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Sharpton Still Owes at Least $900K for 2004 Presidential Campaign

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By Andy B. Mayfair

If you owed $900,000 ,you can be sure you would be forced to pay it sooner rather than later.

So what is going on with Al Sharpton?

According to published reports, Sharpton’s 2004 presidential campaign still owes more than $900,000, and yet it remains uncollected. Many have claimed that he has been given a pass for a variety of racial and political reasons.

A spokesperson for the Federal Election Commission recently told the New York Post, “If committees are unable to pay debts, they can file a debt settlement plan with the FEC… Committees could not just decide not to pay.” And yet that, apparently, is what has happened in Sharpton’s case.

“The holy man’s campaign is in the hole, despite him personally earning more money than ever. In addition to a lucrative hosting gig on MSNBC, Sharpton raked in cash helming his influential nonprofit National Action Network. In 2018, he pocketed more than a million dollars from the charity,” reported the Post. “Since the debt is owed by the campaign committee, and not Sharpton directly, the rev is not on the hook for the cash. Rather his campaign treasurer, Andrew Rivera, is the one legally responsible for it.”

This is hardly news. It was a full five years ago that Fox Business reported on Sharpton’s delinquent payments, writing: “According to a New York Times’ review of government records last fall, the MSNBC host and civil rights activist personally faces federal tax liens for more than $3 million in back taxes owed, and state tax liens of $777,657. So in total, Sharpton reportedly owes more than $3.7 million in back taxes. His other two for-profit businesses, Raw Talent and Revals Communications, (both now defunct) owe anywhere from $717,000 to more than $800,000, based on state and federal tax liens, reports from the Times and National Review indicate. Revals Communications also either didn’t file its tax returns, or underpaid its tax bills from 1999 to 2002.”

Fox continued, “Sharpton’s National Action Network also owed more than $813,000 in federal back taxes as of December of 2012, according to the nonprofit’s recent filings. At one point, the National Action Network’s tax liability more than doubled last decade, jumping from $900,000 in 2003 to almost $1.9 million in 2006.”

Supposed news-gathering organizations have certainly turned a blind eye. Sharpton still hosts PoliticsNation, a weekend news program on MSNBC. The show, according to the network, “features politicos to a-list entertainers, but also focuses on under-reported stories that need a national platform like education, voting, and criminal justice.” Not a word in the description about Sharpton’s debt or decades of inflammatory race-based rhetoric.

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