Posted on 04/07/2014 3:01:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
The Rev Al Sharpton was a 'Mafia informer'
Baptist minister who is said to have been targeted by the FBI because of his extensive contacts in the music and sports industry
By Rosa Prince, in New York
9:58PM BST 07 Apr 2014
The Rev Al Sharpton, the radical civil rights leader who is now a close ally of President Obama, was a Federal Bureau of Investigation informer who helped to jail a number of Mafia bosses, it has been claimed.
An investigation by the Smoking Gun website claims that the 69-year-old television host and White House regular was "turned" by the FBI after being implicated in a drug deal.
The website said that he agreed to wear a wire tap during conversations with Mob bosses, including leading members of the Genovese crime family, the largest and most feared Mafia outfit in the United States.
A Baptist minister who is said to have been targeted by the FBI because of his extensive contacts in the music and sports industry, as well as the New York underworld, Mr Sharpton has always denied being a "snitch."
He has said that his only contact with the police was to gather information in order to help drive out drug dealing in the black communities he worked in.
But the Smoking Gun website claimed that interviews with a number of detectives on a joint FBI and police taskforce called the Genovese squad revealed that Mr Sharpton was a valued informer who delivered at least 10 taped conversations that led to the jailing of a number of mobsters.
It also produced internal documents showing that the recordings were used to help gain court approval for further secret taping at gang members' homes and other places they associated.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
If this is true, I wish the mob would have done their job we would not be hearing from this fat mouth.
and was Obama ?
Oh that’s going to go over big with Holder’s people!
For some reason a grin lights up my face as I read this story.
The thought of that sanctimonious horse’s *** squirming under all that pressure, well that doesn’t come close to making up for the decades we’ve had to put up with that smarmy, lying little sack of... well, pardon me, let’s try that again.
While it doesn’t come close to offsetting the harm that man has done to this nation, and to Americans of all colors, it still brightens my day a little bit.
Every once in awhile I, mistakenly, think I’ll never be surprised again. Oh well. At least I am also amused =)
Gee, a rat being a rat. What are the chances?
“Stop Snitchin’” indeed.
Piano wire in his future?
I think maybe.
Cue Goodfella quotes...
So what they are saying is that Al Sharpton is actually a rat.
Next thing you know, they’ll be saying that Obama was turned…
Oh, wait….
Funny? Like how, LIKE A CLOWN? HOW am I funny...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=E84VqqCPI7w#t=57
Pay backs are a bitch,Un-Reverend,Mr Pumpkin Head
Be a bitch if the guidos Offed him
Arm Candy??? How long they going to hand knowing they could be collateral damage,not long...
It should be declared a National holiday if they did..
Here is an old report on Sharpton caught on drug deal tape; had to do with Don King, boxing maybe also the music biz:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/nyregion/a-19-year-old-fbi-videotape-keeps-pulling-sharpton-back-to-the-past.html
No, this is a planned leak IMHO. I'd be looking for an earmark on a bill that gives Rev Al a FBI Pension for all his efforts.
I am not kidding, I wouldn't put it past this crew...
Live by the sword die by the sword, looks like pezhead will be living up to his name
“TAWANA BRAWLEY! TAWANA BRAWLEY! TAWANA BRAWLEY!”
Time for Al to get whacked.
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