Showing posts with label National Action Network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Action Network. Show all posts

Saturday, June 27, 2015

"He Just Revealed His Next Target"

June 27, 2015 Confederate Flag , National Action Network 0 Comments
Al Sharpton Isn’t Stopping At The Confederate Flag

By Jason Howerton, Jun. 26, 2015, The Blaze

Rev. Al Sharpton quickly joined critics of the Confederate flag flying outside the South Carolina Statehouse, but the civil rights leader is going one step further and plans to denounce Robert E. Lee Street and a Confederate flag painting in the New York State Capitol Building on Saturday.

In a tweet posted Friday, Sharpton’s National Action Network promoted the Saturday event as a “vigil for the victims lost to violence and to denounce Robert E. Lee Street and Confederate Flag Painting in New York State Capitol Building.”


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Monday, December 22, 2014

Hell Just Froze Over

December 22, 2014 Al Sharpton , Hollywood 1 Comments
Sharpton To Have Say Over How Sony Makes Movies

Reuven Fenton, Lia Eustachewich, and Richard Johnson, Dec. 18, 2014, New York Post

“We have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in Hollywood,” said Sharpton.

He said Sony would work closely with his National Action Network, ​the ​National Urban League, ​the ​NAACP and the Black Women’s Round Table to “see if we can come up with an immediate plan to deal with it.”

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Sharpton's org.

September 10, 2014 Darren Wilson , Ferguson 0 Comments
National Action Network, Attorneys For Michael Brown’s Family Call For Arrest Of Darren Wilson

By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American, Sept. 9, 2014

“Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that the police are not subject to it or we arrest him right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime,” said Rev. Carlton Lee of Flood Christian Church and the St. Louis Chapter of the National Action Network.

On the one month anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, Flood stood with the family of Michael Brown Jr., a member of the family’s legal team and a few dozen concerned citizens in front of Ferguson Police headquarters to ask that the Ferguson Police Officer who killed Michael Brown Jr. be placed under arrest.

“Either we need to redefine what probable cause means – and say that the police are not subject to it or we arrest him right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime,” Lee said. “We do not need an indictment in order to arrest someone. You are arrested with information. If I walk in somewhere and I shoot someone six times that is unarmed, the police would immediately arrest me. They would take me into custody, they would take my picture, they would fingerprint me and I would be waiting until proper charges are filed against me. We are wondering why Officer Wilson has been granted immunity and been able to skip over certain processes.”

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Monday, August 4, 2014

Is Sharpton's Race Card finally overdrawn?

August 04, 2014 National Action Network , Nina Schutzman 0 Comments
N.Y. Post: Sharpton, businesses owe $4.7 million in tax debt

By Nina Schutzman Aug. 3, 2014, Poughkeepsie Journal

The Rev. Al Sharpton, along with his nonprofit National Action Network and two for-profit firms, have $4.7 million in outstanding debt and liens, according to federal and state tax records, the New York Post reported on Sunday.

Among the debts include $806,875 that Sharpton owes the state, along with $2.6 million in federal liens against him for unpaid personal income taxes, the Post stated.

Recent filings showed the National Action Network owed $813,576 to the federal government at the end of 2012, and his company Rev-Al Communications owes $447,826 to the state, while the Bo-Spanky Consulting firm has $18.21 in outstanding debt, according to the Post.

Sharpton told the Post he's paying down the debts according to negotiated agreements.

"It's significantly less. It's nowhere near the millions of dollars. We have totally lived up to our agreement with them," Sharpton the Post. "It's being paid down."

In 1987, the controversial preacher stood by then-15-year-old Wappingers Falls resident Tawana Brawley's side after she was found in a trash bag, covered in feces and racial slurs.

She claimed she was abducted and raped by a group of white men, among them Steven Pagones, who was a prosecutor with the Dutchess County's District Attorney's Office.

The fact that Sharpton is given any credibility is "despicable," Pagones said to the Poughkeepsie Journal on Sunday evening. "The guy has caused so many problems and so much racial tension in the past. I don't understand how people, politicians can afford him the credibility."

Lacking physical evidence or eyewitnesses, Sharpton repeatedly identified Pagones as Brawley's attacker, according to Journal archives. A specially impaneled grand jury, called by then-Gov. Mario Cuomo, determined Brawley's story was phony.

That case brought national media attention and racial tension to Dutchess County.

Pagones sued Brawley, Sharpton and others for defamation in 1998.

The jury awarded Pagones $345,000, including $65,000 from Sharpton for making seven defamatory statements. The reverend's friends and supporters like lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. and businessman Percy Sutton covered the debt.

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Elder Statement: SNITCHGATE -- Sharpton Lies About Why He Snitched For The FBI By Larry Elder

April 12, 2014 60 Minutes , Articles by Larry Elder 0 Comments

By Larry Elder, Apr. 12, 2014

If the bigoted, anti-Semitic, tax cheating race-hustling poverty pimp, the Rev. Al Sharpton, had any credibility left, it’s long gone.
  

Sharpton, the beneficiary of a lifetime of passes by our race-conscious mainscream media, ran into an outlet not afraid of him -- The Smoking Gun. They obtained material that exposed Sharpton as having worked as an FBI “informant.” Sharpton, of course, denies being a “snitch.” No, he “volunteered” to “cooperate” with the FBI. He acted with the most honorable of motives.
  

Why would the government-hating “civil rights” leader cooperate with the feds? Sharpton told “Morning Joe” that he did so to root out “mob influence” in the record business. To this, MSNBC’s suppliant Joe Scarborough actually called Sharpton “a great example.”
  

Here’s the problem. A “60 Minutes” outtake from their 2011 Sharpton profile shows correspondent Leslie Stahl aggressively questioning him about being an FBI “informant.” Sharpton admits “cooperating,” but says he did so to expose “crack houses” and corruption in boxing. He said the FBI asked him “what I know about [boxing promoter] Don King.”
  

That was then, in 2011. Sharpton said nothing about the mob from the record business -- the reason he now offered up on “Morning Joe.” The feds, in 1983, caught Sharpton on tape attempting to arrange a drug deal. In exchange for prosecution, Sharpton cut a deal. Nothing noble, just a phony “civil rights” leader condemning drugs while dealing them -- at least attempting to deal them. A con artist agreeing to snitch to save his hide. Nothing more, nothing less.
  

Yesterday, CBS released these outtakes, calling them an “interesting exchange” given this week’s “new revelations.” They show the lying, shifty, obviously uncomfortable Sharpton dodging and deflecting -- clearly unhappy with the line of questioning. Some CBS producer or exec decided not to broadcast this part of the interview on TV. Were these “interesting” outtakes available online in 2011 when the Sharpton profile first aired? If not, why? Sharpton probably threatened to sue for defamation, and CBS backed down.
  

If so, shame on “60 Minutes” for only releasing these bombshell outtakes just now -- having sat on them for three years. And shame on the mainscream media for allowing The Smoking Gun to do the job they should have done a long time ago. After all, the fraudulent “civil rights” leader made his bones knowingly and falsely accusing a man of raping Tawana Brawley. Since then, Sharpton has compiled an impressive and lengthy rap sheet of race card hustles:  Al Sharpton's Rap Sheet By Larry Elder


Obscenities like Sharpton usually make enemies.  He has, including some who began as friends or colleagues.

One, described by the New York Post as a “drug trafficker who worked for Al Sharpton’s nonprofit in the 1980s, recently told the newspaper, “It was greed. [Sharpton] just wanted money.”
  

Sharpton was ‘eager to get slice of 1980s coke deal’: pal

And in a “People” magazine Sharpton profile, a former aide, Perry McKinnon, claims Sharpton, knew that the whole Tawana Brawley affair was a hoax. No matter, Sharpton allegedly assured McKinnon, “We’ll be the biggest n---gs in the country.”

Trials of Tawana By James S. Kunen

It’s good to be Sharpton. As a “civil rights leader” he’s managed to avoid prison despite being million of dollars light in federal and state income taxes: Taxes Are For Little People

He also failed to pay payroll taxes in his money losing non-profit:

Al Sharpton can't shake his money problems      

His busy life includes a daily hour show on MSNBC; a three-hour daily radio show; and CEO of a non-profit “civil rights organization” called the National Action Network. Sharpton claims to put in a 40-hour workweek at NAN, in addition to preparing for and putting on his daily radio and television show.

By the way, is the IRS at all interested in how Sharpton manages to do all this -- and still work 40 hours per week to justify his $250K NAN CEO salary? No, the standard 24-hour day clearly does not apply to Sharpton.

Celebritynetworth.com clocks him in $5+ million. Not bad for “no justice, no peace.”


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Al Sharpton '60 Minutes' 2011 Outtakes--Admits "Cooperated' With FBI, Says Nothing About Mob In Record Business

Al Sharpton '60 Minutes' 2011 Outtakes--Admits "Cooperated' With FBI, Says Nothing About Mob In Record Business

April 12, 2014 60 Minutes , CBS News 0 Comments

By Leslie Stahl, Apr. 11, 2014, CBS News, 60 Minutes

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — President Barack Obama is coming to New York City Friday to address the Rev. Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network.

The visit comes days after revelations surfaced that Sharpton worked with the FBI. The topic also came up in a 2011 ’60 Minutes’ interview with Lesley Stahl weeks before the debut of “Politics Nation.”


In outtakes posted from that interview, Stahl asked Sharpton if he was an FBI informant.
The exchange got testy at times when Stahl continued to question Rev. Al about his “informant” role.

Stahl: When you were in your 20s, you were an informant for the FBI.

Sharpton: No, well it’s according to how you define informant but go ahead.

Stahl: Tell us about that. How do you define it? What was that?

Sharpton: They tried to entrap me. When it didn’t work…

Stahl: The FBI you mean?

Sharpton: Yeah. And when it didn’t work, I was working on some things about crack houses at the  time and we ended up working on some drug cases and they were also doing a boxing investigation and they talked to me a lot about boxing and what I knew about Don King.


 


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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Holder: 'What Atty General has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?' --Gee, let's see Ashcroft, Gonzales...

April 10, 2014 Attorney General , Eric Holder 0 Comments


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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

FLASHBACK: Rich Lefties Like Sharpton, Kerry--And THEIR Taxes --Did Kerry become an FBI informant, too? (sarcasm)

April 08, 2014 Americans for Democratic Action , Barney Frank 0 Comments
By Larry Elder, Dec. 6. 2012

Ah, the hypocrisy of tax-hikers who do everything they can to avoid the taxes they wish to impose on others.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.: He tried to avoid $500K in his home state's sales and excise taxes by docking his newly purchased $7 million 76-foot yacht in Rhode Island.
Massachusetts lowered its state income tax in 2001. Given the presumably large number of rich people who pine to pay more taxes, the state allowed tax filers to check a box and voluntarily pay the old, higher rate. In a liberal state of over 3 million tax filers, how many volunteered to pay the higher rate in 2004? A tiny fraction of 1 percent -- 930 taxpayers.
Among those who refused to pay the higher rate? Sen. Kerry and Rep. Barney Frank. In Frank's case, he refused to pay the higher rate because, he says, "I don't trust the legislative leadership and Gov. (Mitt) Romney to make the right decisions." Instead, Frank said, "I'll donate the money myself."

John Edwards, former senator and Democratic presidential candidate: His wife, Elizabeth, once called him a person of "character" because Edwards voted against his own economic "interests" by voting for higher taxes. Well, OK, but like billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who urges higher taxes, Edwards is less than keen on paying them. As a lawyer winning major jury awards, John set up a subchapter S corporation to pay himself through dividends -- and thus avoid $600K in Medicare payroll taxes.

Kennedy patriarch Joe Kennedy: The late Ted Kennedy and his family shield their money through a series of complicated family trusts first begun by father Joe Kennedy. The trusts transfer wealth from generation to generation while avoiding estate taxes.

The late Ohio Democratic Sen. Howard Metzenbaum: A liberal's liberal, Metzenbaum enjoyed a lifetime rating from Americans for Democratic Action of 95 (100 being perfect) and a zero from the American Conservative Union. He never met a tax hike he did not like. He moved to Florida when he retired from the Senate. Why Florida? No state estate or personal income taxes.

"Civil rights" leader and MSNB-Hee Haw host Al Sharpton: Though he supports increasing taxes on the rich, Sharpton, it seems, fails to do his part as a member of the 1 percent. As of last year, according to the New York Post, Sharpton owed $3.5 million in state and federal income taxes. His nonprofit, the National Action Network, as of 2011 owes nearly $900K in unpaid federal payroll taxes.

What do these individual instances of hypocrisy say about whether taxes should be increased on the so-called rich?

First, contrary to Buffett's assertion, people absolutely make decisions and change behavior in response to taxes. Compare the economies of Texas and California, two border states with similar immigrant populations. Texas is a no-income-tax, right-to-work, business-friendly state with substantially less regulation than the Obama-like high-tax (especially on the "the rich" and on business), forced unionism, heavily regulated state of California. Texas also has one of the lowest per-capita spending rates, while California has one of the highest.
The result? According to Investor's Business Daily, state gross domestic product growth in Texas was 3.3 percent in 2011 and 5.2 percent in 2010, while California was 2 percent in 2011 and 1.7 percent in 2010. Texas has created more than twice as many new jobs as California and has a below-the-national-average jobless rate of 6.8 percent. California's unemployment rate is 10.2 percent.

From 2008 to 2011, Texans' median hourly wages rose 8 percent, while Californians' rose 5.7 percent. And per-capita personal income during those years rose 1.3 percent in Texas, while (SET ITAL) falling (END ITAL) almost 1 percent in California. California's poverty rate is 23.5 percent, to Texas' 16.5 percent, and Texas spends less on education, while its students outperform their California counterparts.

Second, because people change behavior in response to taxes, raising them can result in getting less revenue. John Kennedy said, "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low -- and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut rates now."

The Congressional Budget Office just issued a report on what would happen to the economy if Congress fails to retain the Bush-era tax rates. Keeping the Bush-era rates for all but the rich, the CBO says, adds 1.25 percentage points to GDP. Retaining tax rates for all, including the rich, however, adds 1.5 percent to the economy. In other words, raising taxes on the rich lowers economic output. Does a quarter of a percentage matter? The CBO says it will "only" reduce job growth by about 200,000 jobs -- although other reputable studies put the number at 700,000 jobs.

Taxes matter.

 Related:  Al Sharpton, FBI Informant--Untold Story Of How ActivistOnce Aided Probes Of NYC Wiseguys --Probably cut a deal



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