and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
Posted on 04/19/2009 11:11:25 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Al Sharpton and his group, the National Action Network (NAN), have been fined $285,000 by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for violating a host of election laws during Sharpton’s 2004 presidential campaign during which he received 2% of the Democratic primary vote.
NLPC, which filed Complaints against Sharpton on February 2, 2004 and February 6, 2004, was notified of the FEC action last week and make it public today. As NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm was quoted in the New York Post today:
We are pleased that the FEC has ruled on our Complaint and found that Sharpton ran an “off the books’ presidential campaign.
Previously, the FEC ordered Sharpton to return $100,000 in taxpayer matching funds, and denied him an additional $79,000 for which he qualified, for the 2004 campaign.
Also previously, Sharpton was fined $5,500 for late filing of disclosure documents reports as a result of a separate Complaint filed by NLPC on April 18, 2003.
The February 2, 2004 Complaint cited information that Sharpton may have visited over 100 cities related to his presidential campaign in 2002 and 2003. This extensive political travel was not reflected anywhere in Sharpton’s FEC filings. NLPC alleged that NAN might have underwritten this travel with large undisclosed gifts from unnamed donors.
The $285,000 fine is actually a civil penalty under a conciliation agreement between Sharpton and his groups and the FEC. According to the agreement:
…Sharpton 2004 kept poor records of its activities and expenditures, which often resulted in NAN or other entities paying for travel expenses incurred by the campaign.
It was the practice to charge all travel expenses to Sharpton’s American Express charge card. The card was then paid using multiple accounts owned by Sharpton, NAN and/or the Committee.
The agreement describes $509,188 in campaign-related expenses on Sharpton’s American Express card. His campaign committee paid $121,996, leaving $387,192 in illegal payments from other sources, including $65,000 from “unknown sources.”
Sharpton claimed to the FEC that records related to these activities were destroyed in a fire. This was the second time a mysterious fire at NAN headquarters had been cited by Sharpton. In 1997, just after Sharpton promised to open the financial records of NAN, he alleged they had been destroyed.
The February 6, 2004 Complaint included information first reported by Wayne Barrett in the Village Voice on January 24, 2004 in an article titled “Sleeping With the GOP” that detailed efforts by Republican consultant Roger Stone to qualify Sharpton for federal matching funds.
When does he get a cabinet post in the Obama regime
Chickens coming home to roost? None too soon.
FYI: "Reverend" Al is one of many left-wing dirt bags who've signed the Revolutionary Communist Party's "World Can't Wait" call...
Endorsers of the [World Can't Wait] Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include:
James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Rocky Anderson, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Paulette Cole, US Rep John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Senator Mike Gravel, Andre Gregory, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Jonathan Kozol, Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Robin Meyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, John Nichols, US Rep. Major Owens, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Michelle Phillips, Harold Pinter, Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Richard Serra, Jeff Sharlet, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more who have already joined us.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)
*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration
*Organizes college and high-school students
*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government!
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.
And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
I find this to be the most interesting part of the article. Wouldn't this sort of thing have the potential to get Al in a lot more serious trouble than just a $285K fine?
How sweet it all is...
Rev. Al, the greasy con man and ex-con, will probably get this fine settled for pennies on the dollars, just as he did his IRS tax case. He owed over a million bucks to the Treasury and they settled for $90,000. We White folks just don’t get deals like that....
Sharpton should plead:
Abject Stupidity based on Blatant Racism
He might just get off.....
Yes, very interesting. Thanks for pointing this out.
Pore Al, you know he’s broke. Doesn’t own a thing.
All his records done burn up in a fire.
Never mind that he lives in NJ, runs for office in NYC, and his kids go to very expensive private schools in NY.
Pore guy!!!
This is a feint, designed to make it appear that there is a distance between the Anointed One and his race racketeers..
Did they give an address where we could send in a little donation?
The fact is, Sharpton has refused to pay off on more than one Court Judgement against him, from the past, which came about due to Sharpton’s irresponsible, riot inducing hatred.
He never paid money owed in the Tawana Bradley case- someone else paid it for the “Reverend.”
One of the worst cases of racism ever.
What goes around comes around eventually.
He will be fined but never pay a nickle.
Just as Chris Dodd never makes mortgage payments ot Country Wide, Rev Al will never pay anything
He always did think he was smarter that Whitey. I’m just waiting for the rest of the stuff to start going back to the people that set it all in motion.
God bless America!!
Dodd needs to pay taxes on all his ill-gotten wealth!
The last 8 years of Bush caused it.
It's Bush's fault...
CHANGE will do us good. /s
I think maybe the Chicago fire marshal and the Illinois OSHA ought to think about fining him as well. Two serious fires at his campaign headquarters? He’s obviously violating multiple fire codes and maintaining unsafe working conditions!!
No, we just get cabinet posts.
His P&L statement will show a profit by being a crook even if he pays double.
He should be looking through bars for a loooong time for justice to be served.
Grossly unfair treatment. After all, he’s only a small time extortionist. He ain’t in Jesse’s league!
Not a chirp from the MSM about this of course. Sharpton is a crook. Everyone knows it including the FBI, NYPD, NYT, MSM,but nothing happens.
Quoting Scarface “Tony, you will have to pay a fine, but there will be no jail time.”
Sharpton is a sociopath race hustler who has, literally gotten away with inciting riots, inciting lynchmobs, invented gross lies and regularly extorts money. Of course he is a major force in the democratic party as is Jesse Jackson and the horribly corrupt Con Blck Congress.
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That someone else was Johnny Cochran, IIRC.
And Johnny is dead.........
/Biotch slap with ZIP!
About time he got called on the carpet.
More infuriating is that he can often be seen on Hannity's program...O'Reilly seems to hang on his every word...sickening.
if this was a republican then the GOP would be telling him to step down
this is the difference with us and them.
They keep theirs ion and we hound ours out as we have no balls to stand up to the far left and they know it.
The only one thus far is Sarah and that is why they went out full force and attacked her
Culture of Corruption?
It was a $500K fine and got chopped
ping-a-ling!
Maybe the good rev can hit up Michael Richards and Don Imus for some more “donations.”
Leni
Do you actually think an honest accountant will crawl under the rug where the truth has been swept to look at an actual P&L statement based on real numbers?
Pwned
Fine...let’s see ‘em collect
Bambi no wike ee Reverend Al?
Correlation, causation or what?
It could take years and many phases.
Now that's stimulus!
And, while married, claimed he didn't have money to buy quality suits due to lack of funds. Seems he transferred all of his assets to his wife. Thought I heard he was or is getting a divorce and I hope everything is still in her name.
It was Rangel who was in the midst of a divorce when all the dirt on him appeared.
But yes, Sharpton claimed poverty.
Oh well, if nothing else this might lead to another great parody by Paul Shanklin.
The $285,000 fine is actually a civil penalty under a conciliation agreement between Sharpton and his groups and the FEC... The agreement describes $509,188 in campaign-related expenses on Sharpton's American Express card. His campaign committee paid $121,996, leaving $387,192 in illegal payments from other sources, including $65,000 from "unknown sources." Sharpton claimed to the FEC that records related to these activities were destroyed in a fire. This was the second time a mysterious fire at NAN headquarters had been cited by Sharpton. In 1997, just after Sharpton promised to open the financial records of NAN, he alleged they had been destroyed.
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