Celebrity Justice
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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76. I hope he gets what he deserves after what he did to Imus. Imus is a decent man who helped many. This loudmouth is just that a big fat nothing. Throw the book at him IRS...

Posted at 1:01AM on May 11th 2008 by Davis

77. TROBLE MAKING LOSER! Go home Al and stop making problems worse by sticking your nasty butt in it all. Dont you have anything better to do? I thought we told you stop it! Now i am mad.

Posted at 2:57AM on May 11th 2008 by Candice

78. Al Sharpton will never see the slammer...He will have his brothers blow up the streets, like he is threatening in Denver, if Obama loses the nomination...The man has no morals. He thinks he is above the whites.. It wouldn't surprise me if he threatens Obama if he doesn't get a cabinet seat... Lord help us all....the man is crazy... We fear the word racist, and they are the biggest racists of all...It will only get worse if Obama is elected... Whites, be prepared to take a back seat if this inexperienced racist gets the White House,,,Michelle is full of hatred, and is itching to show her true racist self...The race issue has been set back 40 years in one year, and it can only get worse....Obama is not a uniter...He is all talk, and will say anything to get elected...The Rev has been quieted temporarily, but he'll have a big role in the WH...I am waiting for the big shoe to drop, and soon....Bring it on....Go Hillary! If not Hillary....Mc Cain.

Posted at 5:53AM on May 11th 2008 by Alisascumbag

79. Wow! You can see everyone's true colors coming out.(No Pun)
I'm disappointed to see so many frequent posters spewing racism.

Posted at 7:06AM on May 11th 2008 by Andy

80. He doesn't owe ANYTHING..............the IRS is an illegal entity run by the US Gov't. The Supreme Court ruled in 1913? (may have been later) that it is illegal for the federal government to tax our personal income i.e. our salary. Therefore, NONE of us should be giving money to the IRS. Besides the fact that there is absolutely NO law on the books that say we have to pay takes to the Federal Government, technically, us paying the IRS is voluntary. Case in point: My boyfriends father NEVER filed taxes in his whole 81 years. When he died the IRS sent nasty letters to his Grandmother saying she owed them 10's of thousands of dollars. When they found out that she was going to have to sell her house to pay them, they said don't worry about it, and she never paid them a dime. The reason that the Gov't is going after celebrities for not paying there taxes is 1. to get the rest of us scared enough that we won't think of not filing, and 2. because the US is broke and needs the money. TMZ: Why don't you do a little research on this before you badmouth people who don't pay their taxes.

Posted at 1:36PM on May 11th 2008 by fedup

81. #82 I'll bet you paid yours!

Posted at 1:59PM on May 11th 2008 by TWT

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Posted at 1:05PM on May 12th 2008 by TT

83. GOOD!! LOCK THIS RACISTS UP & PLEASE THROW AWAY THE KEY! & CHARGE THIS RACIST WITH INTEREST! HE MIGHT EVEN BECOME VICE PRESIDENT OF USA, ONLY IF OBAMA WINS ( I DONT THINK SO)

Posted at 5:03PM on May 12th 2008 by Cheryl

84. Let me see...what will Sharpton say...I'm sorry, so sorry, I should have kept better tabs on my accountant? and they all say they are sorry when they get caught, regardless of their color..the only thing they are sorry for is they are "sorry they got caught."!!!

Or how about Jimmy Swaggert/the Bible preaching preacher who used money from the believers, the ignorant, the illerate who sent him millions and millions of dollars monthly/weeks that he frittered away on illicit, illegal, ungodly behavior..Sobbing, confessing on National TV to his followers, to the Lord "I have sinned O Lord, etc. I am sorry. again, sorry he got caught..

And of course there is Jim Baker..if you don't know what he did/they did, then you are really out of the loop..

I'm sure like other commenters have said, old Sharpton will try to turn it into a racial vendeta..Like, the U.S. Attorney General who is/has brought the charges against Sharpton is a RACIST..and his illerate, ignorant followers will support him..The blacks don't move ahead because they choose to live and only remember that they were once, so many, many years ago, they were slaves. . I'm sure we will be hearing from the good Rev. Wright with his hateful, evil sermons like he gave on Sunday's when Obama was attending for 20 years...He preaches hate, evil ..and it is so sad that people sit in the pews of his church and let him brain wash them with his hatred towards the white man and choose to live in the past of those blacks hundreds of years ago when if they truly want to better themselves, just like any color, race, there is help out there..More help for the blacks than the average white families because of their color..I was a divorced mother of three and my kids sure didn't get any breaks when it came to their educations..They worked after schools and on week-ends to make money...They took out student loans in order to get college degree and took years to pay them off..So don't cry on my shoulders because if my white kids can take out student loans to better their education , can work from the time they are twelve doing odd jobs, and into better jobs when they because of legal age, so can all blacks, browns, greens, yellows, etc. you get the picture?? IT'S TIME WE HAD A "CRUTCH BURNING" IN D.C. AND TELL PEOPLE TO LEARN TO WALK ON THEIR OWN AND STOP BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE FOR THEIR FAILURES...

Posted at 8:32PM on May 14th 2008 by sweet baby

85. This country makes me sick. I am so sick of the racism. And it is not just "white" people being racist against "colored" people. Our country is very divided- and I feel thet "colored" people are just as guilty as "white" people.

Things could be so different. I am sorry- but to the African-Americans: you should not keep emloying the slave card. I am white, and I think slavery was a HORRIBLE part of American history. But there is no one alive at this point that owned slaves, and there is no one alive that was a slave. So while I really do feel bad for the people that had to endure slavery, I do not think that anyone living today can claim that pain.

At this point in American history we have people of all nationalities living in America. Instead of hating eachother we should all do what we can to better ourselves. This country could be SO much stronger, and smarter, if every person would take advantage of the opportunity to get an education. We should not be labled "White Americans", "African Americans", "Mexican Americans", etc. We are ALL Americans now. So instead of HATE, we should try to do the best we can to make this a great country.

Posted at 4:49AM on May 15th 2008 by as985

86. It si about time someone put Sharpton in his place. However, as with others I agree, Sharpton is going to some how get out of a lot of this due to racisim. RACISM!! BS!!! The man is a crock and should be delt with accordingly. Put him in jail and let him rot there. Serves him right!!!

Posted at 6:18PM on Jun 12th 2008 by ticked off grand-pa

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