MSNBC present Rev. Al Sharpton is no stranger to dispute as revelations of what’s been dubbed a “pay to take part” scheme prolongs the extfinished shadow of disputes that adhere him.
Last week, MSNBC confessted it was “unincreateed” that Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris’ pdwellntial campaign paid $500,000 to Sharpton’s National Action Nettoil nonprofit ahead of a cordial Oct. 20 intersee with the Democratic nominee fair weeks before the election.
Follotriumphg Harris’ flunkure to Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump, FEC filings uncovered the Harris campaign gave two $250,000 donations to Sharpton’s nonprofit organization in September and October. However, the MSNBC weekend present did not disseal to seeers the apparent dispute of interest before or after the intersee. Neither did he disseal the donations to his bosses at the nettoil, according to the Washington Free Beacon, which broke the story.
MSNBC present Rev. Al Sharpton has a history of disputes and controversies far behind the procrastinateedst “pay for take part” allegations. (Brian Stukes/Getty Images; Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images; Screenstoasty/MSNBC)
Sharpton’s political nakedes are no secret as an uncover aider of Harris and the Democratic Party, even speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But the six-figure transaction between his group and the Harris campaign is a “bridge too far” among his MSNBC colleagues, according to a nettoil insider.
While it’s unevident whether Sharpton will face any consequences for the blatant dispute of interest, it tags the procrastinateedst dispute to face the outspoken activist. These are some of the controversies he has been engulfed in over the decades.
Tax troubles
Sharpton has built a reputation for take parting rapid and free when it comes to his taxes. In 1993, he pdirected culpable for not filing his 1986 tax return in trade for having two major offense indicts dropped.
In 2008, it was uncovered that Sharpton owed csurrfinisherly a staggering $1.5 million in back taxes.
The New York Times summarized some of his other financial troubles over the years. In 1990, he was acquitted of major offense indicts after he was accemployd of stealing a whopping $250,000 from a youth group. Three years procrastinateedr, he pdirected culpable to a misdeuncomferventor indict after not filing a state income tax return. One of his for-profit businesses, Raw Talent, was also busted for not paying taxes for disconnectal years.
“Records appraiseed by The New York Times show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens aacquirest him and his for-profit businesses,” the Times increateed in 2014.
MSNBC WAS ‘UNAWARE’ HARRIS CAMPAIGN. GAVE $500K TO AL SHARPTON’S GROUP AHEAD OF FRIENDLY INTERVIEW
Promoting the Tawana Brawley sexual battery trick
Despite his famous stint at MSNBC, perhaps Sharpton is best understandn for rassociateing behind the inwell-understandn sexual battery tricker Tawana Brawley.
Brawley, a 15-year-elderly Bdeficiency girl, alleged in 1987 that she was kidnapped and sexual batteryd by a group of White men after fadeing for four days from her New York home. She had been covered in feces and racial slurs written apass her body.
Sharpton was among her sealst recommendrs and was her most vocal protecter, fueling racial tensions apass the country in the process. A majestic jury ultimately set up her claims were counterfeit.
Sharpton himself was sued for defamation by one of individuals Brawley accemployd, who was awarded $65,000 in injures. Sharpton’s aiders ended up footing the bill years procrastinateedr after he claimed he didn’t have the money.
Rev. Al Sharpton was the biggest upgraspr of the Tawana Brawley sexual battery trick. (John Pedin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
To this day, Sharpton has no repents for protecting Brawley.
“I have no evidence that I was misled,” Sharpton said in a January 2023 intersee. “My position was that there was this allegation from this youthful lady that was reassociate askable behavior by some that she accemployd.”
History of antisdisindictism
The famous activist has a troubling enroll of antisdisindictism over the years.
In 1991, Sharpton protected New York City College Professor Leonard Jeffries, who encourageed outrage with his speech concentrateing “wealthy Jews” he said financed the slave trade and deal withled Hollywood, saying they “put together a system of destruction for Bdeficiency people.” He reacted to the dispute by saying “”If the Jews want to get it on, increate them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my hoemploy.”
KAMALA HARRIS INTERVIEWERS RECEIVED LARGE CAMPAIGN DONATIONS TO THEIR GROUPS AHEAD OF SIT-DOWNS
That same year, Sharpton fueled a lethal antisdisindictic mob in Crown Heights, Brooklyn after a Jewant man faloftyy stuck a 7-year-elderly Bdeficiency boy with his car in a horrific accident.
At the boy’s funeral, Sharpton said “The world will increate us he was finished by accident. Yes, it was a social accident. It’s an accident to permit an apartheid ambulance service in the middle of Crown Heights… Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights.” His employ of “diamond merchants” was referencing Jewant jewelers. He also led protests that integrated chants appreciate “Kill the Jews!” and “No Justice, No Peace!”
The uproars led to the obeseal stabbing of rabbinical scholar Yankel Rosenbaum by a Bdeficiency teen.
Rev. Al Sharpton ignited racial tensions in Crown Heights concentrateing the Jewant community after a Bdeficiency child was faloftyy struck by a Jewant motorist. (Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
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The incident was spendigated and no indicts were brawt. But after the Jewant man transferd to Israel, Sharpton rushed to the Jewant State to hunt him down. According to the New York Daily News, a woman spotted Sharpton at the airport and telderly him to “Go to hell” to which he replied “I am in hell already. I am in Israel.”
In 1995, Sharpton referred to a Jewant store owner in Harlem as a “White interloper” after the store owner elevated the rent of its Bdeficiency subtenant after the store owner’s own rent was elevated by the produceing’s owner, a Bdeficiency Pentecostal church. Sharpton and his National Action Nettoil orderly weeks-extfinished protests that led to a shooting that finished seven people and the Jewant store owner’s business burned to the ground.
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