Sharpie Sharpton Plays the Race Card

Posted on December 16, 2007

He has got away with so much that he seems to think he can get away with anything:

“Less than a month after the Rev. Al Sharpton led a Washington march to demand federal action in the Jena Six case, several of his associates and employees found federal agents at their doors with subpoenas for records related to his finances, he said.

To him, the timing was no coincidence. With a grand jury gearing up to consider possible tax fraud charges against him, Sharpton is accusing federal authorities of harassing him in retaliation for his fiery brand of racial activism.

“Every major civil rights leader I can think of, from Martin Luther King to Adam Clayton Powell, has had to face this kind of harassment,” Sharpton said at a news conference Thursday at the Harlem headquarters of his National Action Network. “I am certainly not in their league, but I certainly expect that will become my lot.” ….

Sharpton, his nonprofit civil rights organization and various businesses he runs face possible tax evasion and campaign finance charges stemming from his 2004 presidential bid.

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