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Reverend Al Owes $1.5 Million in Back Taxes

 
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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:49 am    Post subject: Reverend Al Owes $1.5 Million in Back Taxes Reply with quote
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Records Show Sharpton Owes $1.5 Million in Back Taxes


NEW YORK (AP) -- Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion.

The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation's most prominent civil rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan's major bridges and tunnels.

But he still carries baggage from his early days as a fire-breathing agitator: Government records obtained by The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties.

Now the U.S. attorney is investigating his nonprofit group, a probe that an undeterred Sharpton brushes off as the kind of annoyance that civil rights figures have come to expect from the government.

``Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop,'' he told the AP. ``I think that that is why they try to intimidate us.''

Over the past year, Sharpton's lawyers and the staff of his nonprofit group, the National Action Network, have been negotiating with the federal government over the size of his debt, which they dispute. The group has also been trying to pay off tens of thousands of dollars it owes for failing to properly maintain workers compensation and unemployment insurance.

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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Poor Al!!!! Laughing Laughing Laughing


He's gonna have to cut back on the ' relaxer" and Dippity-Do for a'spell.

But, he's not the first....and he won't be the last!!!
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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
heard on the news tonight Al frankin is in tax trouble as well... seems he hired a tax guy who didn't know much about taxes.. Rolling Eyes Wink
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