Posted on 11/30/2015 8:26:54 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
It pays to have friends in high places.
Al Sharpton gave himself a 71 percent raise last year after his National Action Network group drew a record $6.9 million in donations — as the controversial cleric’s association with Mayor de Blasio and President Obama lent him a newfound air of legitimacy.
De Blasio’s election gave Sharpton a seat at City Hall, as the mayor treated him as an adviser and presented him at a press event next to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton after the death of Eric Garner.
Also in 2014, Obama addressed NAN’s annual convention, bringing along five of his Cabinet members.
The Harlem-based nonprofit collected $2 million more in 2014 than the year before, according to the latest financial records available.
Sharpton’s pay increased from $241,545 in 2013 to $412,644, including a bonus of $64,400, tax filings obtained by The Post show.
In April, four months after his pal de Blasio took office, some 5,000 people attended NAN’s 2014 conference headlined by Obama and attended by the mayor, Gov. Cuomo and then-US Attorney General Eric Holder. It was NAN’s biggest fund-raiser of the year.
In October, a few months after Sharpton’s summer of police protests, he pulled in a reported $1 million at his 60th-birthday bash. Pols and dignitaries rushed from the annual Al Smith Dinner hosted by Timothy Cardinal Dolan that same night to the NAN fund-raiser at the Four Seasons restaurant.
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Lois Lerner must be doing his tax returns.
IIRC there was a “Reverend Ike”,a black clergyman back in the 50’s and/or 60’s whose trademark was riding around in a huge,expensive Cadillac wearing expensive clothes.And his trademark statement was something like “the best thing you can do for the poor is to not be one of them”.
As an extra bonus he gets immunity from the IRS!
good- the idiots who want to throw their money away supporting this crook deserve to lose it
..thought he owed the IRS $4,000,000 ?
Is Al Sharpton paying his back taxes? Sounds like he’s got a windfall which should help him pay his debts. But is he paying that is the question. Or are Obama and the IRS cutting him a break? Heck if you or I owed millions in back taxes as Sharpton does, there would be serious consequences.
Sho-nuff, he got hiz seff some juss-tiss!
That really isn’t a ton of money once you take 70 percent away for taxes and Social Security and other crap the government takes. He probably has about 150,000 at the end of the day after bringing in over 400,000. That is how pathetic our taxes are.
Someone actually pays this clown?
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