http://nypost.com/2015/11/22/al-sharpton-gives-himself-71-raise-thanks-to-de-blasio-obama/

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.
Barack Obama with Al SharptonPhoto: AP

NAN does not need to disclose its donors, but a program distributed at his birthday parties had full-page ads from companies that gave money. AT&T, real-estate developer Forest City Ratner, Walmart, McDonald’s, Verizon and GE Asset Management were all included.

Although Sony’s then-co-chairwoman, Amy Pascal, met with Sharpton in 2014 after a hacker revealed racially insensitive e-mails, the reverend told The Post that Sony did not give NAN money.

The windfall allowed the organization to finish 2014 in the black. Yet NAN, and Sharpton, continued their deadbeat ways.

NAN didn’t pony up its last installment on the $780,145 it owed the IRS for unpaid payroll taxes until this Oct. 22, the organization’s financial statements show. The nonprofit had racked up unpaid payroll taxes since at least 2003, according to public records.

Sharpton, meanwhile, still has outstanding tax liens of $3.4 million, including money he owes personally to both New York state and the IRS, and taxes owed by his businesses, according to public records. He paid off one federal lien, for $931,398, in April.

Sharpton has maintained that he owes much less money than records reflect and that he has been chipping away at the bills through payment plans.

He also insists he didn’t really get a raise last year.

“I’m glad that NAN has resolved all of our past tax debts three years earlier than our agreement with the IRS and paid part of the compensation owed to me for several years I did not receive a salary,” Sharpton said in a statement.


Tax records show NAN paid him $4,860 in 2006 and nothing in 2007 and 2008.

But a spokesman for the organization offered a different explanation, saying the salary hike was repayment of loans Sharpton previously made to NAN.

Former IRS official Marcus Owens, an expert on nonprofit law, said the explanation seemed odd.

“To structure the payoff of a loan through a salary transfer doesn’t seem really plausible because no one would want to pay income tax on their own money coming back to them,” Owens said. “It seems like that characterization was developed after the fact for some other purpose.”


blow me down!

good for him, receiving pay for his work like the rest of us

good for him, receiving pay for his work like the rest of us

Yeah, and how much to various CEOs of multinational corporations pay themselves for cutting jobs, making potentially harmful products, putting worker safety at risk, exporting jobs, and skirting tax laws?

"" Al Sharpton has long railed against “the rich”
who, in his opinion, should pay higher taxes
. While the reverend’s personal tax
problems have been publicized, a new report
claims that every for-profit business that
Sharpton has started has been shut down
for failure to pay taxes, as well.

“He clearly appears — based on
the information that’s available to
us — to have a history of
noncompliance with tax obligations.
It appears that [Sharpton] does not
file [taxes for his businesses], and
then opens up something else.
At all the entities we see he has
opened up, he has not been
compliant with the obligations of
the owner of a business.
He’s either willful in his behavior, or
he’s just sloppy.”"
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/244340-al-sharpton/

Im gonna go with willful behavior, sloppiness and being one hell of a hypocrite

he could just do the 'business' savvy thing and use bankruptcy when he faces troubles,, maybe he could even run for president on his business intelligence,,,,,lol

Lol... the guy is a friggin parasite... but having a parasite is better then having nothing to some... I guess ;)

BTW the NAN action team has been very quiet lately.. I know Sharpton's daughter is getting ready for her court date ( you know.. that ankle thing) so maybe Dad let her stay out of the office for awhile ( but still on the payroll of course)... to prepare her case of pain and suffering against the city.

What about the rest of the super hero's in the war room... just sitting around playing knock hockey and eating Chinese take out while waiting to the next injustice to be " Sheraton hotel press conference" worthy?

I tell ya.. these guys are sharp... down the rat pole and into the rat mobile in seconds... like fire dept. fast... impressive!!!

well.. except the daughter, she takes the stairs.. you know, that ankle thing again.

Surprise! Just further evidence, he's in it for the money.

No news here. We're talking Sharkton! He's got his hands in everyone's pockets but his own! Problem is Oblowme didn't leave the people any money so he has to steal it from the poor he claims to represent by giving himself a raise.

If he tried to do anything legal or right, even righteous for a change, the media would ignore him as inconsequential! He couldn't stand that....!

well, his chum will be out of the white house soon and DeBlasio is a one term mayor... that's for sure

Imagine Trump as President. Like him or don't like him but he would rip Sharpton apart. Lol

Would be interesting to see.

lol... and it comes from the hard working blacks you're so fond of...

correction..... Hard working "POOR" blacks....

well, had he upped the raise a few points to 74%, he would have been at the same percentage of single black mothers

wonder what he is doing to help them?

you dont have to wonder, you can look it up { if you really wanted to know that is}

b-b-b-b-but Sharpy is always hard at work!

Actually I did and didn't find anything. Other then talk, But maybe I missed something. What has he done, other then talk?. How much of those donated millions went to actually helping tat 74% of single black mothers?.. how much?.. how many educational or financial programs has he started. How much of the donated money he has received has actually got into the hands of the people he claims o lead.


And since you will already be in the MSH archives, can you find out how many of those 74% of single black mothers had a child in that first child bearing year when you stated that as long as she gave the consent it was o.k. to be sexually active....that was the 9th grade.. wasn't it?.. about 14 years old.. right?

Tell me you didn't host any sweet 16 parties.. please

Pay?
Work?

woah there hoss, one question at a time

and I have repeatedly explained my position on consent

much like I dont think its 'ok' for people to be vulgar or ********, I do believe in terms of consistency in society and support of 'free speech' that it should not be illegal


I also feel, its not 'ok' for teens to be having sex, but in terms of consistency in society and support of what doctors will call 'human nature', 'born that way', 'natural desires',,etc,,,, I also dont think it should be illegal for them to have sex, and if not illegal to have sex, the WHO definitely should not change that



but on to the other questions

(and I do empathize on the fact that it is hard to find much more than smear campaigns online against Sharpton)


the donations run the organization, they help fund the organizing of all the events, marches, protests,,,etc,,


he hasnt hosted financial programs, but he has hosted dinners for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, empowerment and training groups for disadvantaged kids, free legal assistance (from lawyers, not himself) for the poor,,and much more


and teen births are an irrevelant part of the discussion on Al Sharpton,,,,

71 % .

I am speechless. Because I am still trying to figure out how he is not in federal prison.