Years of massive corruption by the man known for stirring up race relations and making them worse are finally being exposed. While flying around the country first class dressed in lavish suits and most recently stirring the pot in Ferguson Mo. Al Sharpton has avoided paying millions in taxes - that would have landed the rest of us in prison. The situation is so egregious that even the left-wing New York Times finally wrote a long article last week exposing Sharptons tax evasion as well as graft and crime going all the way back to his teenage years.
The Times found there is currently more than $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens against Sharpton and his for-profit businesses. That number apparently doesnt even include the amount owed by his nonprofit the National Action Network (NAN). According to the Times Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable like taxes rent and other bills." Sharpton repeatedly failed to pay off travel agencies hotels and landlords. A Treasury report found that only 1200 organizations in the entire country owed more than $100000 in unpaid payroll taxes making Sharptons group one of the most delinquent.
NAN was able to afford Sharptons one percenter salary of $250000 annually by not paying federal payroll taxes on its employees. A sympathetic writer at the New York Daily News says Sharpton told him in 2008 that he made $750000 that year from media gigs alone. He speculated that after MSNBC hired Sharpton his annual income must have exceeded $1 million.
It is incredible that Sharpton would continue to collect a $250000 annual salary from NAN even though the organization was years behind in taxes. The Times reports that Sharpton also illegally used funds from NAN to pay for his daughters private school tuition.
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Years of massive corruption by the man known for stirring up race relations and making them worse are finally being exposed. While flying around the country first class dressed in lavish suits and most recently stirring the pot in Ferguson Mo. Al Sharpton has avoided paying millions in taxes - that would have landed the rest of us in prison. The situation is so egregious that even the left-wing New York Times finally wrote a long article last week exposing Sharptons tax evasion as well as graft and crime going all the way back to his teenage years.
The Times found there is currently more than $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens against Sharpton and his for-profit businesses. That number apparently doesnt even include the amount owed by his nonprofit the National Action Network (NAN). According to the Times Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable like taxes rent and other bills." Sharpton repeatedly failed to pay off travel agencies hotels and landlords. A Treasury report found that only 1200 organizations in the entire country owed more than $100000 in unpaid payroll taxes making Sharptons group one of the most delinquent.
NAN was able to afford Sharptons one percenter salary of $250000 annually by not paying federal payroll taxes on its employees. A sympathetic writer at the New York Daily News says Sharpton told him in 2008 that he made $750000 that year from media gigs alone. He speculated that after MSNBC hired Sharpton his annual income must have exceeded $1 million.
It is incredible that Sharpton would continue to collect a $250000 annual salary from NAN even though the organization was years behind in taxes. The Times reports that Sharpton also illegally used funds from NAN to pay for his daughters private school tuition.
Read the rest of the article at Townhall