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Al Sharpton: The Left’s Street Boss is Back in the News
The Rev. Al Sharpton makes a statement outside the US Justice Department in Washington, DC, July 16, 2013, calling for a federal investigation into the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Sharpton, President of the National Action Network (NAN) announced that NAN is organizing Justice for Trayvon vigils in 100 cities across the country on July 20, to press the federal government to investigate civil rights charges against George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was found not guilty in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a Florida jury on July 13, 2013.AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSONJIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: 173921541
Al Sharpton and his troubled relationship with money was recently in the news again. Last month, the New York Post reported on the reluctance of New York authorities to investigate suspicious financial behavior at his nonprofit—the National Action Network—that pays him $1 million annually.
“There are certain things that are universally true in New York: the sun rises in the east, it sets in the west, the subway is late and no one wants to pick a fight with Al Sharpton,” said one top Democratic insider. “Where’s the political benefit to doing it?”
Similarly, BizPac Review poked around and revealed that a $1 million salary is roughly triple the going rate for somebody running a nonprofit the size of the National Action Network.
These issues and more are covered in the extensive Influence Watch profile of Al Sharpton.
For example, there is the little-reported matter of him being an informant for the FBI against New York mafia crime family members. The potentially less than honorable reasons for that were covered in a recent CRC magazine profile of Sharpton: The Left’s Street Boss.
Learn more about Al Sharpton and other influencers at Influence Watch.
