Sharpton turned mob rat to dodge drug sting: report

NY Post ^ | 4/9/14 | Kevin Fasick, Bruce Golding and Geoff Earle

[jimbo123]

The Rev. Al Sharpton may claim he wore a wire for the feds because he had been threatened by the mob — but a new report says he turned rat to save himself after a federal drug sting.

The FBI “flipped” the bombastic reverend after agents confronted him with a surveillance video showing him discussing cocaine with an ­undercover agent, The Smoking Gun Web site said Wednesday.

During that March 1983 conversation, Sharpton wore a cowboy-like hat that was garish by even the rabble-rousing preacher’s 1980s standards.

He later showed up at a Manhattan apartment for another meeting that June with the agent, who was posing as a “former South American druglord seeking to launder money through boxing promotions,” the report said

Instead, Sharpton was met by G-men who were not undercover — and who showed him the “drug” video, the Web site said, citing a source familiar with Sharpton’s secret FBI file.

“The panicked reverend agreed — on the spot — to cooperate with federal agents,” The Smoking Gun said.

[JimRed]

We always knew him to be a rat, the Freddie’s and Tawana Brawley incidents proved that. Now we know what particular kind of rat he is. He must have forgotten: Snitches get stitches.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy! Few tears at that funeral!

[DeaconRed]

Thank GOD for the Spail pulice. . .

[Windflier]

You’re welcome :-)

[Grampa Dave]

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