[Brad from Tennessee]

As an FBI informant Sharpton may have been positioned to use law enforcement on occasion to strike at his political enemies, his rivals in the civil rights movement and at businesses and nonprofits he was shaking down for cash.

[Fitzy_888]

Agreed.

And...I’d bet the good reverend Al’s service started with himself falling in an FBI honey trap.

Later paid for the same information, with the threat that if exposed he’d claim it was racist over zealous pursuit.