Goodwin omits the FBI connection of Al Sharpton. Isn't that what protects Sharpton from criminal prosecution and prison?
[From article]
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo hailed him as a civil rights icon. President Obama sent an aide to read a message commending Mr. Sharpton’s “dedication to the righteous cause of perfecting our union.” Major corporations sponsored the lavish affair.
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Records reviewed by The New York Times show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses.
And though he said in recent interviews that he was paying both down, his balance with the state, at least, has actually grown in recent years. His National Action Network appears to have been sustained for years by not paying federal payroll taxes on its employees.
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Mr. Sharpton and the National Action Network have repeatedly failed to pay travel agencies, hotels and landlords. He has leaned on the generosity of friends and sometimes even the organization, intermingling its finances with his own to cover his daughters’ private school tuition.
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During rallies at the Slave Theater in Brooklyn, he characterized black people who disagreed with him as “yellow niggers” and called white people “crackers.” [. . .] In 1995, he referred to a Harlem businessman who wanted to expand his store into a space that had been occupied by a black-owned business as a “white interloper.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/
As Sharpton Rose, So Did His Unpaid Taxes
By RUSS BUETTNER
New York Times
NOV. 18, 2014
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[From article]
Sharpton, left to his own antics, is a public nuisance. It is a free country and he is entitled to his prejudices and polarizing activism. Sometimes he happens to be right and his megaphone occasionally brings attention to deserving cases that otherwise get none. America is big enough and strong enough to have space for people like him.
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He remains a cop hater to the core, a race man who cannot see past skin color and whose business model is based on using a charge of racism as a negotiating tactic. The corporations buying his silence with their “contributions” ought to be boycotted.
He’s also a tax scofflaw who refuses to pay his fair share, thus ripping off fellow citizens, black and white.
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Imagine that — he stiffs the IRS and stirs the racial pot to boiling but still regularly gets invited to the White House to advise the president who promised to usher in a postracial society.
Sharpton was there for the announcement of Obama’s nominee to be the new attorney general, Loretta Lynch. That has to flash a chilling message to any honest prosecutor — Sharpton is above the law.
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But Sharpton didn’t put her on the city payroll at $170,000 — de Blasio did that. It was de Blasio who corrupted the Department of Investigation by giving her a pass on disclosure rules that others must obey. It was de Blasio who gave Sharpton the platform to humiliate the NYPD and smear cops as racist.
And it is de Blasio who sounds like Sharpton when he bellows that news coverage of Noerdlinger is “repulsive.”
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agitators are using threats of violence to intimidate the courts. It’s low and dirty, but you expect that from Al Sharpton.
The tragedy of our times is that the president of the United States is no better.
http://nypost.com/2014/11/19/
Al Sharpton’s March Madness
By Michael Goodwin
New York Post
November 19, 2014 | 2:01am
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