Sharpton Associates Get Subpoenas
Government agents delivered subpoenas to four associates of the Rev. Al Sharpton today in a move the minister denounced as politically motivated.
Agents from the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are seeking financial and corporate records from Sharpton’s civil rights organization, the National Action Network, the New York Times reports on its City Room blog.
The New York Daily News reports that investigators want to know if Sharpton misstated the amount of money he raised in his 2004 presidential bid and if he commingled money from the civil rights group with for-profit ventures.
Sharpton denies any wrongdoing. “Every major civil rights leader I can think of—from Martin Luther King Jr. to Marcus Garvey to Adam Clayton Powell—has had to face this kind of harassment,” he said. “I certainly am not in their league, but I certainly expected that that would become my lot.”
