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Rdtf
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 Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject: Just Released FBI Report: Sharpton Pocketed Donations |
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153166,00.html
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Report: Sharpton Pocketed Donations
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
WASHINGTON — The FBI , as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the Rev. Al Sharpton, secretly videotaped him pocketing campaign donations from two shady fund-raisers in a New York City hotel room and then asking for more, it was reported yesterday.
One of the donors was later recorded on a wiretap saying Sharpton may not have reported to the Federal Election Commission tens of thousands of dollars in campaign cash, as is required by the law, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The FBI launched the probe into Sharpton's fund-raising for his failed 2004 presidential run after his name surfaced on wiretaps in an unrelated Philadelphia City Hall corruption case, the Inquirer said.
The Post confirmed the FBI investigation of Sharpton. The two dubious donors whom Sharpton met with in the hotel on May 9, 2003 — Democratic fund-raisers La-Van Hawkins and the late Ronald White — suggested that nearly $90,000 was missing from the official campaign report Sharpton filed with the FEC.
Hawkins is currently on trial in Philadelphia on corruption charges unrelated to the Sharpton case; White also was going to be indicted, but he died before charges could be brought.
An FBI wiretap picked up Hawkins telling White he believed they had raised more than $140,000 for Sharpton in the previous quarter — but Hawkins fretted because Sharpton had reported only about $50,000 on his federal election filing.
"He's a train wreck — a plane crash waiting to happen," Hawkins told White about Sharpton, according to the paper.
FEC records show Sharpton reported raising about $54,000 during the period, the second quarter of 2003.
Sharpton has denied any wrongdoing.
In the hotel room, the FBI had videotape secretly rolling as White forked over a wad of campaign checks to Sharpton. Sharpton demanded $25,000 more, and White promised he'd try to raise it.
Wiretaps show that White and Hawkins supported Sharpton because they believed the candidate could grease the skids in future business deals — primarily a $40 million deal related to New York City's pension fund.
The feds learned Hawkins, a Detroit fast-food king, sought to create a fried-chicken empire financed with millions of dollars invested from the Big Apple pension fund.
White and Hawkins wooed Sharpton with the campaign checks to set up a meeting with Comptroller William Thompson, who controls the pension funds — though nothing ever came of it. Thompson is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Fearing that Sharpton and the donors were hatching a plan to defraud the pension fund, the FBI got clearance for the videotape from a judge.
That angle proved to be unfounded — but the FBI surveillance uncovered the possible campaign fund-raising fraud. The precise focus of the FBI probe could not be learned.
Sharpton told the Philadelphia paper the allegations were a "politically motivated smokescreen" to hide the fact the Justice Department is out to get him.
Neither he nor his lawyer returned phone calls from The Post yesterday.
Sharpton told the paper that mistakes could have been made by his campaign, but said they were not deliberate.
"In any campaign, you have irregularities," he said. "I don't say that it's not possible there are people in my campaign who have done something."
Sharpton ripped the federal probe and the secret videotaping of the hotel meeting, saying, "Can you imagine what would happen if it was a white presidential candidate?"
With the help of White and Hawkins, Sharpton collected enough money across the country to qualify for federal campaign matching funds in 2003.
But because Sharpton pumped more than $50,000 of his own money into the campaign — disqualifying him from getting the taxpayer-backed funding — the FEC said he must give back $100,000. Sharpton is appealing the FEC decision. |
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Me#1You#10
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That Al Sharpton actually reached a platform in American politics that afforded him the status of a legitimate candidate for POTUS bespeaks a sickness in our society that I shudder to contemplate. Perhaps you must have lived in the NYC metropolitan area for the last 30 years to truly comprehend this pathetic example of American stupidity and/or political ambivalence.
In another day, the MSM and other politicians would have been free to comment on the likes of an "Al Sharpton" and his purported "credentials" and he would have been ridiculed and scorned out of the arena. Not so today. With an MSM headlocked in the arms of political correctness and politicians who are concerned solely with personal political ramifications and "careers", there is nothing left to purge the system of effluence the likes of Al Sharpton.
More and more I am yearning for the only thing that will fix this system that has become so ethically and morally defunct.
Term limits...now. |
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RogerRabbit
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | That Al Sharpton actually reached a platform in American politics that afforded him the status of a legitimate candidate for POTUS bespeaks a sickness in our society that I shudder to contemplate. Perhaps you must have lived in the NYC metropolitan area for the last 30 years to truly comprehend this pathetic example of American stupidity and/or political ambivalence.
In another day, the MSM and other politicians would have been free to comment on the likes of an "Al Sharpton" and his purported "credentials" and he would have been ridiculed and scorned out of the arena. Not so today. With an MSM headlocked in the arms of political correctness and politicians who are concerned solely with personal political ramifications and "careers", there is nothing left to purge the system of effluence the likes of Al Sharpton.
More and more I am yearning for the only thing that will fix this system that has become so ethically and morally defunct.
Term limits...now. |
Then on the other hand, maybe that is so great about the United States - We Have The Freedom To Be Stupid
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Thats Hillary's buddy, she hugged him & visited all the churches in Harlem & NYC in her run for the Senate.
This is not the first time he's been caught on tape in a hotel room taking cash. The last time his defense was that they never showed us the second tape..laffin yeah right Rev...lol |
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Beatrice1000
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | ...More and more I am yearning for the only thing that will fix this system that has become so ethically and morally defunct.
Term limits...now. |
Yes, please -- at least that would be a beginning.....
| Quote: | | Sharpton ripped the federal probe and the secret videotaping of the hotel meeting, saying, "Can you imagine what would happen if it was a white presidential candidate?" |
Yes, Mr Sharpton, I can: An FBI investigation.
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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I lived in NJ for many years and the news channels they receive are from NYC. I can remember seeing him constantly on the news marching up and down the streets inciting anger and race issues. He always looked like he just stepped out of the worst street in Harlem, with HUGE Mr. T chains around his neck and wearing a terry cloth workout outfit. Never even had enough respect to put on a suit.
In case you are all unfamiliar, he is best known for the Tawana Brawley issue, when he did just what I stated above and went about trying to ruin the career and reputation of a 6 cops based on this young black girl's account of having been raped by 6 white cops. She later recanted her story, and it was proven false.
He was so hated that there was an assasination attempt on him that he survived. A rebel riser that loves the camera. |
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Rdtf
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I B Squidly
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Tawana Brawley says it all about Sharpton. Anybody who lends credence to this creature, or provides him a platform is party to the fraud.
Last summer a story popped up and died of how Al was shaking down the DNC for a few million to keep from bad mouthing the nominee. The money apparently went to his personal indulgences and the care and feeding of a female aide with no particular campaign function.
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NY Post |
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kate
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Sharpton takes money from anyone who offers it... rememeber this
Sleeping With the GOP
A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign
by Wayne Barrett with special reporting by Adam Hutton and Christine Lagorio
February 5th, 2004
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0405,barrett,50745,1.html
| Quote: | Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.
Though Stone and Sharpton have tried to reduce their alliance to a curiosity, suggesting that all they do is talk occasionally, a Voice investigation has documented an extraordinary array of connections. Stone played a pivotal role in putting together Sharpton's pending application for federal matching funds, getting dollars in critical states from family members and political allies at odds with everything Sharpton represents. He's also helped stack the campaign with a half-dozen incongruous top aides who've worked for him in prior campaigns. He's even boasted about engineering six-figure loans to Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) and allowing Sharpton to use his credit card to cover thousands in NAN costs—neither of which he could legally do for the campaign. In a wide-ranging Voice interview Sunday, Stone confirmed his matching-fund and staffing roles, but refused to comment on the NAN subsidies.
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Hey you all, leave Honest Reverand Al Sharpton alone. He was receiving a legitimate donation in the hotel room.
Al used the funds to purchase the following campaign supplies:
Two 55 gallon drums of JeRRy CuRl
A gross of Chapstick
Two dozen pairs of false eyelashes.
The rest of the donations were distributed to needy exotic dancers in Atlantic City, one dollar at a time.
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