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Al Sharpton's Next Challenge: Uncle Sam

The Rev. Al Sharpton may need to reach further into his pockets to pay his debts. A whopping 1.5 mil!

Government records obtained by the AP suggest that the Rev and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties.

The U.S. attorney is investigating his nonprofit group. Sharpton's lawyers and the staff of his nonprofit group, dispute the size of the debt under investigation and have been negotiating with the federal government. 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.

The Wesley Snipes school of tax evasion may have another graduate!



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1. Oh thats too bad.......lol

Posted at 11:37AM on May 10th 2008 by KO

2. seems to me this was first a story like a year or so ago and than sharpton cried foul, that the govt was messing with him because of who he is and what he does...but than admitted yes they did owe money. guess they owe more money for more discovered by the IRS skulduggery ways of accounting by Sharpton.

My god the man started out as James Browns Manager, so please, its not like he got his accounting skills honed at the Monastery or anything.

Guess if he is guilty, than maybe he will have to do some real time instead of these few hours of arrests like the one he got the other day.

Al and others, you can mess with just about any institution, corporation, person or group in this country and use your minority status to go unscathed---but when it comes to the governments money, your color wont get you an ounce of extra protection or ignorance on the IRS's part....you'll pay like anyone else will.. When will rappers and sports and enterainters and sharpton likes of that culture figure that part out...go f with anyone or gorup you want and cry minority status, but the govt dont play homes. idiots.

Posted at 11:38AM on May 10th 2008 by No hero

3. Im sure this will somehow, get turned into a racial thing. Thats all that this flake knows. Sad person he is!!

Posted at 11:40AM on May 10th 2008 by uncle sam

4.

Sharpton will be screaming "racism" at the top of his lungs. The feds need to keep their eye on the ball because Sharpton is going to try to make the charges go away in a hail of racist rants.


Posted at 11:40AM on May 10th 2008 by OCD

5. Well,well,well, This is the great man (rolling eyes) that keeps racism alive. I guess he will use the normal,they messing with me cause I'm black cliche...

Posted at 11:44AM on May 10th 2008 by anonymous

6. Nooooo!!!! Not AL!!! They must be mistaken!!! Certainly he's not going to be exposed as the SCHIESTER that HE IS! I hope they check every nook and cranny!

Posted at 11:46AM on May 10th 2008 by are you serious?

7. All I see is nothing but racism. Why do they just go after the brotha's and not anyone else? Al Sharpton should be excluded cause he is black and is a minister of love. Those laws be made by white people anyways, but you aint ever here them putting there own in jail or blasting them about how much they owe. If they arrest him we will be ready to march for him, and we always gets our way. Al Sharpton is as equal to Jesus...if not greater, cause more people know who he is, and he's reached and helped so many people.

Posted at 11:46AM on May 10th 2008 by Darquan Lewis

8. Too bad so sad... The government only see's ONE color - GREEN!!! Pay up Al!

Posted at 11:49AM on May 10th 2008 by are you serious?

9. He can scream racism at the top of his lungs but, like #2 said, the government doesn't give a rats ass color your skin is!

This sorry excuse for a human being makes my stomach turn and infuriates me. Black's can "thank" this piece of crap for keeping racism alive and well!! It oozes out of every pore on this mans skin.

Put him in the same cell as Snipes and let them fight for the soap!

Posted at 11:52AM on May 10th 2008 by Dallas

10. This is pond scum at it's lowest. Al Sharpton is dieing because Obama is taking the attention away from him. He think's he the king of all blacks and he has never been. Blacks hate this man more than life itself. Fake-Rev Al has done more damage to the black community than the KKK could have ever done. He never talks about real problems in the black community. He just race baits for profit and to hell with the conditions and the real lives of black Americans. Black America needs to understand their conditions aren't based on whites, it's based on their own lack of taking responsibilities for their families, their education, babies born out of wedlock, fatherless homes, and crime that's addressed. Al Sharpton, go away and take that parasite Jesse Jackson and your new buddy Rev Wright with you!!!

Posted at 11:53AM on May 10th 2008 by Lenn K.

11. Good Lord, they claim to be in business to help people then they screw over their own employees. What hypocrits.

Posted at 11:57AM on May 10th 2008 by Insert comical name here

12. "Al Sharpton is as equal to Jesus...if not greater"

Thanks, Darquan,
Now we know you're a joke poster

Posted at 12:02PM on May 10th 2008 by Time For His Wine Making Trick

13. He is the ULTIMATE Trouble Maker and Crook, and he's supposed to be an ordained man of God, Yeah Right. I wonder if he has read in the Bible where Jesus himself said
"Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God."
"Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves."

I hope he gets years in the Slammer. He brought it on himself! He is a NO GOOD example, let alone a Christian!!!!


I hope he gets years in the slammer. What a POS.

Posted at 12:07PM on May 10th 2008 by Jen

14. Does the govt have the guts to officially charge Al Sharpton with tax evasion? Let's throw him into the slammer where he can become Wesley' Snipes new girlfriend. Two peas in a pod, who think they're above the rules we all have to follow.

Posted at 12:07PM on May 10th 2008 by Sam

15. The race baiter surpreme is a tax dodger, NO Sh*t sherlock. Race baiter is a full-time job and we know it pays well, all you got to do is sell out your own people and ignore the real problem in the black community and blame education, fatherless homes, out of born kids, crime, and taking responsiblity on white people and it pays well. They guy need to go away and take Jesse Jackson and their new buddy Rev Wright with them. KKK couldn't have done more damage to the black community as these three amigos!!

Posted at 12:15PM on May 10th 2008 by Lenn K.

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