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How Sharpton Gets Paid To Not Cry Racism At Corporations
Jan 5, 2015 08:24:36 #
How Sharpton gets paid to not cry racism at corporations
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein January 4, 2015 |
Al Sharpton
New novel is based on shameful Sharpton-Brawley case
Want to influence a casino bid? Polish your corporate image? Not be labeled a racist?
Then you need to pay Al Sharpton.
For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharptons National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverends supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence.
Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal met with the activist preacher after leaked e-mails showed her making racially charged comments about President Obama. Pascal was under siege after a suspected North Korean cyber attack pressured the studio to cancel its release of The Interview, which depicts the assassination of dictator Kim Jong-un.
Pascal and her team were said to be shaking in their boots and afraid of the Rev, The Post reported.
No payments to NAN have been announced, but Sharpton and Pascal agreed to form a working group to focus on racial bias in Hollywood.
Sony exec Amy Pascal leaves her hotel after a meeting with
Sharpton notably did not publicly assert his support for Pascal after the meeting what observers say seems like a typical Sharpton shakedown in the making. Pay him in cash or power, critics say, and you buy his support or silence.
Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didnt come to terms with him. Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns, said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal & Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog group that has produced a book on Sharpton.
And Sharpton, who now boasts a close relationship with Obama and Mayor de Blasio, is in a stronger negotiating position than ever.
Once Sharptons on board, he plays the race card all the way through, said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. He just keeps asking for more and more money.
Horse in the race
One example of Sharptons playbook has emerged in tax filings and a state inspector generals report.
In 2008, Plainfield Asset Management, a Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund, made a $500,000 contribution to New York nonprofit Education Reform Now. That money was immediately funneled to the National Action Network.
Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didnt come to terms with him.
Ken Boehm, National Legal & Policy Center chairman
The donation raised eyebrows. Although the money was ostensibly to support NANs efforts to bring educational equality, it also came at a time that Plainfield was trying to get a lucrative gambling deal in New York.
Plainfield had a $250 million stake in Capital Play, a group trying to secure a license to run the coming racino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. Capital Play employed a lobbyist named Charlie King, who also was the acting executive director of NAN.
Sharpton has said that most of the Plainfield contribution went to pay Kings salary.
Kings company, the Movement Group, was paid $243,586 by NAN in 2008, tax records show.
Harold Levy, a former New York City schools chancellor who was a managing director at Plainfield at the time, has denied the contribution was made to curry favor with Sharpton or anyone else. But a year later, as the battle for the racino license heated up, NAN raked in another $100,000 from representatives of the AEG consortium, which was the successor company to Capital Play.
One AEG member e-mailed another in 2009 saying, Sharpton lobbied [then-Gov. David Paterson] hard over the weekend on our behalf, according to the state inspector generals 2010 report on the corrupt racino licensing process.
Harold Levy, a former Plainfield director, denied the company donated to NAN for Sharptons favor.Photo: Thomas Hinton
In order to discredit SL Green, one of the rival bidders whose plan included a Hard Rock Hotel, an AEG executive sent another e-mail outlining tactics to conscript local leaders to its cause.
We are going to need it, and we are going to need . . . Sharpton to piss on hard rock, according to the undated e-mail cited in the IGs report.
Sharpton denied he lobbied on behalf of AEG.
The donations, meanwhile, came at an opportune time for Sharpton, as NAN was deep in debt to the IRS in 2008. It owed $1.3 million in unpaid federal, state and city payroll taxes including interest and penalties.
AEG viewed its payments to Sharpton as more of an insurance policy so he wouldnt scuttle its chances by criticizing the group, said a source familiar with the racino controversy.
Cost of doing business
Sharpton raised $1 million for NAN at his 60th birthday bash in October, with donations rolling in from unions and a corporate roster of contributors including AT&T, McDonalds, Verizon and Walmart.
Companies have long gotten in line to pay Sharpton. Macys and Pfizer have forked over thousands to NAN, as have General Motors, American Honda and Chrysler.
We cannot be silent while African-Americans spend hard-earned dollars with a company that does not hire, promote or do business with us in a statistically significant manner.
- Sharpton in a 2003 e-mail to Honda
NAN had repeatedly and without success asked GM for donations for six years beginning in August 2000, a GM spokesman told The Post. Then, in 2006, Sharpton threatened a boycott of GM over the planned closing of an African-American-owned dealership in The Bronx. He picketed outside GMs Fifth Avenue headquarters. GM wrote checks to NAN for $5,000 in 2007 and another $5,000 in 2008.
Sharpton targeted American Honda in 2003 for not hiring enough African-Americans in management positions.
We support those that support us, Sharpton wrote to the company. We cannot be silent while African-Americans spend hard-earned dollars with a company that does not hire, promote or do business with us in a statistically significant manner.
Two months later, car-company leaders met with Sharpton, and Honda began to sponsor NANs events. The protests stopped.
Sharpton landed a gig as a $25,000-a-year adviser to Pepsi after he threatened a consumer boycott of the soda company in 1998, saying its ads did not portray African-Americans. He held the position until 2007
As for Sony, Sharpton denied that his meeting with Pascal resulted in a donation to NAN.
I have had no discussion with her about money. Sharpton told The Post. There was never even a remote discussion about money.
My comments;
I'm guessing that many reading this either completely forget, or were never even aware of Al Sharpton's pathetic attempt to "shake down" a former N.Y. prosecutor for having "allegedly" raped one Tawanna Brawley, who, if my memory serves me correctly, was a minor at the time. When the whole thing was proven to be a "set-up" by Sharpton, the so-called "victim", (Brawley ), publicly acknowledged that Sharpton had coached her to lie, and that no rape ever occurred. And what did Sharpton then do? The same thing he always does........he just continued to lie about the whole thing. To call Al Sharpton "a rat", would be a grave injustice to all of the world's many rats!
BTW......The "Reverend" Jesse Jackson perfected and had been using the "corporate shakedown" scam for years and years before Sharpton came along and copied everything that J.J. had been doing. Since that time, it looks like they have both been engaged in a contest to see which one could come up with the most brazen extortion of the two.
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein January 4, 2015 |
Al Sharpton
New novel is based on shameful Sharpton-Brawley case
Want to influence a casino bid? Polish your corporate image? Not be labeled a racist?
Then you need to pay Al Sharpton.
For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharptons National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverends supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence.
Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal met with the activist preacher after leaked e-mails showed her making racially charged comments about President Obama. Pascal was under siege after a suspected North Korean cyber attack pressured the studio to cancel its release of The Interview, which depicts the assassination of dictator Kim Jong-un.
Pascal and her team were said to be shaking in their boots and afraid of the Rev, The Post reported.
No payments to NAN have been announced, but Sharpton and Pascal agreed to form a working group to focus on racial bias in Hollywood.
Sony exec Amy Pascal leaves her hotel after a meeting with
Sharpton notably did not publicly assert his support for Pascal after the meeting what observers say seems like a typical Sharpton shakedown in the making. Pay him in cash or power, critics say, and you buy his support or silence.
Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didnt come to terms with him. Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns, said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal & Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog group that has produced a book on Sharpton.
And Sharpton, who now boasts a close relationship with Obama and Mayor de Blasio, is in a stronger negotiating position than ever.
Once Sharptons on board, he plays the race card all the way through, said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. He just keeps asking for more and more money.
Horse in the race
One example of Sharptons playbook has emerged in tax filings and a state inspector generals report.
In 2008, Plainfield Asset Management, a Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund, made a $500,000 contribution to New York nonprofit Education Reform Now. That money was immediately funneled to the National Action Network.
Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didnt come to terms with him.
Ken Boehm, National Legal & Policy Center chairman
The donation raised eyebrows. Although the money was ostensibly to support NANs efforts to bring educational equality, it also came at a time that Plainfield was trying to get a lucrative gambling deal in New York.
Plainfield had a $250 million stake in Capital Play, a group trying to secure a license to run the coming racino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. Capital Play employed a lobbyist named Charlie King, who also was the acting executive director of NAN.
Sharpton has said that most of the Plainfield contribution went to pay Kings salary.
Kings company, the Movement Group, was paid $243,586 by NAN in 2008, tax records show.
Harold Levy, a former New York City schools chancellor who was a managing director at Plainfield at the time, has denied the contribution was made to curry favor with Sharpton or anyone else. But a year later, as the battle for the racino license heated up, NAN raked in another $100,000 from representatives of the AEG consortium, which was the successor company to Capital Play.
One AEG member e-mailed another in 2009 saying, Sharpton lobbied [then-Gov. David Paterson] hard over the weekend on our behalf, according to the state inspector generals 2010 report on the corrupt racino licensing process.
Harold Levy, a former Plainfield director, denied the company donated to NAN for Sharptons favor.Photo: Thomas Hinton
In order to discredit SL Green, one of the rival bidders whose plan included a Hard Rock Hotel, an AEG executive sent another e-mail outlining tactics to conscript local leaders to its cause.
We are going to need it, and we are going to need . . . Sharpton to piss on hard rock, according to the undated e-mail cited in the IGs report.
Sharpton denied he lobbied on behalf of AEG.
The donations, meanwhile, came at an opportune time for Sharpton, as NAN was deep in debt to the IRS in 2008. It owed $1.3 million in unpaid federal, state and city payroll taxes including interest and penalties.
AEG viewed its payments to Sharpton as more of an insurance policy so he wouldnt scuttle its chances by criticizing the group, said a source familiar with the racino controversy.
Cost of doing business
Sharpton raised $1 million for NAN at his 60th birthday bash in October, with donations rolling in from unions and a corporate roster of contributors including AT&T, McDonalds, Verizon and Walmart.
Companies have long gotten in line to pay Sharpton. Macys and Pfizer have forked over thousands to NAN, as have General Motors, American Honda and Chrysler.
We cannot be silent while African-Americans spend hard-earned dollars with a company that does not hire, promote or do business with us in a statistically significant manner.
- Sharpton in a 2003 e-mail to Honda
NAN had repeatedly and without success asked GM for donations for six years beginning in August 2000, a GM spokesman told The Post. Then, in 2006, Sharpton threatened a boycott of GM over the planned closing of an African-American-owned dealership in The Bronx. He picketed outside GMs Fifth Avenue headquarters. GM wrote checks to NAN for $5,000 in 2007 and another $5,000 in 2008.
Sharpton targeted American Honda in 2003 for not hiring enough African-Americans in management positions.
We support those that support us, Sharpton wrote to the company. We cannot be silent while African-Americans spend hard-earned dollars with a company that does not hire, promote or do business with us in a statistically significant manner.
Two months later, car-company leaders met with Sharpton, and Honda began to sponsor NANs events. The protests stopped.
Sharpton landed a gig as a $25,000-a-year adviser to Pepsi after he threatened a consumer boycott of the soda company in 1998, saying its ads did not portray African-Americans. He held the position until 2007
As for Sony, Sharpton denied that his meeting with Pascal resulted in a donation to NAN.
I have had no discussion with her about money. Sharpton told The Post. There was never even a remote discussion about money.
My comments;
I'm guessing that many reading this either completely forget, or were never even aware of Al Sharpton's pathetic attempt to "shake down" a former N.Y. prosecutor for having "allegedly" raped one Tawanna Brawley, who, if my memory serves me correctly, was a minor at the time. When the whole thing was proven to be a "set-up" by Sharpton, the so-called "victim", (Brawley ), publicly acknowledged that Sharpton had coached her to lie, and that no rape ever occurred. And what did Sharpton then do? The same thing he always does........he just continued to lie about the whole thing. To call Al Sharpton "a rat", would be a grave injustice to all of the world's many rats!
BTW......The "Reverend" Jesse Jackson perfected and had been using the "corporate shakedown" scam for years and years before Sharpton came along and copied everything that J.J. had been doing. Since that time, it looks like they have both been engaged in a contest to see which one could come up with the most brazen extortion of the two.
Jan 5, 2015 09:02:52 #
Gitzo wrote:
How Sharpton gets paid to not cry racism at corp... (show quote)
Sharpton is the scum of the earth as is Jackson. And to call either of them a "reverend" is disgusting.
Jan 5, 2015 11:05:51 #
"Sharpton is the scum of the earth as is Jackson. And to call either of them a "reverend" is disgusting."
You are giving scum a bad name. :lol:
You are giving scum a bad name. :lol:
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Jan 5, 2015 11:37:57 #
NeilL
Loc: British-born Canadian
How much will you pay me NOT to call Al Sharpton a "DISGUSTING PIECE OF SHIT!!"?
Jan 5, 2015 12:30:57 #
NeilL wrote:
You are being very unfair to pieces of s---! Obama is Sharpton's Monica.How much will you pay me NOT to call Al Sharpton a "DISGUSTING PIECE OF SHIT!!"?
Jan 5, 2015 12:52:29 #
NeilL
Loc: British-born Canadian
magicray wrote:
You are being very unfair to pieces of s---! Obama is Sharpton's Monica.
:oops: Sorry.
Jan 6, 2015 20:31:01 #
Penny MG wrote:
Sharpton is the scum of the earth as is Jackson. And to call either of them a "reverend" is disgusting.
I couldn't possibly agree more, Miss Penny!
And BTW....always very nice to see you!
Jan 6, 2015 20:32:00 #
TrainNut wrote:
"Sharpton is the scum of the earth as is Jackson. And to call either of them a "reverend" is disgusting."
You are giving scum a bad name. :lol:
You are giving scum a bad name. :lol:
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Jan 6, 2015 20:48:28 #
It would be good if one of the companies he blackmails would turn him in and sue him. But it is cheaper to pay him off and less risky.
Jan 6, 2015 20:54:09 #
NeilL wrote:
How much will you pay me NOT to call Al Sharpton a "DISGUSTING PIECE OF SHIT!!"?
I'll stand to the side and cheer you on, Neil, because that EXACTLY my own opinion of the puke! And have you ever wondered why "The Bummer" has seemingly developed a sudden fascination with a career "con artist" like everyone knows Sharpton is?
I have often wondered who first "thought up" all of the many traditional "old sayings" and "old adages", because the one that says, "birds of a feather, always flock together" explains Barry's sudden penchant for Sharpton precisely!
Jan 6, 2015 21:43:33 #
TrainNut wrote:
It would be good if one of the companies he blackmails would turn him in and sue him. But it is cheaper to pay him off and less risky.
We think a lot alike TN! I've been wondering why that is ever since Sharpton engineered the big Tawana Brawley scam, exactly WHY, and HOW anyone could do what Sharpton did (when he had this "then teenager" in 1987 ), accuse Steven Pagones of raping her. This is when I personally first started learning about what a POS this guy really is. Now....I'm guessing that after having said this on this forum, that there will be some of the usual suspects stick their heads out of their "worm holes" and start calling "BS" on this Tawana Brawley "incident"; I sure do hope they do! Because they are going to be a very long time attempting to "dream up" enough lies to "explain away" all of the hard, cold facts presented in all of the five sources that I am providing links to.
In case you aren't already familiar whith who Tawana Brawley is, she was a black teen age girl in 1987 when Sharpton put her up to falsely accuse one Steven Pagones of rape. She is now a Licensed Practical Nurse, and she is now PAYING Steven Pagones $627 per month for having lied about him. My question now is.......how much, (if anything ), is Al Sharpton paying Mr. Pagones for having "engineered" this scheme? And if he isn't, WHY isn't he? Could it possibly be because of his present "affiliation" with one "bummer"?
Tawana Brawley hoax: 1987 rape accuser begins first ...
www.upi.com/blog/2013/08/04/Tawana-Brawley-hoax-1987... Cached
Revisiting the Tawana Brawley Rape Scandal - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2013/...the-tawana-brawley-rape-scandal.html
The Tawana Brawley Story | Retro Report
retroreport.org/the-tawana-brawley-story Cached
Tawana Brawley hoax: Why she's paying $627 a month ...
www.csmonitor.com/.../0805/Tawana-Brawley-hoax-Why-she-s... Cached
A troubling story about Al Sharpton. - Slate Magazine...
www.slate.com/.../2003/09/the_worst_of_al_sharpton.html Cached
In case anyone has any qualms with any of these "sources", fear not; there are at least a hundred more where these came from.
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Jan 7, 2015 09:17:07 #
Gitzo wrote:
We think a lot alike TN! I've been wondering why ... (show quote)
Good post. I was aware of this but I think a lot of others were not. :thumbup:
I wonder sometimes what is going on in this country.
Jan 7, 2015 09:18:28 #
Gitzo wrote:
I'll stand to the side and cheer you on, Neil, bec... (show quote)
"birds of a feather, always flock together" And poop on your car.
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