Al Sharpton's Next Challenge: Uncle Sam

Posted May 10th 2008 9:34AM by TMZ Staff

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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16. Al shouldn't have to pay nothing. He's helped lots of people and there will come a day when you will all have a Black president, and the Reverend will be part of his cabinet. All you haters out there can just kiss it, cause when it comes to it, face the facts, Obama's leading in the polls and people vote for who's cool. Then the White House will be the Black House. You think we bad now, ooooh my brotha's all you gonna hear for 4 years is Black people speaking.

Posted at 12:16PM on May 10th 2008 by Terance Q.

17. Al & Jesse, what a pair of radical nuts. He will blame this on white people who are out to get him. These 2 are the most racists people in America. Black people need to listen to somebody with some sense like Bill Cosby or Marvin Arrington!! Put this bum in prison for 10 years.

Posted at 12:19PM on May 10th 2008 by CTS

18. My response to #15. Al Sharpton is a piranah and a scumbag. He's one of the biggest racist in the entire US and I'm sure the feds have his next speaking gig already lined up with the prison population. Obama is just a hater and he'll be like Sharpton where he'll cry and scream foul when he gets his butt kicked in November. I'll be the first to buy their plane ticket and send their sorry *** to another country! Waah Waah Waah, the black's are getting screwed again

Posted at 12:21PM on May 10th 2008 by Sam

19. This is an outrage! All this because he marches for innocent victims of hate crimes like the Jena 6, and those men gun down by those racist police officers. Ever since he's been trying to rally people together to just promote peace the white man gotta find something to bring the Black man down. Where are our Equal Rights? All white people know is hate...look at all those peaceful people in Iraq and what we did to them, or New Orleans and how none of y'all helped them. Why not go after the real criminals like those border hoppin illegals? Oh no always the Black man.

Posted at 12:28PM on May 10th 2008 by Latisha

20. Darquan,
Terrence Q.
Latisha.

Same Person

Posted at 12:31PM on May 10th 2008 by Time For His Wine Making Trick

21. your a good ole boy sharpton, ya pay your taxes???????? why are you in others affairs, when you can't manage your own? always up someones ass, but you don't take care of your own. busybody, thats all your are. take a step back, look into your own affairs, clean up your own yard

Posted at 12:31PM on May 10th 2008 by pattie

22. WASH YOUR HAIR GREASEBALL

Posted at 12:32PM on May 10th 2008 by jojo

23. the man who constantly cries wolf is nothing but a crook. "Im Shocked"

Posted at 12:35PM on May 10th 2008 by Webbie

24. Sharpton would be well advised to hide under a sheet and watch what the IRS is gonna do to Reverin' Wright.

Posted at 12:39PM on May 10th 2008 by chicken stripper

25. Good for him. I am sure this will turn in to a racial thing. He is so annoying!!!

Posted at 12:40PM on May 10th 2008 by Todd Dwyer

26. Latisha, Darquan and Terrence Q. - STFU!!!! Regarding Katrina - how come every news program that does a story on Katrina I only see WHITE people volunteering, young and old!! With the exception of a few BLACKS!!!

Quit crying poor me, poor me!! When a WHITE city was demolished by tornados a year ago - they WORKED together to rebuild their city!!!

The key word "WORKED" that's a word some blacks are afraid of!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:40PM on May 10th 2008 by oh yes, I went there

27. I hope he gets put behund bars - he is a racist pig, Not only to whites but where do you think all this money in back taxes came from? His own people that actually believe he is doing them good. S U C K E R S ! ! ! !

Posted at 12:42PM on May 10th 2008 by nursey74

28. Ha ha ha grease ball that's funny! Looks like King Louie has to go back to the jungle where he belongs, cause after the IRS comes after him, the only thing he's gonna have left is the clothes on his back. Look at New Orleans, Blacks can't even rally up to rebuild it, let alone help Sharpton, they are just beggers.

Posted at 12:44PM on May 10th 2008 by Melodie Chendrew

29. PERHAPS HE WILL BE "NAILED" THIS TIME. TALKING ABOUT A BIG CROOK! THEY DON'T GET MUCH BIGGER THAN THIS THUG! PRISON TIME WILL DO HIM GOOD!

Posted at 12:45PM on May 10th 2008 by JEAN

30. "Why not go after the real criminals like those border hoppin illegals? Oh no always the Black man"

Because they work without complaints. They try hard to make a living and give their family the best they can give. The "black man" is lazy, wants welfare, feels that white people owe them, and leaves their children in the ghetto to be raised by a single mother."

Posted at 12:46PM on May 10th 2008 by nursey74

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