a fetal position, with feces and racial epithets smeared on her body. Mr. Pagones was accused by Mr. Sharpton, Mr. Mason and Mr. Maddox — civil rights advocates who rallied to Ms. Brawley’s side as advisers — of abducting and raping the girl.
The next year, the grand jury exonerated Mr. Pagones, suggesting that Ms. Brawley had concocted the hoax to avoid punishment by her stepfather for being out without permission. The grand jury also implied that Ms. Brawley’s advisers had allowed the case to mushroom into a national cause despite indications that her account was dubious.
Mr. Pagones filed a $395 million defamation suit in October 1988 against Ms. Brawley and the three advisers. Ms. Brawley never responded, and in 1991 a judge ruled that Mr. Pagones had won his case against her by default. In 1998, after an eight-month trial, a jury found that Mr. Pagones had been defamed and awarded him damages: $185,000 from Mr. Mason, $95,000 from Mr. Maddox, $65,000 from Mr. Sharpton and $187,000 from Ms. Brawley.
In March, a group of Mr. Sharpton’s supporters agreed to pay the judgment for him. The group, which was led by Percy E. Sutton, the former Manhattan borough president, included the lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. and Earl Graves Jr., the president of Black Enterprise magazine.
‘’Our position is that we were happy that the business community came forward to pay the judgment,’’ said Michael Hardy, a lawyer for Mr. Sharpton. Mr. Maddox still owes much of his original $95,000 judgment to Mr. Pagones. Mr. Mason, who is now a Baptist minister, has been paying off his judgment periodically through the garnishment of his wages, Mr. Bolnick said.
Ms. Brawley has not paid off the judgment against her, Mr. Bolnick said. ‘’She has been difficult to locate and her assets have been impossible to locate,’’ he said.
What's a green garbage bag and your own crap worth these days?
“What’s a green garbage bag and your own crap worth these days?”
Not much if it is over 20 years old! LOL!
You mean like Willie Nelson?
Give Al the orignal Al treatment. You know Treat Al Sharpton like Al Capone.
No, like Wesley Snipes.
Presidential material.
he hasn’t called Roni Deutsch yet??
he hasn’t called Roni Deutsch yet??
Actually,the Reverends Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright are representative of the vast majority of American blacks.
We know who the bitch will be in that romance.
Did they finally realize that he’s not a real reverend?
On that note, isn’t the IRS looking into rev. Wright’s church too?
Actually, I think you misrepresent the facts
Those charlatans represent who the MSM thinks represent blacks. Many blacks, I know think Al Sharpton is a fool
Those Reverends aren’t really any different from Maxine Waters, John Lewis, Julia Carson, John Conyers, Elijah Cummings, Keith Ellison, Chaka Fattah, Alcee Hastings, Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson Jr., Mel Watt or the rest of the CBC...are you saying that the named representatives black voters choose election after election aren’t representative of their beliefs?
Of course they are different, the aforementioned Reverends are race hustlers, shake down artists and con man pushed by the MSM, they are not representatives in the sense of being elected, but representatives by the nature of their antics, they are news makers.
Whereas the representatives of the CBC are elected by the people, which actually took a little work and effort and can after all is said and one be tossed out on their asses.
The Rev, are only influential when they are RAMBLE ROUSING, so we are stuck with them
My point is the views of the CBC (and thus the black population at large) and the Rev’s Jackson, Sharpton and Wright do not differ to any large degree.
thanks...
Not the blacks I was raised by, lived with, went to school with, worked with, served with or those I still consider my friends....
I will agree that the last few decades have seen a vast shift in the relations between the races in America.....
From my observations - the negative push is from the black racists who get rich from conflict...
Yep.
Put that Son of a B***** in JAIL!!!!!
How did the recent ‘we will shut down this city’ activity go?
So, is he going to jail like Snipes did?
A rose by any other name is still a rose, a crook by any other name is still a crook.
The “Rev.” will best this charge and get even more love from his fans....also the back taxes and the fines will be forgiven or ordered by the judge to be dismissed, and the “rev.” will be awarded big time $$$ as a settlement....
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