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Every for profit business started by Al Sharpton was hit for not paying taxes
Hotair ^ | 02/05/2015 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 02/05/2015 7:36:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind

This news was actually uncovered by National Review a few days ago, but things have been rather busy so we didn’t get around to it until now. The tax problems which Al Sharpton has run into with his National Action Network are well known and frequently documented. While the non-profit is more than a million dollars in debt to the tax man, Sharpton continues to tap it for a more than one quarter million dollar salary. But as Jillian Kay Melchior discovered with a bit more digging, Sharpton has also started up and abandoned a variety of for profit enterprises dating back decades. Each and every one of them seems to have mysteriously run into similar problems figuring out how much they needed to pay in taxes… if they paid any at all.

So far, every for-profit enterprise started by Al Sharpton and known to National Review Online has been shut down in at least one jurisdiction for failure to pay taxes, a review of public records in New York and Delaware reveals.

Records show that Sharpton’s beleaguered for-profit entities often overlap and intertwine, some sharing ties with the reverend’s nonprofit organization, National Action Network. Their financial records are copious, confusing, and sometimes outright bizarre, and together, they depict persistent financial woes for Sharpton, who also personally owes New York State nearly $596,000, according to active tax warrants.

Melchior tracks down a trail of failed businesses starting with one called Raw Talent, founded back in 1991. The company was dissolved by the state of New York in 2002, but not before the business ran up more than a half million dollars in federal tax debt and a nearly $5K tab to the state. The Reverend Al started Revals Communications in 1999 (coincidentally in the same offices as Raw Talent) and that one only lasted until the state shut it down in 2009, owing more than $200K to the feds and $175K to New York. Sharpton Media Group was founded in Delaware, where it lasted all of 36 months before being shut down in that state for failure to pay taxes, though it apparently remains active on paper in the Big Apple.

There were others, such as one called “Bo Spanky” which had similar problems. Frequently these for profit companies became intertwined with his National Action Network when they “loaned” money to the non-profit, whereupon the cash presumably disappeared. It creates a complicated web of funding which makes sorting it all out a difficult proposition. The long arm of the law has taken notice of Sharpton’s activities at times, though, and sought to straighten him out.

Sharpton has had brushes with the law. In 1990, a jury found him not guilty of 67 counts of fraud and larceny, though three years later, the reverend pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor tax charge.

Later, the Federal Election Commission found that National Action Network had inappropriately paid for expenses related to Sharpton’s 2004 presidential campaign.

Last March, Jeri Wright, a former president of the Chicago branch of National Action Network and the daughter of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s former pastor, was convicted of money laundering after participating in a fraud scheme involving another nonprofit.

This is some great reporting by National Review, and the lengthy report is definitely worth a full read. Sharpton has left a long paper trail of dubious activities, getting tagged for large tax liens, many of which are still outstanding. Yet for all of the charges swirling around Sharpton, his businesses and his cronies, he seems to have always managed to dance away on the edge of disaster and avoid being fully taken down and sent to the crowbar motel.

Oddly enough though, I believe he still has a job at MSNBC, so I guess this is all just one big misunderstanding.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; april15; incometaxes; sharpton; taxes; taxevasion

1 posted on 02/05/2015 7:36:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He’ll never be prosecuted for tax fraud and evasion.

That’s just for white dudes.


2 posted on 02/05/2015 7:37:46 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SeekAndFind

So what. It’s not as if anything will be done.


3 posted on 02/05/2015 7:44:12 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SeekAndFind

Some things in nature have protective coloration. Sharpton is one of them.


4 posted on 02/05/2015 7:51:15 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure Val, I'll do your dirty work for ya, but I have a little
IRS problem I need help with.

5 posted on 02/05/2015 7:57:11 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Slyfox

Anyone of us avoided paying taxes and we would be in jail. So what has taken so long? Note to IRS, go get that tax cheating, race baiting bastard.


6 posted on 02/05/2015 8:30:51 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

They will go after him when he is no longer needed.


7 posted on 02/05/2015 8:34:12 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: DaveA37

It’ll never happen while the big zero is in office. After 2016 .... never say never.


8 posted on 02/05/2015 8:36:01 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama has an excuse for Sharpton...

Obama has an excuse for anyone with black or brown skin. That appears to be his only standard... color of skin.

Obama and democrats are no different than Jim Crow haters, the KKK and all the other idiots who judged only on the basis of skin color.


9 posted on 02/05/2015 8:50:08 AM PST by GOPJ (Democracy's getting people to agree with you. Communism & ISIS is making people afraid to disagree.)
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To: All
A review of public records conducted by NRO in New York and Delaware reveals that since 1991, every for-profit enterprise started by Al Sharpton has been shut down in at least one jurisdiction for tax-evasion, Sharpton’s beleaguered for-profit entities often overlap and intertwine, some sharing ties with the reverend’s n/p "National Action Network." The financial records are copious, confusing, and sometimes outright bizarre, depicting persistent financial woes for Sharpton, who also personally owes New York State nearly $596,000, according to active tax warrants.

The opportunistic money-hungry turd's got a lot at stake: Obama's eternal WH invites---Sharpton's lucrative MSBNC gig---and the pending sale of his NAN network to suckers like Comcast who are negotiating to buy it.

Fox's Melissa Frances reported on The Kelly File that Al Sharpton not only hosts an MSNBC show, but that:

<><> MSNBC Corporate finances Sharpton's Ntl Action Network (NAN);

<><>Comcast is also one of Sharpton's financial backers

<><> MSNBC AND COMCAST are reportedly negotiating to buy Sharpton's NAN network.

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FREESPER ACTION ALERT----CONTACT INFO:

Comcast Corporation
Comcast Center
1701 JFK Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19103
WEB SITE http://corporate.comcast.com/contact-

MSNBC Corporate
(hat tip Seattle conservative)--MSNBC.com doesn't have a “contact us” or
even Corp Headquarters info. Posts (C) 2014 NBC Universal at the bottom
of the web page. "Terms of Service," posts this contact info:
Gillian M. Lusins
NBC Universal Law Department
30 Rockefeller Plaza, Rm. 1087E
New York, New York 10112

10 posted on 02/06/2015 7:48:44 AM PST by Liz
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