Posted on 02/01/2015 8:42:05 AM PST by george76
An explosive new report about deadbeat politicos revealed Friday that civil rights activist and MSNBC celebrity the Rev. Al Sharpton owes the federal government tens of thousands of dollars in fines and $880,000 in debt from his ill-fated 2004 presidential campaign.
And thats on top of the $4.5 million Sharpton owes in back taxes.
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Funny how the IRS isn’t pounding on his door, breaking him financially through repeated court appearances, and having him thrown in jail. For those who say that the IRS doesn’t side with liberals, I give you Exhibit A.
Who is stupid enough to advance any products or services to a political campaign unless it is used as an under the radar contribution? There is no business more temporary than a political campaign. Would you advance credit to a store that had a sign "Going out of business November 3" in the front window?
I bet that the not a reverand Al Notsoshartpon has ripped off many small businesses over the years. I wonder if has paid for his conk jobs and fancy suits.
Hard to have sympathy for anyone dumb enough to extend credit to any political campaign, particularly Sharpton.
Newt allegedly owes 4.6 million in campaign debt.
He will be prosecuted about the same time as the guy in the white house comes clean about Benghazi.
What about the millions still owed by the John Glenn presidential campaign?
Well, most of it looks like it is not tax arrearage.
I wonder who he owes to?
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Some of it maybe loans from supporters that was never intended to be paid back.
A round about way of skirting the campaing finance laws. There should be records of
these loans somewhere back in the campaign filings.
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